Gracie turns 2

Today was my niece's 2nd birthday!  Hard to believe she's been with us for two years, but she was cute as ever today.  She loves Dora, Bubble Guppies, and Sophia the First.  She hit the jackpot with much needed clothes, since she's growing like a weed, books, puzzles, new Sophia the First bedding, car seat, and a Radio Flyer Wagon.  Happy Birthday Gracie Pants!

Disney on Ice- Let's Celebrate

Addie, Adam, my Mom, and I went out Thursday night to the Richmond Coliseum to see Disney on Ice.  I had been trying to win tickets all week long on a local radio station, but was never successful.  Adam heard a friend of his win them on the radio Tuesday morning, so he called her and she ended up not being able to use them...so SCORE!  She gave them to us and we enjoyed ourselves.  Adam and I had taken Addie three years ago to see Disney Princesses on Ice and she still talks about that show, so we knew she would be ready to go to this one.  The seats were on the second level but at an angle that was great to see the whole ice rink.  We were hesitant being a school night and all but she was a champ.  Got up Friday morning without a problem and was good at school.  Here are some pictures from the show.  They did celebrations that happen throughout the year.

Patriot's Day

Last week Addie's school celebrated Patriot's Day. She is asked to wear red, white, and blue to school to show support.  Addie gets to wear her 4th of July dress again for this dress-up day.  Take a look at my little firework!

Teacher by Week, Hairstylist by Weekend

Well folks, if teaching fails...there's always beauty school!  Adam's mom had asked me over the summer if she bought a box of hair color would I color her hair.  My reply was that I have never ever colored someone's hair but I can read and I would give it a go.  Well today, she took me up on that offer.  She went and bought her Golden Blonde LOREAL Paris color and I took it from there.  She wasn't nervous, so she said, but I was a bit.  I didn't want to dye my mother-in-law's hair a crazy shade of purple, orange, or green! What if it didn't come out like the box looked!  What would we do?  I took the bottle and mixed as directed..easy enough.  I saturated her hair and watched the clock.  After 25 minutes she was ready to rinse.  When we went back to rinse the dye out, I felt like her hair was looking mighty orange.  I said, "Pat, I don't know about this..looks a little orangy."  She said oh no it's fine.  I was praying it was fine.  Thankfully, God was on my side today and ladies and gentlemen...she looks good!!  We dried it and the honey blonde appeared.  YAY for my first rodeo with hair coloring....who's next!!??  Gordon's Hair Salon- here I come!

Gordon's Hair Salon

This is one brave lady!

First Day of School

Addie's first day of 1st grade was a success!  After much worry over how she wasn't going to know how to do the "hard" first grade material and no one will help her...she ended up coming home with a smile on her face!  She was so nervous Monday night that when I put her to bed she said, "Momma, when I get home tomorrow after I have a bad day, can we please talk about it?"  I told her to stop worrying and everything would be fine.  She woke up Tuesday morning on her own and came running down to our bedroom (already dressed too!) telling Adam and I... " FIRST GRADE, HERE I COME!"  Well that was a blessing to me after all those tears and frets the night before.  She said she had had a dream that first grade was fun and easy so she was ready.  Too cute!  Here are a couple pics we got on her first day of 1st grade!  May the rest of the year go as smoothly and happily as her first week of school has been!

Up bright and early with Mom! 

Addie in her 1st grade classroom
Adam is given the task of taking Addie to school on her first days since I have to be at work.  He is told, " DO not come home tonight unless you have taken a picture of Addie in her classroom."  Well folks, he's two for two...lucky for him! haha

Adult Night Out

Saturday night we had an "adult night" out and left Addie at her Mimi's.  She was not happy when she found out that she wasn't going to dinner or a movie.  We went out to dinner at a Japanese Steakhouse that was super yummy and laughed our fannies off at the movie, "We're the Millers."  Grant took a moment to enjoy some surfing before the movie!

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend means cookouts and my final days before the school year begins.  My parents had a cookout down at the dock where we used to keep our boat when I was young.  Addie and Grace were able to do what my sister and I did growing up....crabbing on the dock pilings.  Addie preferred to call it "crab fishing" but they had a ball.  When the crabs all swam away to safety, Addie and Grace decided to move onto the periwinkles that surround the dock.  They had a ball and neither of them made the dive into the water which makes it a good day! :0)  Most of the guys played cornhole and the ladies chatted it up.  It was a humid afternoon but a good time!

Grace caught a crab!!

Chris holding up a little one!

The Girls

Addie caught a crab too!

The girls found periwinkles

Happy Labor Day!