Rodeo days and Lady A

Here we are on our way into the rodeo, we took the bus and man o man was there a lot of traffic. We finally made it! YAY!!! Little miss was all decked out in denim and her cowgirl boots! She was feeling fine!!!! We walked forever and a day to get into the stadium but it was all good!!

Once inside she LOVED all aspects of the rodeo except for the calf roping, she did NOT like that at all, she was very worried about the poor baby cows.... but we saw some of this...

and this....

here is a close up of the picture above....kiddo hanging on for dear life

AND THEN!!!!!!! just when she thought the excitement had settled down... NOT even close, she knew we were going to see Lady Antebellum.... she was waiting... We saw some of these....

When she saw this.... she was just screaming with anticipation (as were 69,999 other people)!!! The lights went out...... and the stage lit up!

AND THERE THEY WERE!!!!!! We weren't as familiar with their opening song as some of the others but it didn't matter.....jumping and dancing took place!!

When her favorite song came on..... I actually think it was everyone's favorite song, the crowd went WILD (Mikayla included)!!! My dad leaned over to me and said.... this must be their most popular song....hee hee.... it was crazy. Charles (lead male) (yes we're on a first name basis) kept saying how awesome it was to be singing in front of 70,000 people and he wanted all of us to sing to them.... you KNOW we were some of the singers....

We had such an amazing time, I can't wait to see them perform again. Here she is after the show, keeping in mind it's now almost 2 1/2 hours past her normal bed time.... she is jacked up!!!!!

a serious pose....

Always time to goof off :)

struttin her stuff!!!!

Always time for a quick dance/twirls too

She stayed up till after midnight...wow... I think that I earned a gold star for the bad mommy book by doing that but it was for her...(well me too...and Nana...Papa...Daddy....) and since she had so much fun.... maybe just a silver star....right?

Here we are the next day on the boat.... we did a little photo shoot of our cowgirl. Tell me...seriously, does she look only 5 to you?? She's growing up so fast on me...boo!!!!

Have a great week!!!! Our next adventure...tent camping next week.... sure hope the weather cooperates!

Spring Boating Days!

Well let me start by showing you my little cowgirl all dressed up and ready for church.... she got some new stylin pink boots!!! She loves them!!!!


After church we headed down for some boating fun! It's been so cold we haven't been out for a ride in a long time...so we took advantage of the day! It was GREAT!!!!







Hi Captain Mike







My little goofball!

Sailing off to the sunset.... I love the shimmering waters!!!

She passed out below deck.... nothing better than snoozin while out to sea!

Little Miss helping drive!!! She loves her boat!

Here is my girl, it's just a short video... but she is truly a girl after my own heart, I think she wants to learn how to do something.... see if you can see what it is....

Big foot!!

So really, how did this happen....

I LOVE to crochet beads onto socks...I really think every single little girl in the world should have beaded socks.... but seriously...how did Mikayla's feet go from the itty bitty socks like the first one in the picture below...to the big girl sock (bottom picture) .... wwwwaaaaaaaaa sure wish time could slow down just a bit.

Teacher...teacher...teacher...teacher....

Mikayla is in full on teacher mode.... she LOVES to play teacher. In these pictures she was doing our "physicals"....

M: Step forward one step and stop...
Nana: goes one step forward
M: good job
M: Now, one step to the left and stop
Nana: goes one step to the left
M: good job
M: Step forward one step and back one step and stop
Nana: goes one step forward, feet together, one step backwards
M: good job

All the while she's making her "notes" on her clip board, and yes.....I had to take this test too.

Last night, she set all of us up with our own work tables and we had home work to do, Michael did flash cards...Nana had to write her name over and over and over and over and over, enough to fill the whole sheet and I had to write a list. I love when she does "roll call" she says, when I call your name, raise your hand and say here....

Virginia - (raises hand and says here)

Michael - (raises hand and says here)

Kirsten - (raises hand and says here)

Abbie - (we raise her hand for her and say arf - translation "here")

Allie - (again we raise her hand for her and say arf-translation "here")

Let me tell you.... she runs a tight ship!!!! Among all of her other play acting roles, teacher is one of her favorites! We have a play school bus, that you open up and it looks like a class room with each side of the bus being a "different" learning zone.... she is in hog heaven teaching us how to read and write, music class, physicals, don't forget the Pledge of Allegiance complete with a flag, and so on!

5 year pictures

Well I am a bit late in getting these taken but I knew I'd regret not having them.... so here is Mikayla for her 5 year photo shoot....

I couldn't help this one, we've been going to the same studio since Mikayla was born and we never took one with the bear LOL

Gosh the time goes fast!!! I can't believe how grown up my baby is! *sniff sniff*