May 19, 2012

Maternity Photo Shoot!!!

Ella's mom who also happens to be a dear friend of mine took these amazing pictures of our sweet growing family today. Lisa is so very talented with her photography....as you will be able to see! What a blessing she has been to my life :) Love you girl! 










Philip's Graduation Cake

Philip, our pastor, just got his masters! Yahoo! So, Angela planned a party for him at a lake house. She asked me to do that cake. I told her I had the perfect idea, I have been wanting to do a stacked book cake and I don't get many opportunities anymore. The cake even fooled a few people! Not books.....all cake! It was a really fun night and a great reason to celebrate! 

Karen's 40!

One of our Discover Kids favorites turned 40 today! So, some wonderful ladies organized a little birthday brunch for her. I said I'd do the cake....here it is. It was lemon with lemon and strawberry filling. Happy Birthday Karen!!! 

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May 18, 2012

Layne's Program

They put on the cutest little program for the end of the year. It was focused on Mother Goose and her Nursery Rhymes. Little Layner didn't sing a peep, BUT she was the spoon that ran away with the dish!! And she did a wonderful job that that. 
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May 15, 2012

Early Birthday Celebration


Today we had a little birthday party at Layne's school for her. Since her birthday is in July, she doesn't normally get to celebrate it with her school friends!

Fun times!


Then it was time to play outside. Of course, Layne went to the swings!

Hayden did the same!
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May 14, 2012

Odds and Ends


So, one of the many things that I picked of from my mother is pile making. When we were little if we left our stuff around the house my mom would make a pile for us on the steps leading upstairs. We would have so long (mostly 24 hours) to remove the pile from the steps of it was trashed. I don't think that she ever really threw stuff away because we knew how serious she was! Well, when the girls trash my truck with their stuff I just pile it up on the steps in the garage. That's what happened to Layne's jacket. It sat out there for a few days and Jeremy and the girls ended up bringing it in on Saturday and THROWING IT ON THE FLOOR!? What was the point of bringing it inside if you are going to throw it on the family room floor!? Anyway, I picked it up and something went crawling up my arm. I screamed, hit my arm, dropped the jacket, and ran. So much for not over reacting!! Well, it was a lizard. It just scurried right back under the jacket when I dropped it. I asked Jeremy very calmly but very sternly to get rid of the lizard. Well, he slowly picked up the jacket and the lizard scurried under the piano. GREAT! So, that was the end of trying to catch the lizard.
This afternoon when I was getting ready to feed Ella I went to get the high chair and this is what I found!! I calmly took a picture of it and texted it to Jeremy with the message "DANG YOU!" Then I took the plastic tray insert, opened the back door, and launched it! And it's still there!

Layner and I took and afternoon trip to Sonic for 1/2 price slushies and then went to the park!

Swing swing....she could do that all day!

I had some extra dough after I made Layne's birthday cookies and some smiley cookies for the teachers at Layne's school so I decided to make some closing cookies! Johnny and Mwende closed on their very first house last month. They are in the process of moving in!! And Matt and Jamie close on their house tomorrow! Such an exciting time!!

The weather has been so nice lately and now I have my NEW comfortable deck chairs....so we decided to break out the pool this afternoon!

I was sitting there enjoying my comfortable chair watching the girlies play and all of a sudden POOP! A bird flew over me and pooped on my tummy! Crazy and nasty!

Swimming sisters!!
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Summer Fun Cookies

Layner is having her birthday celebration at school tomorrow since she isn't in school during her real birthday. Here are the cookies that I did for it. Can't wait to celebrate sweet Layne!
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Happy Mothers Day!!

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May 12, 2012

Mother's Day Thru the Years


Motherhood

Man do I love these girls! I don't know what I would do without them. Every Mother's Day since I have become a mother I always think about how blessed I am to have the opportunity to be Hayden and Layne's (and soon Gwynn's) mom. They have changed my life in such an amazing unexceptionable way. I pray that I am able to help them to become the women that God wants them to be. 
Thanks so Lisa for taking this shot one day after she picked up precious Ella!  

May 11, 2012

Fruit Salad

Last night the girlies got to help me with dinner by making the friut salad. It wad delicious !!
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May 10, 2012

Baby Bump Week 30


Beautiful Girls


My beautiful babies! The hydrangea behind them is 9 years old and it has been blue for 9 years....until now. Finally, it's purple!!! I have been trying to get it purple for years.

Here are the teacher gifts that we came up with for this year. It's all strawberry stuff (soap, sanitizer, candy, candle) with a little sign that says "?I couldn't have picked a better teacher". They are excited to give them to their teachers!!
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May 4, 2012

Rainy Day

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May 3, 2012

Baby Bump Week 29


Alphabet Olympics!


Today Layne had Alphabet Olympics at school. It was a great morning that started out with all the kids parading down the hallways singing the ABC's while showing off their shirts!

The kids went from game to game and had a blast!









And at the end each child was awarded a medal!!
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May 1, 2012

Pre-K Graduation

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