Back to School

Well, the first week of going back to school went off without a hitch.  She was excited to be back in school and with all of her classmates.  I pray that she has a great school year.

Halli is also adjusting well to "no paci".  She has made it 14 nights so far.  Not to say that there hasn't been a few tears along the way, but we're getting there! She also made it through her first day of dance.  After begging for weeks to go into dance with Molly & yelling, "It's my turn to dance!", we had to bribe her to make her go in when it really was her time!  But, in no time, we were hearing her yell "Ta-Da" every few seconds.  Val & Kathy said she put on a show...I have no doubt!

I am so proud of my 'big' girls & how great they are.  They make my heart smile...and my face, too!

End of Summer...

Well, the end of summer is drawing near...boohoohoo!  We have Open House tonight and then both school and dance start back on Monday.  Molly will be going into the 3rd grade and is so excited to have Ms. Kate Page as her teacher.  She will have dance classes 3 days a week plus gym once a week.  Miss Halli will be starting dance this year, too...that should be interesting.  I cannot wait to see what this next year holds in store for my girls.

Molly & I just got back from dance boot camp at The Southern Strutt last weekend.  She had a blast and was able to take classes from Nick Lazarinni, Ivan Koumaev, Molly Long and many others.

She also had her first ever dentist appointment last week & great news...no cavities!

Halli also had a "first" last night...first night with NO pacifier.  I really hope that we are able to "nip it in the bud" this time for good!

Bon Voyage!

Eric & I just got back from a wonderful cruise with some of the greatest friends!  We left out of Jacksonville, FL on the Carnival Fascination. 

Our first port was Nassau, Bahamas.  We spent this day exploring the town...we went shopping in the straw market, purse shopping in the bag market (which is POTENTIALLY illegal), got kicked out of McDonald's for taking a picture, had a crazy cab ride, ate lunch at the Sheraton hotel, visited the beach briefly (it was raining all day), played in the casino, had my first Starbucks (yummy), had an even crazier cab ride back to town, went back to the straw market & finally to the jewelry stores (where I got my Pandora cruise ship charm) before heading back to the boat!

Our second port was in Freeport, Bahamas.  We had a BLAST this day as we spent the entire day kayaking in the inland creeks with our awesome tourguide, Sam.  After kayaking, we visited the beach where Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed & then taken to a private beach where they had lunch waiting on us.  We spent the rest of the afternoon on the beach before our bus ride back.

On the ship, we met our favorite waitress, Gini.  She was so sweet & we looked for her everywhere we went. 

We also spent a good bit of time in the casino playing cards.  We enjoyed sitting down at supper each night & talking with our friends about the days' activities and laughing at Tadd as he argued with the bar waiter! 

We all had such a great time & are already looking forward to our next get-away!

I came home & jumped right into planning Miss Molly's 8th birthday party.  It is so hard to believe that my little girl is already 8 years old.  I don't know if I can handle her growing up so quickly!  She had a great time at her party spending the afternoon swimming with all of her friends. 
                                                
However, she did have to take matters into her own hands (literally) to ensure that Halli didn't blow out all of her candles during the "Happy Birthday" song...LOL...