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Reading Celebration

February 4, 2022

This week at school is the Winter Reading Celebration and on Wednesday the kids could dress up as a book character…

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Samantha is Gerald from Piggie & Gerald books. The cutest elephant ever!

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The boys went the easy route and found a football book to go with a jersey. Hey – it counts!

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Samantha found Piggie in her class! Too cute.

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Spencer’s class dressed up too!

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I didn’t get a picture from 5th grade. Too cool for school I guess.

Now I just wish I could get them all to read more than they do!! Have a great weekend!

Glow Dance Party

February 1, 2022

When you and your BFF turn 7 one day apart, you throw an epic glow dance party for the entire first grade! The MOST fun!

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Frances’s mom and I planned it for a few weeks and booked a DJ, glow lights, and spent the day decorating the club!

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Pop it and Ring Pop favors were ready to go!

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We got the girls matching outfits and they were as cute as cute can be!

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Love these sweet, happy girls!

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We were all ready for the guests to arrive! Let’s party!!

Samantha woke up on Thursday morning as a 7 year old! Well, she actually climbed into my bed about 3:30 am as a 7 year old but that was fine with me. 🙂 She was very concerned that I had not decorated downstairs since I didn’t get up early. Thankfully I had decorated the night before! As if I wouldn’t decorate the kitchen for my only baby girl’s birthday?!

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She was off to school for a great day!

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She took “GJ’s chocolate chip cookies” for her class.

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She helped me make them the day before…

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Don’t worry, we made two batches of dough – one for her to eat and one for the class! She said the cookies were good but not the best. Why? They were missing a “sprinkle of GJ.” Love that girl. And I can’t argue with that! That afternoon she came running home happy – can’t beat it!

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She headed off to tumble and that night we headed to dinner at the club to celebrate our birthday girl!

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Dinner at the club is even more fun when one of your besties is there to celebrate her sister’s birthday which is on the same day!

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After dinner we headed back home for presents and ice cream cake!

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Make a wish!!

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Happy 7th birthday to my favorite little girl!!

The Big D

January 24, 2022

For Christmas, we gave the kids tickets to see the Mavericks play in Dallas and took our trip last weekend. What a great trip! I loved being back in Dallas and the kids had so much fun. We took a direct flight after school on Friday…

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and were sitting down to dinner by 8:00! We had dinner at Hudson House and Maxwell even tried an oyster! whoa!!

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Samantha turned her nose up at the oysters but ate plenty of chocolate pie!

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We stayed at the Highland Dallas right by SMU which worked out great.

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The weather was unusually cold and blustery on Saturday but that didn’t bother us. We grabbed breakfast…

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drove around Highland Park looking at houses and then headed to Northpark Mall! Shopping all day…just what the boys love! ha!

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In all seriousness, it was the best way to spend the day. Everyone did some shopping and came home with new stuff – well, everyone except me! who would have thought that?! We had lunch and an afternoon treat at Neiman Marcus, the boys got to do a VR experience at the movie theater, and Samantha got some cotton candy. It was a win all around!

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That night we had dinner at Mesero, a mexican restaurant close to the American Airlines Center. It worked out because we could park in the garage and leave our car there during the game.

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The game was really fun. Lots of action and entertainment! The kids loved seeing Luka Doncic play, I loved watching the ManiAACs and the “entertainment squad”, and we all loved seeing Boban!…even if he was injured and couldn’t play.

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We didn’t get back to the hotel until after 11 and had an early morning on Sunday because we had to get back to Birmingham for another, much more important, basketball game…

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