Category: Random Stuff From My Life

These past few weeks have been crazy around our house. Katelyn, in an attempt to save a prince, had an unfortunate scooter accident.

We go back on Thursday to see about getting it off. She is looking forward to that. It was fun at first and she enjoyed being able to have it in her favorite color, but it’s been 2 weeks and she’s ready to see it go. I let her take a Sharpie to school on Thursday. She spent recess letting kids sign it and draw on it. It’s cute!

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This year for her birthday, Emily picked a Strawberry Shortcake theme. At the party the kids had fun coloring pictures, playing games and eating cake. I can’t believe Emily is 5! I still need to edit pictures from the party, but here’s the cake. I was pleased with the way it turned out especially since I had no idea what I was doing for a theme when I started decorating it at 10pm the night before the party! I was smart enough to purchase the Strawberry Shortcake and cat figure for it. That allowed me to get a bit of sleep that night.

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Well, not quite curls yet…

I just think they look so sweet with their hair all up in rollers.

Happy Birthday Pawpaw!

Hosted by Cecily and Carissa

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I haven’t blogged all summer and then some. I’m so far behind, I won’t ever catch up anytime soon, so I’m just starting again from here.

I was searching for coupons to print and use at Publix and found this sweepstakes for free groceries. It’s easy to enter and you could win $5200 in groceries. Sounds like a great prize to me!

Hurry and sign up for your chance to win, they stop the entries on Oct 30th.

Rozoni Free Grocery Sweepstakes

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As a Kindergarten graduation gift from Grammy, Katelyn got to take her first trip on an airplane. They flew to Charleston for the day and had a wonderful time. Katie loved the plane ride, but was quite nervous. After they landed, she was also able to get into the cockpit and wear the captain’s hat. They went to the children’s museum and ate lunch at Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Co. Katelyn learned that she loves shrimp! They ended the day taking a horse drawn carriage ride. By the time Grammy brought her home that night, she was exhausted!

Thanks for the wonderful memories, Grammy!

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Yesterday the girls started swim lessons. They are all doing well!

Katelyn already moves through the water and easily holds her breath and puts her face under, so she is learning to blow out the air and how to correctly move her arms and legs.

Emily finally got her face wet yesterday. They have to reach into the water and grab a ring. She would stretch her arm as far as it would go and turn her face up so it wouldn’t get wet. After several brave attempts, Emmy put her face in the water. She is working well with the instructors on the swim movements too.

Madison was so cute about putting her face in the water. You could tell she did not want to do it and way psyching herself up. Then she just went for it. When she got that ring and pulled her face back out of the water, you could see her beaming! She was so proud of herself. Mama was pretty proud too!

The lessons run for 2 weeks and I can’t wait to see how they are doing at the end of next week.

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Today Melissa, Gibran and Sofie were in town so we took advantage of the opportunity to take some pictures. There is a cute, cute, cute little park downtown that we thought would make a great place to take some pictures of the girls. Last year Mom got the girls all coordinating outfits and that is what they are wearing for the pictures.

Here is the park. It has several nice areas to take pictures. It was a hot and sunny day, so we did not get to take advantage of all the little areas. We’ll be back!

Group shot of all the girls

Sofie was not in the picture taking mood. We tried several times and she just wasn’t going to go for it. Look at the tears!

So the rest of my pictures are of my girls. We’ll catch Sof next time.

Daddy’s girls

Sweet individual pictures

This picture makes me smile. They just look so happy.

Their favorite thing was exploring the little stream. They found all kinds of little leaves, rocks and even a couple of pennies. They are always up for an adventure.

We get this look from Em all the time!

Finally, a family shot.

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Wow. Our baby turned 3 today!

She requested a Barbie party, complete with a standing up Barbie cake. We invited family over and had a wonderful party.We grilled out hot dogs…her favorite food and let the kids play.

They jumped in the garage.

They colored on a huge Barbie coloring page.

Of course there was also the Barbie pinata. This picture also reminds me that I still really want to change that light fixture out!

Then it was time for cake and ice cream. Madison blew out all three candles with no help even though Barbie was towering over her!

The birthday cake. I really enjoyed making it!

Time for gifts. Madison got some really fun stuff!

She even read the cards.

Madison had a wonderful day and she claims it was as fun as she imagined it! She has been waiting not quite so patiently for her birthday to arrive.

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We went to Katelyn’s moving up ceremony. I cannot believe that kindergarten is over already! It seems like my baby just started at that big school and now she is going to head off to 1st grade. This is going too fast for me! Here she is waiting in line to be seated for the program and one of her waiting for her turn.

She went on stage when her name was called and she received a certificate for completing kindergarten. Then all the parents ate hot dogs and we had a little picnic in the cafeteria. When that was over we took her home and started our summer vacation!

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This year for Katelyn’s teachers, we gave one of them a journal with a jar of questions to write about. All of the questions are related to teaching. I got the idea from a website…I need to find it again and I’ll link it. For the other teacher we gave a set of coasters. They are photo coasters. I found some quotations and sayings about teaching and printed them off to put in the coasters.

For Emily’s teachers, I went in with a friend to get a joint gift from both kids. I do not have pictures of them because Jennifer got it together for us. It was a cute set with a key chain, mug and something else (for the life of me I can’t remember now what it was). They all had their initial on them.

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