Day 105: April 14, 2012

This is my last picture of Lizzy as a four year old.


Sniff, sniff.


She will be five tomorrow.


Where have the past five years gone?


And what would I do without this beautiful, curious, honest little girl?

Day 104: April 13, 2012

Brad, Jake and Lexi all ditched the little girls and me tonight, so we headed to a friend's house to play beauty shop.

Michelle is amazing. Not only did she make my hair look good, she even taught me how to fix it (but even though she is amazing, my hair will never look like this again... I have a lot of skills, but hair and make-up are not my specialities).

And... while she claimed she could see my halo when my girls were testing my patience, I'm pretty sure Miss Michelle has her own halo. She let Lizzy and Morgan try out her makeup, fixed their hair (even Morgan, who screams when I try to put a barrette in to keep her hair out of her eyes), and even put purple eye shadow on Morgan.

Yep, this lady is a saint.

And my girls have never looked so beautiful!

Day 103: April 12, 2012

I'm so far behind this year... I just started planning Lizzy's birthday party on Monday. Her birthday (and her birthday party) is Sunday.


I ordered her gift on Tuesday - it won't be here until next week Tuesday.


I took pictures for invites on Monday - didn't get them printed until today.


And... the "c" on "celebrate" got cut off, plus Lizzy didn't like my design anyway.


So I did what I should have done in the first place: I had Lizzy make her own birthday party invitations. I gave her a stack of pictures, a pair of scissors, pink scrapbook paper, and a pile of stickers.


Each invitation is special, unique, and blinged out - I call them "Lizzy-ized". But Miss Lizzy only had enough energy to make 11 invitations.. which is ok, because with this short of notice, I'm not even sure how many people will be able to attend!


At any rate, the invites are pretty cool, kinda like the girl who made them :)

Day 102: April 11, 2012

I usually have words to describe exactly how I'm feeling.

Today, I do not have words.

I only have one word: TIRED!

I am apparently not alone - Lizzy feels the very same way!

She fell asleep early, in the midst of the evening chaos that is our house.

I'm so jealous.....

Day 101: April 10, 2012

Today was Lexi's second track meet.


She did shot put and discus, and promises to try high jump next week.


I'm so impressed with her throws - she hasn't placed yet, but she's gotta be close, and each time she gets a little bit better. Today, she had a great throw in discus, but scratched :( 


I'm also so jealous that she has such great coaches. I guess the benefit of going to a big school is there is more than one track coach. In fact, they have four track coaches, which means, she has a coach who specializes in throwing. I never had that - I learned from the upper classmen, and despite their very best efforts, I still sucked. I'm really hoping Lexi does better than I did at track. And I'm pretty sure she's on her way!


But still, the best part about track is getting out of school early, and getting to hang out with friends!

Day 100: April 9, 2012

No school + no work = fun day!


We took a little road trip to McKenzie, to take some fun pictures of Alexis McKenzie :)

Day 99: April 8, 2012

Happy Easter!


All I wanted was one nice picture of my kids.


This is not that picture.