Cancun family vacation 2017

William Patton's baby shower

Ella's 6th birthday

Ella is such a fun girl and loves a good dance party. She's been requesting a dance party at the house for her birthday for some time now. She had such a sweet group of girls over and they danced the night away. It was a really fun time!

Our annual family birthday party picture by the master window:

We had a local company put up the cutest yard signs as a surprise to the girls:

Since taking Ella to New York she has been asking me when I can take her somewhere to dance so that people will give her money, like she saw the street performers doing. So for her birthday she requested no gifts from her family and before the party started she danced for money 😬 for the family. She made $206! Does this make us questionable parents. 

Some of her fun friends dancing together under the disco ball:

She picks a spider cookie cake and monster cupcakes:

On her actual birthday she got to open a few gifts from us. She got a big girl bible, a kid sewing machine and some books. Then we headed to the toy store after school to pick a couple of things with her money and gift card. She got a pony and a bath bomb. We then took her to see the My Little Pony movie and to dinner at Shoguns. It was a fun day celebrating an amazing little girl. 

Kindergarten & 2nd grade

Y'all we are over a month into kindergarten and 2nd grade! Time is flying! I know I'm late but I cannot skip documenting these first days of school.

Meet the teacher was on a Friday night. It was the week prior to the 1st day, which was on a Wednesday. Reese got Mrs. Luokota. This is her 1st year to teach and so far she seems to be a perfect match for Reese. Ella got Mrs. Hooe. She has been teaching for a few years now and it is her 2nd year at Darr. Prior she taught at a school down the street where we have lots of friends. We have only heard amazing things from our friends at her previous school and friends that had her at our school last year. So far Ella is loving her! After meet the teacher we let the kindergartner pick where we ate dinner and she picked Golden Corral, wha-wha-wha. They loved every minute of picking whatever they wanted to put on their plates and they spent about an hour at the chocolate fountain.

These are some photos of the 1st day of school. I may be biased but I think they are the cutest little girls on earth. Emmie got them these adorable 1st day outfits.

Now that we are over a month in I can say with a bit more confidence that it is going to be a good year. We prayed hard for good teachers and I think we got just that. 1st grade was somewhat hard for R and she seems to be a little more confident in 2nd grade. I'm hoping we can keep the momentum up and stay ahead. These girls are such blessings and I love them with all my heart!

It's a BOY!!

Last night my sweet friend put together a small gender reveal get together for us. The idea was that Chelsea & Tyler, the Whatley's & Brown's would come over...we would get our parents and Carrie on FaceTime and do something small to find out if it was a boy or a girl. Since we did a ballooon release and the dogs were out back we did it in the front yard and lots of neighbors joined in the fun too. This was so special and so much fun and I absolutely cannot believe we are having a BOY! He is so loved and this is experience is going to be so new and fun.