Daddy-Daughter Dance

 Kali has seriously been waiting all year for this Daddy Daughter Dance...since the one last year! She was so excited for this night she could hardly stand it and I'm pretty sure we started getting ready for it hours before it was time to go! This year I did actually get her a new dress that is also to be used as her new Easter dress and Kali was SO excited. I painted her nails and toes with light pink sparkles and dusted on a little shimmer makeup and blush and lip gloss and she was good to go! Oh, and we did actually curl her hair and that has become a new favorite "do" these days! We also found Daddy a new tie to match and let me tell you how excited he was to wear a pink tie! Makes for really cute pictures that's for sure!! After the picture taking they were off to dinner at Red Robin along with Josh and Kelsey Bartlett (our good friends and neighbors)... then they headed over to the school for some fun and dancing and more pictures! :) Kali said she had SO much fun with her daddy and already can't wait til next year!!

This was the professional picture taken at the dance and I seriously can't believe how grown up Kali looks! And how much she looks like her daddy ;)  Seriously she is in 1st grade!! Stop growing up!! (she is on a stool ;)) But I do LOVE the picture! Mark has many many more Daddy Daugher dances, pink ties and lots of pictures to look forward to!

Zach's first basketball season

 I'm SO glad we decided to let Zach try out basketball this year because it was SOOO fun!! Mark helped assistant coach Zach's' team with Coach Tony Overbay who was also Zach's baseball coach last year and will be again this year. We love Coach Tony and his family- we've known them since we first moved to Lincoln 10 years ago. He is so great with the boys and really makes an effort to make sure they are having fun and everyone is getting equal playing time. Anyways, I never thought I would really get into the basketball games at this age with 1st and 2nd graders playing but it really was so fun...especially because our team "Heat" was actually pretty good! They only had 8 total games and they won 5 of the 8! The last game being the closest and tied only to lose in overtime! It was seriously INTENSE!! Zach played his heart out and I am so proud of how much he improved from the beginning of the season. He managed to score a few baskets in almost every game. I think his highest scoring game he scored 12 points! I just wish this sport had a longer season! It was so nice to be inside rain or shine :) We are now already into baseball season, and it goes until June! sheesh! Well, below are some pics from the last basketball game...Zach is #10 :)

 Chase handing off to Jake (Coach Tony's son)...these two are cousins and are really awesome basketball players. See pic below of Jake catching some air on his layup.

 Coach Mark giving some words of wisdom :)

 GO ZACH ATTACK!!

 Way to go Team "HEAT"!! 

At our end of season party.

My Baby is ONE!!

I can't believe that year has come and gone!! Our baby girl turned ONE on Monday Feb. 20th and we spent all weekend celebrating with family. On Saturday we drove up to G & G Stacy's for a night and had a little birthday party for our sweet Lillian! Thanks so much Grandma for the cute cake and for the princess crown that you can see Lilly loved :) (for about 5 seconds!) Don't mind the dinner all over her face either! haha!

She obviously didn't mind the mess and dug right in!! None of my other kids ever dove into their cake like Lilly did! haha! She was LOVING it!!

And she loved the little People car from Grandma and Grandpa!

 On Monday, Lilly's actual birthday (which happened to be Presidents Day and the kids were all out of school) we took advantage of the holiday and decided to go visit Auntie Sheila and Uncle Jeff and their kids for the day. It was the perfect day and the kids had a BLAST playing with their cousins and running around outdoors ALL DAY!! Lilly was acting all big like Hailey and pretending like she can walk just like her...they were so cute together! I love these pics where you can see Lilly trying to talk to Hailey :) I can already tell they are going to be BEST COUSIN buddies! 

 We told the kids to go find treasures in the fields across the street and boy did they come back with "treasures"!!! Haha!! Hey, it kept them busy for a good couple of hours :)

 I LOVE how much these kids LOVE each other!!!

 

And here's my attempted photo shoot with the birthday girl!! It was a little too bright and we got squinty eyes...but still pretty darn cute if you ask me!!  I just LOVE HER!!

 CAKE TIME!  -take two.  AND she LOVED it again! I don't think I've ever seen a baby shove it in as fast as Lilly did AND finish the whole thing off !! haha!! This girl means business!

After a nice bath, and still in her "birthday suit", we opened presents.

Lilly LOVES her new Minnie Mouse riding toy. She dances to the music and mostly loves to push it around.

 Happy 1st Birthday sweet Lillian!! We are so grateful for your sweet little spirit and fun personality and that you are a part of our family! We just wouldn't be complete without you!!!