My baby is 9!!

Would have thought it was Christmas morning the way Dax was wide awake at SIX am :) so excited for his sister to open her presents! He made it to 6:40 before she "woke up on her own" lol

Let the fun begin!!

Presents were done and opened by 7:05 haha

Thanks to Pintrest... ;) ...she requested our new fav treat for breakfast,

 pop cinnamon rolls made in the waffle maker!

And our ritual headband...nine years and counting :):):)



The BIG present.... a new bed!!! Found last minute yesterday afternoon! Been looking for 2 years lol

Along with a present for all of us to share :)

Chilling at the desk of her new bed, wearing a bday shirt and bday hairtie, bday headphones attached to her tablet in a bday tablet holder, building bday lego friends :)

A couple friends and aunt came over for some cake to end the day :)

Was a great day spent with my Birthday Baby... just remembered we forgot to measure height! Balls.

Too much to do all in one day ;) I already know tho...she's TALL :)

 Happy Birthday Abber Doo xoxo 

Run or Dye!! 2014

Snagged a groupon a few months ago and signed Abb and I up for her first 5k! Our friends signed up and we all went together :):)

Everyone had a blast!!! We walked most of it ;) but one for the memory bank! Great way to spend her last day being 8!!!

 

Lunch with my Birthday Girl!

Her birthday is over the weekend and she wanted to take cookies to her class today. I told her I would bring them after lunch since that's when they normally get passed out. I got there with my sack lunch right as she was sitting down at her table. The seat across from her was open so I slid in. Her face of surprise was classic! She was so happy to see me :) well worth taking the day off for. I love you my sugarbeat!

 

 

Bring Your Kids to Work Day!

"This is gonna be the best day ever!!!!"

Decked out in WinCo uniform :)

I was super impressed with how well they did!! I had lots of stuff to get out onto the sales floor and they were eager to help. Of course we had fun like sticking Dax in a tall Libman mop box, and wrapping him up in shrinkwrap :) Throwing playballs into the tower, and Abby liked using the order gun. Lunch was with Dad at Wendys and Abby finished the work day with me and even got to come to my ballet class and watch. Love my kiddos!

I love getting mail!

I'm a happy girl!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Pretty low key this year. Abb took rice crispy treats to her class and was happy when she only brought home 4 :) Neither of the kids wanted to make valentines to exchange this year so we went with store bought :/ oh well haha. Jb was out at the track so when I got home the kids and I went and snagged a couple pizzas and I surprised the kids with s'mores stuff!

 

Got a little metal chimneia this summer.

Haven't used it too many times, but the kids love when we do :)



 

Abb was all giggles she was so happy to be hanging out roasting mallows

 

 

Not sure why his pose was to fake sleep.... lol



Hope you had a great day!

Was just another Friday, but glad I got to do something special with the kiddos ;)

(Dax and me)

Dance PARTY!!

So the kids school put on a Valentine themed fundraiser. It was a Daddy/daughter, Mother/son semi formal dance! There was a spag feed before hand but Abb didn't want to get her dress dirty so we skipped that part. I picked out a dress for her on my day off and *fingers crossed* that she would like it showed it to her just days before the dance...

She loved it!! We curled her hair and put a little makeup on her ;)

My date also got some new digs ;) Haaaaaaandsome boy!

 He loves wearing the vest and tie :)

(couldn't get the shirt tucked in for nothing!)

A students dad dj's so it was a legit sound system and set up.

Great decorations too

Abb and one of her best buddies :)

 

Little photobomb action... lol

Even tho we didn't eat the dinner,

Dax made up for it with 4 pieces of cake ;)

The table centerpieces were real flowers.

Dax helped himself, and gave me some all cute like

and told to me to make sure I got them in a "base".

So I took them to work :) put a smile on my face

We danced and danced :) It was a great night and one I won't be forgetting anytime soon

Saturday morning trying to sleep in wake up

Me: Bubba, don't choke me...
Dax: *whispering* I'm not. I'm just pretending to

Wordless Wednesday

First day of school!!!! 2013

Yay!!!! Well yay for almost everyone :) My sweetest girl had quite the reserve about starting school. 1st and 2nd grade she was in the same room with the same teacher. So it was a little too much to take on knowing she was going to be in a new room, new hall, new grade, new teacher. Happy 3rd grade. Not.

Sleeping Beauty

After a fun filled morning and afternoon with Aunt Rusty,

and an great evening with some friends at our house,

 we climbed in my bed for storytime.

I took and tucked in Dax first...

who needed to pee, and needed a drink,

and his nightlite fixed, and 12 extra kisses...

I came back to my room to find this beauty...

She's still there...and might be for the night :)

Wordless Wednesday - missing summer already

Swing Makeover!!!!

I cant believe I waited this long to do this project!!

<<<<  BEFORE  >>>>

I know right?!?! Yuck. haha

I remember painting it red at the Meridian house....so 6 years ago...yikes.

And one of the years Renee bought us the back cushions with the intention of recovering them

Long years dealing with the eye sore.....for the long awaited

!!!!<<<< AFTER >>>>!!!!

I love love love the way it turned out.

3 bottles of spray paint

4 yds of clearance gray fabric

bed pillow cut and pillowcased

and VIOLA!!

Its a little light, but it's gonna fade out there anyways...so might as well start out that way haha.

And it only took a couple hours. I could kick myself for not doing it sooner

 

And THIS little helper!!! best $2.50 I've spent in a long time ;) snack on the can and pull the trigger!

The kids have been hanging it out on it almost every night :)

Great project for this project girl ;)



All clean ;)

Color Me Rad!!!!

WICKED AWESOME!!! 

5 weeks ago I downloaded an 8 week Couch to 5k running program app on my phone
 with goal of running this race. I stuck to it and was able to run the whole thing!
Not a huge feat cus it's only 3 miles...
but Week 1 Day 1 of the program I was only able to run 53 seconds
and I was ready to give up lol
and today I ran 5k in 32 mins :)!!

(:  Heres Beth and I  :)

 Jb and the kids came and were at the finish line!!!

 

  

Such a great time....really glad I was able to participate

Everyone had a great time and was all smiles

A great first run...i think i might be addicted...

ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE