1st Day of School

Today was the first day

of school for the kids.

The Diva is in middle school!!!

How is that possible?

It seems like yesterday

I was dropping her off at kindergarten.

 She was in a great mood and ready

to take over the world!

It is also her first time riding the bus

to and from school.

 This little guy was up and dressed before I

went to wake him up.

 He is silly and sweet and

was so ready to get to school.

 Sweet Boy was loving being the only one

home during the day.

After we got home  from errands

he turned into a total ham

 He was talking and laughing

non stop!

In Germany kids get a kindercone

at the first day of first grade.

The kids loved it so much

that I now do it each year on the 

first day of school.

 

 I did good this year!

Both kids had a great first day of school,

I got to work out, Sweet Boy got an amazing nap

and loved having Momma all to himself.

Let hope it is another great school year for the kids!

The Diva

 Our Diva proved just how flexible and

amazing she really is once again.

We could not start her birthday at home with

her birthday pancakes, but she never complained.

After we did all the adult stuff that had to be done 

that day, I took them out for breakfast and 

she got her pancakes.

Just a little late and without a candle,

but she was okay with it.

I pulled out some of the princess stuff from her

earlier birthday to decorate her cake and the house.

 She requested steak and baked potatoes for dinner

and that is what we had.

She had chocolate cake with

cream cheese frosting

and was one happy girl.

 She had a great 11th birthday!

We will end this post with the many faces of our Diva!

Eleven

Eleven years ago today

our Diva was born!

The last eleven years

have went by in a blink

of an eye.

Our pigtail hairbow wearing little

girl is long gone!

  

 She was replaced with a very

outspoken (like her momma),

smart, sassy, silly and beautiful

young lady.

She turned our world upside down and

made me a better person.

She has an amzing smile 

that can light up a room and a

personality that is bigger then 

she is.

We joke that she can make friends

with a light post, because she is just that

social. She talks and sings non-stop.

She has a fire inside her, that I am not sure 

she is even aware of yet, but I have seen it. 

She is going places

and nothing is going to stop her.

She is our Diva
and we love her more then
she will ever know.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

The birthday boy started his day

with a birthday pancake, 

a side of eggs and apples.

 He really wanted to eat the candle.

 After breakfast we started getting 

ready for his party!

We went with our favoirte mouse

to celebrate our Sweet Boy!

 He loves the mouse!

 We invited some of our favorite people

over and we grilled out for his party.

 Staying true to our family motto of

"go big or go home" we went

big with the cake!

 It was almost too cute to cut,

but we have had this bakers cakes before and

we know it tastes as good as it looked!

 Sweet Boy was not really sure of all

the people singing to him or

the large amount of kids standing around the table.

 After cake he opend a few gifts and then

it was time to call it a night.

 Back to his happy self once the party was over.

I realized when I was trying to find pictures

to post of the party I had very few that

I could use because in most 

of the picures he is being held by

or playing with someone 

other then us.

It just showed how many

people love our Sweet Boy

and how truly blessed we are with our 

Army family.

Sweet Boy had a great day and

an amazing party!

I am counting down the days till

I can take him to visit our favorite 

mouse and see the magic in his eyes!

 So sing with me

M-I-C-K-E-Y

M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse!