Wordless Wednesday

Celebrating six

We celebrated six years together with a few days out of town, good food, and good times. A big thank you to Gigi for watching the girls, it's always easier to go away when you know everyone is in good hands.

We started the celebration at deSha's in Cincinnati on the anniversary of our rehearsal dinner at the Lexington location (RIP)

Dinner at Dudley's to celebrate six years! 

Mike's first trip to Natural Bridge / Red River Gorge ... this picture appropriately taken at Lover's leap : )

If you know me, you know I'm not very adventurous, but the girls have stolen my ability to sleep in and made me restless when, so we went hiking and had a great time!  

 

The gorgeous view on before heading home to the crazy, but wonderful, life we've created!

Seis

Six years ago we said "I do" and what a whirlwind life has been since then, in the best ways imaginable. In 2,190 days we've moved houses, added one (bad) cat and two beautiful girls, lived, laughed, and loved. I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat! Here's to at least 60 more years of the same.

Playing hookie at the Zoo

We all took a day off of work and school the Friday of Memorial Day weekend and had a family day of fun that started at the Zoo and ended with running through the sprinkler ... what a great way to mark the official start of summer!

Bucket heads

The girls love the oversized buckets from Paw Paw and Maw Maw!

Wordless Wednesday

Groovy Chicken

Anna has been taking dance / ballet / gymnastics classes through a program that comes to her daycare for a couple of years now, but we didn't think she was quite ready for a recital last year for a variety of reasons. Knowing how much she loves to perform for us at home, we knew she was ready this year! A star is born ... basically.

She had her first dance recital last weekend and performed her Groovy Chicken routine perfectly! I know I'm biased, but she seriously knew the choreography better than any other dancer, and for a shy little girl, she owned that stage! I was a parent helper (aka stage Mom) and was in charge of corralling about eight other chiclets for 3+ hours ... Along with my co-hen, we managed to get all girls to the restroom before the performance, kept them fed and stain-free, and all with minimal (if any) crying : )

Car cartin'

Anna is obsessed with the car carts at Kroger. You know, the ones that are impossible to steer and that the kids only want to stay in for 5 minutes of the shopping trip? On this particular trip, she spotted one in a cart corral in the parking lot with her eagle-like eyes. Ironically, the same eagle-eyes cannot spot toys or shoes that need to be put away even when right in front of her. At least they look cute :) 

What it feels like to be FOUR

As per tradition, I took Anna's birthday off work and we had a blast spending the together. We started the day with homemade blueberry pancakes (her request), a trip to the zoo, dinner out, and presents. Not to discount the hugs, laughs, and FUN. Consensus is that four = fun!

Not three minutes into this train ride, I pointed out the wolves by quietly howling ... Anna rolled her eyes, looked at me and said "Mom, please stop that, you're embarrassing!"

Pure joy!

Birthday sundae at Red Robin!

Matching hats ... because we knew what would happen if we only bought one ;) 

Princess par-tay

Anna requested a princess party for her birthday again this year and I can't think of a better way to celebrate our little princess that's growing up fast and furiously. We kept it simple and just like last year with friends, fun, food, and cupcakes at a local park. Luckily the weather cooperated, everyone had a blast, and you can see by the big smiles below that Anna truly felt like a princess for the day!