Happy 4th

Here a couple of cute pictures of my kids that we took on July 4th. We hope you all had a great holiday.

Yearly Zoo Trip

On Monday we went on our annual trip the the zoo. This only happens ONCE a year in our household so the kids were really looking forward to it. I was planning on taking the kids down there by myself but at the last minute our friends the Chappells, Jensens and Bergs decided to come with us. The kids had a great time with their friends looking at all the animals. At first after every animal that we saw Hallie would start crying and saying "I want to see more animals." I assured her that we would see plenty of animals and not to worry. It was a hot day and by the end of our time there all the kids were having little breakdowns, which reminded me of why I only go to the zoo once a year.

Here is Sage outside the Elephant exhibit.

Hallie with the elephants

Our whole group outside the Elephant exhibit



Here are the kids on the little train. They thought it was great although it went a lot faster this year than it has in the past.


My kids and the chappell kids in front of the zebras.

Hallie's Third Birthday

I'm behind on my blog posting again! Hallie turned three almost a month ago and today was the first time that I even looked at the pictures from that fun day.
It was a great weekend. My parents were in town for a visit so it made the day quite festive. In the morning I woke up and went into Hallie's room to see her and my Mom on the bed reading stories. Hallie looked up at me and yelled "Mom, It's my birthday!" We made her a big breakfast of eggs and beignets then we spent the morning playing and reading books. My Mom bought Hallie a little crown to wear for the big day and she was proud to tell everyone that she was a queen for the day.
We went to church and Hallie had to wear the crown the entire time. Hallie took some sugar cookies to Nursery to share with her friends.
After church we came home and had a nice dinner and opened presents.



She tore through them pretty fast and came away with some nice stuff; a bike, some DS games, a Memory game, some plastic necklace beads, among other things.
After dinner my Mom put on some music and danced in the living room with the girls for a while.
My Mom left to go down to Grandma's house around 7:00 and the kids and I packed up the birthday cake and candles and headed down to the park.




Jason met us down at the park along with our friends the Ritchies and Chappells. We had a fun little party down there. Hallie and all the kids played in the sand and had a great time. Hallie had a great birthday. Thanks to all who made it so fun.

Here is one picture of Sage for good measure.

Preschool Graduation

Sage finished preschool about a week ago and to wrap up the really fun year they had a great graduation ceremony. The program was really cute with all the kids singing songs such as "You're a Grand Old Flag" and some nursery rhymes. Sage looked so darling in her red cap and gown.
It was such a great school year and Sage enjoyed her teacher and school friends so much. I'm a little worried about how I am going to keep her busy this summer.

Ballerina Gangster

Hallie is our queen of costumes. She puts on at least 10 different dress ups everyday. This is one of my favorite combinations that she has come up with. I just love it all; the crooked hat, the flashlight, the backwards "leadertard" (as Hallie calls it), and the red leg band. Quite the ensemble.

Here is the rear view just because it is so cute.

Sage's End of the Year Dance Recital

We had the great pleasure of going to watch Sage's last dance recital for the year on Saturday. The theme of the recital this time was Dr. Seuss and so all the kids were characters from Dr. Seuss stories. Sage was a Gold fish (the orange and yellow costume) and a Mayzie bird (the blue costume). She did a fabulous job during the show. She looked so darling and it is fun to see her progress at every recital. Even Jason was impressed by how much better she is dancing, and that is saying a lot.
Sage is so cute she came up with all of these poses by herself.

Lost Tooth

We have had a pretty exciting time in our house recently with the coming of Sage's first loose tooth. She has showed every person we come across that she has a loose tooth and of course she has to wiggle it for them. So many loose tooth demonstrations caused the tooth to become very loose. It came as no surprise the other day when we were at the Memory Box to hear Sage scream "My tooth! My Tooth! It came out." She put the tooth under her pillow that night for the Tooth Fairy to come collect. She got $1 for her tiny little tooth. Since then we have had a repeat of showing her mouth to everyone we meet only this time it is to show them the hole where her tooth used to be.
This is the tooth pulling saga in Sage's own words "So first of all I was at the Memory Box and the after it was time to go I was wiggling my tooth. No, my tongue was wiggling my tooth and then by a second after it wiggled it a lot of times it fell right out on my tongue. Actually I really pushed it out with my tongue. And then I said YEAH!. Then when we got home I had to take pictures."