Miscellaneous August

I need to blog Sydney's birthday and her birthday party, but before I do that, here are some random things that happened in August!

➹ Poppy had been promising the girls some fish for quite awhile, so one Friday, he surprised them with them! ➹

➹ We celebrated Reese's second birthday with a fun party at Peter Piper Pizza! ➹

➹ We celebrated Brooklyn's 6th birthday at Skateland!  I was SO proud of both of these girls.  It is not easy learning to skate and these girls were so tough.  At one point, I was helping Zach because he didn't have a little roller to help him, and so Sydney went on by herself. When I asked her if she wanted help, she said, "I'm not a baby, and I'm going to PROVE it!" She didn't take any help the whole time! We celebrated with a trip to Sweetie's! ➹

➹ Liv lost a tooth while eating an ice cream cone at Basha's! It was the EASIEST tooth removal to date!  She has another loose one now and is milking it for all she can! ➹

➹ The girls said goodbye {for now} to one of their favorite dance teacher's.  She had her baby boy on Labor Day! ➹

➹ Dress up is our FAVORITE!➹

➹ PHEW, we made it!  Thanks for sticking with us! ➹

Miscellaneous July

Here are a few pictures that didn't have a home ;) 

➸➸ The girls have been dressing up in old dance clothes and making up tons of dances lately!  They are so cute to watch, and boy do they have some dance moves! 😳

➸➸  Sydney and I had fun at Hobby Lobby one afternoon...her Poppa Peter used to work for Sinclair oil! (Clearly we did this during Circus Camp week! Ha)

➸➸  We went to see The Secret Life of Pets with Nate!  Nate asked if he and Olivia could sit in a different row than me and Sydney! 😳😳😳

➸➸  The girls had Ava spend the night before school started.  They got root beer floats AND donuts the next morning!  Lucky girls! 

➸➸  Sydney got her hair cut just in time for school to start!  It looks cute long, but OH MAN, I sure do love it when it is short!  We made a whole day of it and got pampered with hair and nails.  :)

Miscellaneous May

I still need to post about Sydney's promotion ceremony and Olivia's voice recital, both of which happened in May, but before I get to those, here are some random happenings from last month!

➸➸  Star Wars Day is always a fun day for my girls to show off their cute clothes!  May the Fourth be with you!

➸➸  Poppy took Sydney to her Father's Day bowling outing for preschool, and they were voted Cutest Couple there!

➸➸  I made my mom friends these cute little gifts letting them know that I thought they were the bomb!  

➸➸  Ummmm, best picture of me EVER!

➸➸  The girls had their formal recital pictures taken.  Since they had the same song, their costumes were similar.  Liv wore a modified version of her costume from last year!  They looked cute together!

➸➸  The girls were complaining that their cereal was getting soggy, so I got them each the Obol bowl so that wouldn't happen.  #rotten

➸➸ When I boarded the plane for Indiana, I realized I needed to make some room on my cell phone by deleting some old pictures.  I have around 11,000 pictures on my phone, and despite the fact that they are all also on my computer, I have a serious issue when it comes to deleting them.  Anyway, I went way back into the archives of 2014 and when I looked at the first picture that popped up {which was not the first picture in my camera roll}, I realized that the outfit Olivia was wearing in the picture was the exact outfit we had packed for her to wear to school that day!  I sent it to my mom and had her take a picture of Olivia before she left for school.  Incidentally, that was a newer shirt...I loved it so and it was getting too small :)  Got to keep my kids in their DMB shirts!

➸➸  David and my dad worked SO hard on this play structure for the girls.  It has been MONTHS in the making.  David searched craigslist, bargained, secured, disassembled, and moved, and my dad helped sand, stain, and rebuild this thing.  Once our turf was put in, we were able to get it all put together and the girls have been LOVING it!  It was nice in the beginning of the summer {errr, when school was out} when it was still tolerable in the mornings.  I am excited for this winter when we can be outside all the time - I know where they will be!

➸➸  Did you guys stick with us through that whole blog?  Way to go!