The Many Faces of Allie....

Allie had her last t-ball game tonight. She was very proud of her end of season medal.

Above are some of the many faces of Allie that I captured during her t-ball game tonight.

Guess who came to visit

We were super lucky to have Stella and her family come visit us last weekend. So glad Tracy, Emily, Jeff, Jonas and Stella, Grandma & Grandpa could all come spend time with us! Thanks to everyone for coming down. We will plan to come visit KC and Hays and see all of you again soon! Somehow I only got pictures of Allie and Stella. Allie loved little Stella and was sad to see her go home. Jonas and Allison played well but were always on the move so it was hard to get a god picture of them!

Not enough fingers

Allison was just counting how many people she was inviting to her birthday party. After she finished counting the names of the girls in her class I reminded her that her brother and daddy and grandparents would be coming. She looked and said "Mom! I can't invite all those people I don't have enough fingers to count that high".

Wear your party dress daily

Allison has taught me MANY things including one VERY important lesson. No matter what you are doing EVERY DAY is a day to wear your fanciest party dress. For example, pictured above is Allison wearing her new Easter dress outside to play football with her dad and brother. After all, it is important to feel like a princess even when tackling and scoring touchdowns.

So, does your mother have a daughter?

Allison was doing my hair tonight and playing beauty salon. When she plays beauty salon she likes to make "small talk" like the hairdressers do when they cut her hair. So I was sitting on the floor while she yanked on my hair and sprayed it with water. She asked me if I wanted my hair styled up or down, flipped out or in, etc. Then she paused and said "So, does your mother have a daughter?" She sounded just like a grown up and it was hilarious! I told her that yes, my mother had a daughter. Then she asked me what the name of my mother's daughter was. I told her it was Jennifer. She didn't get it, but it was so cute I had to hold back giggles.

One week!

Allie sick today






Daddy Daughter dance last weekend


Ryan sick last week

Wow! Last weekend Allie & Jeff had their daddy daughter dance and Ryan and I stayed home because he was sick. Ryan and I were originally supposed to go on a mom and son date, but he had a sore throat and felt pretty yucky SO, this the picture above how he spent his weekend last week.

On Monday he felt MUCH better and was well enough to go to school, but developed a lovely rash on his hands. Tuesday afternoon his rash was darkening and so I took him to the doctor. He was diagnosed with strep throat and put on 14 days of Antibiotics.

Tuesday evening we celebrated my Birthday a day early with dinner out as family. Wednesday Ryan stayed home so we could watch his rash and let the antibiotics kick in for the required 24 hours before he went back to class.

Wednesday evening brought dance class, college basketball and a very late night out for all of us!

We finally survived the week and made it to Saturday (yesterday)! Thanks goodness. It seemed like a long week around here!

On Saturday Ryan tried out for a competative 6 and under baseball team in Owasso (about 70 miles from where we live). The team practices in Owasso and plays at Obrien parks in Tulsa (about an hour and 20 minute drive for us). Ryan made the team. We will now be balancing Ryan's spring soccer at CRC his competative baseball with the Owasso Rockets (practices a couple times a week and at least 2 games per week) and Allie's Dance practices one night a week.

Today Allie woke up sick for the first time. She has flu like symptoms and threw up for the first time ever! So it seems in one week I have come full circle and am once again nursing a sick kiddo with 7 up and jello as she lays on my couch.

As a side note, I had a relative recommend the book Benjamin's box to go along with my Ressurection eggs. I purchased the book on Amazon and the kids and I read it the other day. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it! Thanks Ms. C for the suggestion!

Allie finds a way to dress for EVERY occasion! On this particular morning, she insisted on wearing her princess crown to preschool

Catching up - Allie & grandpa going to daddy/daughter dance

Jeff had a Basketball game in January and was unable to take Allie to one of the two daddy/daughter dances she will attend this winter. SO, grandpa graciously agreed to fill in as Allie's date for the first Daddy/daughter ball! Grandpa bought Allie a beautiful corsage and they both dressed in their finest dance clothes for the occasion! Grandpa even carried Allie to his car so she wouldn't get her pretty dance shoes wet on the snowy/moist driveway. Prior to the dance grandpa took his "date" to the local mexican restraunt for some chicken nachos and burritos. Then they went to the big Event! They both had a blast and Allie is still talking about it almost a month later. She and grandpa danced and although she was worried grandpa would dance funny, he kept his promise to her and danced and nicely as he could the entire time! They shared cookies and punch and enjoyed fast and slow songs. Grandpa even requested that the DJ play single ladies (a favorite of Allie's).

Where did January go!?!?!

Where did January go! It has been a long time since I posted anything here!!! We had a busy month to start of 2010. Allie attended her first friend birthday party and had a good time, Jeff & Ryan went to MANY Red Raven basketball games and both kids had really great weeks at school. Both kiddos participated in the Catholic schools week activities and celebrations in January that included special masses at church, PJ day at school, lunch with families and a special concert by the students. Hoepfully I can post some more photos and details about the above mentioned January events and activities as well as some special activities our family enjoyed during the past month!

February has arrived and we have been blessed to have a Valentines visit from Grandma & Grandpa. The kiddos have enjoyed a few days with Grandma & Grandpa. Jeff and I got to sneak away for a nice early Valentines dinner on Friday while grandma & grandpa enjoyed a little Valentines celebration with the kiddos that involved a BBQ dinner and a movie!

Today Allie attended a Junior dance clinic with the college dancers. She had to work really hard for 2 hours to learn the routine with the girls then they all performed at half time of the basketball game. She did a wonderful job at staying focused (which for a 3 year old can be hard) the ENTIRE time! :) She seemed to have fun and was did a wonderful job performing even though she was tired. She was the youngest girl there with all other girls being at least 1st or 2nd graders and older.
Allie working on her Valentines at preschool

Allie in the paper

Imagine my shock when I opened Monday night's Coffeyville paper and saw Allie's picture on the front page! Ryan had his picture on the front page of the newspaper from the neighboring town on Sunday and then Allie gets her picture on the front page of the other paper on Monday. In the picture she is cheering with her favorite cheerleader.

Staying cool while keeping warm!

We have our own Gas well which has been a real $$ saver over the past 8 years BUT can be a real worry when we have super frigid temperatures like we are having now. Each winter we worry about the gas well pipe freezing up and preventing us from keeping warm. Jeff and our neighbor take turns maintaining the pipe morning and evening by putting a gas line product in the system. Despite the effots, sometimes the line STILL freezes and we get a little chilly until the guys can thaw it out. Today Jeff brought home a small space heater to use in an emergency. It was the only heater he could find at our local Walmart. Every other heater had been puchased ~ AMAZING!

Following a long safety talk with the kiddos that went something like this: Don't touch, don't knock over, stay back and don't get too close, don't plug in by yourself, don't turn on by yourself,don't leave it running when we sleep,don't leave it running when we are out of the room, house or town, don't put toys on it, don't cook the dog with it, don't try to roast marshmellows with it, etc. (We tried to cover as many don'ts as we could think of, but we are sure the kiddos will find some don't we forgot to mention.) In fact if we did forget to mention something safety and common sense wise, please feel free to e-mail me so we can include that in our daily don't message to the kids. We fired up the lil' space heater and gave it a test run even though our house is still pretty toasty with the big heater running. The kiddos were instantly attracted to the bright orange heat (kind of like a bug to a lightbulb. Apparently the kids felt like they were in the warm summer sun while sitting in front of the heater because after about 2 or 3 minutes of sitting in front the heater the kids got up and got their sun glasses. This is how they looked staying cool while enjoying the heat.

Sledding

Grandpa took Jeff and the kiddos sledding today. Judging by the pictures, I'm not sure who had more fun, the big boys or the little kids!