February Gymnastics Meet at Legacy

It worked out really nicely that the same weekend as McKinley's birthday Reagan had a gymnastics meet in town for Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Chuck and Aunt Julie to come too. Jordan and Ally also got up early Sunday morning to come and watch Reagan do her thing.

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Sweet friends! Thanks for the support Ally! :)

 Reagan has the best sportsmanship I've ever seen. She is so excited for her friends every time they win, I love her sweet little heart!

 Miss Reagan excited and saluting for a medal she won

 A picture of our little gymnast and IL cheerleaders

 Reagan thought she was pretty funny stealing Uncle Chuck's hat

Thank you to Grammy and Kelly for staying home and riding herd on all the little guys so the rest of us could enjoy and watch the meet! :)

McKinley's Minnie Mouse 1st Birthday Party

Since we frequently call McKinley "Minnie Mouse" we decided that would be an appropriate theme for her 1st birthday party. That, and of course our family just loves Mickey and Minnie and all their friends! :)

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Look at this amazing cake my best friend and McKinley's godmother, Kelly, made for her to celebrate with. It was so super cute!!! :)

Our little Minnie Mouse and a pretty decent picture of our family at the party too! :)

  McKinley with her Godparents, Kelly and Charlie

McKinley received lots of love and attention from her grandmothers for her birthday

 Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Julie and Uncle Chuck came to celebrate McKinley's birthday with us.

 How sweet is this picture of McKinley laughing with Grandma and Grandpa?

 Grandma, McKinley and Aunt Julie

These two always take such great pictures together! I sure love them both! :)

  Everyone loves Uncle Chuck! :)

Such a good picture of Reagan and Grandpa! :) 

 Missy K being silly with Grandma...

 and sweet too... :)

 McKinley with Grammy meeting her new little buddy, Anna Leigh  

 These two definitely need to make a trip to Disney World together! :)

 McKinley enjoying her super cute and yummy cake! :)

 I can't believe how much fun McKinley had opening presents. She was a hoot! :)

 What more could a little girl want than a Minnie Mouse chair, a big friend like Chaz, and lots of presents and love? 

I'm not sure how we didn't manage to get a picture of all the kids at the party together. I'm sorry we missed pictures of Anna, Heidi, Holden, Ally, Cooper and Spencer but they were of course a big part of the fun! Thank you to everyone who helped to make McKinley's 1st birthday so special!

Kennedy's Fairy Tea Party

Since having a tea party for Reagan's 4th birthday Grammy and I have been wanting to have one for Kennedy as well. Since we were in New York for her 4th birthday her 5th birthday seemed perfect. This hat and picture do a great job of capturing Kennedy's personality.

 Here are the girls who were guests at Missy K's birthday - love all those hats! :)

Because we wanted everyone to sit together we rearranged the living room to accommodate all of Kennedy's guests.

 Daddy with the youngest tea party participant

 Grammy helping Missy K adjust her necklace

 Missy K ready for her guest to arrive

 McKinely with her godmother, Kelly

 Kennedy with her godmother, Aunt Julie

 Sweet Miss Anna

 Not sure the Queen herself could provide directions any better

 I enjoyed sitting by Missy Reagan during the tea party

 Grammy and me

 I needed a picture with my birthday girl

 Missy and Grammy

 A picture of all our party guests

Thank you to everyone for coming to share in Missy K's special fairy tea party! Your presence made the party all the more fun and memorable! :)

Halloween Fun 2013

We had a Monster's University theme for Halloween this year. The idea was that Jackson would be Mike and Holden would be Sully. The big girls were all sorority girls and McKinley was Boo. Unfortunately Jackson decided he wasn't happy with the idea a little too late to change it. Here's the only picture I was able to capture of my 4 together at the BHLC Halloween party.

At least my sweet girls cooperated! Thanks so much to Grammy for making the fur skirts and feet and to Jordan and Rachel for doing all three girl's t-shirts. So cute! :)

 BHLC fun

 The girls sure do love Zoe! :)

 After the BHLC party our homeschool crew headed over to the nursing home to go Trick-Or-Treating. I'm including two pictures since Jackson refused to be in the bigger group photo op.

 Love my sweet little Boo and sure appreciated Miss Leanna keeping her busy while I struggled with Jackson. :)

 

 The three sorority girls 

 Sully and his not so happy little buddy Mike

 Does is it count as a group picture if we have Mike's costume?

 As well as Heidi and Holden our best neighborhood buddies the Veloudis' and Skinners' came to join our fun. Unfortunately the weather was so bad on Halloween they cancelled Trick-Or-Treating in Lexington. We decided to have an impromptu Halloween celebration at our house anyway and the following night everyone came back so we could Trick-Or-Treat together. :)

 Some of our Monster's University fun - thanks to Aunt Jolene for the molds

Happy Halloween baby! :)

 Second night and ready to get some candy! :)

 Most of our crew

The plus to the weather being bad was Aunt Arla, Uncle Scott, Grammy and Grand-Dad were able to participate in our festivities the second night. Such a sweet picture of Miss McKinley and Aunt Arla :)

 Part of Jackson's Mike issue was he decided he wanted to ride his dinosaur Grammy gave him shortly before Halloween. I have to admit this is pretty cute and fun, just didn't fit our theme! lol :)

 Holden was a fabulous Sully though! :)

 All the girls in our happy Halloween crew

 Thanks to everyone who helped make our Halloween so much fun!