Open house

Abby’s first school experience was last night (Friday). I was supposed to be at Craft Weekend, but I ended up not being able to go. As sad as I was about that, I was so excited that I wouldn’t have to miss Abby’s open house!!

She was so excited to see her classroom and meet her teacher!


We tried to get pictures with her and Daddy too, but she was ready to go inside!!


She was shy at first, but didn’t want to leave when it was time. :)

I can’t believe our “baby” is starting school! In our county, for Pre-K they do this system called Step By Step. For the first week of school, only 5 kids are in the class per day. This way the teacher can get to know them before everyone is in the class all together. I love this idea!! Abby’s first day is Friday. :)

We went and got her school supplies last night, and her special requested “unicorn” (pony) backpack and lunchbox are set to arrive at our house via UPS on Tuesday. :)

So excited and nervous for this new venture!!

Abby's first hair cut!

Hello all! It has been a little bit since I have updated. I’ve had a lot going on but I am ready to get back in to the swing of blogging regularly! :)

If you are one of the Papertrey peeps waiting for a package from me, please know that it is on it’s way!!

So for a while I have been thinking about getting Abby’s hair cut. It was SOO long (past her butt). And since she is starting pre-k next week (OMG!?), I decided that today was the day. :)

I recently discovered a salon in our area that has a whole section dedicated to little girls. It was so much fun! Abby loved it, I loved it.. They have bright green walls with pink peace signs, purple curtains, hot pink chairs, leopard print “capes” to wear while your hair is being cut, a pretty chandelier.. Love love love!!

Here is the before pic:

And the after! We love it! :)


After she was done with the cut, Abby got to play dress up!

I think it’s safe to say we will be going there for all of the girls’ future hair cuts! :)

I have a lot going on right now! Looking for a car, getting everything ready for the girls to start school, and on Friday I am off to Kansas for Craft Weekend!! I cannot wait!

Our Easter festivities

I know this post is coming to you a few days late, but better late than never, right? Right! ;) We had SUCH a good Easter this year.. Probably the best one to date!

Here is a play-by-play of how our day went:

The night before Easter, we planted some “magic” jelly beans!

We woke up on Easter morning and ran outside to find that our magic beans had sprouted rainbow lollipops!
 

Yes, they slept in their dresses. Don’t judge me. :)


The girls LOVED this new tradition so we will do it as long as they get excited about it. :)
Soo glad I found this idea from See Jane Blog!

Side note: You can find the rainbow lollipop’s at Walgreen’s (year round) for $1!

To back track a little.. When the girls woke up on Easter morning, they opened their door to find..


The Easter bunny left a trail from their room, all the way to the living room to their Easter baskets. :)
We have been doing this tradition since Abby was 1.. The girls both love it!

I got their Easter “baskets” from Thirty One Gifts. Inside them were a coloring book, crayons, Easy Bake Oven refills, a pair of pajama’s, Tangled cup, mini Color Wonder set, new undies, a little La La Loopsie doll, and a tiny bit of candy (I tried to avoid it at all costs!)


 
Next we had some of the girls’ cousins over for an egg hunt! :)

I filled about 250 eggs and Micheal hid them throughout our front and back yard for the kiddies to find. :)

Everyone lined up at the door, waiting for Micheal to give them the OK to come out!
 

My babies!

After the egg hunt we made sidewalk chalk paint. :) Then went to Micheal’s parent’s house for dinner. :)

It was a fun filled day and I can’t wait to do it all again next year! Maybe add a few new traditions to the mix? Do you have any Easter traditions that you LOVE and do every year? I’d love for you to share!

I am going to end this post with some pictures of my girls on Easter..
(Seperate pics, because Abby was NOT for the idea of taking a pic with Lauren..lol)

I hope everyone had as great an Easter as we did!

That’s all for today. :) Be sure to come back tomorrow for an announcement!! :)

Our family just got bigger!

Yep, you read that right! :) As of Sunday, our family got bigger.. By 4 paws!

I’d like you to meet Trouty..
 
Isn’t he the sweetest thing?? He is such a good kitten! His favorite things to do are sleeping on the couch and chasing his tail around – which the girls think is HILARIOUS! :)

And did I mention how cute he is? Ahh..
 
If you’re wondering where we got his name from, then you obviously don’t watch Glee, and you should. :)

Talk to you soon!

Edited to add: SORRY if you subscribe to my blog via Google Reader, I accidentally published a post that was not meant to be (yet).

Our weekend..

Hello blog readers! I hope you have had a great weekend.. Ours was packed with fun!

Saturday Micheal was out with his brother and the Jeep club that they belong to, so I decided that the girls and I needed to have get out of the house as well for some girl time. :)

First we went to Target..
And of course, you can’t go to Target without stopping at Starbucks for some cake pops, apple juice (for the girls) and a vanilla bean frappucino (for me)! :) It’s like breaking the law if you don’t! ;)
 
This picture cracks me up! She is so my child.. Whenever I was young (and to this day) I would be perfectly happy going to the store and getting something as simple as a notebook and some pens.. Her choice of the day was two rolls of bright colored wrapping paper from the dollar spot at Target. :)

Our next stop was my fav store ever! Hob Lob (as I like to call it).. 
And our last store of the day was JoAnn’s. :)
 
Of course, after all of that hard work shopping, we had to get something to eat, right? Right :)

Oh, how I love Chic Fil A! It is always a treat for us when we go there, since we don’t have one in our town!

Wanna see what I bought between the three stores?

 
FUN stuff!! :)

Saturday night, Micheal and I put the girls to bed and stayed up way too late so I could get caught up on this.. 

Anyone out there a Gleek? Love, love, LOVE that show!! :) I still have one show to watch tonight, to be fully caught up and I hear it is REALLY good!

This (Sunday) morning we slept in and then headed to a festival that was going on in our town..

After spending two (!) hours at the festival, we took the girls out for ice cream. :) 

We still have ONE more thing planned before the weekend is over, but that will be a post of it’s own. :)

Talk to you soon!

The past few days..

I haven’t posted anything in a few days, so I wanted to show you what we’ve been up to..

Somebody got a new bike..
 

She was just a tad bit excited.. :)
 

She asked me if she could ride her bike (by herself) to school when she’s 5.. Ha! :)
 

 

The child loves to be outside.

Oops, got carried away with pictures of Abby on her bike.. Ha.

Here is one of my silly, crazy haired girl. :)

Seriously, that picture sums up Lauren’s personality! I love it.

Anyway, this weekend was rare, in that we got to have Micheal home for the entire weekend. He usually works 6-7 days a week so we were excited, to say the least!!

Sunday we went out to breakfast at our fav local restaurant. :)

Told you she is silly. ;)




On Monday Micheal went back to work (boo!). The girls and I went to the new DD/BR that opened up (only a few minutes from our house!) Yay for Strawberry milkshakes and chocolate chip muffins!

Yesterday and today have been lazy days. I’ve got a migraine that I can’t seem to shake. I am hoping to do some baking tonight, but we will see!

Thanks for checking in with me today! Don’t forget to link up your crafty projects here!