Girl's Day Out

First off, I know I missed "Wordless Wednesday" and "Friday Funnies" last week.  I apologize.  I will make sure they are back this week :o)

On to today.  Lilian and I had a girl's day out with my cousin, Valerie, and her daughter, Adrianna.  We did start the day off having breakfast with daddy.

Then we headed to The Little Gym for a gymnastics class.  Adrianna has a class every week and today happen to be bring a friend day.  Lilian was instantly in LOVE with gymnastics :o)

Valerie and Adrianna surprised Lilian with a leotard/dress to wear for the day, they also got her tights to match, a pretty hair bow, and a tiarra. (Thanks Val and Anna!!)  They have to have bare feet during gymnastics, so that is why she is missing the tights.  She doesn't have nearly enough hair to keep the pretty bow in yet :o(  And, the tiarra was for later in the day.  Here are a couple more photos of gymnastics.

 Balance beam.

 Uneven bars.  She actually did really well on these!
Then, after class, we headed out to the ballet.  Lilian has been so excited for the last week about going to the ballet.  She was constantly "getting ready" to go (putting on makeup, a dress, earrings, ballet shoes, etc.).  Here is the princess waiting for the ballet to start.

She was absolutely enthralled with everything.  She sat and took in all that the dancers were doing.  She was so good.  Then, after the ballet was over, we were able to meet and talk to the ballerinas.  Lilian immediately walked up to her favorite lady to talk to her.  She let Lilian and Adrianne feel her shoes and told them about why they were so hard on the toes and showed them how she can stand up on her very tip-toes with them.  Then, Lilian showed her how she too can stand on her very tip-toes.  It was great to see her interacting with the ballerinas.

  Here is one of Lilian and I after the show.

Then, the girls had free reign of the dance floor.  Here is Lilian showing off one of her newly learned ballet moves.

It was so wonderful to watch her out there, dancing away, in her own little world.  She really is a princess :o)

We finished off our day with a wonderful lunch at Cafe Ole' in downtown Boise.  We are so excited to have more of these days out!

Thanks again to Valerie and Adrianna for a great day!

St. Valentine's Day

Valentine's started last week when I got flowers & a balloon at my work.

Then, we started off today with lots of love and kisses :o)

We had a good Valentine's Day this year.  Yesterday, we made cards for all of the grandparents and delivered them.  We also made Lilian a special shirt, which she loved.
When I got in my car to head to work today, this was hanging off of my rearview mirror.

Ron surprised me with this beautiful necklace! I love it!
When Ron and I got home from work, the kids had made us special crafts.

Then we decided to have breakfast for dinner, so we had pink heart shaped pancakes with strawberries, eggs, and bacon.

*Sorry, it is sideways, I don't know how to rotate it.
Then, we finished the evening with homemade strawberry shortcake. Yummy!!

All in all, our day was filled with love and happy surprises.  We hope everyone else had a blessed day as well!
xoxo

Friday Funnies

*The kids were riding in the car with their Nana and she was having a hard time getting where she was going (she kept making wrong turns)
Nana - Crud! I went the wrong way, again!
Lilian - Nana, you need to relax, it will be ok.

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Braison - Look at that helmet over there, Mommy.  It is red and gold.
(He was looking at an Iron Man dress up helmet thing)
Mommy - Who is that?
Braison - It is Butt Man, Mommy! Geez.

Wordless Wednesday

Bathtime & Roller Skates

One of the kids' very favorite things is bathtime.  They always look forward to that time of the evening. 

They are almost too big to both be "swimming" in the tub together. Sad day.

We were out shopping the other day and came across some second hand roller skate/blade beauties.  These are the kind that go over your shoes & they can either have the wheels in roller skate or roller blade mode.  I had been considering getting some of these for the kids for some time, but had a hard time justifying paying $30ish dollars for them.  So, when we found them for $4 I was thrilled!  Braison really did like them, but  he happen to be pretty ill the day that we tried them out, hence the bewildered look on his face.

Friday Funnies

I made macaroni with hot dogs for dinner (because I was lazy).
Lilian - Yum, yum, you did a good job making dinner tonight Mommy! Thank you!


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Braison - Can Rebekah come over and play?
*Rebekah is a friend of Mommy's
Mommy - Why do you want her to come over and play?
Braison - Because, she is my favorite friend that I have!

Wordless Wednesday

I'm Back!!

So, I have been down and out for a whole week now.  Last Tuesday I came down with something terrible.  I had a fever of 102.6°F, cold chills, an awful sore throat, and I couldn't keep any food down.  Needless to say, I didn't really get out of bed for almost an entire week.  It was not pretty. 

But, I was pretty happy because it seemed that I had managed to keep it to myself. Wrong.  On Friday, Braison's temperature started rising and he started coughing and refusing to eat.  So, we shipped Lilian off to my dad's house for the weekend, hoping to keep her out of the loop.  On Sunday, Ron started complaining of a sore throat and his temperature started rising as well.

When Lilian came home on Sunday evening, she was really cuddly and didn't want to do much of anything.  Alas, her temperature had skyrocketed by bedtime.

So, at least Momma was on the upward swing of things by the time that it hit the rest of the family. 

Right now, we are just all trying to survive this crud.

Friday Funnies

*We were in the car, using the GPS to get somewhere.
GPS Lady - Turn left here.
Braison - Geez, we are lady!!

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Ron - I ate two pieces of pizza.
Lilian - WHAT?!? HOLY CRA...er, HOLY COW DADDY!
*Nice save Lilian :o)

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Lilian - It is getting foggy up in here!

Toto

When I was twelve years old, my grandparents got Tyler and I a surprise.  We were so excited to find out what it was, when the lady showed up to the house with a box, it was all we could do to wait for her to get in the house to find out what was in it.  And, what was in this mystery box?  A rat. Or so I though.

Turns out, this was no rat, but our new PUPPY!!  We were so excited!  So, after meeting him that first day, we began the difficult task of picking out a name.  We had a list of names that we all liked and from that list we narrowed it down to just a few names.  Then, we put those names on slips of paper to draw out of a hat.  And so we had, Toto.

We had the welcome home of all welcome home parties (as far as puppies are concerned) for Toto when he was big enough to leave his momma.

Over the years, we had lots of fun with Toto, he even got his own birthday parties and cakes :o)

As Tyler and I grew older, we spent less and less time at our grandparents house and in turn, with Toto.  We loved him dearly, but with him living at Grandma and Grandad's and us living at home, he became more their dog than ours.  Even though, until the very end, all either one of us had to do was walk through the door of their house, start talking, and Toto would come running.  He never forgot us, just as we will never forget him.  Toto was indeed one of the most lovable, adorable, and affection dogs there ever was.  He became like a child to my Grandma and Grandad, they very rarely went anywhere without him and he was sure spoiled rotten :o)

 Toto with his new friend

14th birthday

Toto left this Earth today, just a month shy of his 15th birthday, in San Luis Obispo, California (probably, like Grandma and Grandad, his most favorite place to be).  He is now in a place where he can lay in the sunshine all day long and eat nothing but chicken bones for every meal, he is free of pain and can run and play once again.

Fond memories of our beloved Toto will always warm our hearts.

Toto
February 22, 1996 - January 20, 2011

Dogs come into our lives, leave pawprints on our hearts, and we are forever changed.

Wodless Wednesday