Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Spring Break Part 2

On our way home, we stopped at a wildlife park where you get to drive through and feed the animals from your car.  The girls had a blast!  The ostriches were a big hit!!

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Safety Town Field Trip

One of the field trips for Kinder is Safety Town.  They learn about fire safety, get to see the ‘insides’ of a real fire truck, and then the kids are let loose in Jeeps to drive through Safety Town.  Half the class is driving and half are pedestrians.  They all have to follow the rules of the roads – stop lights, cross walks, and such.  The kids love it, and the parents only have slight heart attacks since the Jeeps don’t go too fast!

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Happy Birthday Ava!

Today Ava turned 3!!! We celebrated yesterday with a little party and she will celebrate at school tomorrow. I am still getting the photos from the party, but I didn't want today to pass without a little post to say Happy Birthday to our sweet Ava! :)

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Ava’s 3rd Birthday Party

Our baby has turned 3!!!  We had a little party at the house with her friends and she wanted a circus theme.  We all took pictures with the lion and the ring master!

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Pin-the-tail on the donkey, piƱata, cake – all the things a birthday party needs!  She had a great time celebrating with friends and family.

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Daddy Daughter Dance 2011

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It’s time for the annual Frisco Daddy Daughter Dance and the girls were as excited as ever to go.  Patrick, Anna and McKenna got all dressed up and we headed over to meet our friends for pictures.  There were 5 dads and 8 girls in the group – Ava was all dressed up, but for 1 more year she gets to hang out with me for the evening :)

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2nd Grade beauties!

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Strike a pose!

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Aren’t we sweet?

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Purple buddies

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These 2 are going to be trouble!

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Ready to go!

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The Girls!

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One fine looking group!

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You have cookies?  Ok, we will stay with the mommies!

The dads and girls had a great time at the dance then headed out for dinner.  The moms went out to dinner with the little girls and boys and had a really fun time as well.  It is so much fun to spend these special moments with such great friends!  Looking forward to next year :)

Monday, February 7, 2011

Ava’s 1st Swimming Lessons

Ava just started swimming lessons at Emler – she is going alone, no mamma in the pool with her!  The first 15 minutes of class were BRUTAL!!!  She screamed and threw a fit – so much so, that another instructor had to come over and help calm her down – by feeding her lots and lots of M&Ms :)  After she calmed down, she had a lot of fun with a friend of ours (her daddy and I work together).  We go once a week, so hopefully this week will be a little bit easier!  Anna and McKenna had fun watching the lessons, they were a little bummed that they didn’t get to swim, but Anna played photographer and took all these photos for me.

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Friday, February 4, 2011

2011 Snow Days

We have had quite a few snow days so far in 2011 – the first one just delayed school by a few hours, but our second round kept the schools closed for 4 days one week and then 1 day the following week.  The 4 days were a little rough since it was more ice than snow, we didn’t go out in it until Friday even though we were home since Tuesday. 

Here are some shots from Jan. 9 – the first snow days.  We didn’t have a sled, so we were using cookie sheets.  Our friends brought out the inner tubes – these were great until they popped from being run over the rocks under the snow.

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Driving to the park through the neighborhood

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Our friends got some real sleds before the next go around, but we still had fun using those and the tops to those big storage bins!  Not to mention the snowball maker – that thing really works!

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It was cold, and it was a long couple of days not being able to leave the house, but I really enjoyed having the girls home for some extra time together!