Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Fathers Day

We sent the boys to play golf.  They had a blast, and then we ate lunch and had a really really YUMMY chocolate cake!  It Was GOOD, so Good I tell you.  Did I mention it was good?  It was the kind of cake that has that cooked frosting, oh, and did I mention that there was peanut butter in the cake?  Yeah, peanut butter was in all that too.  It was GOOD.

 Jillian was so proud of the present she made for Daddy at School.

 Jackson showed off with tissue paper.  Geeze, give that kid some tissue paper and let him go!!!

 Here's our little family!  Love my hubby and kids, hate how I look, hence why I'm on a friggen diet!

 Popa and his girls!

Popa, Grandma and their girls.  Look, Grandma is STANDING!  She's doing so good with that knee!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Tiny Dancer, Toes and Birthdays

So much to share!  On June 5th, Becca had her first little dance recital.  The whole evening was just adorable.  From the dancing and costumes, to all the parents cheering on their favorite little showmen!  Becca, as usual, didn't disappoint.  She danced to Mickey's Birthday Party.  All the little Minnie Mouses were lined up on stage and I was so proud to see my sweet baby girl right smack dab in the middle.  She practiced this dance every Thursday at school and wouldn't share one bit of it with me!  She saved every little move for the recital, and boy did she know every little shuffle ball change in that routine!  Mommy, Daddy and Sister were SO PROUD!
 I can't wait till next year when both of my little drama queens will be able to dance in the recital.  Jillian is practically dying to take dance class.  It seriously is ALL she can talk about!  I mean look at what a little sister will do.  That is classic Jilly right there.

Onto other summer stuff, I have to share something I did!  On May 11th, I went and had my toes lacquered.  It's this process at the nail salon that shellacs your nail polish so it won't, I say a-won't chip!  Now I'm clumsy and goofy and stub my toes and those silly things and let me say that this has TOTALLY held up!  This is Day one below,


This is 2 weeks later.  Please ignore my slightly orange foot, I got carried away.  But you can see just a bit of grow out and NO CHIPS!

I'm still rocking the shellac, having some major grow out, but this stuff is just amazing.  I've been so hard on my toes, and they still look pretty every morning when I clean and moisturize them.

In other highlights, we celebrated Jillian's birthday on June 10th.  She is such a BIG girl now.  Something about actually turning 3 really did change her!  She is a little more precocious than normal=)  One of the best things she got for her birthday was her good ol' radio flier trike.  You know the one, it's red and white with streamers coming out of the handles, and those steps on the back end that make it great to stand and push it around.  It's the best trike, and one of the best parts is she can actually get herself around on the dang thing.  No more pushing her up the driveway...

We celebrated at Spaghetti Facotry, one of her most favorite foods in the whole world!  It was good family time with lots of memories!



We are heading into that summery time of year.  I'm looking forward to shorter work days and some dips in our pool!  I'm also starting on a new life style change in a few weeks.  I'll be talking more about it soon, I'm still working on getting all my ducks in a row.  I'm taking this thing seriously!

Stay tuned.