Spa time!

First manicure ever!!!

Taking a break - this pampering stuff is hard work!

 

On to the pedicure chair...  big chair, little girl!

Sparkly purple toesies

Pretty pink fingers!

Perhaps the next spa day should be a mother-daughter deal?

Beautiful girls! 

PHOTO SHOOT!!!!

Check 'em out!!!

Album

If anyone finds the link doesn't work, please let me know and I'll fix it.

Otherwise, ENJOY!  I'm thrilled with how the photos turned out - these are only the photographer's favorites, there are another 80 wonderful photos for us to choose from.

I can't stop looking through them...  somehow Heather Holt has this ability to make me look lovely :P

xo

Bike Day at School

AK biking up a storm!

AK with her friend Andi

Hunter and AK - buds!

Looking back at the post I did on the iPad - yuck!  No spaces between paragraphs, and no ability to upload photos!  I will be doing some research before I do that again!

I had a fantastic weekend with AK despite me fighting a cold.  Richard commented that she put an interesting twist on "singing for her supper"...  she was goofing off and wouldn't eat her supper as she was too busy singing songs...  so I bribed her by allowing her to sing a song for every few bites of supper she ate.  How would you describe that - eating for your songs?  Ha!

Spa day was a hit - I will do my best to upload and share photos from home tonight.  It will be early to bed for me tonight - gotta show this cold who's boss, and catch up on the precious few hours of sleep I lost out on this morning when AK climbed into bed with me at 430!!!am!  She must have had a bad dream and I was too tired to just put her back into her own bed.  Yawn! 

Blogging from the iPad

I'm trying to keep tech-savvy and blog from my iPad but I don't seem to be able to upload photos. Boo! Guess you're just stuck with stories from me today!

Last weekend was a hat trick type of weekend as AK slept in past 8am all three mornings! Woohoo! Too bad I woke up around 7ish. But it was still great to not get out of bed right away. Monday especially was a great day to have an extra public holiday due to the Queen's Jubilee. I tried taking AK out for breakfast but that didn't go so well so we just chilled out at home for the rest of the day. I woke up with a cold yesterday so suspect the grumpies may have been due to AK feeling somewhat the same way. She's so resilient though.

We had a photo shoot on Sunday to take AK's four year photos. I am excited to see how they turned out and I'm looking forward to sharing them with you!

It's nice to know some people check the blog, I've been told twice recently that one faithfully check the blog faithfully to see if I've updated. Thanks to this of you who continue to come back despite my sporadic posting!

I am taking AK for her first mani-pedi at a spa this weekend. I think she is going to love it and I will have to set up a new line item in the budget!!! Will definitely be taking lots of pictures to share! Xo

Life...

Here's a lovely quote from my calendar today:

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

 ~Jane Wagner

I had an experience of this type when I was at a conference for work last week.  I realized that, on one hand, I do know a lot and should have confidence in myself, but on the other, there's so much more I need to learn! 

I've been terrible about updating the blog lately, I apologize for that.  Life has been very very busy with a visit from my mom and then a week away for a bit of vacation and then the conference.  Being back on-island hasn't made life feel any less hectic as I am looking at three separate week-or-longer-long holidays over the next few months.  It's all good stuff, all holidays I am looking forward to, but it sure does make life busy!

AK is amazing, as always.  We have been butting heads a little bit lately though...  the other night when I was nagging her to eat her dinner, she put her head into her hands and said "Mommy, you're giving me a headache!".  Ha!  I told her she wasn't the only one who felt that way! 

My favorite part of the day is right when I put AK to bed, I turn out the lights in her room and she turns on her new glow-ladybug.  The ladybug has a moon and stars cut out so the different colored lights inside shine the moon and stars onto the ceiling.  We talk about the different colors and which one is our favorite (purple/blue is the clear winner) and we always look for the big Dipper.  Apparently more constellations are there, I just need to learn what they look like so I can identify them!

I hope to blog some stories and pictures from my mom's visit soon.  We missed Dad terribly but I think Mom enjoyed her time here and it sounds like Dad had fun with Chris and his family as well! 

See you soon...  I hope!  xo

Abby's birthday!

Getting ready to jump puddles!!!

Getting her toes wet...  a bit chilly!

All in!  Thanks to Ethan for lending AK some Crocs!

AK enjoyed her cupcake with "melon" icing (I think she got the word "lemon" jumbled up)

Storytime with Cindy

Beautiful birthday girl with her momma!

Right after AK's ballet exam, we headed over to the Brosnihans' for beautiful Abby's first birthday party!  What a happy little girl she is, can't believe it's been a year already!

Shame that the swimming plans were thwarted by rain but we had something even better... puddle jumping!  The kids had a lot of fun and ended up soaking wet!  

Hunter's birthday!

Hunter's birthday party this year was a smash!  Literally...  he had a bowling party!  

First there was pizza... 

 Not sure what was going on here!!!

Taking a break after all the hard work of throwing balls!!!  

Scary ant or alien - I'm not sure which!  

What a fun party that was.  As tough as it was to corral ~10 kiddies between nearly 1yo and just over 4yo, I think we managed to not get any broken toes or fingers.  Let me tell you, that is a miracle!  There were many balls dropped and most of the kids didn't have shoes as the bowling alley simply was not stocked with their sizes. Check out the video... 

We absolutely love celebrating birthdays with friends.  I am actually holding AK's birthday party in just under two weeks' time - my mom is coming for a visit so we'll hold the party while she's here.  Fingers crossed for beautiful weather as it's not going to be much fun to sit inside and watch it rain on a princess bouncy castle!  xo