Last Day of Being 6!!

How on earth did the time fly by so quickly? Today is the Princess' last day of being 6 - tomorrow she turns 7! I can't believe it. Each year I say how hard the next birthday is and I think it gets harder to accept each year that she is getting older. She has been so excited about turning 7, until bedtime tonight when she had a meltdown because she didn't want to get bigger. She's afraid that her daddy won't be able to pick her up since she's getting older. I tried to assure her that there were so many fun things to do when she turned 7. I'm not sure if she bought it.

Seven years ago, we were anxiously awaiting any news about the birth of our daughter. We had no idea that she was to be born the next day and what a true miracle she would be and how much joy she would bring into our lives. I didn't know it would ever be possible to love someone so much. I completely adore her and love being her mother. I hope that over the years, we continue to grow together and that we stay close.

Happy 7th Birthday my beautiful Princess!!

President Project

The Princess has been working on a President Project for school. Each child was assigned a president to research and present to the class with visuals (in the 1st grade!! I don't remember doing stuff like that until I was much older!!). The Princess was assigned Dwight Eisenhower. She found some great facts on him - he was the 34th president and he was a 5 star general in the Army. He also liked to eat TV dinners in the White House. My grandfather served in the Army and was in the service during WWII. Mom has his uniforms, so she and dad were able to find the jacket and the medals and put the jacket and a hat together so the Princess could dress up as Dwight Eisenhower. She is also going to take in a TV dinner box. I think she looks really cute in the jacket and hat!!

Dance Company Performance

The Princess is in the Dance Company at school and they performed at the PTO meeting this evening. They did a hip hop number called Good Morning, thus the pj's. She doesn't normally wear them to school! She did such a beautiful job! She always does - and it amazes me how well she dances. I hope she continues to love dancing.

Then, the dancers had to come pick someone in the audience to come and dance with me. Gracelyn came directly to me and I got to learn a few hip hop moves with her. Too funny!!!! But, I secretly loved being out there with my little girl! That's me in the back (purposely) in the black and white.

The Weekend's Accomplishments

Would you believe I didn't even leave the house Saturday???? The King had to work in the morning, so I started on some small projects around the house, not to mention straightening up the house. Finally got to put up some of the wall word art I had purchased - don't have pictures of those. I did make the one pictured below with my Cricut machine - I love the way it turned out. This is over the window in the office/scrapbook room.

I saw someone online (can't remember who) make these hand sanitizer bottles as teacher gifts and thought it was a great idea. Decided to try it for myself and I thought it turned out really cute. It was so easy and I'm thinking that I should do these for other holidays as well.

I took donuts to work Friday for Valentine's day and they didn't all get eaten, so I brought them home to the kids. Can you tell which one is the Prince's favorite?

After church this morning, the Princess and I had to sell Girl Scout cookies at the local supermarket. She loved selling them and was sad to have to come home. I think she was more excited about getting to be with her friends. We thought we might have to be outside, so we bundled up. Isn't she the cutest little Brownie ever???

I guess now it's time to start packing up the scrapbook stuff for girl's weekend next weekend. All of our husband's bought us the same travel rolling scrapbook tote a couple of years ago, so I've been meaning to make tags for each of our bags so we can tell who's is who's quickly. Finally got around to those this afternoon.

Hope you all had a great weekend - Off to pack up!

Father/Daughter Dance

Last Weekend, the Girl Scount Service Unit sponsored a Father/Daughter dance. The Princess and the King got all dressed up and went to dance the afternoon away. All of the girls looked beautiful and had a wonderful time. It was a warm afternoon, and it got hot in the gym, but that didn't stop the dancing!

The mommies were allowed to come to the first part of the dance to take pictures, then we were kicked out so the girls could have their daddies all to themselves. The Princess loved doing the YMCA and the Chicken Dance!