This is a test!! And Summer Pic's

Ok, so I have been absent for months now but I have a good excuse.  As many of you may know I am computer illiterate and I managed to lock myself out of my blog, go me!!  So finally I have figured out how to get back on here and get going again.  So this is just a test to make sure everything will post correctly.

My sweet Campbell!  She has such a sweet personality and says the cutest things.  Rather than responding "yes" to a question she always says "sure" or "sure mommy."  She also is very good at asking if she can do something and when she gets the response she wants she always follows with "thank you!"

Bailey is a 2nd grader this year, so hard to believe.  She is doing great in school and has started her gifted/talented class and she LOVES it!  She is always telling me of the neat projects that they are doing with a huge smile on her face.  She has also started playing on a competitive softball team that has been a huge time commitment on her part but she has been really dedicated to it.  It is so awesome to see how she is changing and learning new things, I am very proud of her.

I love my girls and they love each other!  They get along really well and I am so thankful for that.  Campbell loves her sister big sister and is always wanting to know where she is and what she is doing.  Don't get me wrong they have their moments, but those are few and far between.  I just hope they stay close forever.

Tea Party

This past Sunday we had a Princess Tea Party with Princess Bailey, Princess Campbell, and Princess Ramsey.

Bailey had decided that she was going to make invitations and hand them out to the neighbors, without her mama's knowledge might I add, inviting them to this event. 

I found out about our little gathering when one of neighbors told me she was RSVP'ing.  She basically informed me of the event and that we were supposed to dress in princess attire. 

So I asked Bailey how she was going to put this all togehter, and she said "you will!"  So I had to have a little talk with her on Event Planning 101.  Lesson #1, inform the party planner of the party! 

So we put things together.  We had tea and cookies, and of course a little goody box with a candy necklace and some princess rings.  The girls had such a great time and it is soemthing that we will do together very soon.

Valentine's Day and Randomness

Since we have had such awesome weather lately we have been going outside to play alot. These are just some pics that we took outside one evening. The girls play so well together and get along so much that we have decided that we are going to invest in a bunk bed and let them share a room for awhile. Bailey is super excited about this and Campbell has no idea how her world is about to change. We want to start transitioning Campbell into a bed and thought this might be the perfect way. The girls spend alot of time playing and watching movies in Baileys room so we thought it just made sense.

These are my sweet Valentines! Two of them decided that they needed naps and passed out on the couch mid evening.

Tim and I were able to eat lunch at Charlestons on Valentines Day and we also enjoyed some Cherry Berry together, romantic I know that's just how we roll. Tim also got me some beautiful roses and a box of chocolates. It turned out that Tim and I bought each other the same box of chocolates, cute! I also got Tim some cookies from Barbees Cookies and they are OMG delicious. They are located at 101st and Memorial and lets just say they give Merritts a run for there money.

Happy Valentine's Day

I was so excited to look in the mail today and see that our Valentine's photo session cd had arrived . A friend of mine at church named Julie Dawkins did these for us, Julie Dawkins Photography. I have known Julie since high school where we were in our church's youth group together. She has taken up photography as a hobby and I think that she is awesome. I thought that before but now I really know its true after having a session with her. Bailey had a basketball game in Bartlesville earlier in the day so at this point Campbell had not had a nap and was not a happy camper. She would not have her picture taken by herself and I honestly believed that I would have no shots of her. Bailey on the other hand was a picture taking princess. She wanted to do every pose that she could think of and then some.

It was worth everything just to have these two pictures taken. These are the best pictures that I have of the girls together, love them!
I got their outfits made from Bergaboo. These two ladies make them in jenks and I just loved them. I had Christmas shirts made with reindeers and then new ones for Valentines day. The skirts match both outfits so I can interchange them. I was so happy with them and think they are just to cute.

These two girls really do love each other so much and get along so well.

Can you believe this girl is 7 years old?

Bailey's basketball team is first in their league and so we will playing in a basketball tournament on Valentine's evening, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Tim and I will be helping out with Bailey's Valentine party at school as well, so that should be a fun time. We will be together as a family and that is the most important thing. Happy Valentine's day y'all, we love ya!

January 2012

We have had quite the month in January. I have been out of it most of the month after my surgery, but I am happy to say that things are going great. I am using a cane to walk and have finally started driving here and there. I do spend most of my time at home but I am getting so much done that it will be hard to go back to work next week. Bailey has been playing basketball and her team is first in their league. She has also started learning to pitch for softball. Her coach decided that they would be moving up in the league and play 8 and under, which is kid pitch. It's hard to believe that she is at this level already, but were here and she is so excited to learn. I have started teaching her all that I know and she is doing great. I will also be helping to coach her team this year so I am very excited about that.

Campbell is growing and growing, she is amazing. She has such a sweet way about her. She has taken to scarves in the last few weeks and you can find her either dragging them around the house or wrapping herself in them in some way shape or form. She decided the other day that she would get some wrapping paper out and wrap herself as a present, it was so cute! She kept saying, "I ah present mama, I ah present." We are still obsessed with the movie Tangled in our house. Tim and I both have it memorized now. Campbell loves to sing the songs in the movies as well as dance to them.

The other night I had made Campbell dinner. I was still in the kitchen cooking, when I realized that she had gotten really quite all of a sudden. When I looked over there she was, asleep! She was sitting up at the bar on the bar stool and just feel asleep. It was the cutest thing EVER! I grabbed my camera real quick and got these pics, aren't they cute!

We will have a busy weekend with a basketball game in Bartlesville and then we'll hurry home to take some Valentine's Day pictures. My friend Julie at church is taking them, cant wait to post them!

Happy 7th Birthday Bailey

On December 28th, 2011 Bailey turned 7 years old. I cannot believe how the years have flown by and my first baby is already 7. She is becoming such a wonderful, confident, beautiful young lady that I am so proud of. She is such a sweet and thoughtful girl who is always making gifts or drawings to give to others. She loves drawing and crafts and is quite impressive with her talents. She also loves to play softball and basketball and has recently decided that she wants to be a softball pitcher just like her mama, yeah! Bailey is also very active in her church where she is in the choir and a childrens group called Awanas. She is in the first grade this year and is doing great. She is quite the speller who gets 100's on all of her spelling tests, and she loves to read books. She is a great student and she loves to go to school to see her friends and her teacher Mrs. Caussy.

This year we changed things up for Bailey's birthday. With her birthday being on the 28th it is always very hard to find time to have a birthday party with the holidays. This year we had a whole birthday fun day. I gave Bailey $100 to spend in anyway that she wanted at the mall, and she thought this was crazy cool. After breakfast we headed to the mall and enjoyed hours of shopping. We headed to Build a Bear first where Bailey created a puppy named Sparkle. After our shopping we went to Bailey's favorite place to eat Pei Wei, yes she loves chinese food. Both Grandma B and Grandma and Grandpa Melton were able to join us for lunch as well.

After lunch we headed to the movies to watch Shipwrecked, aka the Chipmunks. After this long day we headed home to prepare for a new adventure the next day, mommy's hip replacement. We actually had our birthday day on the 27th since I was going into surgery on her birthday, but I still had a big day for her planned. We arrived at the hospital the next morning and surprised Bailey with a Nintendo DS that she has wanted for the longest time. Later in the evening I had balloons and cupcakes delivered to my room so we could have a little party for her on her actual birthday. She was extremely surprised and kept telling me that this was the best birthday ever, which made me feel better since I was lying in a hospital bed. I of course have no pictures since I was not in charge of the camera, but knowing my Bailey she will not forget this birthday anytime soon. Happy Birthday baby girl I love you so much, I am such a lucky mommy to have a daughter like you!