Happy Birthday To My Angel!

My Sweet and Silly Birthday Girl!

I cannot believe how much I love you!  I fell in love with you before you were even born!  I never thought it was possible to love someone so much!  Just thinking of you and watching you grow into such a beautiful little girl...going from a baby, to a toddler, to a preschooler, and now a kindergartner...well it brings tears to my eyes!  I adore you so incredibly much!  You make my heart sing!  You amaze me!

Happy 6th Birthday Sweetie!

Today, you took a trip to the doctors office for your well visit and here are your 6 year old stats:

Height: 44 1/4 inches tall      50%

Weight: 40 pounds      25%

BMI 14.36      25%

A Special Visit!

What a great treat!

We got to visit with Jordan & Meagan!!!! It was so great to see Jordan.  The last time we saw him is when he left our house after his high school graduation almost 8 years ago.  Now he's a man about to get out of the Navy and move to Hollywood!  It's insane and makes me feel so old!  The girls adored him. Piper says he's too tall.  Poor Piper, John and I are the tallest people she really ever gets to see.  So to her Jordan is a giant. It was a great visit!

We grilled burgers, the girls ate their standard 1/2 a burger, I ate mine, John ate his, Meagan ate her veggies burgers, and Jordan ate his standard four burgers with no veggies.  Nothing has changed.  Glad to see!  After the burgers, we headed to Cherry on Top for ice cream and then to the new local coffee shop for some coffee.  

Those two where way to deep into thought!

Then to end the night, John, Meagan, and Jordan drank and played the Wii for hours!!!!

I love visits like these and look forward to many many more!!!

Hint hint Jordan and Meagan!

Limo Ride Here I Come!

Presley had a cookie fundraiser at the beginning of the school year and since she sold 15 items she got to participate in a special lunch!  She got to ride in a Hummer Limo with lights and music inside! There were laser lights, rope lights, and Kids Bop was blairing in the background!  Right up a bunch of six year olds alley!  I tell you what, her 1st kinder limo ride puts my 1st 7th grade limo ride to shame!  I'll have to find pics of that very soon!   

Someone is super excited!!!!

Waiting patiently!!!

Everyone was so excited about the limo ride....everyone except Piper!

She was totally bummed she could partake in all of the fun!

One day Piper, you too shall bombard all of your family with catalogs and catalogs of fundraiser stuff and get your limo ride!

Veterns Day

Veterns day was celebrated today at Presley's school.  Here's a few of the guests of honor.  After this picture was taken, there were several more veterns that showed up.  The gym filled up with all of the students and they had the honor of meeting all the veterns.  Each vetern stood and introduced themselves and told who's special guest they were.  After each vetern spoke, you couldn't help but to get a bit teared up and feel proud to know a few!  And feel incredibly thankful to all each and everyone of them for mine and my children's freedoms.  

The girls with their special vetern.  Presley was so proud to show off her daddy!

Piper and I got to sit back and enjoy watching the ceremony.

After the special ceremony, the school had a special little reception for our vets in the library with yummy donuts, orange juice, and coffee (not so yummy though).

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After leaving the school,

we decided to go home, hop on our bikes, and have a veterns day picnic at the park. 

I adore this picture of John and his lil' girl.  

This one too.  Prescious moments with her daddy. Piper's a lucky girl.  

Weeeeeee!  Slide race!

Here is that most perfect "Surprised" face that Piper owns.

We were playing hide and seek and I jumped out at her.  Oh my gosh, it was so cute!

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By the way, here are a couple more of my special veterns...

My dad!

John's dad!

Happy Veterns Day!!!

A Day in the Life of Piper...

I love having my days to spend with Juliet....it seems that I keep learning more about her every day!  She's still adjusting to her days without her Presley.  She still asks on occasion to go get her sister from school.

On this day, It was all about Piper!  She got to fill up our M&M jar with our new harvest colored M&M's.  YUM!!!!

Piper's way of doing this:

One for the jar...one for Piper's tummy

One for the jar...two for Piper's tummy

One for the jar...three for Piper's tummy

This was her favorite chore of the day!!!!

What a yummy chore it was!!!!

After filling the M&M jar, she strapped on her skates and we headed out to the front yard to have some fun.  Piper's a natural born roller skater!  She loves it!!!

And for lunch, we loaded up the wagon with a blankie, our lunch, and some bread for the ducks then headed to the park!

After lunch and scaring away the ducks, we headed to the playground.

One of Piper's favorite things in the world to do at the park is to play hide and seek.

She has the most gorgeous "surprised" looks!

She also loves slides!!!

See her "happy" face! 

I love my days with Piper!

And I look forward to tomorrow!

I love you, my sweet girl!

Perfect Day For A Fall Walk

Today was Presley's Fall Walk to the local duck pond and playground with her class.  John even got to volunteer to go with us!  Presley and her classmates LOVE it when new moms and dads are able to come up and volunteer!

It was perfect weather for our walk, our picnic, and a trip to the playground!

It was an awesome day!

Halloween

Happy Halloween from The Spooky Scarey Skeleton Sisters, The Sorceress, and The Shadow Man!!

We can't let the kids have all the fun!



Monday Eye Strain

This is Red Ribbon Week at Presley's school.

Each Kinder class got to decorate a wooden sign to place in front of the school.

Here's ours!

I worked on it from 8 this morning till 130 this afternoon.  My eyes and back and neck are strained, but well worth it!  K-1 will love being surprised with their sign in the school lawn tomorrow afternoon.  I love being a part of putting smiles on their faces! 

I did take a break for a few minutes to watch Piper nap. She is so beautiful! I watched her for about 20 minutes.  I could have stayed longer but had to get back to that sign!

Weekending

We had a fantastic weekend!

On the go by day

Chilled by night!

Friday, John had to work till after midnight so I put the girls to bed at their usual seven o'clock bedtime, did some laundry, and fell asleep on the couch watching Cake Boss.  Super relaxing start to a busy weekend.

 

We cleaned out Presley's school folder and came across a dress that a classmate made for Presley's Barbie Dolls.   So cute! 

Saturday morning we got up and headed out to meet Cindel and Stephanie at Bonkers for some fun.  It was so loud and so packed so many kids, I think I almost went a little bonkers!  Didn't help that the girls threw a fit when we had to leave!

After Bonkers the girls and I ate lunch with John, Stephanie, and Cindel.

Then headed to the mall for a gift for Stacey's birthday dinner.

Rosa's Cafe Tortilla Factory is were we met the Ragan's for Stacey's B-day dinner!  YUM!

After dinner, John headed out to go fishing with Uncle Robert over night and the girls and I headed out to the book store and then home for a nice quiet movie night.

Look at all the wonderful books we got!

Girls camped out on a pile of blankets and fell asleep watching Bugs Bunny and Garfield.

Sunday, we went wedding dress shopping with Kimberly....I can't show any pics because I am not sure what dress she liked.  Don't want to jinx anything!

It was a great weekend.

My husband even came home with a few fish he and Uncle Robert caught.

More Darndest Things

Fall From My Daughter's Sweet Little Lips...

This morning I was writing up a list of stuff to do & people to call.  One of my words ended with a question mark meaning I was questioning what I had written. 

Piper saw my question mark and said,

"Mommy, why do you have a  "hmmm" on this paper????"

Kids Say The Darndest Things!

Yesterday morning we were drivng out of the neighborhood heading to Bonkers and we came across a poor poor house that had been toilet papered in a major way! There was TP everywhere! Those kids didn't miss a spot!

Anyways, the girls were in complete AWWWW! Presley said, "Oh Cool! When I grow up, I want my house to look like that!"

We'll see.....

It's A Spooky Success!!!

The girls LOVE their costumes!!!

Now I am thinking of making them a spooky headband

or hat to go with it!

OH HOW I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!!!!! 

The girls playing in the dark....

John and I need to get busy on ours!

Scary Skeleton Turned Girly!

The girls changed their minds about hundred times about what they wanted to be for Halloween!  They finally made a decision!  Whew!!!! YAY!!!!

1st Piper wanted to be a Black Cat, then a Ghost, then Tinker Bell, maybe Dorothy, maybe a Cowgirl again, and then a Princess, then a Bunny, then maybe a combination of them all.... URGGGGG

Presley wanted to be a scary Ghost, a Witch to Piper's Black Cat, a Princess, a cowgirl, Darth Vader, a combination of all of her past costumes that barely fit.....

Then she saw it at Walmart......a Skeleton!  She wants to be a Skeleton this year.  Then Piper saw it and Piper wants to be a skeleton this year.  So they are skeletons this year.

Which is fine because it was super inexpensive!  And super easy!  Presley tried on a Skeleton costume that she saw there.  It was a GIRLY one!  Tutu and all!  Super cute!   BUT it was too big and SOOO cheaply made!  So we didn't get it.  But I think even though it was a cheap costume, we wouldn't have gotten it if it had fit just because it would be done. 

So we were on the look for a girly skeleton costume in her size.  When we were walking towards the registers, I saw the perfect alternative!!!!  PJ's!!!!  They were glow in the dark skeleton pajamas!  They had a size for each girl and they were warmer than the costume AND half as much as the costume. 

Now all I needed to do it make a skirt to make it GIRLY!  Totally Do-Able!  Mommy's crafty!

I went to Joann's Fabric, my 2nd home, and bought some black broadcloth, scary spooky gauze, and some elastic.  And I had tulle at home, so that was free! 

And in an afternoon, Presley had a Girly Skeleton Costume made!  All we need are little finishing touches, like maybe some spooky stuff in her hair, face paint, black gloves, and her black chucks.  PERFECT!

Oh, best thing......they can wear the pj's over and over again!



The Spooky Girly Skeleton Skirt! 

 

The Costume!
I hope Presley LOVES it when
she wakes up!

Now I need to start on Piper's!

Oh, did I mention that combined (buying the pj's and making the skirt) cost less than $15.00!!!

Road Trip!!!!!!!

We took another raod trip to Fredericksburg over Presley long weekend off of school! It was a super nice trip. We got to spend some quality time with Grandma Beth and hang out at the ranch with the rest John's wonderful family!

We took the LONG route there in the hunt for the perfect plate of BarBQ! By long route, I think it took about 8 hours to get there! But we found some pretty good BarBQ. Not the best, but it was good. It wasn't like up here in the DFW area where you get a huge selection of sides. Down there, you got potato salad, cole slaw, and beans. I only like one of the three.

The Salt Lick outside of Austin... 

Girls are thinking

"After that long car ride....this better be good!"

 The meat....smells really yummy!

 Not $13 worth of food!

 Here neither!

Piper: 1 thumbs up!

Presley: 2 thumbs up!

Back on the road to Grandma's house!

So we spent most of Friday on the road, we did finally make it to Grandma's house about 7:30 ish at night.  We just hung out there for the rest of the night.

Saturday, we went to the Ranch!  That was FUN.  The girls had a blast and LOVE the country!

We went for a walk to hunt for rocks and the cow kept following us.  I think they thought we had food in the red bucket!

Here come a heard of goat!

Feeding time!

Those guys were H-U-N-G-R-Y!!!

Always posing.  She found a way to make an old feeder look cute!

Piper kicking over rocks and finding the perfect ones!

Poor goats......if they only were aware that there is no food in that red bucket.  They sure were hopeful and still hungry!

Darlene and Clyde Thomas' stove in their cabin.  So cute!!!!  Clyde Thomas totally restored it to working order!

1st time in an actual outhouse  

 Girl's 1st rides thru the ranch in the back of a BIG truck!

The guys shooting at stuff.  Guy stuff........ 

Even Joey took a turn.

Kids had a blast running around and playing with the new pup, Bonnie

I even caught a deer checking us out!

After being at the ranch and getting all dirty, the girls welcomed a shower and bedtime!

Sunday afternoon, we spent packinh up and the girls played on the front porch and with Joey.

Last, very important stop, The Spunky Monkey!  A must!  The girls favorite toy store ever!  Even better that cousin David works at it. :)

We had a GREAT trip and I look forward to our next one!

Hopefully real soon!