Cousins and Fairies

Two of my favorite things!!  Last weekend I had 4 days off, they called it Mid-Winter Break.  After a busy week with our friends visiting, Ash Wednesday, and Valentine's Day it was sure nice to relax and hang out with my family.  I got to see Maggie and have a very night.  We played, ate dinner, performed, sang, and even had ice cream sundaes!!  On Monday I went up to Lynden to see some friends and Nick's Godmommy!  It was so nice to play with them because I don't get to see them often being in school all day long.  Speaking of, school is going well.  I enjoy being there, just getting up in the morning and getting there can be challenging for me!  

We hope your Lent is going well.  Please pray for little Nicholas G. a young friend with SMA and is very sick in the hospital with RSV.  Many of you have followed his story with the link on the side of the blog. 

Cousin Maggie enjoying her ice cream sundae!

Choosing my toppings (Yes, we know it is Lent.  We had the sundae fixings for Fat Tuesday and never got around to eating them then.)

Yummy!

Playing outside.  We all had light up shoes, headlamps, and flashlights to play and jump on the trampoline. 

There was a fairy event at the local indoor play area, Perch and Play.  Mama took me there for a special date with just her and I.  It was so fun!

Getting a special treasure from one of the fairies

She had neat balloon animals, fairy kisses and pixie dust too!

Being super silly!

I'm flying with my pixie dust

An Awesome Visit!

Last weekend we had the pleasure of having my Godfamily come visit.  They are our dear friends who moved down to northern California last year.  They even stayed at our house, which was so fun!  I immediately attached to my best friend Ava and we began where we left off!  Everyone had such a great visit, got along so well, and we are looking forward to our trip down for Maddie's First Communion in June.  Here are a few quick snapshots...

Auntie Becca with Nick and their little baby Gianna.  They are 5 months apart.

Ava and I at the pizza restaurant

All three of us

Sam and Ben.  Those crazy boys ;)

Snuggling with Ava

The boys played so well together

The girls went on an adventure with Auntie Becca and mama made Mardi Gras masks with the boys

We were blessed with cooperative weather and were able to play outside too

Cheese

Sam and Ben with their masks

Ben is being so silly just like Sam.  We had matching shirts so mama had to snap a picture

Baby central!  A friend brought her baby that is the same age as Nicholas.  Three babies all playing, so fun!

A treat, night time show!

Ava and I making up Valentine songs and dancing with the Valentines we made each other

My Awesome Weekend

On Thursday I got to read the opening paragraph at Mass (and was told I did a great job.  My confidence talking in front of all those people is sure growing!).  It was a great way to start my fun long weekend.  My Grandma turned 60 on Saturday so we took a trip to the Washington Coast and stayed in a "Hotel House."  My Auntie Joanie came too but unfortunately she got pretty sick so she couldn't play with us and I ended up getting sick too so we left a day early, bummer!  We did however have a great birthday celebration and fun Saturday playing on the chilly beach, going bowling for the first time, going out to dinner and singing to my grandma.  I can't wait to go to school tomorrow and tell everyone about my trip.

My teacher giving me the ok to start reading

Proudly waiting to read

On the road.  A long trip but we love our comfy van.

Nick is such a great traveler!

We stopped at Cabelas in Olympia and had a blast.  I even thanked my parents on the way out for taking us to that cool place.

Checking out all the stuffed animals, a new kind of stuffed animals!

Ahh, we love the ocean!

Sam had fun collecting shells in the short morning trip to the beach, it was so cold!

This is how cold!

Grandma and her grandbabies!  Happy Birthday!!

I walked with Mama and Daddy on a special walk with just me!

Happy New Year!

We had an awesome New Years Eve Party here celebrating a year of incredible blessings.  We celebrated with the East Coast I guess, since our party started at 3 and ended around 8:30.  Mama planned an activity per hour which included watching home videos of the year, a memory scavenger hunt, making pizzas, a balloon drop, and a jammie dance party with glowsticks and flashlight limbo which was Sam's favorite.  You should have seen him dance, wow!  We haven't been the greatest with the blogs, but we will work on it.  Thanks for reading and following, Happy New Year!

We have had several sunny, chilly winter days.  We had a great trip down to the beach by our house before I had to go back to school.

Me and Pirate Sam

Fondant Easy Bake treats (Not so good!)

I got to celebrate my 1/2 birthday when we returned from break.  We made these yummy fruit treats to share with my class.  I felt so special!

Singing at a PTC meeting.  We do a lot of signing and we sang here with our 8th grade buddies.