Weekend fun!

What a FUN FUN FUN weekend we had. We started out at Michael's company for their open house/tour/play/picnic party! They had an amazing set up for the kids to run and play, the director said they were expecting over 800 people to come play!! WOW!

This is Mikayla's favorite thing right now...she loves to jump.... and jump and jump and jump!! This is the only time she got it all to herself.

Here she's saying hi to Michael :)

slide time....except she didn't slide....she bounced all the way down!!

Hi Dad!!!

Then she did the rock wall, this was her first time and she didn't have the best shoes on to rock climb but she still did it.

Here she's getting ready to go on a tour of the state-of-the art facility.

Hoola hoopin!!!!

We all had a great time.... little miss had the "best time ever" Such a great day!!

The great day continued..... more to follow!!

Drill Team Random Pics

Here are some random shots of Mikayla's big day at the high school drill team dance clinic that they took and passed around to all of the parents. (Just for the record she taught me the new song they taught her there and it's been stuck in my head for three days so far...) we sing it and do the dance that goes with it every single night!!! LOL

in the pic below she's all the way to the right :)


She had so much fun at the clinic she is asking to go there again!! The picture below is her "formal" picture of the day, taken with two of the official drill team members.

Happy Mother's Day!!

We had a really nice day on Mother's Day. Michael and Mikayla had some cards and some beautiful flowers for me. We went out to dad's house for lunch and it was all around a great day.

Here is some of Mikayla's creativity.

I'm sure she had help with the spelling but she wrote the card all by herself!! Such neat printing she has!!!

Here's my love bug!!!

Festival Time!

You know it's going to be a great church festival when up pull up and this is the first thing you see.

Mikayla and I were playing!!! here she found the most darling play house complete with a working doorbell, it was great fun!

While she and I were playing... Michael volunteered to serve some BBQ (it was by a previous arrangement we did it this way). He loves to help out where he can! He helped serve hundreds of BBQ plates in the 2 hours he was in there, the line was consistently down the isle and out the door!

Back to the playing.... we played games.... (this one is where she had to dig for treasure....it was great fun)

Then we found some beloved bouncers!! This one was her favorite!!

It was nearly 90 degrees and 90% humidity when we were there .... I was HOT....actually it was so hot that marshmallows were melting to the pavement and it was only 11:00 am....they had some guns that shot marshmallows and they were everywhere, we came home VERY sticky!!! We all had a good time though :)

Drill Team Dancer!!!

Saturday we went to a high school down the road that was having their drill team clinic. Of course I had to sign up Mikayla for it!! She had an absolute blast!!!! Here are all the kids that signed up, they then paired them in to age groups and taught them a dance and a cheer. Then they performed what they learned for all the parents that afternoon.

Here she is getting ready to perform (she's in the turquoise shorts)

Here is her group doing their "cheer"

Here is her group doing their little dance.... how they worked this is that one group did their dance and ran off....while they're running off the next group runs on and so forth.... it was really cute.




Here is the whole gang bowing for the crowds.



Mikayla had a blast she is still asking me when she can go to another dance clinic.

Our Royal Wedding Celebration

Well, Friday night I had a surprise party for Mikayla for us to celebrate the Royal wedding together (yes Michael thinks I have totally cracked up but I am very excited about it). I picked her up from school with a bouquet of flowers to start the celebration and also to pique her curiosity.

Then we were to come home to a front walkway full of rose petals...but the darn wind took them all away, this is all that was left... LOL

Then I showed her the "wedding zone" she FLIPPED out!!! I have never ever seen her this excited and surprised!! I got the flowers and made the cake of the previous two nights after she went to bed.

Next we went in and both transformed to brides... she was just beside herself by now...I even let her wear make up... she kept telling me this was her best day ever and thanking me!!! She knew the princess got married that day...and now she knew we were dressing up to get married with her!!

She was walking down the "isle" here....

Now what is a wedding without pictures..... of course I took a TON here are some of them... seriously I know I say this a lot... but really - how can she be 5 years old??

We had a nice dinner and now it's cake time (complete with the knife Michael and I used at our wedding)!!

We had an absolute blast!!! We watched a lot of the wedding again on Saturday too, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this with her and hopefully making a memory that she won't forget and maybe get to repeat some day with her daughter.

At the end of the day, she had thanked me profusely many times over.... told me this was the best day of her life and said I was the best mom ever.... I guess I did a little something right for today :)