And so it continues

with a school party with all her sweet school friends and then that night with just our family. This year we opted not to have a big friend party and instead go away for the weekend so we celebrated the night before her birthday so we could be up and ready to leave early!

Family Presents and cupcakes!

Celebrating Mallary

As you know we can't just have 1 birthday celebration and call it quits. We have to stretch out birthday celebrations for as long as possible. For Mallary, we started with a family party at Meme and Chief's the weekend before her birthday. We had a yummy dinner at Mexico (as we call all Mexican restaurants) with Elaine and Ava too and then back to Meme's for cupcakes and ice cream and of course some presents.

Singing Happy Birthday

Blowing out her candles!

Everytime I asked her to hold up a present for a pic
I could never see her. It was funny.

Chief helping her with her cupcake!

Thanks MeMe and Chief for her party!

Ashton's Birthday

We headed to Birmingham to celebrate our cousin Ashton's Birthday. We always have fun at A Play Place and since they own it we could stay late and play hard! We also had fun visiting with aunts and cousins plus Andrew and Ava!

Sweet Ava

Air Hockey

2 against 1

Riding the roller coaster

Lots of games


and of course yummy cake and ice cream

The Birthday Boy with his mom and dad.

CWS Stew Supper

Our preschool holds a Chicken Stew Fundraiser each year...and the classes decorate the fellowship hall with the kids cute art projects and pics from their classes. I snapped pics of all the cute stuff my kiddos had up on the walls!

made from her little footprint!
(I'm a sucker for all their artwork - we have bins full of it in their closets)

Gracie's Says:
I like to: jump on the couch and help my sister
My favorite colors are: orange and blue
I can: get dressed: all by myself!

Happy Valentine's Day

The girls had sweet little parties at school and totally felt loved by all their friends with the crazy amount of Valentine's they received. Of course they gave too - Mallary had Scooby Doo and Gracie shared Hello Kitty - along with big chocolate heart lollipops so their friends knew how much they were loved too! It was a dance night at our house so our celebration had to be quick, Alan grilled us steak and then it was off to dance we went. Gracie's one request was a magazine full of pics of her favorite bands and shows. I obliged and her walls haven't been the same since. She even took her magazine to school to show off her pics of Justin Beiber....ha ha ha!

Valentine's Day Trail Mix

1 bag small pretzels
1 box of honey flavored teddy grahams
1/2 bottle of dry roasted peanuts
1 bag of Valentine's colored m and m's
1 package of yogurt covered raisins
1/2 bag of craisins
1 small package of valentine's candy corn.


Mix all.

We divided up among bags and shared with friends and teachers!

ANOTHER snow day!

Can you believe how many snow days we had in Jan and Feb? We took advantage of this one b/c it may be the last one for 10 years...or else until April. The weather in the south is like that when it comes to snow!