For 34 years, there has been a celebration for Stacy and Papa’s birthday together. This year it was a single celebration on Stacy’s special day. We had dinner at her house and of course sang happy birthday before enjoying yummy petifours – our girls do not think you have a birthday without cake. Thankfully, in… Continue reading Happy Birthday Stacy
Happy Birthday and Roll Tide for our Papa/daddy! Happy Birthday Papa – Mimi bought herself a gift–a Cadillac lawn mower! It is fitting since that is the kind of gifts they gave each other 🙂 This year Mimi, Stacy, an Lisa spent Papa’s birthday together and talked about a few of the good times. We had… Continue reading Happy Birthday Papa
Ivy was so excited walking into the gym today! She kept saying, “I do gymnastics, I do gymnastics” and wanted to get started right away. Of course, she paused for a hug from coach Ashley who taught Leia this summer and will be teaching Leia in the fall. Both the girls love coach Ashley or… Continue reading Gymnastics – Ivy started taking lessons
Chris was traveling this Monday and could not take the girls to school. Lisa needed to go to a meeting at 6:30 in the morning and the school does not open till 7:00. What do we do when we are in that kind of predicament? Mimi to the rescue. Really, Mimi asked the girls if… Continue reading Is skipping school on Monday a habit
Today is the last day before big cousin Sara starts kindergarten so we took advantage of it and spent it together. The girls never have been to Chucky Cheese so we got there when it opened to let them play. They ran all over the place. It was nice being one of two groups there.… Continue reading Last weekday before Sara starts big school
Tuesday night we took advantage of the free kids meal and hoola hoop lessons at Chickfila Leia did a great job learning to hoola hoop Ivy would not let go of hers after Leia’s fell Thursday we wondered if it is really August? The weather is so mild after school Mommy took the… Continue reading Mid week fun
Friday we headed to PTC to visit Grandpa, Deedee, uncle Diego, aunt Kelly, and of course cousins Adrian and Alicia. The girls were excited to get there and start playing. Of course, sweet little Ivy had to take a nap not long after arriving to remain in her sweet state. Leia got to rest in… Continue reading Weekend fun in PTC and skipping school Monday
We have spent most days when it was not raining at Mimi’s pool to practice our swimming since both girls took swim lessons this year. Ivy screamed during her lessons in protest until we figured out we needed to blow bubbles in the pool to make her happy and motivate her. At Mimi’s she has… Continue reading Swimming Mermaids
This year Lisa’s company did a carnival fundraiser for JA. It was a small carnival with just a few games but the girls enjoyed it. Leia got a icy since she ate her lunch but Ivy refused to eat so had to learn ‘no eat, no treat’ rule in the house. Instead if prizes you… Continue reading SCS’s JA Carnival
We’ve decided to start a weekly or biweekly family movie night. Think it was a hit with popcorn 🙂 Fun time painting today with the girls today. We have some talented artist 🙂 So thankful to have days home with our girls!