Busy, Busy May.....whew!

May is always, and will always be a busy month. We have a lot of family birthdays, there's Mother's Day, end of the school year activities, and other randomness. It's busy, tiring, exhausting, expensive, but always fun!

Kicking off the May madness is Ainsley's bday.

Be prepared to be dazzled by her new magic tricks.

With May here it means summer is right around the corner, which means we need to get the boat ready.

The girls had a joint friend birthday party. They were able to have it at the clubhouse where Brian and Sarah live. 

Ainsley and her friend Addison.

Kaylee's birthday.

The day after Kaylee's birthday was the Brownie and Daisy, Mother/Daughter, camp out. It was at Camp Peairs.

Some of the Daisy Troop.

Most of the Brownie Troop.

Kaylee and Ainsley's Family Birthday was an Owl theme this year.

Birthday girls.

May will wrap up this week. One last day of school, one last family birthday to celebrate and a dance recital! 

Happy Birthday Kaylee!

Happy Birthday, Kaylee!!! Today you are 8! Woah! You have almost completed 2nd grade. Seems like you were just born, making me a Mommy for the first time. I love being your Mom and watching you grow. You are so smart and excel so well at school. You love to dance and take your Hip Hop class. You love to sing, make up songs, dances and even write plays. You are an unique girl with a silliness about you that makes me laugh. You have a flare for the dramatics and although that can be exhausting at times it is only a reminder of your sensitive soul. You are so helpful to us around the house, always assisting in the kitchen and willing to do other chores around the house.

You have taught me a lot, as my first born, and I continue to learn each day. You are so much my mini-me:) I look so forward to all the great things that will come your way!! Love you so much and am oh so proud!

Love, Your Mommy

Disney 2013

For anyone who follows me on Facebook many of the below photos will be repeats. I have so many photos and only uploaded some, otherwise it would take forever to do all of them. 

We had such a great time in Disney!! It went so fast!! Everyone has been asking what my favorite part was. Honestly, it was seeing the fun everyone had. Seeing my girls in awe all week of the things they saw and experienced and getting to have my Mom and Brad's parents with us to experience it too. I love that my girls got to make these memories with their grandparents. So important to me for them to have the opportunity to do things like this. I love that my Mom and Brad's parents feel it's important to do too! They truly love my girls and it's the big things, like going on a Disney vacation, and the little things like calling Ainsley on her birthday and stopping by just to drop off a little something to see how excited she is to be 6, that show me how important my girls are to them and how committed they are to continuing to build a strong relationship with them.

We got to our Disney hotel Sunday afternoon. We stayed at Art of Animation. We had a Lion King Family Suite and a Little Mermaid room. The girls were so excited when we got there. It was a really neat hotel, fairly new as it just opened last summer. Lots of drawings and sketches to go with the animation theme. They also had a large pool, and a few smaller ones. It had an on site food court too and an arcade. Pretty much anything you needed. They had daily activities for kids too.

The girls in the lobby of the hotel.

Chandelier in the hotel lobby full of Disney artist sketches. 

More artwork in the lobby.

I think the girls were just as excited to be able to swim.

Disney's Magic Kingdom

Getting Peter Pan's autograph and asking him to fly for them.

Fairy Rosalinda

Tinker Bell, one of Ainsley's favorite. Tink talks really fast:)

Some of our Toy Story friends.

We caught some parades.

We went to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique where the girls got to be made into Princesses.

Princess Kaylee

Pop Princess Ainsley

Day 2 was Animal Kingdom. Mee-Maw and her girls.

 Ainsley's hair even stayed in overnight. That "jellyfish jelly" Ariel brings them really works well:)

Safari time. We saw a lot of neat animals.

This was a baby elephant. He was so cute!

We went back to Magic Kingdom that night for the Electric Parade and fireworks.

Day 3-Hollywood Studios. The girls thought all the Duffy the Bear stuff we found was pretty cool.

We hung out with some Muppets.

Got shrunk on Honey I Shrunk the Kids set.

The hotel staff liked to decorate the room with the girls stuffed animals each day.

Day 4-Epcot.

They had the dolphin pose for a photo. Lots of cool marine life in Under the Sea.

They had the garden festival going on and had lots of cool exhibits.

All in all it was such a great trip. I would love to go back and do it all again! Couldn't of asked for a better time!!

Happy 6th Birthday, Ainsley!!

Dear Ainsley,

        Today you are 6!!! I know to you it seems like it has taken forever to get to be 6, but for your Mama it sure seems to have gone by so quick! I remember the day you were born so vividly that it seems like it couldn't be 6 years ago. I think, though, that I will feel that way at every birthday you have. What a year you have had. Your Kindergarten year is almost over! You can read, do math, ride a two-wheel bike and tie your shoes (although you'd prefer to not have any on:)).

You are a spunky one and always make me laugh, even when I'm not in the laughing mood. You are inquisitive and you love to play outside. You enjoy swimming, dancing and playing baseball. You still enjoy playing with your dolls and you love to play board games and cards. Somehow you always find a way to win.

I couldn't be more proud to be your Mama. You are a true blessing to me and our family! I love you and am so thankful to call you my daughter.

I hope you had a great first day of being 6!!

Happy birthday, Ainsley Isabella! I love you!!

Mama