100th Day

Monday February 22nd was the 100th day of kindergarten for Emily and Sarabeth. I had this wild idea to bake 100 cupcakes. However, there are 115 Kindergarteners plus teachers and aids....so I made 125! It was a bake-a-thon!

A Rainy Day

We had this crazy rain stormy week about 2 weeks ago and the rain is back!The girls have total cabin fever and today was a non-student day for Kindergarten. I am listening to them play right now and laughing. They are playing school.
It is days like today that I am soooooooo happy we have a bouncy house and a room large enough to set it up inside!

Wednesday, February 3rd 2010. Today was Abby's 4th birthday. Bittersweet day for Mommy. My baby is growing up way too fast...It makes me sad. She is hilarious. She is the comic levity that brightens our days. She is stubborn. Sometimes I forget and think she is a Taurus like her Mama. She is sugar sweet. She'll hug you so long and tight you think she'll never let go. She never walks anywhere. She skips and dances everywhere. She marches to the beat of her own drum. She is a singer. Everyday there is a new song. How is it possible that she has such great pitch for a 4 year old? The other two don't. She is still a baby in so many ways. When the big girls hurt her feelings she is inconsolable. Her heart is simply broken. She loves everyone and everyone LOVES our Abby.
Today for the 2nd year in a row we shared her birthday party with our friends The Kelley's. Erin is also a baby sister of twins and she and Abby are 3 days apart. It is such a joy to celebrate two such special little girls together. Pictures soon. For now, I shall be melancholy a bit. 4 years ago tonight we became a party of five. Four years ago tonight our family stopped growing and our last baby was born. Our family became complete. People said we were nuts to have a 3rd one so close in age to Emily and Sarabeth. We thought it was a great idea. We never looked back. Never had a regret. She is a blessing and a gift. Mommy and Daddy love you so much Abigail Beverly. Don't ever stop hugging us soooooooooo tight. This morning after receiving a new baby doll, she named it Baby Abby. She said it was because she is not a baby anymore. My heart was so sad. I shall recover.

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ice cream and the 4th

July was just filled with ice cream, fireworks and fun!

Swimmers!

This summer we started swim lessons in May and went ALL the way till the 3rd week of September! YES!!! They are all watersafe and have become GREAT swimmers!

Maui June 2009

I'm not gonna apologize this time....I just keep forgetting about this whole plan I had to keep this up. I wonder if I put a post -it on my forehead it might help? perhaps a string on finger? hmmmmm

Anyway, June kicked off an amazing summer chock full of more first, amazing vacations, swim lessons, Popsicle eating, friends and family.

About 2 weeks after we got back from Yosemite, we went on the most amazing vacation to Maui with the entire Reynolds Family. we went to celebrate Ron's oldest brother's anniversary and vow renewal. It was the girls first ever plane ride. The whole trip was just spectacular. The girls did great on the plane and we had simply a wonderful family vacation. Abby asked me a few weeks ago while we were at the car wash if we could go to Hawaii tomorrow. I wish.