It's been a busy week!

This has been a pretty busy week. I'll let the pictures do most of the story telling!

Wednesday, April 1st...I got through the day without a single April Fools Day joke played on me! And my mom and dad came out to watch Presley take her last gymnastics class (contract ended & she's ready for a break) and Juliet take her 1st gymnastics class.

Thursday, April 2nd...I can't remember what I did. Probably housework!

Friday, April 3rd...We met my mom, Ryley, and Aiden at the Dallas Zoo & ran into Liza & Zenon! That was funny!

Saturday, April 4th...We went to Home Depot, did some birthday errands for Piper's party, and went to Uncle Robert's shop for the Deep Ellum Arts Festival. That was a ton of fun. John and I stuck around til about midnight helping Uncle Robert finish off some wine. He had some great stories about Grandpa too.

And Sunday, April 5th...It was a lazy day until about 2 pm. I was so tired and couldn't get motivated! Once I started moving, I took Presley to get a haircut and did some birthday party stuff for Piper.

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A Day For Gymnastics...we played with Maggie Belle outside while we waited on my mom & dad to get out to the house.

The girls HAD to wear their new rain boots!

She has such a strong little body!

Here's Piper's 1st class. She is so use to just going up there and doing her own thing while we wait for Presley to get done. She wasn't quite sure what to make of having a bunch of kids her own height and stuff in their. It took some coaxing to get her to stay.

Juliet kept looking around for Presley. She kept saying "Scout??". I told John that we really have to get her into activities without Presley so she can get use to being on her own.

And do you see Presley climbing the rope...she is doing great, but that isn't what she was suppose to be doing. She is suppose to be waiting in line to jump down the trampoline & jump in the pit.

ZOO DAYS....

Ryley, the ladies man!

Presley stopped off to give the lizard some more smooches!

Presley dropped off some fossils and quarts and Juliet cleaned some rocks.

The kids had a blast feeding the birds.

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I love this picture!

Lookie who we ran into!

Monorail ride

More cutesy pics of Presley

We ended the night with the girls getting a little polish at Sweet & Sassy!

Saturday was a LONG day!!!

Started early in the morning at Home Depot. The girls built a bird house that suctions to the window. We are painting them this week and hanging them up!

The were giving out balloons and stuff. Presley lost hers out in the gardening section. That was her 1st one. Do you see it (it's that red fuzzy dot in the pic below)? Bye Bye Ballooney! Yeah, she named it! She lost her 2nd one when it popped on a car bumper going to the car. She must have cried for an hour for that darn thing. Piper's was sucked up by mother nature too.

Maggie is ready to party in Deep Ellum! Ruff Ruff Baby!

That is a Great Dane! That dog is HUGE! You can see Maggie was a bit nervous.

Presley wrote her name. I suppose the pic was self explanatory

The dude had a nail in his nose. Presley thought watching thsi trickster was the neatest thing!

Another pretty doggie. Maggie had so many people stop and ask to pet her and she was sniffed so many times by other dogs. It was funny. I told John that the puppy and two little girls by his side were total chic magnets. I saw sooooooooooooooo many girls stop him to say how cute the girls were and ask to pet Maggie. I just let him eat it up. It was funny.

I don't know who this kid is. I just like this picture

Presley sharing her art with the world and she even had an audience.

The chef! Uncle Robert made some great fajitas!

Look at Uncle Mikes fingers above Kim's head. Funny!

I told Dave to move... Typical of Dave to be a butt! No pun intended!

Presley the Jokster...hahaha

Time for a trim.

We went back to Sweet & Sassy for a princess cut! Presley asked them to cut her hair like a princess and to leave her curls bouncy.

Juliet got a glitter star

Taadaa! Vanessa & Presley

It was a great week!

Now, this week will be even busier.

I have an dentist appt, Juliet has a dentist appt, John has a dentist appt, Maggie has a vet appt. I have a ton of party stuff to do. Kinda procrastinated and lost track of time. And I have to order Piper's cupcakes, do yard work, clean house, do laundry, Wait for the ant killer people to come out, get the girls pictures taken....and breath. Oh, and go grocery shopping!

Grocery Store after Grocery Store after Grocery Store

Today the girls and I spent a total of about 5 1/2 hours in grocery stores. Three of them....

1st we went to Central Market to meet Liza & Ethan. The kids had a blast. The kids ate samples, drank lime-ade, and picked out some candy. Then we ate lunch there and played in the playground.

On the way, the girls grooved to "Single Ladies"

Some little boy just made Presley stronger! He and a group of his little boy friends told her that she couldn't climb up the rope because she was a girl and she was too small. She cried and cried for about 2 minutes. I told her not to let him say she couldn't do it & just do it. So she worked on climbing that rope until she did it. And she climbed it and climbed it and climbed it!

So, he just made her a stronger female! (funny lil' side note- I just kinda popped my neck/head in the way you would when you'd say something like "You go girl!")

Piper & Ethan sliding...so cute!

After Central Market, we headed home to let Maggie out of her crate for a while.

Then we headed to store #2, Kroger! I spent $37 and saved $50. Woot Woot!

Then ran home, dropped the groceries off and ran up to store #3, Tom Thumb. Piper was sooo sick of being in the cart by the time we got to the store. She didn't want her activities, her FOOD, nothin'! All that would work was a marker. I had a dry erase on me. So, use your imagination....it was on her face, bilateral arms, she raised her pain legs and drew on her knees. And when someone would notice and talk to her, she'd show them all of limbs...pull up her pant legs and everything. Hey...what ever keeps her quiet so I can shop! I should have taken a picture, but it was 7 o'clock by the time I got home and I was....am soooo tired!

BTW.... I spent $46 and saved $89. Heck yeah!!!

Okay, I gotta hit the hay...tomorrow is another full day of stuff.

Hope you all have a great hump day!

The NEW Food Group!

Did you know that Candy is the new food group!

That's what Presley told me tonight at dinner. She was listing all the foods she needed to eat and she mentioned candy as a food group and it's okay to eat it as long as you eat eat equal parts of other foods like green beans, potatoes, peas, etc.

Silly girl!

Now I have an image in my head of how every 4 year old out there sees the food pyramid, with candy at the top of the list.

CrAzY fUn

Welp, the week started out rough with the nasty rainy cold weather and Presley being sick. But it surely did end well!

We have been soooo silly these last few days. Must be the lack of sugar from the no coke thing or something making us so delirious! What ever it is....it's been so fun to hear the girls giggle!!

FRIDAY, we went to do our taxes then went and walked around the Galleria.

My, what big eyes we have!!!

SATURDAY, we went to Lowes...so early in the morning, then we napped until like 5pm. Then hung out at one of of our other homes until John had to go to work (Target).

The girls got to make a Flower Rain Gauge at Lowes.

Silly guys!

Flower Rain Gauges are completed!

SUNDAY, we were up and down taking morning naps and being lazy until about 1130. We finally got our booties in gear and headed outdoors to enjoy the GORGEOUS weather! We are cleaning the yard up for Piper's party! It's gonna be FUN!

Anyways, today we played outside, ate MEXICAN FOOD & I had a margarita...a swirl one! YUM! Then went to Walmart, Lowes, and Home Depot for a few things. Then we headed back home to do more yard work.

No more sand pit for the girls...it's now a nice soft grassy area! Keep your fingers crossed that the grass does well and grows!

Yard work time!

I have no idea what she was trying to create!

John and Presley are doing Kiddy sudoku. She caught on and loves it!

Piper loves her some chips and salsa!

Our backyard during the clean up phase

Here's Presley new pet snail and it's ant friends (NOT). It's hanging out in a potted plant now.

Presley wanted to pose for the camera with a shovel fun of rocks...

Here is the casing that John had to make to go around the AC. Maggie Belle was chewing on the tubing and stuff! Bad Girl!

Having fun making drawing on the girls

We had a great week! Hope everyone did too.

I am sooo not looking forward to tomorrow...Monday...work, work, work!