Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Alyssa's Kindergarten "Celebration"

Alyssa has graduated Kindergarten. She'll be in 1st grade next year! How crazy is that! They called it a Celebration not a graduation. I'm not sure why but oh well. We celebrated!! When we came up to the door they had a reading cafe set up with menus and Alyssa had a little apron on and she would ask us what we would like and she'd go get the book that we picked and read it to us. It was a really cute idea.


All of us were intently listening as she read. Micah's mom and sister were with us but I guess they were taking the pictures.


The menu.


Hi Nattie.


Mommy and Mara watching while Syssa gets ready to do some songs she learned.


All Smiles.


Getting ready to sing.


All grown up.


What a cute group of kids.


Her kindergarten class.


Nattie running around after the celebration.

Erin Graduates her Second Year of Master's Commission

Micah's sister, Erin, graduated her second year of Master's Commission and so we went to see her. It was awesome! The girls love their Auntie Erin so they wanted to cling to her the whole time.
We stayed at a Days Inn. Here's Erin, Mara, and Nattie.


Erin got Alyssa some messy putty sandy sort of stuff that ended up being more sandy than we thought. Oh well we were at the hotel not at home.

Really she had fun she just didn't want her picture taken right then.


They played with it next to the bathroom. The only hard floor in the hotel room.




This is at the first night of her graduation thing. They were playing with her hair and she was making them laugh really hard. As you can tell.


Micah's so proud of his sister!!


I'm proud of her too!!

The kids are proud of her too!!


Alyssa got to give Erin an award and her ring. She was her "Timothy". Erin passed the mantle onto her.


The Master's Commission singing. Erin looked over at Micah for a split second and smiled.... we got it!!

Me and my good looking hubby.

The three of us. I'm so glad we got to go to this. It was very special.


The girls started to pose a bit after it was over... I had to take pictures. Mara Jeanette.


Nattie Grace.


Syssa Sue.


Nattie kept tackling Mara and then laughing really hard. It was so cute.


Kisses for Daddy!


We were trying to keep the girls out of the way while they cleaned up after the graduation.


Afterwards Erin came to this park where everyone says goodbye so the girls saw the fountains and saw that you were able to swim, or at least get into the water, there and they were all for that. This is Daddy, Mara, Nattie, and a friend of the family, Eric.


In and out of the water they go.


Should we get back in? Oh yeah!!


Nattie walking up the side.


Eric at the park. We went to a different park after the other park since we were going to go to six flags since we thought we had free tickets but it ended up they were half price which is good but none of us had any money. Oh well the park was nice too.

Fun in the summer


Eating cookies together.

We bought a little pool. They loved it as you can all tell. When Micah's mom came down they put the pool under the slide and had a great time with the "water slide".


Our 7th Anniversary

On our anniversary this year we went to a burger joint that has 30s swing dancing and before they actually open for that they have "lessons". The lessons teach you a little bit in an hour so you don't know much but you get a little bit. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad I was able to spend some quality time out with the love of my life.






Learning the steps.


Let's Dance!

Austin


Our state capital. Isn't it pretty?


Me and my best friend Sarah from 2nd grade. I was so excited to be able to see her again.


Me and Sarah's friend Philesa.

Mother's Day

Here are some cute pictures from Mother's Day.









IHOP for Alyssa's birthday

For Alyssa's birthday she chose to go to IHOP for dinner and get breakfast. The girls had a good time with their smiley face pancakes.

Nattie is so cute.

This is one of my favorite pictures EVER! This is how they are but they fight all the time too.


All smiles!

A panckae just for the birthday girl. Happy 6th birthday big girl!!


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Alyssa's 6

My oldest baby is 6 years old now! Can you believe it?!? I can't! I love my baby girl so much. She is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady. Hehe. Love you my Syssa girl.


Alyssa's bday cake. What a cutie!



One of the presents she got. She loves books!



Blurry picture but these are some of the outfits Syssa got for her birthday.