Mikayla's birthday is today!

Oh how time flies, my little princess is turning 6 years old today! What a blessing she is! She is so amazing and I just love to be around her.

Mom: "So, Mikayla do you feel old now?"
Mikayla: "Yeah"
Mom: "You feel old and you're only 6?"
Mikayla: "Not old, but I feel 6 now!"


Seriously, you can laugh at this photo... We can't stop laughing at it! Does she look like a redneck child or what! And the funny part is she's not missing any teeth on the top, those are all her baby teeth yet! I even posted it on Uncle Jason's machine to keep him in laughing spirits all day!

And of course, we got lots of pink for her birthday...its her FAVORITE!

And princesses...{ her little sister, Alexis, loves to play with these too } Mikayla wanted a magic wand for her birthday, so the Fairy Godmother granted her wish....

And pink sparkling pants....she wore them to school today!

And this is the funny act she pulled last night...she put my PJ's on ontop her PJ's...what a corn-ball! LOL

Happy 6th Birthday Mikayla! Love you lots and lots and lots!

Teacher conferences....

Oh, I just love to go to teacher conference! Today Joe and I met with Mikayla's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Foltz. I just love to hear that she is doing amazing in school! She loves to be in school and she loves to do well! I certainly think she is a smart cookie, but its definitely great to hear she is doing awesome by school and state standards too!

Joe and I, also, met with Casey's 4th grade teacher this afternoon too. I am so distressed and frustrated with why our school system decided to change its grading practices! What was wrong with A,B,C,D, and F? Now we have 4,3,2, and 1! The literature states that this system promotes "learning" over "earning" and it motives children to improve throughout the year better. I just do not agree! Why wouldn't a child who gets a C be motived to get a B or A? So the teacher did lots of explaining on the new grading system and we were excited to hear that Casey is doing well! {We just have to work on some Math facts}.

Oh, and next year when she goes to 5th grade she'll be back to the A,B,C,D, and F grading system! {At least for now.}

Lovely Layout

I was able to make time last evening for a quick card and one layout. Here is my precious daughter, Alexis, with her Gigi. She is only about 3 months old in this photo...now she's three!

Card of Thanks

I recently came across a creative blog, Mosh Posh {check it out here http://mosh-poshkits.blogspot.com/ } and they issued a challenge to create a card of thanks. Any size, any style, just create! I was inspired by a layout I seen recently by Jennifer Campbell and this was my card...Now I just have to figure out who the lucky recipient will be...I'm thinking this is a great card for my mom!

My daughter's Turkey and another layout

I was going to wait till next week and post my daughter's turkey project for Kindergarten, but I just can't wait to post it.

The assignment was to decorate Tom Turkey so he would not be recognized and hopefully not be eaten for Thanksgiving. {It was a family project so we were allowed to help.} Mikayla wanted to decorate "him" as Cinderella. {I know, what a shock!}

Here is our inspiration....

In progress....{I really tried to let Mikayla do a lot of the crafting, it was hard for me to back off and let someone else do it! lol}

Mikayla and her turkey....

and a close up...

Another layout that I created for a challenge at the week long online crop at itsscraptacular.com. This challenge was to use another layout in the gallery as inspiration. This layout was inspired by a layout that Dana had in her gallery. She created these awesome ribbon flowers and I was itching to try my hand at them.

Thanks for looking....

Fall Leaves

Another challenge on the recent online crop event at itsscraptacular.com was to use fall colors - Red, Yellow, and brown. Here is my layout and a close up of the leaves....Still more to come...

Really Punked Out Hair

I recently pulled out some older photos of my now five year old "baby". I have wanted to try and "catch up" {I know this is totally impossible by my standards} on some layouts of her. I had the chance to use these in a challenge on the online crop event at itsscraptacular.com last week. The challenge was a recipe list...and all ingredients are included!Stay tuned for some more reveals of the crop event....