Free, down to my toes!

We are back

from the beach!  We had a great time too. Fireworks on the beach are really neat!  I'll post more after I get this mound of laundry done. 

Just watch...

Happy Birthday sweet girl!!

Seven years old today! 

Eh law....

That's an old saying my Granny used to say.

I've been very busy at work.  The kids are at Bible school this week at my Moms church.  Megan is feeling a bit better than before.  Her friend is still calling and keeping in touch.  Oh and she saw a 'hot' guy at church.  Now I don't really like for her to use that terminology, but she was happy for once and I just couldn't say anything except, "Oh, so you thought he was cute huh?"  It's not like she says it often anyway.  I think this was a first. 

I am excited about being invited to be a CT at one of the BEST stores eveh!  Check it out!  While your at it, check out their store.  Some neat digi scrapping stuff and wonderful ladies to work with.

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Back to Meg....I so hope and pray that she and her friend can continue their friend relationship long distance.  It is so hard to find a decent person to be friends with and this was one of them.  I'm praying that God will work it out some way that they will be able to keep in touch.  I'm secretly praying that God will bring them back too.  : ) 

Off to bed I go after I go shopping over at WST first! 

Girls are mean

Poor Megan.

She was invited to a birthday party at her cousins house with 4 other girls today to spend the night.  I went and picked her up a little while ago because none of them would talk to her or include her in anything they did.  She cried all the way home.  So did I.  My heart is breaking for her right now, but there was some good that came out of it.  She came home and said she wished her sisters was with her because they would have talked to her.  I agreed that her sisters, Mom and Dad would be here for her.  She has played with Ally the rest of the evening and wrote in her journal.

Oh and these girls are also starting to come to youth at the church.  I'm sure we will have to encourage Megan to keep attending during this time.

...to top it all off, her best friend is moving away tomorrow.

Pray for her and these girls.

Awards day!

plus Ally's day.

 

I can't tell you how proud I am of my girls.  Today was Allys day to spend how she wished after her awards day.  While I was driving Megan to school she told me that today was her awards day too.  I asked her what time and of course it was going to conflict.  She went on to say that she probably wouldn't get anything anyway; it was mostly a/b honor roll awards.  She's smart, she just makes some c's sometimes.  I felt really bad for her and told her no matter what that I was proud of her. 

 

Later, after I dropped Ally off and went home to take a shower I thought Megan might like to go with me to Ally's award ceremony.  She did and I went to pick her up. 

 

Ally did great.  Ally is a very shy kid, but she wasn't as shy as she normally is, so I hope that she is coming out of her shell year by year.  She won the High Reading Achievement award.

 

We went to Build-A-Bear and Chick-fil-A.  Ally found Limited Too and of course wanted everything in it.  She was asking for money or gift cards to the store instead of presents for her birthday.  A sure sign she is growing up AND into girl things as much as Chris is trying for her not to be.  LOL!!

 

I thought it was cute when she found this cosmetic bag Bible case.  I didn't tell her any different, but I'm sure if LT ever found out an item in their store was associated in any way with the Bible they would pull it off the shelf.  I looked at it.  You might could pull it off to be a Bible case...check inside.  It's supposed to be a makeup bag, but Bible case works for me.  I smiled at her and thought maybe, just maybe I'm doing something right when my childs thoughts are geared in the right direction.

 

 

Later on that evening one of Megans friends called her to tell her she won 2 awards.  One was the "Brighten Your Day" award because she was always smiling and happy.  She wasn't there to get them and we wasn't there to see her get them, but it didn't matter to her.  She was just happy about getting it and so was I.  Plus we all got to spend the day together which was wonderful. 

I was very proud mom today and felt like awards blessings were being sprayed down on kids and me too.

Please pray

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It's a BOY!!

I'm an aunt again.  My brother and his wife had their baby.  We went to see them over the weekend.  He was so cute.  The oldest is so fun and full of energy.  Cute as she can be too. 

I'll post a picture as soon as I download. 

This week is busy again, as usual.  Ballgames, church, and get togethers.

Ally decided what she wanted for her birthday party.  We are going to play putt putt and then go for pizza afterwards.  YEAH!

School is out this week.  Pool time begins!  Can't wait to see them having a splashing summer.

Hello again!

Two days in a row!  Don't faint!

Did you see LOST?  Wow!  Love that show.

Ally won her last ballgame.  Now onto turnament time.  Wish her luck.  She really is doing so much better than last year.  Today is also field day for Megan and Ally.  I can't wait to hear the stories.  One of Megans best friends is moving away next week.  Every year one of her friends move.  :(

Here is a layout I did.  Shawna and Zoe teamed up at SSD.  It will be release this weekend.

Ballgame!

Ally's last game is tonight!  She is super excited.  Her last day of school is Thursday.  We can't wait till school is over.