Birthday Pictures

Here are a few pictures of the birthday party. We did a movie theatre theme this year complete with a concession stand, tickets and an old time popcorn machine (thanks Papa Jim!). The kids went through the line to get their tickets, candy, popcorn and soda and then downstairs through the ticket line to the "theatre". Everyone seemed to have a great time and if you haven't yet seen it, the BEE Movie so adorable.

Here are some pictures of the cupcakes. This was the first time I have ever made Faith's birthday cake/cupcakes myself. I usually just buy a cake, because of the time retraints of working full time, but I was determined this year to do it myself. I was very pleased when they were done. I was hoping to have some bees and bugs to put on the cucakes, but couldn't find any, but then Josh came home with a handful of cute little bugs that my Mom took off of her nick-nack birdhouses. They added a wonderful finishing touch! Thanks Mom!!!

Happy 5th Birthday Faith Ann!!

We had Faith's five year pictures taken today along with some much needed family pictures. The above picture was taken by Ormsby Wade of Vivid Impressions here in good ole' Plato.

Faith turned Five years old today. We had her birthday party this weekend and I'll try to post some pictures later, I don't have the camera here with me right now. It's been a strange day, I've found myself thinking about the past a lot. I keep asking myself "Can she really be Five?" It seems like just yesterday when I was bringing her home from the hospital in her cute little Raggedy Ann shirt. This may sound silly to some of you, but all I kept thinking about today was that we are a quarter of the way finished with our time with Faith in our home. Those five years won't come back. These five years have gone by so quickly that I really do worry that I'll blink and miss the next five and the next five and then only have a few left before she rushes off to college or marriage or her career. Can this really be happening.....is she really growing up this fast? Strangely enough, I miss her being my tiny baby, I miss her coos and her little baby cries. I miss everything about her that is gone now. There is a country song by Trace Adkins right now that says:

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

That song explains it word for word. I think so often that we take for granted our present. We get busy with the to-do list not realizing that our children are growing into adults in the blink of an eye. Even right now, I'm sitting here on this blog typing about how much I miss her. Guess it's time to go.

Easter

We spent Easter at my parent's house this year. Here are a couple pictures of some of the Grandkid's after the egg hunt. We usually have two or three requests to hide the eggs again, but because the weather was so cold, I guess the kids really just wanted to get back inside! I was suprised to see Easter so early this year. I received an email from a friend that said nobody alive today will ever see Easter this early again. Thought that was an interesting thing to know.

I'm hoping we'll have some warmer weather soon, I'm really ready for the sun to beam down on my face!!

"Imitation is the Sweetest Form of Flattery"

When I looked over and saw Faith with my crossword book in the tub, I asked her what she was doing. "I'm trying to do like Mommy does." The book was completely soaked and she couldn't figure out why the pen wouldn't write on it. It was so cute!! How could we not laugh at this site?? Needless to say, I'll have to get a new crossword book!!

Spirit Week

Faith got to participate in her first Spirit Week at school last week. She had so much fun dressing in different, sometimes silly, outfits each day. She wasn't too excited to put her uniform on again this Monday! Here are pictures of each of the days.

Decades (1950's)

Everyday Hero (Cowgirl)

Secret Agent

Clash Day

Hawaiin Day