Another hobby of mine, (besides scrapbooking), is editing pictures (WOW-those two hobbies work really well together! ;-)) I’ve had a lot of fun over the years…I even won an online contest with one picture. When I first got my editing program in 2005, I did a lot of experimenting (at the expense of my poor daughter!)
Here’s the proof:
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A month and a half after her 5th birthday, Rilyn has a new smile! (Thanks to Dr. Mommy who got to do the honors!)
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| From July 2009 |
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| Rilyn got her bottom two front teeth at 4 months old. Five years later she looses the first
tooth she got! Bittersweet mommy moment. |
This weekend we celebrated the Fourth at my parent’s house. The girls love their backyard pool. Well, except for the diving board and slide and the deep end… But, each time we visit they get a little braver. Daddy doesn’t do well with their drama about being scared of the diving board, (I mean they are in life jackets!) so he decided to just start throwing them in!
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| From July 2009 |
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| From July 2009 |
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| From July 2009 |
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| From July 2009 |
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| From July 2009 |
James, Happy Father’s Day! I couldn’t begin to imagine a better daddy for our children!
My favorite thing to watch is when you lead our family nights/devotions and how the girls cling to every word you say about our Heavenly FATHER.
Rilyn’s favorite thing about you this year was when you visited her at her preschool.
Ella’s favorite thing is when you color with her.
And Asher, well, he told me he loves when you shoot hoops with him on his Little Tikes basketball hoop. 😉
We love you!!!!
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| From June 2009 |
we’ve been doing happy dances in our backyard because it’s summer time! (where Rilyn learned this…I don’t want to know!)
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| Ella may look innocent in this picture but she is really
peeing on the grass. (Hey, don’t judge me until you have 3 kids with wet bathing suits on and one needs to go potty but you have a baby in the pool!) |
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| From June 2009 |
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| From June 2009 |
Rilyn had her 5th birthday party on Saturday and we invited Cinderella to be our hostess! She was lovely and the big surprise was Prince Charming popped in to present Rilyn with a diamond necklace! (Really Prince Charming was Rilyn’s aunt’s boyfriend who is such a sweet heart for renting a costume! And it was totally his idea!) Rilyn was very shocked and started blushing! Her party was so much fun because I didn’t have to host it! (I highly recommend this route in party planning!)
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| I always wonder why you want to ‘hit’ your favorite character. You would think the pinata should be the uglystepsisters or something. |
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| So this is how Rilyn’s face was the whole time Cinderella told the story about how she got to the ball. It was so cute! |
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| Let me tell you, she wanted very badly to answer every question that Cinderella asked!! And she got every answer right too! “Who knows the names of my stepsisters? What is their cat’s name?”… |
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| Prince Charming, Rilyn, and Cinderella |
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| Rilyn wanted a Barbie Cinderella cake. I like how Cinderella will even hold your child’s hair so it doesn’t catch on fire! |
Rilyn is in her 3rd dance recital dancing to ‘Broadway Baby!’
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| From June 2009 |
This is Ella’s 1st dance recital and she is dancing to ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’!
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| From June 2009 |
The actual recital is tonight so wish them luck! (Although no matter what they do at this age, it’s adorable!)
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| From June 2009 |
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| From June 2009 |
the paquettes 