Mrs. Rainbow

Finally, Payton has won a title for baton. She has worked so hard and has come really far this year. At the Wood Dale competition she was really on it. She won a first place in Beginner modeling, second place in Beginner Mrs. Rainbow Modeling and the over all title of...

Novice Mrs. Rainbow

She was so excited I thought she was going to start jumping up and down with joy.

Look at that smile.

After this picture my camera battery died. Booo.

Let the naming begin

Blake has been calling me mama for ...well forever it seems like. The same with Steve. So with in the past two weeks he decided to start calling his best friend Ethan.... YELLOW. We have no idea why he calls him Yellow, but it is so cute. He sticks his head out the door and screams for him every morning. He just loves his Yellow. Today I was asking him a question of "who did it". He ratted out his brother! He said "Parker" for the first time. Parker was so excited he did not even care that he was tattled on. The girls are both disappointed that he has not said their name :)

Goodbye Butterflies

For science this year we decided to study butterflies. What better way than by getting the butterfly garden. The kids really enjoyed them. We keep them for a week before we decided to let them be free. Hannah was very sad about the whole thing as they were her "favorite pets".

So pretty

There were five Painted Lady Butterflies in all.

Parker watching them try and escape

Blake watching them fly away

Payton's First Communion

Yesterday was Payton's big day. She was so excited and has been talking about it for weeks. We went all out for her, complete with a professional up-do for her hair. She could not be any more beautiful. She loved it all. The small party afterwards was just icing on the cake. But by far her favorite part of Saturday was that her "fairy" godparents made it. It meant so much to her for them to be there on her big special day.

The "Fairy" Godparent (aka Eric and Jaynie)

Payton looking as beautiful as ever.
The complete look.

Random pictures of Hannah

Thinking of Hannah. How fun it has been watching her grow. All the memories keep flooding back with each picture.

Crawling baby


One year

Two years

Three years

Four years

Hannah's 7th Birthday

I am little late posting about Hannah's birthday. I have been slacking on my blog. But here she is seven years old now. I remember just yesterday she was born and was so tiny and was the sweetest baby EVER. She is still super sweet but is not so tiny anymore. She is growing up to be a beautiful young lady. I wish they would all just slow down. So for her birthday it was all about her. First up was breakfast:

Hannah's breakfast of champions- choc. chip pancakes and bacon

The birthday girl

Then birthday gifts: chixos & an mp3 player
Next up was a mad rush to Chucky Cheese, Build -a-bear and MacDonalds.

We finished up with birthday cake and dinner at Firehouse Pizza.

How sweet is she?

Baton

This year Payton is still loving twirling her baton. She has been to three competitions so far. She has one coming up in May. Depending on how she does she may go to Regionals in June. She has gotten lots of second places and we are just waiting on her to get her first First place in her new age division. She wants it so bad. She needs three first places wins to move up so she can start doing a Show Twirl. I hoping this is her year.