March misc and iPhone pictures

Meeting cousin Lilly for the first time and visiting with the fam at Poppa's job's canal house. It was freezing and raining, which put quite a damper on plans for fishing, but we still had fun hanging.




































My sleeping princess~


SMORES!


















Tyler's first slumber party for his friend, Lucien's birthday




Tyler and I were shopping for Kinley's party goodies and having too much fun. ;-)


This is my life! Messy house don't care! (Ok, I actually do care)


Our little stray, Charlie, is still hanging around and the kids are loving him more. :-/













Enjoying a little live street music while we're out shopping


Dance costumes are in








Peeking in on Kinley at lunch










More Charlie










Lunch with Tyler


Tyler had a molar tooth pulled that was blocking an adult tooth from coming in and got this shiny little spacer.


The kids got rewarded for great report cards!


Kinley got a Hatchimal with some of her birthday money. Oh, the suspense in waiting for this thing to hatch.












Brooklyn got a hold of a pen. :-/




Favorite place- ice cream shop








Love this little wall that I made for Kinley's costumes in her room.


Tyler left this note for me. He's onto me. HaHa!






Travis took the kids to the ranch~








Tyler passed out in my bed- this really doesn't happen anymore.

Market Days

Tyler participated in Market Days at school. It's an event that third grade does. They are responsible for coming up with a business plan, marketing and selling some type of goods and then the entire school gets to shop. Tyler decided that he was going to have a football station where you could either buy football cards or guess how many skittles were in a jar to win a UT football (and they came with a free sucker). I was surprised at the crowd he had around him most of the time! Each class decided on a charity to donate 10% of their proceeds to and Tyler's class chose the animal shelter. After paying me back for supplies, he made about $25.00. It was a fun experience for Tyler!





with Levi


Kinley shopping






Brooklyn shopping














with Trace




with Will








Brooklyn was exhausted from so much shopping. ;-)

District Wide Art Show

It was such a sweet treat to see Tyler and Kinley's school artwork selected and displayed at the District Wide Art Show! Tyler actually had two pieces chosen, but I didn't know that and we missed seeing a fish bowl that he made there. We're so proud!

















And I love that their principal was there supporting and encouraging the kids!

Happy 6th Birthday, Baby girl!

Happy, Happy #6!! I think I will always start out each birthday letter surprised over how fast the past year has flown by and a little sad that you are growing so darn fast. And in keeping true to my sappy self, I’m sitting here, thinking about how 1/3 of your childhood has passed! One third! Eeeek!! Ahhhh…. the bitter sweetness of this parenting gig.

Kindergarten has certainly not helped in keeping you little. You march off to school every morning, seeming independent, confident and sassy. You have a posse of little girlfriends that you run with. You talk about boys! You are learning to read now and doing great in math. And while you are acting all grown up, I’m holding on to little things… like, for the life of you, you cannot say three. You still say “flee” and “firty” for 30 and "firty-flee" for 33, which makes counting to 100 in class really sweet. And I giggle when you ask to wear bracelets to school on your “wristis.” I love it!! :-) You really are enjoying school right now. You are pretty fond of your principal, Ms. Brown, and all the staff. The feeling is quite mutual… you might be a little spoiled there! You have a journal in class and you often write about how much you love your family AND your teacher, Mrs. Davis. You have made some great friends in class. Finley is your “twinsie” and I think you both have convinced half of the school that this is really true and y'all try to get me to go along with it. Ha! You enjoy art class and you and Tyler both had artwork selected from school that was displayed at the District Art Show! It was fun being able to celebrate you both!

You are in your fourth year of dance and just received your recital costumes. Even the costumes seem like they are for older girls this year. :-/ It has been fun to see you grow in dance though. I feel like you are just barely getting out of the cute-sy dancing and learning some real dance moves. You are happy to still be doing this with your dance pals and especially, your BFF, Makenzie. I think you watch Moana every single day and you and Brooklyn enjoy singing quite a few duets from the movie. You like watching Kids YouTube videos on the iPad. You mostly watch Elsia and Annia or baby animal videos. You adore animals! You love role playing house with Brooklyn, playing with your baby dolls, Barbies and dressing up in costumes. You love sparkle and bling and dresses and lip gloss and painting your nails and your new cowgirl boots. :-) We got you a new bike for your birthday and you have no interest in trying it out without training wheels. Your six year molars came in right on cue and your two bottom front teeth have come in behind your baby teeth. You love your new "shark teeth," but you're ready for those baby teeth to come out and the tooth fairy to come visit.

We just gave your room a makeover complete with new big girl furniture and some fun paint, but you're not sleeping in there yet. You are still comfortable sleeping on a small mattress in Tyler's room. We will probably make the switch over the summer. You are already looking forward to summer and we're making plans to try out some gymnastic classes then. I am also planning to put you in private swim lessons. You're not as excited about that one.

You’re growing up to be such a loving, kind, beautiful and funny girl. I couldn't be more proud and I hope that you enjoy all the fun that being six brings you!

I love you,

Mommy