In May, Elizabeth had her second dance recital, and lets just say she didn't disappoint! She amazes me with her outgoingness (not sure if this is a word, but it should be). She loves the attention and the fact that Grammie was here just made it extra special!
Our Beautiful Ballerina
Her Special Treat
The performance
Is it time yet?
Practice never hurts
It has been so nice having Josh home to celebrate holidays, this September marks his first full year home since 2004, sad huh. We had a great day on Sunday celebrating Daddy. Nothing special just being a family, just the way Josh likes it.
Kiddies going for a cruise in Elizabeth's new car
The Ice Cream Man made a stop at our house!
Daddy's Loves!
For Elizabeth's fourth birthday we decided to have a joint birthday party with one of her good friends from school Ava. We had the party a little before her birthday so we could catch everyone before they PCSed or went on vacation for the summer. Needless to say the girls had blast! We had it at a gym close to the house were we have been to many parties before but the girls seemed to truly love their party, I guess the presents helped! I still can't believe that Elizabeth is four, were has the time gone it seems like just yesterday.....
The Birthday Girl and me
The whole gang
Love the Action
Her run still makes me laugh!
Yeah, I'm a big boy!
Who me?
Elizabeth and Ava
A view from above!
Elizabeth and her best buddy Katie (and Toyko the cat)
STRETCH!
The girls cute cake!
Elizabeth and Truman
The birthday girls, Ava and Elizabeth
So it has been a while...for those of you who don't know I went back to work full time at our beloved Paradise Point Child Care Center. It was a temporary position that wasn't really expected. I was/am the acting director due to PCS orders of the old director, so it has been my job for the past 5 months to get ready to close down over 45 years of history. We shut the doors for the last time on May 29, 2009 and ever since I have been buried in paperwork and getting the center ready for the big yard sale to sell everything that wasn't tied down. Thankfully the hard part is now over and I can get back to my passion, the kiddies!!! I have a few loose ends that I will have to handle over the next few months but for the most part I am a free bird! Here are some pictures of our last day!
The kiddies in front of the sign
Jace with his Ms Amanda
Jace looking for Sissy
Elizabeth and her buddy Abby
Jace with his buddy Charlie
Sweet Ms Alice (who has been taking care of Military Kids for over 20years!)
Josh received a pretty high honor last month, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, for his actions during his last deployment. Needless to say we could not be prouder of our hero!
Jack, Grandpa, Josh and Jamie
Jace and his look alike
Jace helping Grandpa on his last day
Jace has become obsessed with cars and tractors. While in the car he points out every car, truck and bus that pass us. He loves the movie "Cars" and will sit there and stare the whole time it is on. He loves them....almost as much as he loves his Daddy's John Deere. As soon as he is out of the car he runs straight for it, climbs up and sits there and pretends to drive. Because it is so high it often scare the daylights out of me, so Grammie solved this problem. She got Jace his own John Deere tractor so now when he gets out of the car he doesn't give his mother a heart attack!
