Thursday, July 5, 2012

Rainy Day Play Date

My sweet friend Megan called and invited Ella to a movie play date on a gross rainy day.  Ella was thrilled, still realizing how I need to work on getting her some more girl time!  The girls watched Mary Poppins, ate sweets, and eventually ended playing in the rain.  Thanks Meg for including us in such a fun play date!

Dance Recital

 Ella was so excited about her recital.  When we were walking in I told her we brought her friends some flowers and she asked will anyone bring me flowers...I told her not to worry about it:-)  It was definitely a day of coordinating since Haynes had a game at 12 and Ella's show was at 1:30.  It's hard to get good seats in the "little ones" show, so my parents came early to get seats while I took Ella and Brian coached Haynes game....just the beginning of coordinating schedules I'm sure!
 Brian saw these flowers at work and called my mom.  He was so excited to give her rainbow roses, and she didn't disappoint him on reaction...she LOVED them!  Ella smells everything, so she immediately smelled them.  I love watching him love her so well!
Oh how I love my family...
We prepped the boys for Ella's dance recital and here were their responses...
Port let Ella pick out his clothes for her big day, and proudly wore a "button shirt" for her.  He watched her get ready and continuously told her how beautiful she was...sweet boy.  Haynes was not super pleased that he had to leave his game early to go to a dance recital.  He did rally and tell her how great she did:-)  Halle just loved it!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Dress Rehearsal

 Ella had her first dress rehearsal.  We have been talking a lot about it trying to get ready for the big recital.  She was SO excited...me too!  We had t-ball practice and a game all at the same time, so Brian had to miss the rehearsal.  He was pretty bummed but we figure a crazy schedule of events is just beginning...
 Ella, Selah, and Millie
*getting ready to go on stage
 Let's just say...
SHE LOVED IT!
 Preslee was pretty adorable too!
 They had a great time watching all the other dancers together.
This is from her ballet dance.  
I was so proud of her!  
She knew all her dances and was quite the little performer.  

Basketball Camp

 Haynes and some friends went to basketball camp for 3 days.  Haynes just absolutely LOVES playing basketball so he had a great time!
 Look at him jumping....
I just LOVE this picture...

Summer fun...

 Lolli and the kids planted a garden at her house this summer and the kids are so excited that they are actually getting to eat things from it!  Here's one of the first carrots...Haynes FAVORITES!!
This sweet girl is getting bigger all the time!

Mother's Day Tea Parties

 I was honored to be invited to three Mother's day tea parties in ONE week!  The are so many fun parts about these sweet parties.  I let the kids pick out my clothes for the parties and then offer to take them on a lunch date afterwards...they all chose to go on a date with me instead of staying and playing with friends...WOW!
The kindie tea party is a tear jerker thinking about how many years we have done this!  Then his sweet teacher puts together a video from the whole year...oh dear!!  Port chose for me to wear a HOT PINK dress and heels.  Then he chose Cafe Plaid for our date...pretty good date huh?!?  It's so fun getting one-on-one time with him now that he is getting older, our conversations are the sweetest thing in the world.  I love being your Mommy!
 This sweet kiddo is always making me laugh.  He wanted me to wear blue and heels...I wasn't surprised by the blue at all:-)  We did have a little issue about him dressing nice...surprise, surprise, surprise!  I finally told him that his teachers asked mommy's to dress nice because ALL the kids would be dressed nice.  If he didn't want to dress nice I could come dressed in my pj's too:-)  He dressed in his shorts and button shirt but lost the button shirt the MOMENT they were finished singing.  He chose Pickleman's for his lunch of choice.  I love you sweet kid!
Ella chose the most casual of outfits...slightly surprising.  She chose a dress from target and flip flops.  I was quite excited to see her perform all her songs because I thought she would LOVE it.  It was a pretty rowdy performance and I learned that she is A LOT like her daddy and is a people watcher.  Maybe she'll perform a little more next year:-)  She chose for us to eat at Bagel Cafe, I had a pretty great week of dates!  I love being your Mommy Ella Rose!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Memorial Day

 We got to spend the weekend at the lake with all our family!  It was such an amazing weekend no one wanted to go home.  The weather was great and time with family is always fun!!  In fact maybe too much fun, since these are the only pictures I have to show for it!!!

This beautiful girl enjoyed her first visit to the dock too!