Well..... It's happened......

YES!!  Today is Mikayla's first day of first grade!!!  AMAZING. 

She was pretty anxious about it up until today - she was feeling great!!  So that makes a happy mommy too!   I'm doing good.... I'm "this" much anxious...."this" much sad..... and "THIS" much excited for her!! 

She's always game for some goofball pictures!!  I love it!!

 Lens fogged up...LOL... you know it's hot out when your camera lens fogs up for the third time of the day and it's before 7:00 am

We're so happy that Mikayla and Cammy are together :)  they've been BFFs for over 3 years now

Wow she's serious in the picture below, the class was on the way to their class room.

and there we go.... my baby is officially in 1st grade now.... wow, time sure has gone fast!!!

Weekend of parties

On Saturday we went to a party at Mikayla's friend, Ryan's house.  It was a pool party and Mikayla had a BLAST!!!!  This is her first time going down a water slide that goes into the deep end of the pool. 

The first time, she said...I'm going on the slide...she got up there and said.... um... never mind.  She did come back though and just went for it.

She loved it!!  She did it over and over and over and over again!!  She was exhausted!!!  Sure had a great time though!

Saturday night, Michael and I went to his awards banquet.  He earned Charmian's Club, Premier Performer among other things.  I'm so proud of him!   (his back is to us in the pictures below)

Where else..... besides Houston would it still be 91 degrees at 10:01 PM!!!  HA!  The funny thing is that felt soooo good compared to what it was earlier in the day.

Have a great week!!

Mother/Daughter day!!

Let me start by saying we had SOOOOOO much fun.... like FUN by the boat load!!! 

We started out at the hair salon...Mommy needed a tune up!  (made the face just for her....can't believe I'm putting it on here...LOL)

She did a little self portrait....

Next was to the nail salon - she got her fingers and toes done while I had my feet done :)

All done and drying!  :)

She wanted to show her praying hands..... literally....praying....  

Then after a fast lunch we went to the mall..... AND..... look what we saw!!!  the American Girl store is coming here....soon (they open middle of September)  when we saw that..... one of us...(not going to say who...but the 2nd letter in her name is "I" and her name has a "K" in it somewhere too) was screeching with JOY!!!!

Then we went to Build A Bear for her 1st grade bear....here is who she picked out.

Wait never mind...here is who she picked out.

Filling her up! 

Cleaning her up

Getting her all registered to be ours.

It was a BLAST!  After Build a "cat"  we went to target to do some shopping for a birthday party this weekend.

Next we went for our cleaning appointment at the dentist.  Both of us are in the no cavity club!  yay!!

Yucky fluoride!  (ick  I hate it)

THEN.......

on the way home...this is what happened..... (I was driving and just point and shot this pic)

Little further over.....

OUT for the count!!!! 

We had a GREAT day!!!!   (after all of that, we went to dinner and then Men's Warehouse with Michael for some clothes then to CVS...PHEW can you say we were exhausted!!) 

Opening Ceremony

We have had so much fun preparing for the Olympic games!!  We've colored Olympic pages....

Set up our metal counter chart......

We lit the torch.... started by getting our "fire"

here is our Olympic light ;)

Made a scrumptious dessert...... 

And now..... tracking our team!!!!

So far Mikayla's favorites are swimming, diving and gymnastics.  She gets so caught up in it she has to stand while watching because of the excitement!!!!  And she calls the United States..."Texas"....so now Texas is competing.... HA!!

I can't wait to watch some more!

We're almost ready!!!

Let the games begin!!  We are gearing up for the Olympic games!!!  Mikayla has had a blast with the beginnings of our preparations this week...  we made our Olympic torches.

USA support!!!  Come on teams!!!

banner (with torch "lit") and the poster board will contain our medal counts which we haven't set up yet.

And seriously....what is it without red/white/blue "flag" nails?

We are all kinds of sparklered here...all the way to our straws!!!! 

More Olympic goodies to follow this week :)