My Grammie

 

BOM

 

Going country...

 You like COUNTRY MUSIC!!! What?? You were determined to hate it until about 6 months ago!! 🤣🤣🤣

Good choice, kid.

Hero Highlight

 A bish. She saved the queen’s life.

#lighttheworld

#herohighlight

Turkey day

 I am grateful for Grammie and Grumpy being here for a long time, to be together as a family, we get to move to Waco for Momma, friends

Pres Nelson’s Gratitude Challange

 Pres Nelson’s gratitude challenge:

You are my joy, sweet girl. The older you’ve become the more I enjoy spending time with you. Especially when you’re clean and have brushed teeth. 😉

My heart is full of love for how grateful I am to you for letting me learn all that I have by being my daughter. You are awesome, kid. I wouldn’t trade you for anything. 

Some sweet things I remember:

You have always tucked all your siblings into bed since you were about 7 years old. Even know, I find you doing it.

Always working on dance moves to the pint you’ve hurt your knee! All for the sake of dancing! 

You swim in a fish! I love to watch it. It’s remarkable.

#givethanks

Merg

Merg.

The Doners...

Tonight, I was tucking in Claire and she was telling me about the book she was reading:

Claire: it's a story about people crossing to get to California. The Doner Party. I've read this book 3 times, I like history.

Me: the Donner Party?

Claire: How did you know?

Me: oh, I've heard of them a time or two.

Claire: well, these guys didn't fair too well. Some of them died.

Me: oh yeah? Of what?

Claire: starvation

Me: then how come all of them didn't die?

Claire: I must have missed that part...

Me: 😳

Dad, You're Awesome...

grades...

We were really worried about switching schools for you again. Johnstown was the perfect school for you. You loved it. When we moved to Katy, I chose a house based on the school with the best rating of school. We ended up not picking the right house for us. We moved to this new house about a mile from the old house and it has a much lower rating, but OH MY! The school  (and teacher) are a really really good fit. You come home happy EVERY SINGLE DAY! You love your friends and teacher, your bus driver and you're the best in math in your class after your crush, Ryan Christensen (from our ward). You are the shortest in your class and the second shortest in your grade. You have a special group for reading to give you some extra focus on reading. I'm really glad for that. I was always slow in reading until about 3rd grade where I learned to read really well and couldn't put books down after that. I hope you'll learn to do the same thing. 

Your report card came and Wow! You have all A's and B's. You also have all "S" in citizenship. We are so proud of you.

Things that are important to you right now:

Barbies, playing outside, TV, treats, necklaces, earings, Grammie

What you want for Christmas:

Friend's Legos, Shopkins, jewelry

May 2015The Al

Front Crawl for first swim meet!

First Swim Meet!

How to stop sucking your thumb!!

Read to Succeed Award

1st Grade Graduation!! Mrs. Marie Relampagos

The Alamo

Swim Team!! You are great at backstrokes and working on your front crawl. Go CLAIRE!

For Mother's Day

April 2015

Today, I want to be an artist when I grow up.

We keep finding cute things like this around. 

We all got new flips!

This oldest girl thing is something else. She is such an awesome girl. This is her playing with all the kiddos. Zoey is DANCING her socks off while everyone watches.
God, thank you for giving me this wonderful girl Claire who is learning that she doesn't have to be the center of attention all the time. What a big kid thing to learn. 

March 2015Easter

Easter Dress from Grammie Krista

Easter Dinner---Salmon, YUM!

Easter Egg hunt at church

Bath Time

Big sis

Little Sis

Claire dressed them both and walked around in her shoes. Zoey tried to do the same thing with shoes, but being that they are Bruiser's shoes, they aren't as glamorous. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I love that Thomas is in the pic, too. Cute eyes, Claire.

Visiting Colorado, Claire got to go to her old school and see her old teachers. This is her kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Herman.

Recess at old school, a picture with Tyson Anderson. Good friend.

Claire played with all her 1st grade friends. Everyone was excited to see her. She ran around, did the monkey bars and PLAYED. This is her with Henry. Our very dear neighbor that we miss so much.

Isn't she beautiful?

SNOW!! While we were in Colorado, Grumpy helped build a snowman. Only snow we touched all season. First time ever not having snow for Christmas.