A Sparkling Winter Dance

Karlie's class was having a winter formal. She and her best friend had been chatting on what to wear, nail polish and lipstick shades for a while. She found this sparkly dress online right before Christmas and said it would be perfect for  the dance. We ordered it for her and she opened it up on Christmas Day.

 I loved the sparkles too.

 And these shoes were just perfect.

 When the camera comes out, Jolie wants in the photo. Jolie even wanted to put on her Cinderella dress when Karlie put on her dress.

 We had fun snapping a few photos before leaving for the dance.

I think she had fun at the dance.

Some more goofy shots.

She said lots of photos were taken at the dance, so maybe I will get to see what everyone else looked like soon.

Happy Sparkly Day, Karlie. 

Kids say and do the darnedest things...

Kids say the darnedest things and they usually do it at church. Don't you love it when it's your kid who does it? Tonight at church, it wasn't what Jolie said, instead it was her creative art work. A picture is worth a thousand words...how bout this picture?

When Karl rounded the corner and handed me her art work, I spotted it, and asked had he looked at it. He was already smiling. We chuckled all the way to the car.

The Bible verse written on the leg of the paper man or in Jolie's case, woman, is Psalm 119:11.

You know,the verse about hiding the word in your heart. Jolie decided to hide it in a bra instead? I like to think that she has so much Word that she needed two hearts to contain it all.

Embrace the darnedest moments with me... if you're a parent of a toddler, your turn is coming.

Back to Reality?

Today is our first day back to reality! Does that mean that we were living in some kind of fake world over the past couple of weeks since we've been on break? Whatever it was it was nice. Everyone was home, Karl took off vacation days to be home while we were on Christmas break, Zach was home almost a whole month. Our non-reality days were awesome. Today is our first day back to school. We've already completed most of the work for this week's homework due tomorrow. Zach's back to college, Karl's back to work. Back to reality?

Yesterday Zach packed up to go back to Nashville. 

Here we are telling him goodbye. Shek had a brave face while Zach was heading out. 

It's sad to see those tail lights head up the driveway. Shek lost it a few hours later, claiming he was cold and  frustrated. For a fellow that never cries, I knew it had something to do with his big bro. heading backt  to college. He knew there would be no more late nights watching movies or playing nascar games for a while. SO Dad took us all to the store to get our minds off of the 'back to reality' that we are all facing.

Now, when's the next break from reality? I think I'm ready!

Sweet Suga!

Jolie is a very affectionate child. She was blowing kisses to everyone the 2nd day after we met her.  She's always been one dole out kisses to everyone. When someone is getting a kiss in our house she is quick to say, "What about me?"
She's always been a lip kisser too. Right on the smacker is the only way for Miss Jolie.

She gives you a big lip smack and then giggles.

Yesterday, while we were getting breakfast ready for the kids, she told her daddy, "Give me a kiss, Daddy." She looked so sweet grabbing his face and puckering up. I grabbed my camera and snapped.

Sweet Suga!