I can't believe it!

 How we went from this......

 

 

To this........ so incredibly fast?

 

Fastest 9 years of my life!!! 

 

Such a little munchkin.  When we met her (3 weeks earlier than planned) she was an 8 lb 4 oz bundle of joy and wonder!!!   I have never ever been so in love!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What an incredible journey motherhood is.  I wouldn't trade it for the world.   Mikayla is such a joy and is really developing into quite a wonderful individual. 

 

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world. 

 

 

Birthday week!!!!

We were in full swing birthday preparation this week at our house!!

Birthdays are always a blast, and it's safe to say we parents love them as much as our kids do.  When their eyes light up , we relive the magic of our own childhoods.  Birthdays are special days, I do confess to loving Mikayla's birthday's a LOT more than my own!

In exactly 5 days we no longer have an 8 year old
We have a 9 year old....

This is her last year for single digits!!!
WHAT!!!!

She is so smart, witty and funny.

Wow!!!!!

I am happy to report I find myself a bit more like how I remember my mom from when I was little.  I'm definitely a lot more hyper and wound up than she was but I've had several moments lately where after I did something I thought to myself  "whoa, that was soooooooo something my mom would say/do"  That makes me happy in a heart hurts good kind of way {sniffles}.

So full on party mode.... tons of pictures this week - tons of reminiscing, remembering, celebrating and appreciating going on!!

All Saints Day Parade

Today was Mikayla's All Saints Day celebration at school.  Allow me to introduce St. Clare of Assisi.

 

I - I mean WE had a great time pulling this together.

 

 

Here she comes.  She was so formal walking towards me, then she saw our neighbor and ran to hide behind the column.  HA!

 

 

 

Ah ha!!!  there's my silly girl!

 

 

At school I gave Mikayla my phone to go take some pictures of her friends... I found this selfie  LOL!

 

 

 

She told me "since I'm dressed up like this, I better be good"

 

 

 

 

 

I love these days!!!!!!  She is such a fun little girl to be around!

 

Halloween

We started our day as a cat and a bat.... Mikayla renamed me to Bat Mom.  Yay!!  (I borrowed Mikayla's bat costume)(it worked out perfectly)

 

 

 

She couldn't wait to get to school to see what all of her friends were. 

 

 

Here they are!

 

 

Too funny, the third grade teacher was Ketchup and the fourth grade teacher was Mustard.

 

 

At work, we had quite a few dress up for fun too! 

 

 

I was able to go up to Mikayla's school for their Fall Fun day and what fun we did have!!!!!

 

The kiddos were wired!!!

 

 

There was a mummy wrap competition.

 

 

 

 

 

Eyeball races..... Katie and I drew eyeballs on ping pong balls to donate to this game and the kids were set up into teams and they had to transfer the eye ball from one spoon, to the next, to the next, to the basket all without dropping it!  They had a BLAST!  It was so fun watching them have fun and every time a kid got one into the basket everyone cheered and yelled SO loud! FUN!!!

 

 

Piñata!

 

 

 

 

 

Then after all that fun - we went trick-or-treating with Tyler and Brandon.  We had SO many kids in our neighborhood come TOTing that we handed out over 13 pounds of candy....I'm not sure if that's a lot but it sure was a LOT.

 

We seriously had so much fun this year!

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!!!