Tea Party time!

The girls were lecturing me the other night that I NEVER have tea parties with them anymore. So while they were in the bath tub, I set up a surprise tea party using our wedding china (sadly, the 1st time I've ever used it!!) complete with their favorites... butter/sugar bread finger sandwiches, apples slices, carrot slices and "Scooby Snack" graham crackers! Yum, Yum! What can I say... it was short notice!! They LOVED it! And so did I!!!

Bella Ballerina!

Bella is obsessed with this little ballerina tu-tu of the girls. She loves to play with it, chew on it, drag it around, toss it up in the air, and WEAR it! She gets it around her neck and prances all around the house. It's adorable! She's six months old now and fits in with our gang perfectly!

Sometimes they're NOT so Sweet!!

A couple of posts down I mentioned how sweet they are sometimes. Well.... that's not always the case. The girls were fighting the other night. Rarely, do they fight physically... mostly it's just arguing.... but this fight Madison pinched Makinley's cheek. I'm not sure if you can make it out or not in the pictures, but the mark it left was in the PERFECT shape of a heart. It was too weird! Not sure if it was in honor of Valentines Day or a sign that even fighting... they still LOVE each other!!

Happy ValenTIMES Day!

With our beautifully decorated Valentine boxes!

With our friend Amy Wallen
With Rayven, Baylee and Chloe

We didn't have a "party" at school... but Mommy came up and brought cupcakes and helped Mrs. Barrett with helping the class distribute their valentines. It was a really good reminder to Mommy why she's not a Kindergarten teacher!! OMG!!! Mrs. Barrett is AWESOME! So patient and loving... and amazingly she still has a beautiful head of hair!! LOL!! The girls had a great time and gots tons of sweet valentines from their friends.

When we all woke up that morning... all three of us had roses waiting for us in our rooms that Daddy snuck in from his truck before he left for work before dawn. What a great guy! We're all so very blessed!!!

Miss Tammy's National Champions!!

Macy, Madison, Addison, Makinley, Tennyson, Maddie and Kenzie at Rain Forest Cafe on the Riverwalk!

With a proud Miss Tammy after the big win!

Our very first National Champion cheer jackets!!

With Daddy on the Riverwalk!

We went to San Antonio for the Redline Cheer and Dance Nationals for two days on February 8th. Mommy and the girls drove down by ourselves (Daddy had to work) on Friday night and stayed in a hotel all by ourselves! It was so much fun! Daddy joined us as soon as he got off on Saturday and could get down there. We competed on Saturday against 3 other teams and ended up in 2nd place. On Sunday, we did the routine better than we'd done it all year and WON 1st place!! National Champs!! We got a huge team trophy, a team banner, a participant trophy and a JACKET!! We were so excited! When it was all said and done, every single participant from Miss Tammy's (cheer and dance) came home with a jacket! We SWEPT first place in everything!!!! It was AWESOME!!!

While we were there, we took advantage of getting to see Mammers and Paw-Paw! We drove down to Plesanton on Friday night and had dinner with them and Aunt Ada. It was so good seeing them and spending time together... even though it was only for a little while. Sunday, after our GREAT performance but before awards, we all went to the Rain Forest Cafe on the Riverwalk. We had a great time!!

They're So Sweet... Sometimes!!

The girls decided to read by the fire the other night! Makinley pulled up her rocking chair that she got from Mammers and Paw-Paw for her 1st birthday and read to her sister. They are really too big for their chairs now, but we refuse to give them up!! Madison listened intently and didn't even try to help her or correct her! That doesn't happen often!!

I should be able to keep up with my blog now. I was completely out of space on my computer and couldn't download pictures at all. My wonderful boss, Tracy, paid our corporate IT guy to come out and upgrade my computer. He changed it from a 20 gig hard-drive to a 160 gig hard-drive. I have no idea what that means, but he said we have more space than we could ever possibly use. Whooo-Hoooo!!! I'm so excited!!

Updates!

Sorry friends! Once again... I'm not able to download photos! Darn! I'm hoping to have memory added to the computer soon so that we won't keep having this problem!

There hasn't been too much to update lately though. The girls had a cheer competition in Garland last weekend, but I didn't take pictures. Hopefully some of the other Moms will email some and I can share. Other than that... we have all been really, really sick with the flu for days! Today is the first time since Wednesday that I've felt almost human. The girls have been running fever for 3 days and have missed two days of school. It's been soooo quiet around here! Everyone has been sleeping and just hanging out. But guess what? They're fighting as we speak... so I think we're ALL getting better (and back to normal!). Oh! I almost forgot! Both girls lost another tooth this week! The 2nd for both of them! Exciting! I'll post pictures as soon as I can!