From a child's eyes

I was just going through my camera and came across a few very interesting pictures that I don't remember taking. I'm not sure who the culprit on all of them were but I have a good guess at a few of them! This is just a few of the ones I found today, I had already deleted some bofore I had the idea to make them into a blog post!

This is a view of the back of my head from the back seat...
Carlie's hand, probably taken the same time of the previous photo...

Wonder who took this one???
Maybe the same person that took this one???

Sorry to all of the people who have a foot phobia (Me included) but this one just cracked me up! These are Rick's feet!

More feet! (These are Jacelyn's tootsies)

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Where I live, we usually get one, MAYBE two good snow days every winter. We difine a good snow day as a day that it snows and sticks to the ground, whether it's 1 inch or 3 inches. This winter we have had this happen 4 or 5 times already and about 4 other days where we've had snow fall but nothing that stuck. They are calling for a HUGE snow storm to come rolling in on Tuesday night into Wednesday and we are expected to get 8 INCHES! WHAT IS THAT??? This is just rediculous to us! Most people are sick and tired of it, NOT ME! I love love love snow and winter weather (as long as our power doesn't go out) Jacelyn definitely gets it from me. Carlie is so over the snow and doesn't even want to play in it anymore. Thankfully most of the snow days has started on a Thursday or Friday and then cleared out by school on Monday so they have only had maybe 3 snow days. This past Friday they closed the school at noon and then they had a 2 hour delay today. Here are some pictures from the snow day this past Friday. I'll post more after our blizzard Wednesday!!!

Here is Jacelyn and Mia playing in the snow.

This is what Carlie did the whole time. She was watching "Let's Make a Deal" and eating cookies-n-cream kisses!

Reminiscing...

I just went back through all of my posts since starting this blog. I laughed and I cried. I'm so so so happy that I started it, even though I don't post that often anymore. My girls have grown up so much. This blog has gone through potty training, family sicknesses, babies being born, temper tantrums, hilarious kid isms, birthday's, holidays, family vacations, and so much more. I'm really going to make an effort to post more from now on, even if no one but myself reads it. I started this blog more for myself to be able to look back on one day. I recommend all 2 of you that read this to look back through the last few years of your own blog and reminisce a little. It will make your heart smile!

First Cheer Competition 12/11/10

Here is the first cheer competition. Again, Jacelyn is on the far left. Her coach told her that the mascot would come out during the awards assembly. She didn't know what the awards assembly was so she thought he was going to come out during their peformance. She is terrified of people dressed up as mascots, which is the reason she was turned around looking at the curtain the whole time! LOL.

CAC Tiny Performance 2

I uploaded this last night from my phone and it wouldn't let me put any text on it.

This is the cheer competition from January 16th. It was only their 2nd competition and there was so much improvement from the last one on December 11th. We were all so proud of how well they did. I was especially proud of Jacelyn since she is the youngest of the group and has only been doing tumbling for about 8-9 months and cheer for 5 months! We were also very shocked that none of them seemed nervous about performing for a huge crowd. I will try to post a comparison video later.

FYI: Jacelyn is the one on the far left and the second one to do a cartwheel.

PICTURES!

I've been a really bad slacker when it comes to taking pictures lately. Here are just a few from the last few months.

New Year...New Blog Post

Wow, I can't believe it's already 2011. This past year has flown by faster than any other year of my life. So many wonderful things happened in 2010.

We finally got Carlie tested for ADHD and began treating it with medication. I am so proud of how well she has been doing and how much happier she has become. She is doing pretty well at school and she loves her teacher! He asked She played soccer again this year and is just such a great athlete. I would love for her to stick with it but she has decided to move on to other interests. Right now she's trying to figure out whether she wants to do karate, piano, gymastics, or another season of soccer. She just had her 8th birthday on January 2nd. We had her party at the brand new movie theater that just opened in December. We saw "Yogi Bear in 3D". It was a really cute movie and all of the kids loved it! She also thinks she is going to marry Justin Bieber. My dad asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she said "Justin Bieber". He bought her a shirt that says "Future Mrs. Bieber"!

Jacelyn is learning more and more every day. She is such a quick witted child. I'm constantly laughing at the things she says and does, although some things get her in trouble! The other day she was mad at Carlie for not sharing her fake nails and she yelled "UGHHH I HATE EVERTHING EXCEPT JESUS, GOD, AND THE PRESIDENT!!!" I got on to her for saying she hates everything but I had to laugh. Another instance was when we were at lunch with Rick's parents at a Mexican restaurant. It also happened to be the same week that Carlie was learning about Mexico. Carlie was telling me that red in Spanish was rojo, blue was azul, etc. Jacelyn was at the end of the table not paying any attention (or so I thought) eating her cheese dip. I asked Carlie what green was and she couldn't think of it. Jacelyn, without even looking up from her cheese dip, said "verde" to herself in a way that made me think that in her mind, everyone should know that verde meant green in Spanish! I didn't even know she knew ANY colors! One last story, Christmas morning she was opening presents. She opened a box that had a shirt in it and asked "Is this a sassy shirt?" I just looked at her and she said "This is a sassy shirt, because I'm a sassy girl!" LOL. She has also been doing competitive cheer for the last few months. She had her first competition on December 11th and then another this past weekend. She is having such a blast doing it. Both girls definitely keep me entertained all the time!

The biggest news of 2010 is that Rick officially adopted Carlie! It's been something that we've wanted to do for the last several years but it just wasn't ever the right time. Rick has been in Carlie's life since she was 20 months old. Her bio dad basically said that Rick is more her father than he is and she deserves to have his last name. I'll spare the rest of the details and just say that we are all so excited about it!

I'll be back to update this post with pictures from the last few months!