Can you believe it?

Ann is in Kindergarten and Lynsey is in a big girl bed.

Orlando Science Center

The girls had a blast at the Orlando Science center yesterday!

Trip to Indiana

We had a fun time in Indiana for a full week at the end of July ... We played "cornhole", visited Great Grandpa, went out on a pontoon boat - lake wawasee, went to the Elkhart county fair (largest county fair in Indiana), visited my brother Marty, Christine and Jackson, grandpa made some block 'stilts' for the girls, and we hung out with my cousin and 2nd cousins... I think that about covers it. :)

July

Happy Birthday Ann and Lynsey!

From 2010-07-18

Here are a *few* photos from the last couple weeks.

June 2010

A few more pics of the friends that stayed with us...

Ann's teachers - Ms Sherry and Ms Kimberly

Her classroom...

Preschool graduation

A couple of the girls... Lynsey is getting so big and her hair is getting long.

Ann wants to grow out her bangs :)

forgot to mention

Lynsey is getting so big and smart. She says lots of words and copies her sister all the time...

Ann has officially stopped thumb sucking and is learning to ride a bicycle with training wheels. She loves it and wants to ride morning and evening!

May 2010

Lynsey drawing with chalk...

Below Lyns sporting nicely knitted socks by my sister-in-law

Good friends and their twin girls that stayed with us for two great weeks.

A little blast from the past (note the glasses)

Got to take some family photos of them...

Got to also take photos of Kristie's family and her sister's family. It was fun to see them!

The Anticipation

Dry Thumb

This morning marks Ann's first 24 hours with a dry thumb! She didn't suck her thumb all day yesterday and all night last night. It took a few days to work up to this point, but she has been really motivated by the sticker 'method' that the dentist gave me on Monday. I'm very excited and hope we're on our way to thumb free days. It should take about 3 weeks and a few prizes along the way to break the habit.

March and April

January and February were quite the blur. I had a lot of work and extra work - so I was pretty busy. Here are a few photos of the girls during those months.

Lynsey fractured her arm in January and ended up wearing this for 3 weeks. She was sitting on the arm of the office chair and fell off backwards. Poor Lynsey!



Valentines party day at school


Lynsey didn't want to be in the photo, so she had been crying


I cooked on Valentines night and we all ate by candlelight
Here is the Publix recipe. Delicious!!!


It has been one cold Florida winter. if I had known how long it would last, I would have bought real winter jackets!


Ann's play dough people

Happy Birthday Caleb (early)

A little fun with IMovie and Ann Marie and here is what we came up with. Happy Birthday Caleb!


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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Kids wanna rock