First's for 2012

I have LOVED seeing all the first day of school pictures and stories from friends on Facebook and blogs (even though I may or may not have ever met the people in the blog we are "friends", ha!).  The mommas have cried, they have rejoiced, they have started home schooling it's been great. 

I didn't want to feel left out so I have to post some our firsts for this season of life.  Camy had her first day of Mother's Day out last week and she was thrilled.  She goes a full day, 7:45 to 2:45 but there is a two hour nap built into her day. Her teacher, Mrs. Carrol is very sweet and a pro at 3 year olds. Camy looked so cute for her first day and I am so glad she did so well going the whole day.  It was weird to only have one child for that long, but at least it's only one day.  You may not want to talk to me when she is gone that long 5 days a week (sniff, sniff).

 

 

Cameryn also had her first night as a Cubbie at church tonight.  Wednesday night activities are in full swing now and it is so cute to see her.  She has a book like the kids in AWANA do and has a verse to memorize every week.  She has really been looking forward to it and has been telling random people that she is going to be a Cubbie!  They look at me like, "What's a cubbie?" so I give a little explanation at the grocery store or in Wal-Mart about our big girl being a Cubbie.  Her teachers are so sweet and I know she is going to grow and learn a lot.  I'm so thankful for a church that encourages even the smallest ones to hide God's word in their hearts'.

 

 

In two weeks we will have the first day of gymnastics class!!



 

Snow Day!

It's a little weird to post this today since the snow is melted and it was bike riding weather, but here it is.  Yesterday we had our first really good snow day of the year....in March.

Knocking snow off of the playset was a priority : ) 

 Don't hate the snow man!  Well, snow-thing.  It was our friend.

 Until Cameryn decided to jump on him : )

 Snow Angels!!  This pic is my favorite

 Lily, making sure everything is okay in the snow angel deparment

 More knocking snow off of things.  Look at that happy face!

 The pretty winter view

Hot Chocolate to warm up!

A Warm Day Remembered

On this particularly frigid day I felt the need to blog about a day we had a few weeks ago where the temperature was over 60 degrees and Camy got to practice riding her first big girl bike.  Great memories made in just over an hour.  Josh just got home from work, believe me he does not wear a tie when he doesn't have to, and Camy and I were taking advantage of Hadley's late nap to go out and test her new toy.  Dad is the ultimate playmate so off they went.  It was such a contented feeling to sit back with my camera and snap away as they went up and down the side walk.  I'm so thankful my girls have a daddy that adores them.  Rather than come right in and flip on the TV after a hard day, he's present in whatever is going on. Today it was nice weather and bike riding, the next day it was probably screaming and an entire bag of Cheerios dumped on the floor!  But either way, he lets me know we are in this together.

The pictures kind of progress as she got more comfortable with peddling and steering and watching where she was going.  She did take one spill when she went off the sidewalk but nothing major.  Her heart swelled with pride as we cheered her on when she was going all by herself.  It was just precious to see her.  I'm not sure what it is about riding a bike, if it's the commonality of it, that most all kids do it as children and remember it fondly, but it just seem like a right of passage.  A mile stone if you will.  People always talk about having children one day and one of the things often listed that they look forward to is teaching them to ride a bike.  Well here it is, still with training wheels, but it is one more sign our baby is growing up.  I really should stop before I start bawling.  We love you Camy Lynn and are so proud of you!!!

 Dad is getter her going

 First crash

 Getting the hang of things

 She's doing it on her own

 Shear joy!

Melts my heart

They're All Better!

After nearly a week of sickness it makes my heart so very happy to have two playful girls.  Please exuse my talking, laughing, freaking out because I'm afraid Cameryn will dump Hadley into the floor and focus on the sweet little girls : )  They had so much fun, but even after all that hard work Cameryn still did not take a nap!  She is averaging one every ten days or so and today was not day number ten.  I absolutely love that they are starting to play so well together.  I truly believe giving your children siblings is the greatest gift you could ever give them.  Enjoy my little peanuts, I sure did!

Princess Party Day!!!

We had Cameryn's Princess birthday party this weekend and it was so much fun!!! All the kids, well at least the little girls, dressed up in their princess dresses and had a ball.  They made crowns, smashed a pinata, and had enough sugar to make their parents feel like they had been to grandma's.  I loved seeing them all laugh and play.  I especially loved seeing my big three year old girl have such a fun birthday.Thank you to everyone that could make it, and for all her awesome gifts.  Family and friends are precious things.  Love you all!

Big Sister Turns 3!!

 Birthday Cupcake from Gigi's

 Amazingly her hair did not catch on fire!

 Sweet girl!

 Sissy helping to open gifts

 Flower's from Nana, she felt like such a big girl

 Momma and her girl

 Waking up to a room of balloons!

 Birthday pancakes

 First birthday together as sisters, precious!

Who's birthday could it be?