the zoo

We have lived at the zoo this summer. We have more than paid for our zoo membership.

This time at the zoo, I noticed a real change in Lila. She was starting to notice the animals. She was cracking up at the monkeys and watching the big elephants walk. But, her favorite part of the zoo was no doubt the farm animals. We took her out of her stroller and gave her an up close and personal look at the animals.

Look at those sweet chubby legs!

Lila loved the chickens!

Emma striking her pose...


Could it be? A decent picture of all 3 of my girls?

a trip to nashville

At the last minute, we decided to head out of town on a quick trip to Nashville. We were tired and stressed and thought we needed a vacation from everyday life.

We did nothing "special". We just got a great hotel room that had a HUGE bathtub that the girls called a swimming pool, and we ate,shopped and played.

Emma on the carousel at the mall.

Before we left home, we visited a great farmer's market and had a snow cone in a cup in the park.



Just simple fun with my favorite people!

a halloween craft

I have so much to blog about, but true to my nature I'm just going to skip ahead and get to the present. Because posting a Halloween craft after Halloween would be a little silly.

I was trying to decide what I wanted the girls to use this year to collect all their candy loot in. When I went to Jo-Ann's I saw these cute black caldrons. I decided that these were the perfect size and price to do something with.

I just used my handy dandy cricut to cut some orange vinyl out with their name, a jack-o-lantern and polka dots. Then, I just added some festive Halloween ribbon to the handles. Easy peasy!

I filled one with candy and personalized one for Emma's teacher to put on her desk.

a ceremony

How is it possible that so much time can pass since my last post?

We have been BUSY with a capital "B"!

I've been busy doing the room mom bit, we took a spontaneous trip to Nashville, the baby is now going to preschool one day a week and we got hit with the stomach virus. Oh, and I can't forget the whole church planting thing.

Before we embarked on our spontaneous weekend get-away to Nashville, we had a ceremony to attend. It was the "Terrific Kid" program awards ceremony at Richland. We are so proud of Emma for being the person picked out of her class as the terrific kid for the first 6 weeks of school.

Going to get her certificate...

All the kids put on their t-shirts when they sat down. Emma was so sweet during the ceremony. She clapped for all of her classmates when their name was called.


All the terrific kids from all grades...

Lila was bored. She decided that chewing on her shoes was way more entertaining!


Mommy with her terrific kid


My other special, sweet girl, Ava


Emma and her principal, Mrs. McNary. We love her! She is so down-to-earth and is constantly out of her office in the halls talking with all the parents. We are so blessed to be at Richland Elementary!