Holly’s First Communion

ByKaren

Holly’s First Communion Holly made her first communion this weekend and she looked absolutely beautiful.  She told me after she got dressed that she felt like she was getting married.   After her saying that I couldn’t keep that thought out of my head and when we were in church I thought of it and had even more tears in my eyes.  Before we know it, we’ll be back there with her in a white dress again. But the ceremony was beautiful and I love the new church we belong too.  Holly also did a little reading and she did so awesome.  We were so proud of her and it was a beautiful day! It’s amazing how fast she is growing up!!  I seriously feel like…

Allison’s Kindergarten Birthday Party

ByKaren

Allison has the first of many birthday celebrations today.  Since it was school vacation this week, I figured it was the perfect time for her to have a party with some of her Kindergarten friends.  Since I have a boot on my foot and getting around is a big hassle, I convinced here to have the party somewhere else so mommy didn’t have to do all the work. We agreed with AC Moore for an Arts & Crafts party as long as she could do something with Zebra Print.  She was thrilled with the idea and couldn’t wait for the day to come. They did such a great job at AC Moore with the kids and I was very impressed with the party. The kids…

Allison’s Cursive Writing

ByKaren

Allison wants to learn everything Holly learns.  When Holly was learning to do math in Kindergarten, Allison learned to do math.  When Holly was learning to count by 5’s and 10’s.  Allison learned.  Allison then figured out how to count by 2’s just by the logic that it was every other number, no one taught her. Allison is smart, and hopefully will continue to enjoy learning new things as she gets older and won’t push school work aside for something else.  Holly is in 2nd grade now and she is learning to write cursive and is loving it.  Holly has very neat printing and her cursive is looking to be neat as well.  She’s still working on it. Allison, of course, wants to learn cursive…

Me and My NEW Black Boot

ByKaren

This is no April Fools joke….. Sometime in January I did something to my left foot.  Not sure what I did or when I did it, but I believe it happened in January.  It’s been hurting since then but I just ignored it.  Best way to fix it right?   Then last month when I went to Texas for a conference, it got worse the say I was traveling and I could hardly walk all weekend while there.  I knew I couldn’t ignore it anymore. I made an appointment for the following week with my doctor from the hotel room in Texas, that is how bad it hurt. A week later I found out that I have a stress fracture and the only thing to…

The Easter Bunny Came!

ByKaren

We spend Easter at my inlaws but the Easter Bunny always finds us there.  One year he left us seeds to grow lolipops and he knew we’d be there so he left them there. Once again he left them some fun baskets only this year they weren’t as big as normal because the Easter Bunny hurt it’s foot and couldn’t hop along as well to gather more stuff for the baskets.  But he did leave chocolate balls all over the fireplace and the girls LOVED That.  We thought maybe they were Easter Bunny droppings but thankfully they turned out to be delicious chocolate eggs.  WHEW! I didn’t get a picture of the girls dressed up but did manange to snap a few pictures of them…