Moms birthday

Happy birthday Mom! Saturday we celebrated mom's birthday. We started out the day with doughnuts at Rick's! Is there any other way to start out a birthday but with some sugar?!?!








After lunch we ate cake and mom opened her present.
Words can't describe how blessed I am to have a mother that loves and cares for me as much as mine does. She is the most giving person I know. The older I get, the more i realize how much mom sacrificed for me over the years, and still Does! She has taught me so many things about being a mom. I love you mom and am proud to be your daughter.

Heels and Ties

Lee and I were invited by some of our good friends the Marshall's to go to the ACH Color Gala event on Saturday night. Mom came up to watch the kids for us. It was her birthday too, so we got to celebrate that as well. Each year the event is color themed. This year the color was tangerine! I had fun shopping an orange dress. Luckily I found one the was cheaper than what my shoes cost! Ha!
We had a great time at the event. Dinner was great as we're the "color-tinies" the martini signature drink. ;)

















We had hopes of bidding on a four wheeler at the live auction, but the starting bid was as high as our max bid. Darn.....

Face time

Yesterday Chanie Kate and Ian face timed! It was fun to see the two of them interact with each other. Chanie Kate would coo at Ian while Ian squealed and gave her the limp wrist wave. Ha! It's so fun to have cousins the same age. Wish they lived closer. :(


Love these little babies!

First Day of Pre-school

Today Faith and Peyton headed off the pre-school. They are going to a new school this year. They were both really excited to get out the door this morning. I CAN NOT believe that this time next year I will be sending Faith off to Kindergarten. How can this be possible?!?!

For all those out there that swear their kiddos will NEVER have cartoon “themed” clothing, shoes, backpack, etc… don’t hold your breath. I said the same thing, but when a little girl has her mind and heart set on a pink and purple sparkle Minnie backpack, what’s a momma to do…….
   
Then there is Peyton. He is the cutest darn thing I have ever seen. That puppy backpack just makes me wanna swipe that boy up and never let him go. He was so precious this morning. When Peyton got to his classroom he headed straight over to the “diggers” and trucks.
They both had a great time at school and ready to go back on Thursday.
I am looking forward to spending some good individual time with Ian this fall, and doing fun things with him such as going to the library for story time and taking strolls, just the two of us. 
Just a quick trip down memory lane……
2012
  
2013

2012

2013

Stacked three deep

Today I was on the phone and went into the boy's room because I heard toys being thrown off the shelves to find these two monkeys pretending they had bunk beds!!!


Ian was wanting to participate so badly! I went to get my good camera to take a picture and look what I found.


Who needs bedrooms when you can sleep three comfortably in the closet?!?!

Exploring the world

The other day I went looking for Ian and found him in nightstand in his room. He was pretty proud of himself.


This weekend he had his first taste of Nutella. Do u think he liked it?


This morning this is how I found him in his room. Just chillin'
This boy keeps me hoppin'!!!

4th of July Parade

I just realized that I never blogged about our neighborhood 4th of July parade.
Every year in the neighborhood I grew up in we had a 4th of July parade. It was so much fun! I have great memories of decorating my cabbage patch hot wheels and parading through the neighborhood.
I decided that I wanted to do the same thing for our neighborhood. With the help of the POA, I organized a block party/parade. The event turned out great! We had a fire truck come to lead the parade, (actually two showed up), and after the parade we served hot dogs, chips, watermelon, and red white and blue Popsicles!!!

There were prizes for 1st and 2nd place best decorated rides in two age groups. The weather was perfect and we had a great time! I love our neighborhood.










































My two American cuties.

Later that evening the POA showed a movie outside for the kids. They showed Wreck it Ralph and served popcorn and Popsicles. Needless to say the kids slept well that night!!!!!