Disney - to Boston!

So our epic adventure to Boston all started right at Disney.  Go figure right!  My sweet fam in front of the castle.  Did you know that you can fast pass to the 3 princess below?  Well, now you know :) The princesses were so sweet.  They loved their dresses that Meme made them. Many at Disney loved their dresses.  We even ran into Uncle Frank and all his family - what a sweet surprise.  We hadn't seen The Kanaru Family in some time. 

Essie was standing on a little rock and loved that she was so brave and adventuresome.

I think this is Adeline and Bryan on Thunder Mountain.  Essie and I are right in front of them.  Yes... she was just 40 inches so she could ride this and Splash Mountain. Adeline rode Mt. Everest the day prior at Animal Kingdom (it goes backwards).  She was so brave she rode it 3 times!  Love it!

Our Family photo :)

We did lots of swimming. At the Disney Pop Century, the airport Hyatt... lots of fun was had!

Flowers 2011

Rumor has it the flowers weren't as pretty as years in the past. I have to say they were pretty close. I thank God he had a beautiful day set aside for us as this was the only day we could go. So I packed up like 4 outfits, tea party essentials, baby dolls, chairs, drinks, snacks, and camera of course. I planned for us to be there a while. Over 300 pictures is what I think the final count ended up being. At times I can't imagine not documenting all the fun we have and other times I decide for us to have fun and I will skip documenting. Well today was all about documenting and we had fun. Though of course there were times I thought they were done. But a piece of gum or princess gummies and we were back at it. Plus they were just so cute I couldn't not take more pictures.

Adeline was patiently waiting for me and I just snapped one. It was a very bright day!

A very nice person also there to take pictures of the beautiful field offered to take one of me and the girls. It turned out wonderful. I should have worn pink though!

Adeline might be why folks thought the number of flowers were down this year. She picked and picked just like her great grandmother Rossie would have I do believe. She said after the third of fourth time I told her to not pick too many, " They are just too beautiful. I just can't stop picking them." Loved it! How could I stop that.

Sisters by God and friends for life. These two just naturally get along. I am soooo blessed. I hope we can continue to foster the friendship. I pray for this regularly. They are as beautiful in their character as they are on the outside. They were giving kisses to each other, hugs, did ring around the rosie even. When we left the house we had their baby dolls dressed similarly to the above Easter dresses. Well they wanted their babies hair done. Granted it is plastic hair. So I hot glued a ribbon hair band on the babies. It was cute and the girls LOVED it. Though in relaying these events to others later on I have had some reactions when folks think that I hot glued the ribbon to Adeline and Essie. Love it!

Now to get some printed and hung in the house... hopefully by Christmas :)

Adeline Graduates from Pre-K

Adeline so proper and grown up! I can hardly believe you are finishing up with preschool. You had amazing teachers. Missing already Ms. Amanda who took care of you during your 2yr old class as well as this year, Ms. Caitlin who drew you a gazillion pictures to color, and Ms. Trista that took you on nature walks (she and Ms. Caitlin did your hair a gazillion times too!!)! The things you have learned are amazing, but your character is even more amazing than that. You love your family, friends and God. You are so generous you made me cry just the other day. I prayed then and there with you that God would make me as generous as you. You really do think of others pretty often. You are very artistic. You got the award from your teachers for being most artistic in fact. You love to draw. We bring home lots of art every day and our walls, floors, and counter spaces show it. We love it. You love to have books read to you. You are just starting to consider to read on your own. You told me just today you don't like team things as I tried to see if you would want to play soccer. You just started piano lessons (one down actually). You are a bit timid of your bike (my fault in not staying close enough for your first couple tries and you ran into a curb), but you can go wild on your big wheel. We walk to "the hill" pretty regularly. You love our neighbors Ms. Pattsy and Mr. Buddy. Calhoun is a friend of yours who regularly gets prayed for with the rest of our family. Today at lunch you said such a mature prayer, showing thanks for our food the people we were with and ended it in Jesus' name. I love praying for you and you ask me to specifically pray scripture over you when I have neglected to do so regularly. I think you are starting to be a Daddy's girl. I am excited about this but at the same time selfishly sad. Your Daddy loves you so very very much. You have grandparents so proud of you. In Uncle Andy and Sandy's wedding when you and Essie were flower girls everyone said how well behaved you were. I though along with that you were brave with so many strangers around. You had a few shy minutes in the begining, but by wedding day you were good to go! I can't wait to see all the plans God has for you. To prosper you and give you a hope!

You are amazing and I am so glad God made you YOU!

loving you time with Daddy on June 2nd!

This is when you turned 4!

This is around the time of your 3rd birthday:

And then here you are around 2yrs old:

And here you are around the age of 12 months:

Here you are at 6 months:

The day you were born! So cute :)

Video catch up

Musical girls

River Ratz :)

Recent Art

Adeline has been into mermaids here lately. This was drawn back in April!

Essie is my dot and line girl. She has some excellent fine motor skillz :)

Adeline drew a picture of her Momma and herself. I know they are both labeled Adeline, but that is her story and I am sticking to it. I am the one on top with the darker hair.

Essie did this around Easter as well. She is into those dots as I mentioned but also cutting paper and gluing. And gluing doesn't always correspond to another piece of paper.

Apparently this isn't a very good photograph of a beautiful picture Adeline drew and now I can't find the pic to retake it. This is probably my favorite one she has done. As you can see she has learned her initials and like to color every inch of the paper.

Easter Extended

We love our cousins Juliana and Lily Grace!

I love when we share holidays with folks we love and some we are just getting to know. I am thankful that Abdula was willing to experience this with us and Russell as well since his lovely wife was out of town. We also had the Tilley's, Overman's, Orlando Conrad's, and M&B as well that made this day extra special (but didn't get photos of the group). I am thankful Martha doesn't seem to mind when we invite tons of people over.

How to tie a bow

Adeline was so proud to tie a bow all by her self.  Beaming with pride.  She has been pretty independent in working on this task refusing my help for months.

Essie too is working on this task.  She gives props to her friend Ian David at school (who also helped her get that shiner today) and Ms. Jenn for teaching her how to tie her bow.

I love you girls!