Matilda's Birthday

Well it's been almost a month since her birthday and more than that since we celebrated her first party, yes we had a couple. Since Grandma Kay and Grandpa Ross were in town early September, they threw a cute party for her at Great Grandma's house. They provided a great BBQ and the girls and I made DOG DOG cupcakes (that's what Matilda calls them).

For her second party, we had everyone else to our house for a birthday brunch and lastly on her official birthday another little celebration with just us. Needless to say she was a lucky little girl with all her family and everyone wishing her a Happy Birthday!

                                         Just one of the brunch items, I didn't get any other pictures

 Addie made this dog banner for Matilda's Birthday Party and it's hanging in her room still.

                                         Yummy cupcakes with fudge filling.

                                          Matilda's special cupcake

 She was a little overwhelmed with everyone singing, but quickly made up for it with a cupcake.

Happy Birthday Matilda!!

Happy Birthday to our sweet incredible 2 year old!! We love you!!! I'll post more of her parties in a bit!

First Day of School

I can't believe it's school and summer has ended. This is the first year I am actually craving more summertime. Probably because of this crazy week, Addie starting kindergarten and Matilda turning 2. Time has gone by too fast and I'm already missing those lazy mornings hanging out in our pjs (ok we are only on day 1 of school). Ok enough of that, Addie had a great day and I am really happy for this year.

We found out last week Addie got her choice of teacher and the AM class. So things started off pretty awesome already! She has a male teacher who plays lots of music and we've only heard great things! Some things we did to get ready for the transition, we attended a few book fairs over the summer at the school and also the BBQ open house. The open house was fun and a chance to drop off supplies before the first day. We also printed morning and evening routine charts and framed them outside of the girl's bedroom. Finally last night we had a school celebration, complete with dollar tree school cute outs and Addie's favorite dinner.

Here's some pics....

PS- I still want to post about all the fun things we did this summer.....

Summer pictures

Just a few pictures of what we've been up too. Eating delicious berries, enjoying the summer weather, finishing some projects up around the house and being silly.

June

Finally getting around to posting about June. It was a busy month but lots of down time too. We kicked off the month going to Cannon Beach for a few nights. The weather was fairly good and sunny, we all loved swimming. Once back we got into a summer schedule, although it wasn't summer weather yet, swimming lessons for both girls and ballet camp for Addie. Swimming was great and Addie is pretty much swimming on her own with a little help here and there. Matilda loved the water and loved being in the pool with Addie and the big kids! Ballet was cute too and at the end of the week the girls performed Jemima Puddle Duck.

Here's a few pics from the beach more to come.....

First Day and last day

Preschool Graduation

I can't believe Addie will be in kindergarten next year. The last few years have literally flown bye and I'm sad and excited all at the same time. Here are a few pictures from the big Grad day. Addie got the "Awesome Actress" award!