She's my girl!

Picture this......you just got home from work, cleaning up the house and working on dinner. In your spare 5 minutes you think to get online check your bills and make sure all of your homework assignments were submitted correctly. STRESS!!! That is all I can say I had had it. A long day at work, had to stop and grab some groceries, the house was a mess, bills needed to be paid, and homework was due!! I got something on the stove started dinner, got on the computer to do bills and homework. Out of the blue here comes my darling daughter with q-tips in her ears. She was laughing so hard because of how silly she looked with them just hanging out of her ears like that. Wow!! so I take a breath, and think about how lucky I am!!!
Even though life comes at us full force, it is so nice that such a small little girl, with such a little silly act, can bring a smile to your face! We laughed and grabbed a couple of pics, calmed down and figured everything would work out, just do one thing at a time.

Family Reunion

The Grange Brothers always have the family reunion at Strawberry, the 3rd weekend of July. This was perfect timing this year, because we had only been out camping one other time. This is really rare for us, but it has just been a crazy year. Anyway this was the first year that Alyssa was able to play with the cousins and really enjoy herself at the reunion. Here are a couple of pics that I took. I was not very good with the camera this time, sorry there are not more photos.

These are pics of Alyssa counting her money. Every year we have the same game for the kids. We get sawdust, and put change in it. The kids then have to dig through it to find all the money. This comes in really handy since next we have a kids raffle that they can buy tickets for and put them in to win there favorite prize. Alyssa wanted a sand set that Grandma had brought so bad. Needless to say she must have her mothers luck, because even though we put 10 tickets to 2 in the bucket; Alyssa's name didn't get pulled. I knew we should of had Dad doing the tickets.

So Saturday was the big reunion day ( we went up Friday night and camped til Sunday). Anyway, there are a lot of games, food and fun. Alyssa had had her share. I was going to go in and get some dishes done in the trailer. Alyssa wanted to stay out and play. Shane's cousin offered to keep an eye on her for me. Well after I got the dishes done, and things pick up in the trailer I came out to find my daughter full on in a big dirt pile. And she was loving every minute of it. Needless to say, she was SO TIRED!! I let her play for a little longer then was going to take her in for a bath and jammies. Thought I better get some good, dirty pics before we washed her clean though. You can tell she has had it and was not in the mood for photos.

Princess Dress

So, ok she is definitely a girly girl!! Lately all that Alyssa will wear is dresses. This is a little problem, when she has no dresses to choose from. What do you expect? You that know me well know that I'm not a girly girl. I myself only have one dress in my closet. So to have such a sweet little girl that wants to wear nothing but dresses has given me a run for my money. One morning, me and my good friend Dawn were having coffee, Lyss had been awake and decided to get dressed. Well here she comes out in one of my tank tops tied up to fit her, pretending that it was the prettiest dress she had ever owned.
I don't know if Dawn felt bad for Lyss for having to make her own dresses, or just loved her so much that she wanted to do something special for her. But a week or so later she came by with this princess dress. Alyssa was so excited, for at least a week or so, we wore nothing but the princess dress. We took a couple of pictures and wrote Dawn a thank you note for being so thoughtful. It is absolutely amazing to have such a wonderful friend. I really don't know what I would do without you Dawn THANKS!!

Princess posing!!

Gymnastics

Gymnastics!

My daughter the gymnast, who would of thought, well me of course, my daughter can do it all. Seriously, let me tell you she does amazing, that is when she can settle down for 2 minutes and concentrate. LOL

Grandma decided to let the girls pick something to join for the summer, and she would pay. Avery was already doing gymnastics so Alyssa wanted to join her. We go every Thursday, it is a little special time with Avery and with mom. Lyss is at daycare for so many hours a day, that I really appreciate the hour or so that I get to share this with her. Who knows maybe someday we will be seeing GOLD. Until then, it sure has been fun, and a great experience for the girls.

I have never laughed so hard as I did this night. I love my daughter so very much, and I don't think that I appreciate these little moments as much as I should. I am so scared to miss out on so much, (with how busy my life is about to come), that I need to make sure that I treasure these little moments.
We play this game, I get out the camera and Lyss decided what emotion we are going to show, then we take the picture. I bet we were doing this for over an hour and just gut laughing each time we looked at our pics. She is so smart, and could come up with ideas, that I couldn't even think of. She is such an amazing little girl, and I love her so deeply.

Cupcake fun again

As you all know from previous posts one of our favorite things to do with the girls is to make cupcakes. The girls like it too, especially the frosting part. This was a lazy Saturday when we had Avery again, so we thought it would be fun to make up a quick batch. The girls got into it a little bit more this time, helping with the mixing and adding of the water and eggs. They both took turns even filling the cupcake pans (a little messy but fun). Hope you all enjoy our fun baking pictures. Can't wait to do it again.

Such good little helpers

Stirring and tasting

Getting the pans ready

Diego cupcake papers of course

Time for frosting and sprinkles

The finished product

YUMMY!!

Frosting is always the best part of course

Messy mugs:) All worth it