"Seven and Counting"

Today is our not so little William's Birthday! The title of this post is a direct quote from the kid himself. William is a bright light in our family. He always wants to do good and never let people down. William's had a big year and we're looking forward to the year ahead. Happy Birthday to the coolest boy in town. We sure love our William. 

Six Year Old Girl

Lily is six! The Saturday before her birthday, we celebrated like crazy! We went to shopping, went to lunch at McDonalds, we saw the Croods and had dinner at Subway. We were a little disappointed that it was a little rainy and so we didn't go to the zoo like she originally want to, but I think we made it up to her. We baked cupcakes and made chocolate frosting to go on top and everyone got to decorate some cupcakes. Lily was all over it because she is a little chef. Lily got a sleeping bag and flashlight, make up, a skip it (remember those?), a soccer ball, and a brand new bike that she rides everyday and lots more. We got a package from Grandma and Grandpa in Utah filled with goodies and Lily received this beautiful dress that I couldn't wait to take her 6 year pictures in. 

I can't believe this beautiful little gal is already six!

Purple and Gray

 Last Easter Lily fell in love with a pink floaty kind of dress, but the store was of course out of her size. When I saw that they had the same dress, but in purple, this year, I jumped on the opportunity to grab it! I thought to tie in some boyishness into it we could use gray too and I found the perfect gray and white shirt for William at a store close by. It was totally meant to be, my vision was complete. I was able to take the kids to the temple over Spring Break to take their Annual Easter pictures. It gets more fun every year because the kids get so excited to do it too. William and Lily scoped out the temple grounds and told me where they wanted to take pictures this year. I love this time of year!

 



Hustle and Bustle

In all of the craziness that has been this weekend, I wasn't able to sit down wish my little girl a Happy Birthday on here!! Lily's 6th birthday was on Easter Sunday this year. We spent all day Saturday together as a family and went out to eat and to see the Croods. I have more pictures, but I wanted to have a little collage of our girl throughout the year. She's big stuff. Lily brings so much life and humor into our family. I can't believe she's six!! She has definitely been growing out of some of her famous catch phrases like saying "clay" and "clease" for "play" and "please. But, it's always fun to see what comes out of this little one's mouth. When Lily wants to help me cook, she tells me that she wants to "make" with me. Last night she was telling Matthew about giving cupcakes to her classmates at school. They mostly wanted the "anilla" ones. With my little Lily getting older I know that funny words and phrases will be few and far between and I'm just enjoying it while it lasts.

I love this little Lily girl. 

Just Things

 We have been having Spring Break the past couple of weeks! It's been a blast with lots of Spring cleaning, playing, reading, doing crafts, and movie nights that would end like the picture above. It's been a lot of stuff, but now that it's coming to a close I wish that we had more time to do more! Yesterday, the kids and I went to the temple grounds to take our Easter pictures. It was a full afternoon of amazing conversations with William and Lily and fun picture taking. I'm excited to blog about it, but I wanted to share these gems first.

The last week in February/First week of March was Dr. Seuss week at William and Lily's school. There was a book for everyday of the week and they had special things to do for each day. I wish that I was a little more diligent in taking their pictures, but I do have Wacky Wednesday!

 Lily was SO into Wacky Wednesday. She wore her dress inside out and backwards, her cardigan backwards, two different socks and shoes. And two different colored hair bows. She loved it and laughed at herself every time she looked in the mirror.

 William, however, was a little more conservative with his wackiness. He wore his shirt inside out, two different socks, and two different shoes. They also wore red and white for the Cat in the Hat, Crazy socks for Fox in Socks, and Green for Green Eggs and Ham. William's class wore orange and yellow one day for the Lorax. I had the chance to read to Lily's class when I volunteered. It's such a fun week to celebrate reading and the birthday of one heck of an author.  

During the fun craziness that was Dr. Seuss week, William had a project due. We had to make a robot out of recycled objects. We saved things up for weeks and used cracker boxes, toilet paper rolls, soda cans, cup holders, bottle caps, and a bar soap box to complete our Robot that William named Willy. He also had to write a paper about Willy and what he likes to do. William decided that it would be cool of he could hand out suckers, so we packed Willy's pockets with Tootsie Pops.

The children start back at school on Monday. I'll be taking cupcakes during lunch to celebrate Lily's birthday with her class. It's only a matter of time before I have these kiddos for the summer. The countdown starts NOW!



Day of Love

Matthew and I love Valentine's Day. We met the day before and so it's just a lot of fun to celebrate with each other. Matthew got me the first season of a tv show and also a couple of cds that I have loved listening to. But, I think one of my favorite parts of my gift was the tag on the gift bag.

 It was a Taylor Swift Collection, so of course my husband wrote...

 

There should be a song about that. 

What We Do For Snow

 We don't have much snow going on here in Nashville so on the rare one day a year occasion that it does snow, it's kind of a big deal. Not to mention a huge reason for that is that snow comes in a bonus package. Snow and Black ice make for crazy road conditions. So, there's a good chance that if it snows, the kids will have school out. William's teacher said that she's been praying for snow and advised the kids to perform a ritual to help speed things along. My kids were all for it. They wore their pajamas backwards to bed and flushed 2 ice cubes down the toilet. It took a few times, but low and behold, we had a snow day.

 It was fun to get some snow pictures, but it was definitely more fun to watch William and Lily gang up on Matthew in a snowball fight. William and Lily's snow bibs were small for them last year and this year.. well, they're more like capris. It's definitely the last time they will ever wear them, but at least we got good use out of them!