1st Day Quote

O.K., here is the official quote from McKenzee, when asked
how she liked her first day of "Junior High"....she refuses to
call it "Middle School".........

"It was Awesome, Blossom, Fabulous, FANTASTIC!"

(Her exact words upon sitting down in the car at 3:55 yesterday afternoon)

Weepy Morning!

Well, I have to confess that I had a pretty weepy morning. My sweet, oldest daughter headed off to her first day of junior high. She was so excited because they had to arrive early, in their cheerleader uniform, to play hostess and show confused students to their lockers, etc.

She woke up at 6:00am and walked in the kitchen, ready to go, about 5 minutes later. I was really strong as long as she was with me, but as I drove away from the Middle School, ofcourse I shed a couple of tears.

I had a flashback of dropping her off at kindergarten YESTERDAY! I always laughed at my Mom when she told me to enjoy every second because the time would fly by and before I knew it she would be in High School..... I now realize, that the time goes twice as fast as I ever imagined it would. I could not be more proud of what a beautiful, intelligent, kind-hearted young lady she is turning out to be. She loves the Lord and even corrects my bad attitude at times. She's an incredible blessing to our lives everyday and I treasure her more than she will ever know!

Mama Mia

McKenzee and I have been anxiously awaiting the opening of "Mama Mia" at the movies.

I've always been a HUGE ABBA fan, so when the Musical came through Dallas several years ago, I bought tickets and took my Father in law, Jim, who is also a HUGE ABBA fan. We left the theater singing and dancing......and I knew that I had to take McKenzee to see it. I bought another set of tickets for the next week and Wendee and I took McKenzee, and again, we all left singing and dancing! When we heard that they were going to make a movie we couldn't wait.

Last week we finally got a chance to have a late night Mother Daughter movie date and headed to the 10 pm show. It did not disappoint! Yes, it's a little goofy at times, and as a dancer I cringed at Meryl Streep's attempts at choreographed movement.......but the Greek scenery was breathtaking, and the music was awesome! We will own this movie as soon as the DVD comes out!

Paigism Part 2

Paige and I were driving home today, when out of the blue she said "I want to go to NeeNaw's right now." (NeeNaw is my Mom) I told her that NeeNaw's was a little too far away to go right now, but we could call her. We called NeeNaw, and Paige talked to her for a few minutes and then it was my turn. NeeNaw and I were having a nice conversation when Paige started yelling to get my attention....."Mommy, I need firty dowars" what????????? "Mommy I need firty dowars" I finally deciphered that to be "Mommy I need $30". Dumb founded I asked my 2 year old why she needed Firty Dowars, to which she replied "To get to NeeNaws"!!! Oh my!
As my Daddy says......this little one is going to give me a run for my money!!!!!

Big Girl Bed!!!!

Daddy and I have been talking alot lately about putting away the crib and moving Paige to a big girl bed.....ughhhhh, she was ready, but I'm not so sure about Mommy. Then McKenzee suggested that we give Paige the bottom section of her bunk bed....Long story short, McKenzee has a bunk bed like they had on the show "Different Strokes" where the bottom bunk comes out perpendicular to the top bunk. She liked it for the first couple of years, but has since decided it takes up too much of her room. (Ya know, her priorities have changed and she now needs room to practice dance and cheer in her room....heaven help us!)
Anyway, Daddy got a jump on the project while I was at work this week and did the conversion all by himself. All of us were thrilled with the change and Paige has had 2 "almost" successful nights in her new bed....she's learned how to navigate the halls to Mommy and Daddy's room, in the dark, quite well. This is the comforter set that McKenzee had at our old house, and Paige is using it temporarily until I decide the new design for her big girl room. I'm leaning towards "Lady Bug Picnic" Set at Target....I'm a sucker for lady bugs!!!!

Cooper Matthew is Here!

Our newest family member arrived last Saturday. He was so close to being a record baby. Randa was in labor all day on Friday 8/8/08, but Cooper was stubborn and didn't come until 38 minutes after midnight. So his birthday is 8/9/08......but he weighed 8lbs 8oz. His Dad said that he was kind of glad that he didn't come until the 9th because all of those 8s would have been a little freaky. Cooper is pictured here with "Big Sister" Rylee. (aka Paige's Best Cousin)
We all need to say a prayer for this little guy.........I can only imagine the bossing that he is going to be subjected to by "Little Mommies" Rylee and Paige!