Easter

The girls picked out their Easter outfits completely this year and I think they looked beautiful.  It was a very nice day perfect to hunt eggs and cook out. 

Camping

The girls actually enjoy camping so we try to go at least once or twice a year.  We went the last part of their spring break which had beautiful warm weather until the day we went camping and it dropped down into the 30's both nights.  It was still beautiful and we had a nice fire to keep us warm.  The girls rode their bikes and we went for a lot of walks so it was still a great time.

 

 

 

Snow Day

You would think with the really cold winter that we had that we would have had at least one good snow but this was about as good as it got at our house.  Everyone else around us got a decent snow but us.  Anyway enjoy the girls playing in the dust of snow that we had. 

 

Cheerleading

Yes the girls decided they wanted to try their hand at cheerleading this year.  They did good and loved it at times but at others missed just the straight tumbling class they use to take so I may get them back into that soon.  Anyway we ended our time in the program after they had the opportunity to cheer at one of the MTSU games.  Our seats were pretty high up so even with a really nice soom lens these were about as good as I could get. 

 

Forever Family Day!!! # 5

Five years Kaleigh has been our daughter and we her parents.  It seems like forever and at times like only yesterday.  She is an amazing you girl.  I can't call her a baby or even a toddler anymore and when you look at her pictures you will see why.  There is no baby look to her anymore.  Those who know us know that she has faced many struggles since becoming a part of our family but she has over come so many of those struggles.  The one struggle she has never had to face is being happy with us.  She has been happy since day one and she truly melts the hearts of almost all who know her.  Here is one picture of her with most recent forever family day gift.  She instantly filled it with as much junk as she could cram in it. 

And Now Shs is 6!!!

Hard to believe that 5 years ago I was so upset because I was missing Kaleigh's 1st birthday.  Now I look back and realize it wasn't as much of an issue as I thought it was because we celebrated so much more the very next day.  Today however, we have a 6 year old daughter who is so different from the baby we recieved.  She is still non stop energy and generally very easy going and happy but she definitely is her own person.  She likes what she likes and doesn't care who agrees, can have fun playing with everyone or no one.  We started celebrating earlier this week when gifts arrived from Grandma and Granny and then on Friday we took cupcakes to school for the ones who couldn't join us on Saturday.  When I picked her up from school that evening she told me I had to call her "birthday girl".  Is this the beginining of the tween attitude???  We started Saturday with her and Courtney crawling into bed with us and we wished her a happy birthday and she informed us she was now "6".  She has been so ready to be 6 for some reason.  Shortly after we gave her an extra special gift from us which she played with a lot today and then like a big girl she got dressed so we could go to her party.  She had a great time and got to play there and outside when we got home.  We are so proud of the amazing young lady she is growing into.  Of course more celebrations to come tomorrow when we have our "Forever Family Day".  Enjoy the pictures. 

Christmas!!

Hard to believe another year has almost gone.  Today is my favorite holiday and every year the girls make it just a little more fun.  Courtney has started refusing to be in pictures and Kaleigh has her times when she doesn't want to pose for me either but these few will show you some of the highlights of our Christmas season.  I don't have our Thanksgiving pictures in this bunch but will get them up too since they include them sitting on Santa's lap and going to see ICE!! as we normally do on Thanksgiving.  Me and the girls go dressed up one Saturday and went to see the Rockettes which they loved and last night we went to church put out food for the reindeers put out cookies for Santa and listened to dad reading the night before Christmas.  Then I snapped one of them just as they came downstairs this morning looking at all the new goodies that Santa had delivered.