Onward & Upward

My sweet Hailee had her preschool graduation and it was a very bittersweet moment...a little emotional for mom, but fine for Hailee, of course, because she doesn't understand all the implications of what this means. She's been going to school with some of these kids since
she was a baby and they are best, best friends. They are all splitting off to go to different Kindergartens and she will likely never see many of them again. Oh, that is so hard to take in.

This is her sweet (boy)friend, Declan. They've already got their wedding planned. I have pictures of them holding hands when they were 3-months old! She will miss him.

This is her best friend, Kylee. This day of the graduation was Kylee's last day going to school there. Hailee will keep going there until Kindergarten starts, so I know she is going to miss having Kylee there. Luckily her mom and I are already planning future play-dates, although the pessimist in me knows that will only last so long...oh, the pain of growing older...or the pain of watching your kids grow older...Somehow, I didn't get pictures of her with the other girls in her "clique (I hate to say)", Bella & Aspen. Those kids have always stuck close together because they are the ones that have been together there since they were newborns.


They sang some cute songs. One of them was called "Zoophonics Kids", to which I already knew all the words because Hailee has sung it in the car many, many times. :)


Getting her diploma. Sniffle, sniffle.


They released balloons into the air to represent moving onward and upward to bigger and better things.




Sniffle, sniffle, sniffle...


They had to create an "all about me" poster to display at the graduation. Hailee was very excited about creating hers.




Hailee with her sweet teacher, Maria. This was Maria's last day, as well. Hailee is going to miss her too!


The very proud parents!






Every time I tell her to stop growing she just laughs and says "mom, that's the way it's supposed to be!" Love you my sweet girl!

Fishing with Dad

Today was the annual father's day fishing trip. Hailee had a great
time despite her apparent disgust toward dead fish. She's excited to
eat them though!

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Dad's 60th Birthday!

We had an awesome party for my dad's 6oth birthday party. It was a surprise, he just thought he was going to dinner with my mom. We had family, friends old and new and his coworkers there! He had lots of people there to support him!

We held it at his favorite restaurant, Sarasota's. The food was fabulous and they provided great service! The room was gorgeous too. I thought I'd give them a shout out because I'd highly recommend it to anyone, they really were great!

My dad's birthday is on St. Patrick's Day, but they were out of town, so we held it two weeks later. We still wanted to go with the Irish theme though. Here are some pictures of the party!

My sweet littles...


The big moment!


Grandpa with his little man.

And his favorite daughter.


The after-party.

We love you dad! Happy 60th!
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Memory & Tic Tac Toe

Everyone probably thought I gave up on the quiet book, but I didn't! I'm still hanging in there! I had been working on a different page that I became frustrated with, so I did take a break for awhile. Then I told myself I don't have to go in order, so I just moved on to a page that was more appealing! I made a couple of games for the kids to play. I worked and reworked this in my head a thousand times, but this is the best way I could figure to make this work. Essentially one of the pages is completely blank and serves as the "game board". For the Tic Tac Toe game, I actually have the lines for the game in the pocket. It works, I guess. If anyone has a better idea on how to spruce up my game board, let me know! I do love how the games turned out though. The pictures are pretty self explanatory, so here you go!

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Easter Pics

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