Crazy Dress Up

This week is Spirit Week at Peachtree Academy. Today was tacky day!! Here's how the cutie went to school. She can make tacky look cute!

On Saturday we went to Abby's birthday party. Fun princess party that included a bouncy and face painting!!


And a pinata!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

Catching Up

The girls went out shopping with Grandma and Pap during Hayden's birthday weekend. The both picked up their very own umbrellas! Here's miss Hayden modeling hers. Check out the shirt that Aunt Jamie made for her.....adorable! 

 Miss Layne got a Tinker Bell umbrella. It rained today so they were able to use them when we dropped Layne off at school! 

 This is how I found Layne sleeping one day last week. She had fallen off of the bed and just continued sleeping right on the floor. Hayden fell out of bed this morning too, but she didn't continue with her slumber! It woke her right up. 

 Layne is an animal person FOR SURE. She can not get enough of our new addition. She's not a big fan of the needle sharp puppy teeth, but she deals with it because she loves to play with Roxy so much. 

 Bath time for the pup. Layne really wanted to comfort Roxy during bath time because she wasn't too excited about the whole experience. 

On Monday Layne, Ella, and I headed into Hayden's school so that we could take a birthday treat into her class. We were shocked when Hayden's teacher invited Layne to eat lunch with her big sis! I don't think that Layne liked it, but she really wanted to eat at big school with the big kids and her big sis. 

We brought in a cookie cake and everyone sang Happy Birthday to the birthday girl! 

Costumes

So, all Layne wants to be for Halloween is Strawberry Shortcake. Luckily, I found a Strawberry Shortcake dress at a consignment sale! All we needed was the hair....well, we found that today. It's actually a Little Mermaid wig but it will totally work. She is IN LOVE with the hair. She wanted to wear it into Wal-Mart-I let her. I figured that you can find way weirder things in Wal-Mart than a 3 year old with a red wig on! She even wanted to wear it to bed tonight-I had to draw the line somewhere!!
Hayden really wants to be a witch. So, here's the least scary nicest looking witch costume that we could find. Of course it had to have hair because sissy's costume has hair!! Cuties!!!!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

Those Girls!

Here is a picture of Layne holding the American flag so that Hayden can say the Pledge of Allegiance.

 Here is Layne modeling her new pirate earrings. Funny story about that....so we got this adorable invitation to a pirate party for one of Haydens friends. We were all so excited about it....especially jeremy (that was a joke). So Jerm had to drop the girls off on Saturday because I had something else to do. As he pulled in the driveway he noticed that there were no balloons on the mailbox, no kids or parents running around or entering the house. Things just didn't feel right. He soon realized why things "didn't feel right". The party was NOT Saturday, it was Friday! So, the girls missed the party but they did get to stay and play with Oakleigh for a little bit. They were able to give Oakleigh her present and then even got cupcakes and treat bags! Jeremy's text to me on Saturday read " Party was yesterday. Thanks for that." These pirate earrings were in the treat bags. Our little gypsy girl :)

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

Roxy

So here she is...our newest addition! Roxy our 6 week old lab puppy. It's Jeremys early birthday present that he picked out, picked up, and brought home. She is such a good puppy!

Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

The Baking Bash!

Pizza cake for the adults (caramel cake) and treat bags for the kiddos. Cupcakes are just extras. 

 The aprons are all ready to go. Once the girls arrived they got to pick their apron and put it on so we'd be ready to get baking! 

 This morning Grandma, Pap, and the girls headed to Party City for the balloons and to a gas station for ice.....this is what they came home with too! Check out Hayden's cupcake slippers! TJ Maxx.....love it! 

 Birthday balloons so that Hayden's friends would know where to go! 

 Layner getting ready for sissy's party! 

 Our early arrivers hanging out on the deck before the baking began. Morgan, Hartley, Hayden, and Kendall. 

 Layner had to get in the picture! 

 First project was making their own pizzas for lunch. They did such a great job spreading the sauce, cheese, and pepperoni on their own pizzas. Then it was off to the oven!

 Next it was time to make their very own recipe book. Since none of them can write recipes down I told them that they could use it to draw pictures of some of their favorite foods. 

 Lots of fun, it kind of made me miss being in the classroom just a tiny little bit.

 By the time they were done making their recipe books the pizzas were done and cooled! 

 Then it was time for the fun stuff.....cake decorating! 

 Lots of colors of icing! 

 Tons of different kinds of sprinkles and toppings! 

 Kendall's masterpiece! 

 Hartley's masterpiece

 Morgan's masterpiece 

 Layne's masterpiece

 Abby's masterpiece

 Hayden's masterpiece 

 Oakliegh's masterpiece

 Next it was time for cupcakes and ice cream! 

 We couldn't find a match or lighter, so we just pretended that the candle was lit!!! 

 Present time! 

Modeling the Steeler jersey that Pap and Grandma got her and the Steeler tutu that Julie made her!! She is set for Sunday game days!! 

I had an absolute blast at Hayden's party today, not sure about the girls but I had fun! 

The girls spent some time over at Grandma and Pop's house the other day. The played with the bunnies and celebrated Hayden's birthday a little early. Hayden got a tea set that Grandma brought back with her from China before Jeremy and I were even married. They also made a big birthday cookie!
Daddy came back from Bosnia on Thursday night. On Friday morning he had these great gifts for the girls....musical instruments!

When Jeremy and I decided that it was time to expand our family and have a baby we had no idea how much that decision would change our lives. I had this idea in my mind that I would meet my husband in college or very soon after (checked that off the list), be married by 24 (checked it off the list), and have our first child before we had been married 2 years..... I couldn't understand why we weren't getting pregnant. After all, that was what I had planned. Why wasn't God following MY plan?! That was are really hard time for us. Pregnancy and babies was all consuming. I had no idea what God had in store for us, but I knew it wasn't children at that point in our lives. Once I came to that realization God revealed HIS plan for my life at that moment. He wanted me to go to Zimbabwe and share His love with people who had NEVER heard. That call was so clear that I couldn't even think about not going. If you've ever had a crystal clear calling at any time in your life you can totally relate to that. So, I went and it was life changing. I met Chenayi....my soul mate. It was such a short friendship, but it was one of the strongest that I have ever and probably will ever have. She was an incredible human and I am so so so thankful that God had our paths cross.



Unfortunately, Chenayi passed away due to a house fire but I know that she's celebrating and praising Jesus up in heaven every single day!
It was amazing though, very soon after I got back from Zimbabwe Jeremy and I got pregnant with sweet Hayden. Hayden Chenayi Ross was born five years ago on October 5, 2006 at 9:26pm. Parenting has been one of the hardest and greatest things I've ever done. It is such a humbling thing to realize that God trusted Jeremy and I so much that He gave us two of His precious gifts to raise. I love each of them to pieces and I couldn't ask for anything better. I know that this journey called parenting is just beginning for Jeremy and I but what a great time we've had so far! Happy Birthday sweet baby girl. You have brought more joy to our lives than you'll ever know....until you have a child of your own that is!!