Our Weekend

Two of my sisters and some of their kids came down to visit this weekend. It was mostly wonderful!! While they were here, we went to the park.

We played in the backyard with cousins.

We went to the Shark Reef (blurry pics ahead).

GiGi found the glass bottom and decided to lay on it.

We had a little meltdown when Miss Z was leaving. The girls miss her and wanted her to stay so badly.
We love having cousins (and sisters) here to play.

Love Day

The girls weren't allowed to make a regular valentine box for school this year. They were given an assignment that they had to make their box around a book. They had to write somewhat of a book report and then make their boxes into the book. Quite different and although at first I was annoyed, it actually turned out to be a fun project for the girls.

Jo Jo picked out "Pinkalicious".

and Annie "Fancy Nancy"

We turned Fancy Nancy's box into a clubhouse and Pinkalicious had a mailbox. The girls loved decorating them! These are all the sides.

The table for breakfast.

Some decorations I've made.

For dinner I got everything ready and the fam ate at Cupids Crazy Café. They also got to wear fun crowns. Even Dan got in on the fun! Good thing he is ok with it, because he has five of us crazy ladies surrounding him. :)

Dinner was really fun. Everyone had to pick numbers and put them on a sheet of paper menu. Then whatever number they "ordered" is what they got for that course. (i.e. Dan got a fork, napkin, and drink for his first course.) The crazies were loving it. Well until the "dessert" portion of the meal and then we had a very major meltdown. Jo Jo got a fork and spoon for her "dessert". Oh man that was so annoying and tiring trying to explain that she still got everything that everyone else got just in a different order. Almost ruined my night (she wouldn't stop crying).

It has been a fun day and I am in love with my Valentine. He is amazing and he treats me wonderful.

Love you babe!!!

Air, Land, and Water

The girls worked on a school project for the past couple weeks. Well they should have been working on them the past couple of weeks, but because I am who I am, they didn't start working on the actual project until this week (we did get the paper done earlier). ha ha

The project was all about natural resources. They had to write a paper and then make something that showed the 3 resources: air, water, and land.

They got to pick either Dan or I to help them and then together we picked out what the project should be.

Annie picked Dan and they decided on a diorama. It turned out really nice and Dan has said that he wants to do another one.

Jo Jo picked me and since she is such a great artist, she painted. She did great.

They also had to stand up in front of their class and give a presentation of their project. I was able to go watch them and they were so quiet and shy and cute. I just wish I would have gotten a picture of them with their project.

Wonderful

It is such beautiful weather lately. We are all loving it!!!

These crazies are completely fabulous!

Wind

When we got home from church today we pulled out the kite and walked over to an open area to fly it.

It was cold and windy.

It was a perfect day for flying a kite.

Spontaneous

That is what our day motto was today.

Spontaneous.

There was no school and we needed to do something.

After we all got ready we got in the car and decided to just do whatever.

We first stopped at Wal-Mart to get a couple of things.

Next we ate lunch at Firehouse Subs.

Then the girls decided that we needed to go play with some puppies. So to the pet store we went.

I fell in love with a puppy and was wanting to buy it so bad, but nope. Actually Annie wanted it so bad as well that when we left the store without a dog, she was bawling.

To try to get her to calm down we decided to try out bowling. The girls really liked it.

We then went home and ate some dinner and had some fun here at the house.

It was a good day and I'm glad for no school days. :)

Dress

I am in love with this little one and her cute Christmas dress.

(Her dress is completely late, but at least it came.)

Another Year Older

The girls have turned SEVEN!!!

We decided to have a party for them this year.

They had many ideas for a theme, but the one they ended up picking was a Tea Party!

They have been so excited all week.

Of course I forgot to take a before picture of the set up, but here is a little bit.

Here are the girls at the table.

We started the party by getting pictures of everyone.

Then we sat down for our tea party with little sandwiches, creme puffs, fruits and veggies, and "tea". Everyone loved being able to drink out of my fancy cups and TRYING to act all proper.

We then played pin a cup to catch the tea.

Opening presents is always fun.

Then we had some cake and icecream.

While the girls were having a fun time with their friends, Ty was having her own party.

We finished the party off by having a dance party. Those girls can get CRAZY!!!

After everyone left, we cleaned up and opened more gifts (Dan is working tonight).

We then had a late lunch, said goodbye to daddy, and then enjoyed the rest of the day!

I love you twinners!! You are amazing girls and I am so grateful that I get the opportunity to be your mother. I try really hard to teach you the right and help you to become good people. You are very smart and love to go to school. I especially love that you love to read. You have been getting into chapter books and you love them. You are funny and you both have a great sense of humor. You also LOVE your little sisters. You include them when you play and you fight over GiGi all the time (something that I don't necessarily love, but at least you love her). I am so excited to be able to spend forever with you. Thank you for being YOU!

I love you so very much.

Momma

What we do when the Girls go to School...

This little girl plays with her toys while naked.

We try out new Christmas presents. She loves it!

There are dance parties in our robes.

Miss Ty gets kisses from her daddy!!

I cut my hair off.

And a million other things.

New Years

Our new years party was fun this year. Nana and Papa are here to celebrate with us, which we absolutely love!

For the festivities I re-decorated the tree.

We did fondue for dinner. It has been awhile since we have done that. It is something that we need to do more often.

We had our neighbors come and join us for some fun snacks and games. The adults played some games while all the crazy kids ran around. They had to leave early and so I never got any pics of everyone. The rest of the night we watched movies and when it came time the crazies were still going. Well, GiGi was sound asleep and Ty was wishing that she was. But they made it!!!

Happy New Years Everyone!!! Here is to another FANTASTIC year!!!