Love these!!!!

We went to dinner and I got some great pics of the girls I wanted to share on here!

(yes, the girls got haircuts except Hannah Joy)

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Mother's Day 2011 :)

What an amazing Mother's Day!

 I got a new camera I had been wanting for a while now!  I love it!!!!  I have enjoyed "playing with it" and also capturing some great memories.  

On Mother's Day we went to the Scarborough Renaissance Festival!

It was awesome!  Here are 3 of my girls with their faces painted.  We really had so much fun!

This was our view as we walked up to the entrance.  (might I add, a long, long walk, lol)

This was part of the scenery.  A little band playing near the trees.

This is Madi Grace with the lady who painted her face!  She was a super nice lady.  My hubby is laughing hard in the back ground as you can see because I asked her to cover her cleavage for the picture.  OK, maybe that was too bold?

Isn't she adorable?!?!

Sarah Faith :)  I'm lovin' it!

Miss Hannah Joy :)

Each girl got to choose their own painting.

Hannah Joy got wild with it, I think!  hee hee!!

I got a scarf that becomes a wrap!  It's so kewl ;)  And I got my hair braided into this beautiful creation of braided hair and pieces running into each other to finally create a bun.  It also had beautiful pink and yellow flowers throughout!  :)

My awesome girls :)

My wonderful husband relaxing :)

My crew leaving......

It was an awesome day!!!

I LOVE being a Mommy!

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Planting with Sarah Faith :)

On Friday, Sarah Faith and I went outside so she could plant seeds of flowers in the precious little ceramic pot she had decorated months ago from Michaels Craft Store.

We had such a great time!!

She has all of her items gathered and ready to go!

Here she is planting her seeds... oh we can't wait for them to sprout!

Now, she's putting a thin layer of soil over the top.

Typical Sarah Faith putting "candy" on her little pot.

I love that each girl has one she's decorated.

Proudly finished!

Now, we're hoping for a sprout soon!

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Random :) lol

I was tired and didn't feel like fixing dinner Friday night.  So I made Sloppy Joe's or Manwiches, whatever you choose to call them.

I say *I* made them but actually Madi Grace & Sarah Faith did.  Madi browned the meat and Sarah put in the sauce.

So easy!

Dollar Store cuties to decorate the table simply!

We think it's cute and it's less cumbersome than our usual huge set of flowers and candle sticks.

Here are my girls enjoying their manwiches.  Yum!

Just a simple time together!

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Mommy/Daughter Time :)

After I got much cleaning done, we took some time and I painted each girls fingernails.  We used easter colors.  We all enjoyed it!

It was a nice little break!!  And, a great way to connect for a bit with each of my girls!  :)

Hannah Joy & Sarah Faith chose a golden yellow!

It looked so cute!

Here are their lovely nails after they were painted.  :)

Madi Grace chose a pale aqua blue.

It has little sparkles in it as does the yellow the younger girls chose.

I put my hand in with hers to take a pic of our hands together.  (I had to hold the camera with one hand, lol)  

It was a sweet time as we visited one on one as I painted each child's nails.  Just a short time but not a rush giving us all a break for a bit!

A Thankful Mommy,

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Making my babies Happy!!!!

After a fun-filled day, the girls used chalk from my friend Tamara, and drew all in the garage.  Afterwards, they used the bathtub markers to have fun getting clean and drawing in the tub.... forevahhh!  lol

Before they got in the bath, they had been mentioning throughout the day they were craving boiled eggs.

So, what would a Mom do in a situation like that?  :)

I made them their eggs!  :)  Please excuse the tea stains in my "once" pretty pink bowl.  My husband uses it to make my tea.

Eggs are peeled and ready to be eaten!  :)

The big girls jumped in to eat them.

I asked Hannah as she peered in the bowl, "Do you want one?"

She said, "no.  they're BAD!"  I said, "no honey, they are GOOD.  See Mae Mae & Pae Pae are eating them.  They're good."  I guess she thought I meant they were BAD as in BAD/GOOD.  So she said, "No, they're Bad,  Mama, they're BAD!!  They taste bad!"  LoL!

So she needed a treat too.  This is terrible but I gave her...

diet coke!

See, happy now!!!  :)  LOL!

Then, Sarah Faith decided she didn't like them either and wanted the rest of my diet coke.  (can)  So she finished that off.

Now, she's saying she'd like to try the eggs again.  Uhhh Huhhh, I got her trick down now!  LOL!

Oh how my children are a blessing to me!!!!

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A Wonderful Day

Today, we had a lot of fun!!  :)

We did several fun things and just enjoyed each other!

Here goes ~

Here the girls are making LEIs!

They are also making a frog pinwheel.

Each girl does part of the frogs and Madi did the flower center.

They were having a great time.

I love to see my children smiling and enjoying life!

Here Miss Sarah Faith is showing her lei!

She did a super job on it!!

Here's Madi Grace being silly as she strings up her lei.

She is such a HOOT!

Then our gifts to them for their baptism arrived today!

Their Bibles!!!  Sarah's cover was too small so we're going to go exchange her cover tomorrow.  :)

Madi already has hers in it's cover.  Sarah Faith is holding her Bible up so we can see.  It is a NIrV early reader for God's Princess.

They are both the same.  :)  Pretty too!

My Bible also came in but I thought it was going to be a small one to put in my purse - bought it online - and it's full size.

King James version and I had my name put on it.

Nonna & Popaw would like this one.

Hannah is eating some of the Sweetarts they brought them when they came for their baptism.  Hannah accidentally got Sarah Faith's.  They're all the same so I just told Sarah Faith to eat Hannah Joy's when she's ready for some!  lol  Hannah Joy helps herself around here!

The other three shared fruit cocktail together.

(our friend Brittany was here as you can see)

I put the pinwheel outside by the privacy fence when they were finished.

Here it is upclose.  They did a great job!  I love it!

Brittany took turns painting everyone's toenails.  Including MINE!

The girls got theirs painted gold and I got mine red!  She is such a sweet friend and a really good girl!  We enjoy her company!

The girls wanted to take a picture OUTSIDE of them wearing their LEIs.  This turned out cute, I think!  The sun was so bright!

Daddy came home and gave the girls their allowance.  This is the first week we've gone to allowance.  They do chores and help me so much and they get $5 each per week.  I'm taking them tomorrow to see if they find something they want to buy with it.

Hannah Joy got hers too - right in the middle of eating!  LOL!

Each girl gives their BEST so each girl gets the same amount.  We do not think it's fair to pay according to age as long as the child is doing their best to help also.  Hannah Joy fights to keep her pile of towels to fold.  She helps unload the silverware (other than knives, OF COURSE) out of the dishwasher.  She helps clean up.  She takes things to the trash when I ask her to or to the laundry basket when I ask her to.  And she's SO excited each time she gets to do something.

We had a great day and plan on another great day tomorrow!

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