Evan's Field Trip to GattiLand

Evan got to go to GattiLand this week to learn about fractions. What a fun field trip! They learned by using pizza dough and playing fraction bingo. They also got to make a mini pizza, eat at the buffet, and ride the bumper cars. Here are a few pics from his fun day.

Gracie's Field Day

Evan's 8th Birthday

Evan's friend party had a Phineas & Ferb theme.  Silly me forgot to take pictures of the decorations.  Here is the cake (which matched the decorations, but we couldn't find a Phineas & Ferb cake)

He & his friends played on the swing set & colored chalk.

 

Here's a couple of pictures of the kids with their great-grandmas & their great-great grandma!

1st Day of School

This year the 1st day of school is extra special because Gracie started Kindergarten!!  We can not believe that BOTH kids are in school now!! (We must be getting old!) 
 

Gracie at her desk

Gracie’s locker:  
Evan and Gabby at the bus stop

Gracie's Birthday(s)

This year Gracie got to have 2 birthday parties. One for family & one for friends.


Some pictures from the celebration @ Grammy's house

This is the outfit that she chose to wear to the mall on her actual birthday:

How cute is she??

Look who we found at the mall! She is crazy about Justin Bieber.

I love this picture, it reminds me that, even though she is growing up, she is still so sweet and innocent!

Daddy doing the "princess carry" to the car-she's so rotten!

Here are some pictures from her kid party, which was a Hello Kitty theme & held at Chuck E. Cheese. She had such a good time!

My Princess:

With Daddy:

Her *awesome* cake

Her party guests:

Meeting Chuck E. Cheese:

Dancing on the stage with Lilly & Lillie

Gracie's Zoo Field Trip

Some pictures from Gracie's zoo field trip back in May (better late than never, right?)

Gracie Goes Bowling

Had to share some pictures from Gracie’s class field trip to Ken Bowl.  She had so much fun!  She was especially excited to find out that she was the winner in her group!

All the girls in her class:  

Check out this form:

 

Here we are with her BFF Lillie:

She suggested that we take a picture of us kissing.  Of course, I LOVE that she will still kiss me in front of her friends! 

My T-Shirt Quilt is Finished!!

 

A couple of years ago, my parents came across a box of old t-shirts of mine and asked me what I wanted to do with them.  Most of them had some sort of sentimental value to me, so I hated to get rid of them, but what on earth was I going to do with a whole box of shirts??? 

That’s when I remembered seeing this post in which a friend of mine was making a t-shirt quilt with a bunch of her old college shirts. I asked my Mamaw Judy if she would help me make one of my own  and, of course, she said yes. 

Unfortunately, life got in the way and my t-shirt quilt was put on the back burner, and almost forgotten about, until about a year ago when my talented sis-in-law was making one.

That’s when I decided that my shirts had been sitting in that box in my closet for way too long.  I called mamaw up and asked if she’d still want to help.  Soon after, we begin our t-shirt quilt journey.

We followed this tutorial (written by my sis-in-law.  Thanks for sharing Tereza!!)

So, without further ado, here is our finished project!

It’s not the greatest picture, but it is way to big for me to get a great picture.  As you can see, it totally covers my queen-size bed! 

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love this quilt!!!  The memories from each shirt on it, added to that the fact that mamaw and I got to spend time together making it, makes it absolutely perfect!! 

(Thank you so much for all of your patience, time, effort, and love Mamaw Judy!  I love you!!)