Little Ballerina

Sunday night, Lucy Jane had her Spring Ballet Recital! This was her first year to take dance, and we have an awesome program through our church called The Crosschurch Dance Ministry! There are girls of all ages. They work so hard all year long and learn about worshipping Jesus through song and dance! I have loved seeing Lucy Jane grow throughout the year! 

Last week they had four practices to get ready for Sunday! It was a long week, but seeing the whole production together made the sleepy nights so worth it! 

Lucy Jane and Annalyse posing in their matching tutu's at one of the practices! These girls are a mess! 

They are all in their own little world by this time during practice Tuesday night! Haha! 

Picture night...I could hardly get her to look at me for a picture!

Somehow, they get all the girls on track each week! I think when Momma's aren't around things go much more smoothly!

This is Lucy Jane's class with their sweet teachers!

Sweet friends being goofy, and bored waiting on the "real" thing to start! 

Sweet cousins and friends! 

I had just gotten her dressed and talked her into one quick picture! She was so excited and ready to get out there!

She did such a great job! Isn't it funny how they act so goofy during practice and then always pull it together for the performance!

When Lucy Jane was going up on stage for the last song, she ran and hugged this sweet little blonde teacher dancing in the front! It was so cute...then on her way down she invites her over for a play date and to her birthday party!!! Hahaha Lucy Jane looks up to these big girls! 

Her Daddy surprised her with flowers afterwards! She was so excited to get her very own flowers! She said, did he know those were my favorite kind! :)

We told her she could pick wherever she wanted to eat to celebrate her big night! She very VERY excitedly chose Taco Bell and said could we please sit inside and eat, too? How do you say no to that? (A girl after my own heart) so, we had a little party in Taco Bell! 

She got the new "Barbie in the Pink shoes" movie and Barbie doll! So exciting!!! 

So proud of Lucy Jane and hoping the real meaning of what she was involved in sinks into her little heart! It is so much more than an extracurricular activity! We are wanting to fill her little mind with as much Jesus as we can! So thankful for miss Julie and her heart for these girls! 

Crafts, play, and the Easter Bunny

My friend Mollie and I signed up to take a painting class at Junque to Jewels in Bentonville. It was so much fun! They had so many different projects to choose from, and their prices are so reasonable! 

We both chose a large initial and painted them to put on our doors! 

I chose turquoise as my base color and then picked different stencils to complete my letter! They had a cute sign I wanted to put in our living room that I bought that night also!

Lucy Jane was feeling yucky a couple days, so we hung around the house until her fever went away! 

When she falls asleep in my lap, you know she's not feeling well!

Kaylor is pretty happy just playing with his toys! :)

Saturday I took the kids to have lunch at the mall and get their picture made with the Easter bunny! 

Kaylor eventually warmed up to him!!! 

This was last years picture!!! Look how much has changed in a year!

They play so great together right now! Loving how Kaylor looks at his sister! :) makes me happy!

Spring birthdays and Maggie's Baptism

Today was a fun day as we celebrated all the Spring birthdays on Rich's side of the family....and we celebrated my niece Maggie getting baptized! She gave her life to The Lord on a mission trip overSpring  break! She is such a special girl with a huge heart! 

Lucy Jane thinks she is pretty special! I am so thankful that she made this decision so young and that she has her whole life to live for Jesus! So proud of her! 

Sweet cousins excited to play together! 

Olivia Grace, Chloe, Lucy Jane, Maggie, and Annalyse!

All the Spring birthdays! Kaylor had already gotten into the icing :) and Lucy Jane was in dress up clothes of course!

Our attempt at a family photo! Good ones are hard to come by...but hey we are all in the picture! That counts for something!

The kiddos with Rich's parents! 

The kids had a blast playing together, and we all enjoyed some grilled burgers and conversation! Leslie did a great job putting this together!

Just a little Saturday Shopping!

Saturday, Rich decided he needed to work in the yard. What I thought was going to be a couple hour project was going to turn into an all day event, so I decided to take little man and go run around! 

Lucy Jane wanted to stay and play outside! She happily leaves me these days to play with her Daddy, so Kaylor and I got out of the house! 

This is what they were doing when I was pulling out of the driveway! He was getting her bike all fixed up! She loves to ride around the neighborhood, in our drive-way, and in our house! (Ugh)  when I left her she was dressed properly in play clothes and tennis shoes! When I came home, her new pretty dress and silver sandals were laying in the driveway! The girl changes clothes 100x's a day! We had a big talk (again) about play clothes and NOT play clothes. 

I might be slightly obsessed with my new Ergo baby carrier! 

My only regret is waiting so long to purchase it! This thing is so comfy for baby and momma! If you have a baby like mine, that spends 90% of his day on your hip it is sooo worth the money! 

We took some clothes to a resale store in town first to drop off! Kaylor just chilled while we waited on them to go through my box! 

We headed up to Rogers to go to a couple stores. He was MOSTLY a great shopping buddy! 

We lost two pacifiers somehow in the shuffle in and out of the car! I found this one under Lucy Jane's seat!!! It worked! 

I even let him ride in the back of the buggy on the way out to the car!  He kinda liked it! 

It was fun spending the afternoon just the two of us! 

3 Moms, 4 Kids, and A Lot of Fish!

We planned a fun day in Tulsa for Thursday!!! I asked my friend Mollie and her little girl Caroline to ride over to Tulsa with me and the kids to see Haley and Hoyt! 

A couple weeks ago, I was driving home from Haley's house in OKC (right before they moved) and somehow got lost!!!! Not sure what happened, but the 3.5 hour trip took me and the kids almost 7 and a speeding ticket! Lucy Jane still reminds me almost daily about my encounter with the police, and that I cried, AND that he said I should drive safely with my children. Guess he thought 20 over was a big deal! Whoops! 

Soooo, mollie is my personal GPS, she helped me get home that night! She also used to live in Tulsa and knows the fun spots!! 

Lucy Jane had just gotten a new maxi dress and was so excited to wear it to see her Tee Tee! We found her asleep on the stairs in her dress the night before!!

We went to Haley's new house first, and then all loaded up for the aquarium. The wind was out of control!!! Maybe I'm a party pooper, but I was not impressed with the aquarium. Maybe it's that I'm not an animal person, who knows?! A fish is a fish. You've seen one you've seen them all!

Mollie and Caroline feeding the fish! 

We had lunh at Los Cabos! It was good! Rich doesn't like to eat Mexican food, so anytime I'm eating out without him it's either chic-fil-a or Mexican! Ha

Silly cousins! 

There were a few fun stores we wanted to hit before coming home, and since the kids were being troopers we went for it! Such a fun day, but we were all pooped by bedtime!  

So glad Haley lives so much closer now!!! I am already ready to go back! 

Teeth, Toes, and Ice Cream

This week was spring break! It's a big deal for lots of people, but since Lucy Jane only goes to school two days a week I don't think she even realized anything was different!! I wanted to do something fun during the week though! 

On Wednesday, she had a dentist appointment! She had been waking up in the night terrified about going to the dentist. I don't ever remember having a fear of the dentist, so this is all new to me!  Rich and I just reassured her that it would be fine, they would just brush her teeth, and we would leave! (Then I threw in...and we will go get a pedicure!) ;) 

About to lay on the table, and she's all smiles so far!!!! 

They put Frozen on for her to watch and it seemed to make her more relaxed! 

She did great!!! Now let's mark that off the list and hit the nail shop!!! But first, let's take a picture with this goofy animal?!?! 

We went and got our toes painted!!! 

She picked out her own color, purple with glitter over it of course! 

She was so proud and I could tell she felt so big!!!

Then it was my turn! (Ignore the fact that there is no circulation in my feet because my "skinny jeans" on my not skinny calves are cutting off all blood flow!) 

They were busy, so they did a little switcharoo and the sweet girl had to go do a manicure and I got sweet boy to do my toes. Sweet boy with long, painted, acrylic nails. My outspoken, precious, VERY curious, (not sure where she gets that) daughter is sitting in my lap. I was just holding my breath wondering when she would say something. It took about 10 seconds. "Mommy, why does HEEEE have his nails painted? Doesn't he know God made only girls for painting nails?" My face turned 10 shades of red and I just said, "well he likes nails, that is what he does for work." She was so confused. He didn't seem very offended. Love the honesty that comes from the mouths of babes! 

We went for ice cream next...I needed it after that! :) 

Such a fun afternoon with my little big girl! She's growing up so fast! I got a glimpse of just how much fun we are going to have together!