Busy times!

It seems like the weekend just go so fast!!! We had another great one though, Some of the highlights were going to Katie's dance recital (adult tap class). Mikayla soaked up the music and watching the little kids up on stage, no doubt dreaming about when it's her turn to do it.

Here is her group dancing

and Mikayla and Katie afterwards

I have no idea what we were doing here other than goofing around.... I'm 100% certain she was chattering about something and I snapped the picture LOL! (see those 2 front bottom teeth....well...they seem to be ever so slightly loose.....I'm sure I'll cry when her baby teeth fall out, motherhood can be crazy sometimes, I cried when they came in and I'll cry when they fall out, another milestone- gosh the time goes fast). wow!

Here's my beauty queen, we were meeting cousin Robb and my dad for lunch.


Have a great week!

Memorial Day Weekend

What a great weekend we had!! It seemed like we were really busy the whole time but the time sure went fast. We went to the boat each day and it was soooooo windy (which is good for a sail boat, right) well it was really really windy we had an adventure! We were trying to get the jib (front sail) back in and the lines got all kinds of tangled up, seriously from where I was sitting, it was at least a foot of tangle.

Because of the force of the winds we had to do it differently so Michael could crank the sail in instead of just pulling it in... then I noticed one of the lines didn't have a knot on the bottom to prevent it from pulling out of the hardware (which would be bad). So really quick I hollered for Mikayla to tie a figure 8 knot in it to prevent it from getting away from us and adding to the current disaster, while she's whipping up a knot, I was turning the boat around in an attempt to get the lines untangled so Michael could finish pulling in the sail....he was on the deck trying to hold on and trying to shake free the tangle while not getting whipped overboard from either the lines or the waves.... well fortunately somehow.... the lines totally got untangled, he came back to the cockpit.... I held the lines to prevent them from retangling and Mikayla drove the boat....WOW!!!!! It was sure something! To hear her tell the story is hysterical, she is the hero that saved the day!!! We haven't had that kind of excitement in awhile. I was sort of busy in the moment this weekend and quite frankly unwilling to douse the camera in salt water (from the waves) so I didn't get too many pictures but here is what I have.

Here's the Captain below deck before we went out

After our crazy ride and experience, we went over to the marina pool for awhile to chill out and play. Here is the view from the pool. After swimming fun, we ate dinner on the deck right there and then I went ahead and showered Mikayla for the night and put her in her jammies for the ride home. I love when I can prepare like that so when we get home, it's straight to bed (which was very late let me add....)

On Memorial Day I also brought her bed time stuff to shower at Papa's house.... she conned him something fierce (not really - all she had to do was bat her blue eyes at him and ask)....... this is what she asked for

Complete with a spa drying treatment LOL

Here's the hero of the weekend! She is a pretty special kiddo!!!

And here she is barely able to hold her head up Tuesday morning for school. She was TIRED!!!! (um, yes, it's 80+ degrees out and she's wearing a sweater.....)

Have a great week!!!!

Formal Graduation Pictures

Here are Mikayla's formal graduation pictures (isn't it crazy that they do these now.....) (isn't it even crazier I purchased the entire package of them).... LOL

Look how different she looks from last year's graduation pictures....boo hoo where has my baby gone, I love the little girl in her place, it's just going too fast!

Graduation Time

Well my little bug-a-boo graduated - wow!!!!! The ceremony was awesome, she performed incredibly and I'm just so proud of her, she was in a bunch of the slide show pictures - here are a couple that I was able to capture.

I almost missed her coming down the isle...I thought she was going to be later in the line....

The kids all sang us songs from their spots, as well as on stage.

Stinker was hiding from me!!!

She was finding exactly the right spot to stand.

Singing and dancing!!

Coming back out again - gosh that went fast!!!

She was sooooo wired - I was resorting to threats to get a few pictures.... LOL

The "After Party"

Papa trying out her new hula-hoop.....

whoops - I don't think that's how it goes.....

Michael was next...we can see how well that went.... (there are no pictures to witness if I could do it....... or not)

We love Flynn

Maximus stole the show.....

We had an awesome night!!! It was frantic up past bed time....but that's ok, I wouldn't trade it for the world!

Pre-Graduation

For Mikayla's graduation, I took off early from work to go get her. We did a home "spa" (meaning she got her finger nails and toe nails painted) before going to her ceremony. Here she is after her shower getting ready for her spa treatment.

"Seriously mom...... pictures.....now?????"

"ohhhh maybe she left....um.... no"

I love this little girl!!!!

Captain Mikayla!

We had soooo much fun!! We were able to squeeze in a boat ride and the weather was more than perfect out!!!

Here is Captain Mikayla looking at the wind vang to determine where the wind was coming from. (never too young to teach, right?)

She drove us for quite a ways.

Here's our captain in the making....

More to follow!

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!!