Kindergarten: Open House and 1st Day!

My baby girl has grown up, and she is a kindergartner now! Where did the time go? She is so excited about it all, although it may have worn off by now. She woke up this morning(Thurs., she started on Mon.), wanting to sleep more and asked,"I go to school today, too?" It's kind of a long day. She's there from 7:45-2:00, no 1/2 days here! Let the fun begin!


This is Open House/Meet Your Teacher night! She found her seat with a little treat from her teacher!


I am so excited that she got Mrs. Carbaugh for her teacher! God is so good and truly answered our prayers in more ways than one with this whole kindergarten experience.

All ready for the first day!

Can you tell this is the K hallway? Lots of mommy's and daddy's. It doesn't look like that anymore, we're not allowed to walk them to their door come next week. So sad, I wish we could.

You have to get a pic. on the 1st day of school with the K teacher!

She has just started this little "smile"! She's ready to start!

First day of school treat! She deserved it, it was a big day for all of us!

Graduation surprise for Abby!

Guess where we took Abby for her graduation present? Yep, back to Disney we went! She had no clue that we were going anywhere until we picked her up from school after the whole graduation thing. So much fun surprising her! Here's a few pics from the trip. My mom stayed with Ashley for the weekend, so Abby had us to herself and it was kind of nice just having that alone time with her.
This is where we stayed! Such a neat hotel. We have always wanted to stay here and I came across a really good deal, so we finally did.

Funny Abby stance! There is a geyser that is suppose to go off every hour at the resort and it wasn't working when we were there, but Abby was trying to look through the fence and had this funny hunched stance doing it.

Taking pictures around the hotel. It really does have a woodsy feel to it.

Heading to the boat to get to Magic Kingdom, but stopped to get a family pic.

Lunch at Crystal Palace with Pooh and friends.

First time meeting Peter Pan and Wendy

On the boat that takes you back and forth to Magic Kingdom from the resort. Abby took this picture.

It rained. It actually poured down for a while in the evening, but we stuck it out. Good too because there were hardly any lines for the rides we wanted to go on after the rain stopped.

Abby FINALLY went on Dumbo! Her very first time on this ride. She is a bit hesitant to go on rides, but our girl is growing up and she was willing to do a few new things this time.

The perk about staying at the Wilderness lodge is that there is a restaurant, The Whispering Canyon Cafe, and it is our favorite place to eat on Disney grounds for breakfast or dinner! It makes food that we all like to eat, meaning they make food that Abby likes to eat(chocolate chip pancakes)! The place has got character. As you can see Jeff needed ketchup for his hash browns and he ended up with a table full.

Pre-K graduation!

I know can you believe it!? Last Friday Abby has graduated from preschool. Jeff and I still can't believe that we have a child that will be starting the "big school" next year. She is so excited about it all! By the way we just had her hair cut, like 3 inches cut off, and we all love the new do.


Here she is already to get going for her last day of school and the graduation! The kids all had to wear their school t-shirts, so I dressed her up as much as I could.


Proud mommy of her big, sweet girl!

What a cutie!

She was in the front row. Boy, did we luck out on that!

Here's the graduate! They had a little cake and punch party right after the ceremony.

Getting caught up!

Boy, am I far behind on things. This is Easter, crazy how time goes by. That whole weekend was pretty busy for us. We went to our churches Easter Egg-stravaganza, and that was real fun. Abby had a lot of fun, and so did Ashley.

This is the girls Easter morning. Ashley actually has a dress that matches Abby's, but at this time she wasn't walking quite yet. Crawling is very hard to do in a dress and I couldn't let her suffer in the nursery getting stuck all morning in it. Wish we would've gotten more pics but we were literally running out the door to go to church.

This is at our church Easter party. After the egg hunt, the kids emptied out their eggs in the big bins and Ashley had a blast playing with them.

Ashley's little egg hunt area. They had a separate section for the little ones.

Abby's sitting with one of her little friends waiting on the Easter story that's about to be told.

Cute bunny pic.

Happy 1st Birthday, Ashley!!!

I cannot believe that a year has already gone by. We had her birthday party on Saturday with close friends and family. It was an Easter party because she was born on Easter last year! Such a fun and easy party, I even found the perfect party goods for the theme. Publix made the cake to match it all! I made her little cake because in case if you haven't heard yet, she's allergic to milk and to eggs. Her cake came out really yummy, though! We had such a nice time and all the other kids had fun too.

Cake for everyone to eat!

Ashley with her Mimi. She actually has little curls in her hair! That's about all she got from me, my hair does have curl- I just straighten it out.

There's her little cake, it turned out pretty cute.

Now, she's going for it!!

These are just random pictures that I took a couple days before her little party! She is getting into a lot of mischief now, but she is so funny at it.

A Day at the U-Pick Farm!

Hey, everyone! Sorry, it's been a while. I got on facebook, and boy is that addicting! Anyhow, a couple of weeks ago we went with some friends to a farm to pick strawberries! So fun!! They even really have a big red barn! Abby loved that! It's the first real barn she has ever seen! They also got to pick green peppers, cucumbers,and squash! It was a fun time, only thing is it's quite dirty. I don't know what I was thinking wearing flip flops. Oh well, part of the experience! Here some pics of our little trip.

See all the dirt:-)

Ashley got her ears pierced!

A couple of weeks ago Ashley got her ears pierced! Thank goodness there is an ENT Dr. in town that does them. It took me a while to find a dr. who does them because there was no way I was going to the mall to get them done. Anyhow, she has done awesome with them. She hasn't even fussed with them. Abby had hers done when she was 6 mths old, so of course we had to get Ashley's done.

Hard to see them in this picture, but look at those big blue eyes!