Reading

Both of the girls have so much reading to do each day that they like to find warm cozy places to do it. This is McKayla sitting on a heater vent in my room with pillows and blankets all around her so she stays really warm.

Valenties day

The girls both had parties yesterday at school to celebrate Valentines day. I somehow got stuck making all the food for both classes, but the kids had a great time. The girls picked out dresses to wear and had their hair done in hearts, which you can't really see in the picture. They both went on a field trip as well to see the play A Year with Frog and Toad. I was quite a busy day.

Birthday Money

McKayla wanted to use her birthday money to buy a new Sunday dress, so we went out shopping together. The first store we went to was The Children's Place and she picked out the ugliest dress there. Luckily she listened to me when I informed her of this and picked out a much cuter one. She had so much fun trying it on and when asked if she wanted to go look at some other stores before deciding she told me "no, this store has all the accessories I need." And it did. She bought the dress, a sweater to go over it, a head band and a purse to match. She was so excited to wear it the next Sunday.

Happy birthday McKayla

Today was McKayla's seventh birthday, I can't believe she it that old! We had a very laid back day since she had a party yesterday. She requested fettuccine Alfredo and Italian bread for dinner, then had left over cake from the party. She also got several things on Egypt including some coloring pages which she absolutely loved.

Mckayla's birthday party

McKayla had some friends over on Saturday to celebrate her birthday. They watched Nim's Island and ate pizza. Then had yummy white cake with strawberry moose. She got lots of great presents from her friends and had a blast.

Kids pics

These are a few of the pictures that the girls took with the camera.

One of "those days"

Have you ever had one of "those days," you know, the one were you want to crawl into bed and hope that when you open your eyes everything is undone? Well, that was today at our house. It started by them refusing to do anything. I think it took McKayla
1 1/2 hours to unload the dishwasher and practice her guitar. I asked Alina to go into her room and clean and she came out an hour later with it looking worse than when she went in. Then they proceeded to drop pizza on my carpet, spill two full cups of water on my coffee table, dump out and entire bottle of detangler, dump out a bucket of peanut butter pretzels (which thankfully was not full) and take about a hundred pictures with the camera. It is days like these that you can either crawl into bed and cry or laugh. I chose to crawl into bed and cry. These pictures should give you a little view into my day. Oh, and did I mention that they are home from school for the next three days :)