Ally Loves Some Bling

I had a jewelry party Thursday night for a friend of mine. As she was setting up Ally was all in her stuff, trying everything on. I couldn't keep her out of the jewelry, but Bonnie was so good and didn't seem to mind at all. It could be that cute face of hers, or her constantly say, "Ooooo, dis is sooo pretty!", or maybe the fact that I'm sure she helped sell some of the jewelry. We had a great time playing games, but just a little warning to all you ladies, if you lend someone your purse please make sure you don't have anything "unusual" in it.

Now who wouldn't want to buy some bling from this cutie pie. Ally was right, dis is sooo pretty!

BOWtiful!

Parker finally has enough hair to put a hairbow in....well, maybe that's a stretch, but I did manage to clip this cute little hairbow to her 5 strands of hair on Sunday for the first time. I don't know who was more excited, her or me. Unfortunately, after the first hour of church it had fallen out about 25 times and Neal was afraid I was going to pull what little bit of hair out that she has trying to keep the bow in. He's such a grandma. He took her for the last hour, probably to save her hair from her crazy, bow lov'n mama, and it was never to be seen again. When I asked him what happened to it he claimed he didn't know. But I do have pictures to prove that she can now wear hairbows.

She's such a cutie patootie. Even without the hairbow, but it adds even more to her already beautiful self. She had tubes put in her ears this morning, and the doctor said she had a lot of mucas buildup in her eardrum and that she should feel much better and act much better, but we hardly ever see her upset. Even with all her ear troubles she is the happiest baby ever. We're so happy to have her!

Fort Barnett

This is what my living rooms has looked like almost everyday for the past several months. We refer to it as Fort Barnett. It consist of our arm chairs being turned down and then my kids find all of the furniture they can move and bring it to the living room so they can expand their forts and me having to drape every quilt, throw, and blanket that we own over the furniture.  Then they have to go and find every toy from the upstairs playroom that they have to have in their camp.   Emmy has one and Charles-Allen has one.   And heaven forbid for Ally to decide she wants to visit with one of her siblings at their camp or try to play with the 500 toys they have brought down.  It drives me c-r-a-z-y. I can't bear to look at it. It's so messy and unorganized. But what can you do. It's been to cold to go outside and at least they are playing. However....

can I just tell you how happy I am with the weather we're having today. It's like heaven. They can finally go outside and play. Whohoo!!! And maybe, just maybe my living room won't have to look like this for another 8 months.

Bowling with Preschool

We had a really busy week this past week.  One of the things we did was to go bowling with Charles-Allen's preschool.  Emmy was tracked out so she was able to go and Parker and Ally got to stay with their Aunt Melissa and play with Ethan all day.  Needless to say all four had a blast.

Emmy came in second and even rolled a strike.  Unfortunately, she rolled it on Charles-Allen's turn so he got the points.  If she had of rolled it on her turn she would have come in first place.  They both decided they would rather bowl on the Wii.  Much easier.  I totally agree.

She even got three spares. 

This was a ride at the bowling lane.  I would rather be shot than go on a ride that goes around in a circle.  Thank goodness I didn't have to.

And just to prove how busy and chaotic our week was this is how I dressed Ally to go to my parents house last week.  She has on two different colored shoes and to top it all off they are both right shoes.  I need an award.

Welcome Back and Happy Birthday Grandma

Neal's mom returned Thursday from a three week trip to Louisianna to visit with Neal's older sister Lynetta.  We all missed her bunches so Friday night while we were watches Cory and Kristens sweet kids we decided to have a birthday/welcome back party for Grandma.  Emmy did all the decorations by herself.  She was so excited.  She made a big sign that said "Welcome Back Grandma"  It was super cute.  Her daddy had to help her hang it because it was HUGE.   I cooked a roast with potatoes, carrots and onions.  Paige ate her plate, Ethan's plate, and two more plates.  Not sure who they belonged to, but we're all family.  It was a blast and we're so happy to have her back home.

Grandma blew all the candles out.  They were arranged in a way that read 63, but Ally rearranged them before we realized it.

Parker at the party looking oh so cute and sweet.

After we ate, the kids were sent on a spy mission to rescue all the prisioners (stuffed animals and baby dolls) that were held hostage upstairsin Argentina (playroom) and Mexico (Emmy's room).  I had to include these pictures because they cracked me up.  They had to use flashlights only and they had to bring the hostages out in their backpacks.  Kyleigh didn't have a back pack so she stuck the prisioners in her spy belt.  How she even moved is beyond me.

Emmy had two backpacks and a purse full of prisioners.  They were really good spies.

Hip Hopper

Emmy started to take dance this year at Dance Art.  She signed up for hip hop and has been so excited. She had two class before they asked her to join the competition team and she has been so excited ever since.  Her team gets to travel around the state and compete against other dancers in the same categories.  Last weekend was her first performance.  It was a showcase and not an actual competition.  I'm so glad it's over because it was kinda stressful for me to one, watch her perform and pray she didn't mess up (like one girl did durning her solo) and two, get her make up right.  The need to have a lot to be on stage, but then I didn't want her to look like a clown either.

I love her little snaggle tooth grin.  So grown up, not!  She did wonderfully and her first performance is behind us.  Unfortunately, I only took these two pics.  Did I mention I was nervous?  Now we have the actual competitions to look forward to and she has two this month.  I don't know how I'm going to handle that.  And after all, it really is all about me.