Merry Christmas

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Happy Family Day Nick and Allie. It has been 8 years ago today that I was blessed with becoming a Mother. I love you so much. They have been celebrating all week long with camping and Bullwinkles and bowling today.

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Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

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Sunday Snapshot

I love this picture of Allie taken at Harlow's birthday last weekend. I feel that the picture shows her since of style. She is wearing a princess dress running around a baseball field with a balloon tied to her tiara. How I wish I could keep her this age forever. With her graduation from Preschool this week I am realizing how fast she is growing up and am excited about what the future has in store for her but still wish she could stay little. My camera is a Canon SX10IS and my hope is to experience more with photo editing. This picture has no editing and is blurry but I love it anyway.

This week I decided to link up with the Ni Hao Yall Sunday Snapshot.

Bucket List

How can it be almost a month since I have blogged. I have sat down and tried to type something many times and have even tried to organize the pictures I wanted to post but it never got done. Everytime I have tried I have gotten interupted somehow. Summer is finally here at our house at least it is for Allie. Her last day of preschool was Tuesday and I am hoping to do a post about it soon. Even though I haven't been blogging myself I love reading other peoples blogs one of my favortie ones is Enjoying the Small Things by Kelle Hampton one of my goals for this summer is to read her book Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected Nick's school is having a fundraiser at Barnes and Nobel in a couple of weeks and he bought me a Barnes and Nobel gift card for Mothers day and so I am going to use that to buy her book. This week she blogged about a mini bucket list making a list of five things that you are looking forward to this week. I thought that this would be a fun way to start my blog every week this summer. So for the week of May 28 - June 2nd my mini bucket list is to: 1. Enjoy Memorial Day as a family. Scott is working two jobs again and so we are not going to see him that much this summer and he has Memorial Day off from both jobs. 2. Enjoy Allie's first week of summer vacation. I have been trying hard to organize the house and get the yard in shape I hope to take a little bit of time each day this week to do something fun with her. 3. Go to Nick's baseball game. He is having a great season. He got third place out of 100 kids in the skills challenge tournament he participated in a few weeks ago. 4. Nick school play is this weekend. I can't wait to see him in it all three times. 5. Have Harlow over for a playdate. Allie has been having so much fun playing with her lately. 6. Update the blog with Allie's preschool graduation. 7. Allie has kindergartin visitation this week. I am sure she is going to love it.

Continue Easter

Well it didn't show all of the pictures I will have to play around with it a little more. Here are the rest of the pictures that were taken at my Aunts house.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter just a few weeks late. We still have Easter candy at our house and so as long as we have candy I can still blog about Easter. It was a nice relaxing Easter. Nick and Allie ended up having four Easter egg hunts and so we ended up with a lot of extra candy and treats. The weather was beautiful and they got to spend all afternoon outside playing with their cousins. I hope this post works I am not liking the new blogger.

Tulip Festival

We have had some busy months working on the Peter Rabbit Auction for Allie's school and getting over colds. The Auction ended up doing really well and so it was worth the time but something I probaby won't be doing again. This weekend we finally had some sun and decided to spend part of the day at The Woodburn Tulip Festival. I am so glad we did the flowers weren't blooming as well as the have been other years but they were still pretty and their was lots to do. I can't believe how old Nick is looking in these pictures. I have missed blogging and hope to be able to do more of it.