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Monday, November 29, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration. Good friends and family...great food...beautiful environment. Mikayla had so much fun, she is a very tired little girl, I have never seen her so wound up and excited and tired and bursting with joy all at the same time!!!

Here is our Thanksgiving table.


She is such a beauty queen...... Such beautiful eyes!




It was a wonderful day and now I'm so sad that it's all over with, Christmas is fast approaching!!!! Are you ready? I'm not!!!!

Monday, November 22, 2010

A sailing we will go :)

We managed to get in some boat time this weekend, it was a little chilly (well chilly for us) when we started but it seemed to warm up the closer to evening we got. It is so much fun to have Michael's mom back! We miss her when she's gone!!!






I absolutely adore this picture, Mikayla's eyes are amazing! I'm sad it's sideways....


Helping steer the boat.







Sailor in training! It will be a long while until we let her pull the lines but she's learning the ropes (LOL...... pun intended)



Absolutely amazing sunset!!!



We had a really great day!!!!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Thanksgiving Feast!!

Today was Mikayla's Thanksgiving Feast at school....she dressed me up as a turkey! LOL




She was soooo excited to perform for us






It is so fun to see how excited the kids get about their parents coming to see them at school.



It was truly a wonderful feast.... :)




Here is the little song they all did for us! I LOVE these little kids!!!


This is so true..... "I made a little turkey so everyone can see that I am very thankful that God's been so good to me."



Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Princess Dreams.....

For Mikayla's birthday gift from Michael and me, we gave her Disney Princess on Ice tickets.... OH MY GOSH - she couldn't believe it, when we gave it to her, we told her that she was going to see all the princesses that very day!!! All she could do was sit there with her mouth open...then she screamed ARE YOU KIDDING ME.... and the noise began, we quick changed out of our church clothing and got straight into princess mode!!!! I am SO glad she didn't know we were going until about 30 minutes before we had to leave!! It was such a fun surprise to give her.





There was such a neat section set up, they hand the "real" princess dresses in a mini set for everyone to take pictures with, the costumes were roped off but it was still really neat to see.



Here she is pointing to a movie star!!!!!!! My child totally has my "star struck" affliction, she was scared to go closer to her...... who do you think it is?

Who else but Mikayla's very own identity!!!!!!!! (I have a funny about Mikayla's play acting, one day she was, of course, dressed up as Cinderella and was in the kitchen.... on the floor, with a bottle of Windex humming one of Cinderella's songs while cleaning the floor....just like in the movie.... LOL) anyway back to the real Cinderella..... here she is and she's every bit as beautiful as Mikayla KNEW she was!




Then we went to our seats!! They were fantastic seats - 7th row :) we could see everything!


Here's Tink!!


Minnie and Mickey


Aladdin


She didn't miss a thing!


Snow White



(Mikayla told me the name of every single Prince that came along..... SO sweet)





Belle




Aerial (Little Mermaid)



The Prince jumped from all the way up here to the ice













Then next was Sleeping Beauty here is the wicked witch!







The dragon above lit the ice on fire!!!!!



Then the Prince woke her up from her deep sleep.





This next one was the highlight of Mikayla's entire experience..... It was the Cinderella segment....

They started with the Ball and Mikayla introduced me to her Prince Charming when he came out!



Mean stepsisters



Here is her Cinderella!!! (Mikayla was so happy and excited at this point she was almost crying which in turn made me almost cry...)



It was an amazing experience, I hope she always remembers it and how much fun we had going there. Here she graciously posed for a picture for me..... she got to pick out a souvenir (a Cinderella barbie doll) and so did I... .I got to get this picture in a frame!



I KNOW this was a magical day for me, I am sure it was for her too.....For this day, all of her Princess Dreams came true.