New cooking website!

I just found this cooking website. I just love her recipes. We just tried one tonight and it was so good! Check her out...you'll love her!

Another Contest...

Another great contest on the Savvy Photographer.

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Isabella's first grade school picture...

I can't believe how big Isabella is getting. She looks so big in her school picture. I'm not loving the school picture itself but everyone has to have copies of it for when they get older, right? I'm just glad that I have other pictures of her too. =)

The Savvy Photographer...

I just ran across an amazing blog for photographer and clients of photographers. They have great ideas, spotlights, and give-a-ways, my favorite! =)

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My baby turns FOUR!

Where does the time go. Chase turned FOUR on September 9th. We had his birthday party on September 12th. Chase wanted to have a Hot Wheels theme for his party. It was a fun theme. I really enjoyed the details for this one. You can see most of them in the picture above. I also attached his invitation that I send out.

The party started off very interesting. We had a thunder and lightening storm roll through right at the start of the party. Normally I would love to see this but not on his party day. I had children scared and crying during the party. They aren't ever going to want to come to another one of Chase's birthday parties.

About an hour into the party the storm outside settled and we were finally able to put the bounce house up. That made it so much better!

The party ended up being a success. Chase loved it and that is all that matters.

Day 5 - Friday August 28th - Wear as much blue and yellow as you can day'ssa

Today was wear as much blue and yellow as you can day. I wanted to paint half of Isabella's face blue and the other half yellow but I thought that during the day when she is playing outside and it is 101 degrees today that she would probably start sweating and that would make a BIG mess so for Mrs. Tiede's sake I just wrote words on her face. It was totally Isabella's idea to write "I heart UPS." I thought that was a cute idea. Well, today is our last dress up day. It was tons of fun this week being able to be creative and do fun things. Back to uniforms next week. =(

Trophy Day at Gym Stars...

This is Chase and Miss Jessica. Miss Jessica is his teacher for his 'BIG' 4 year old class.

This is Miss Wendy. This is the teacher that Chase had while he was 3.

Yesterday was trophy day for Chase. I don't think he realized that he was getting a trophy yesterday but when they called his name the above picture is what he did. He was a total ham for how shy he normally is. All the parents are sitting right in front of him and enjoying this show and he was just hamming it up. Then he walked up to get his trophy and I wanted to take a picture and he wanted no part of that. He then decided that it was time to be shy. Well, eventually he took a picture with this two teachers but he wouldn't take a picture by himself. He is just too shy for that but he will do a stratal in front of everyone and ham it up. I'm a little confused.....but I'm proud of him. =)

Day 4 - Thursday August 27th - Crazy hair and socks day

I love crazy hair day. It is just hard to think of new things to do with Isabella's hair. Last year I put her hair in a bunch of pony tails and then put a different color of ribbon on each pony tail. This year I made 4 braids with wire in them so that they were sticking out everywhere. It was a lot of fun but took me forever to figure out a good way to do it. We worked on her hair for 35 minutes and we were almost late to school but everything worked out. We didn't have anything exciting for crazy socks so I just put on two different pairs of socks.

When Chase woke up this morning he asked me what day it was. When I told him crazy hair day he started jumping up and down because he had planned from the moment he heard crazy hair day that he would have a mohawk. His hair was so much easier to do a mohawk now that it is shorter. He loves it. Everyone complimented him at Weight Watchers and at the Farmer's Market today. He was on cloud nine. I just hope he doesn't ask to wear it again tomorrow. =)

Day 3 - Wednesday August 26th - Guess who I am day?

Well, for Wednesday we ran into a bit of a problem. I'm so glad The Casper's were at our house having dinner because Brenda helped me brainstorm. When I saw this day I knew that I wanted Isabella to be Dorothy form Wizard of Oz. Makayla had a dance costume of it and it is SO cute. The only thing I didn't have were the red sparkle shoes. So, Brenda and I made a Target run to get the shoes. They had them and I bought them. I was SO excited for Isabella to be Dorothy. (Danny wasn't too excited that I bought these shoes just for this day but I reassured him that I will use them for Guess who I am day, Halloween, and Christmas.) We got back from Target and tried on the dance outfit and it was SO SO SO cute BUT, it was very buttylicious. The skirt was really short and I was so bummed because it really wasn't school appropriate and I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom because it was a leotard. Isabella is definitely going to be Dorothy for Halloween. (and Chase is going to be the Tin Man or the Scarecrow) So, at 9:15 at night I was freaking out trying to figure out what Isabella could be. I saw tons of idea on the internet that I would have loved to have done but at 9:15 there wasn't much of an option. So, I remember that when I taught I had a bee costume from it. I pulled it out and it was perfect. It was quite obvious what she was but it worked for 9:45...at this point. Thanks Brenda for brainstorming with me and reminding me that I had this costume.

Day 2 - Tuesday August 25th - Sports Day

On Tuesday it was sports day. Isabella knew exactly what she wanted to be on this day too. Since she wants to be a cheerleader when she grows up (she doesn't quite realize this isn't a "job", thank goodness her second choice is a chef) so of course she wanted to be a cheerleader on sports day. Chase wanted to be a football player. I just love the picture of the two of them. Chase's haircut was perfect for sports day. He looks like a football player to me. (Thanks Terri!) Maybe one day Isabella will be a real cheerleader and Chase will be a real football player.

Day 1 - Monday August 24th - PJ Day

For the first day we had PJ Day. Isabella knew right away exactly what PJ that she was going to wear. It was her Hello Kitty Nightgown. Of course, Chase had to dress up to. (Can't leave him out.) He also knew right away that he wanted to wear his Superman PJ. What a fun and comfy day.

Dress up Week...

Isabella's school has dress up week this week. Mrs. Fachner, the principal, said that if the school scored at least a 900 for their API score that they could have a dress up week. Well, as you can see they did. Not only did they score at least 900, they scored 939. We are officially higher than the GATE school in LUSD. I feel so blessed for my kiddos to be at such an amazing school. =)