Kindergarten Day

It's official. My baby girl is now in elementary school. Kindergarten to be precise. Where, oh where has time gone? It seems like yesterday I was getting up in the middle of the night for feedings. Now, she is going to Kindergarten. Ciara loves school so far and I pray that will always be so. Took a few pictures of the special milestone in her life. Believe it or not, I didn't even cry!

My little Kindergartener

Waiting for the bus at Jackie's

Ready to ride the bus

Victorian Tea House

On Saturday, Mom, Sharra, Danessa and I visited a lovely tea house called The Ruby Pear. It was such fun to have a "girl's day out". We had a yummy chicken soup, pecan chicken salad tea sandwich, scone, cookie and chocolate covered strawberry. Delicious! Of course we had tea to drink and we chose cinnamon spice. It was actually good since I am not a tea drinker. We had such a good time and decided we need to do this more often. So, whenever Sharra and her family come down we will have to visit a Tea House:)


Mom and Sharra

Danessa and I

Proper tea drinker

Yummy food minus a few bites

Scones and cookies

Huge strawberries

Posing in the foyer

Slug Hunting

My oldest brother, Kevin, is the best uncle in the world! According to the nephews and nieces that is. He comes up with the funniest things for the kids to do and they just love it! The other night, he took Ciara and her cousin Kaeden "slug hunting". I guess at night the slugs come out and eat the plants and bushes. Their job that night was to kill all the slugs they could find. So, around 11:00 that night Kevin and the kids were outside looking for slugs and of course I had to see what the fun was all about(in my jammies, no less). I went back inside to get my camera and took some pictures of them killing the slugs. Ciara was actually pretty good at it; she saw some before I did. I guess now she can be the official "slug killer" and get rid of the ones in our yard:)

Looking for slugs

Ciara finds one

Ciara and Kaeden

Snakes and more

I had the pleasure of keeping my nephew Trevin for a few days. Since he and and my daughter love the outdoors (and anything that goes with it) I took them to see "Indiana Jim" at the library. He deals with snakes, lizards, etc. He brought many different creatures to see and the children loved it! After the show, we were able to touch some of them; I even touched the snakes:) Here are a few pics of the event.

Indiana Jim and one of the snakes

African lizard

Rubber snake

Watching the show

Petting the baby Python

Trevin cheesing

Ciara's Funnies

We never know what Ciara is going to say; it's usually something funny. She has us laughing so much and we so enjoy her humor. Here are a few recent funnies. Enjoy!

The other day, Dave was working on a project and Ciara asked him to do something for her. Dave said, "Just a minute. I messed this up." To which Ciara replied, "That's okay Daddy, I'm not very smart sometimes either."

I was brushing her hair and observed, "Ciara, your hair is so long." She replied,"I know. Pretty soon you'll have to lock me in a tower!"

Preschool Graduation

Where has time gone? It seemed just yesterday I was holding Ciara in my arms, changing diapers and getting up with her in the night. She has grown up too fast. Now here she is 5 years old and graduating from...preschool! Ciara has really enjoyed attending Noah's Ark preschool and she told me she will "miss it because I love school". I hope she always feels that way about school:)


Ciara walking down the aisle

Part of her class

Ciara and her teachers

Ciara and Ellie

Ciara and Annie

Ciara and her proud mommy

The Princess is 5

Ciara wanted a "Princess Party" theme for her birthday and of course the cake had to be a...castle. So being a good mommy, I stayed up late to make my daughter her castle cake. All the little princesses came in their fancy costumes and made tiaras to wear home. Two little princes came, but alas one thought there were too many girls! Ciara did have a wonderful time with her friends and loved being a "princess for the day"!

Ready for the party

All the Princesses


The Castle Cake

Prince Kelden

Ciara in her new costume

Opa and Oma with Ciara

Spring Break

Spring Break is here and maybe now I can catch up on my blogging. lol. Seriously, it has been a busy winter and I'm hoping to get some things done this week so I can keep my blog current.

Ciara had "Crazy Hat" day some weeks ago and she was so excited to find the perfect hat. She said she wanted "A flower hat and we had to go the flower shop for the flowers and then a hat shop for the hat". Makes sense huh? We found a sparkly hat and added a flowered lei around it and voila, we had a flowered hat. I took some photos of her and she really hammed it up!

Silly girl



Cool Kid

Sledding Fun

Ciara has been begging to go sledding, so we took her for her maiden sled ride. She was so excited and was dressed in her snowsuit before we were ready!
I thought Dave was going to ride with her, but he put her on the sled and down she went. She did drag her hands in the snow at first,(to slow her down) but then overcame her fear and went to the bottom of the hill. She was so excited that she ran up the hill and said, "I did it!" Rosy-cheeked and cold about an hour later, she was ready to go home.

Posing for the camera

Ciara and her sled

Down she goes

Up she comes

My rosy-cheeked sweetie

Kids Are Cute

When I was a kid I would ask my mom if a friend could spend the night with me...right in front of the friend. Now I know how my mother felt. The other night Ciara and her cousins, Kaeden and Kelden, made plans for them to spend the night with Ciara. Kelden started it off by announcing that his bubby was spending the night with Ciara and of course the other two kept asking every few minutes. So what is a mom to do when her little girl asks so sweetly for her cousin to spend the night? Oh, did I mention the "look"? The one that melts your heart? So... Kaeden spent the night. He is a sweet little guy and they play well together. Anyway, they did fine, we went to the store, ate at Mickey D's and they played dress-up. That was a hoot!!! I took some pics of the kids, mostly to show Kaeden when he's grown up.

Ciara and Kaeden

Cozy Cousins

What imaginations

He did complain about the all girl costumes