Daddy Daughter Dance

 

This year was a country chic theme and the girls enjoyed an evening of dinner and dancing (Mia). I had to work the dance this year, which proved to be too much for a little mommy's girl. Mia wanted to dance with dad, but Jilli wanted to hang with me as I served cookies. Brad, Mia, and I all told her "This is not the mom/Jilli dance!" It was my last year to work it, so I am sure she will enjoy Brad next year when I am out of sight. Mia danced the night away with Brad and her girlfriends! She looks forward to this night every year!

 

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Double Team

We are just tickled to have two teams to cheer for in the Big Dance this year! We have family connections at Tulsa and KU and that left us layering our team gear today! KU has advanced and we are waiting on Tulsa to play!

 

A little nervous as we watched the Jayhawks, they cut it close today.

But, they pulled it off!

 

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Super J

 

 

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Valentine's Day 2013

We were very crafty this year with our Valentine boxes and cards. It was very satisfying to make everything with what I had on hand at home. The only thing we bought were the chocolates. Jilli is a lover of all things frog related, so when I showed her this idea she was tickled! I wanted to cover it with green fabric but her strong will won and she used only the green of the box. (After she emptied every tissue from the box.)

 

 

 

 

Mia chose this owl and I think it is adorable!!!!!!

 

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Winter Fun

Jilli had her first piano recital, both girls performed wonderfully!

Lego building!

We had a lot of snow (5 WONDERFUL snow days!!!!!) I saw a quote on Pinterest that said "Snow days are God's way of telling teachers that he still loves them." They are such a blessing to our family.

 

 

Rock Chalk!

 

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Missouri Fun

Brad and I are so honored to have another darling goddaughter! Brielle is a cutie and we love to spoil her!

 

 

 

Mia, Ava, and Jilli

Pumpkin Carving with Ryland, Dane and Ava.

Thanksgiving Hayride and Bonfire

 

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Nine

My sweetie Mia just turned 9! Slow down sister! This causes me to panic!!!!! So when she asked for a doll stroller, I bought her the cutest, girliest doll stroller I could find! It is a triple stroller with pink polka dots, and she thinks it is the cat's meow. This world is social media, cell phone crazy and I want her to enjoy being a child! She loves dolls, American Girls, building Legos, singing along to the Frozen soundtrack at the top of her lungs, riding her bike, and playing with her sister. She is naive and innocent and I know that will change, but for now she can keep playing dolls!

She wanted a Dairy Queen cake, check! Poor sister had her birthday on Ash Wednesday so we ate out the night before. Her special guy brought her lunch at school on her birthday. She has been waiting years for him to come instead of mom who is always there.

 

Spirit fingers, wahoo!!!!

 

We baked cupcakes for her class, she loves to bake.

Mia had a fantastic party planned for her friends at a KU women's game. We had it all ready to go, down to the Baby Jay visit. The first date, it snowed, we had to cancel. We rescheduled and it snowed again. She was devastated, it was hard to understand, but we couldn't take a car load of her friends down k-10 in snow and ice.

 

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Christmas 2013

We had a blessed Christmas! We enjoyed hosting my mom and sister, my dad, and Brad's family. The girls are dolls and soak up everything Christmas. I hope they always have the fondest memories of our holidays.

Writing notes to Santa on Christmas Eve. The only thing better than being a kid on Christmas, is watching your children on Christmas.

Sprinkling Reindeer food on the lawn.

 

 

 

Christmas morning!

We love Lego friends around here!

A fun breakfast, thank you Brad and Pinterest;)

 

 

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