This beauty turned 14 today.
Time has flown from the first time I heard, “It’s a girl,” and this day.
She was a busy toddler who transformed into a mommy’s-little-buddy on her third birthday.
She loves to write, play for her beloved Scarlet Knights soccer team, and play piano.
We celebrated with dinner with the family, lots of fun presents, and an amazing cake she picked for the date.
When we first moved in, we hired someone to paint many rooms of the house, including the upstairs hall and stairwell.
Again in 2014, we had someone paint these areas.
The second time it was not done at all well, and that, plus four years of marking it up, and it was well overdue.
I love to paint. And it has always bugged me that I didn’t have a way to paint this area.
I looked into it on and off for over a year, and we finally dug in.
A new ladder, a silly wooden box for the steps, some raw grit, and a trusted spotter and I got it painted!!!
I was shaking so much the little tool in my hand was rattling.
Isn’t it pretty!?
While I worked the day shift, the family enjoyed a quiet day at home.
Tab slept over at Nan’s the night before and the two of them made a fancy dessert.
Around supper time, some friends from church joined us for some summertime fun and fellowship.
The kids were delighted to have so many friends here!
Katriel trying to help Maddie get her goggles on. Katriel handed Maddie her own ponytails and instructed her to hold them up.
My and my beautiful friend Marguerite.
She wanted us to recreate a photo of us from two years ago because she remembered she had worn the same dress. I can’t find a copy of that photo, but I see she was right about the dress.
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One of the casualties of our road trip vacation was losing Johanna’s glasses at Mother’s Beach. I honestly believe it was my fault. She has no history whatsoever of misplacing her glasses. Photos prove she had them on at the Aquarium, and I helped her and Katriel change into their swim suits at the beach. She most likely handed them to me and I put them ??????
As soon as we got home I took her to the ophthalmologist’s office and we ordered new glasses. She was overjoyed to find that they had the exact same ones still available by order.
They took over a week to come in, but we hurried over this morning to pick them up.
This called for a stop at Dunkin Donuts. And she picked a donut covered in
sharks?
It was gloriously hot out… but too hot for Hanny, so we scooted back inside to finish the treat.
This photo was taken a month ago. He pretty much looks the same.
And it’s a long way from where he was 16 years ago.
Our day was low key, and included a trip to Walmart.
And cake. There is always cake.
It is exceedingly hot out this summer (YAY!) and the frosting gave way under the ganache.
Nan, Nene, Ba and Poppy joined us for dinner.
Nigel requested and received an entertainment center that included a turntable.
Everything old is new again.
And what kid doesn’t appreciate a drawing of Jeff Goldblum from his younger sister?
Happy birthday, Nigel. Here’s to another year with him.
He opted not to run out for his permit yet. We will go for it soon.
It seems like just yesterday, I was doing churchtime with newborn Tabitha in the car seat next to me. These days she helps to lead it.
We ate every morsel. Well, maybe not the nasty “ice cream” that they offer.
June 19th, 2018
As mentioned before, our family somehow failed to see the great logic in adding a day to our 4-day Disney passes for only $10/person. (It’s still killing me two months later. Move on, Stacy; move on.)
So what exciting thing did we do instead?
If you guessed nothing, you’d be absolutely correct.
Wait – we did throw out food, pack clothes, and John took the six kids to see “The Incredibles” – which almost cost the same as adding a Disney day would have cost.
After they got home, we took one last run to Downtown Disney
I will certainly miss this California sky.
We ate lots of leftovers and headed to bed early.
All good things must come to an end.
Having gotten to see all three of the nighttime entertainment offerings, we’d decided as a family that the one we most wanted to enjoy again was Fantasmic. John had gotten us FastPasses in the morning, so we left DCA around dinner time having done a lot, but not having “done it all” and I will say there was an undercurrent of stress. Some people were in better moods than others and some people were showing more grace than others, and that’s all I’m going to say.
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