Our summer so far!

What an amazing summer it has been! Our summer has been FULL! like every single weekend we have had something planned and July only proves to be just as busy! We spend EVERY SINGLE sunday at my grandparents with all of our family and closest friends. My grandparents have an inground pool that goes from 3 feet to 12 feet and you can find us there almost every day in the summer but Sunday is a no brainer we are there from around 11am to 7pm. We have lunch, swim, take naps, have dinner and enjoy our family. every single Sunday there is no short of 20 people and 9 lounge chairs around the pool it is my favorite tradition and i defiantly crave it in the winter!

Love her little pose here. Ready for a day at preschool!

Before the big pool was warm we had to imporvise with the little pool!

The big pool is ready for the summer!

Grandma and Grandpa got a golf cart and our tiny town golf carts are street legal. This makes for lots of fun riding around town on the golf carts!

Just my baby girl and i one day after work enjoying the summer!

Bella with her uncle Eric and best friend Brooklynn on one of 100 golf cart rides!

One fridge night after work i picked Bella up and we headed to a local park for a picnic of McDonalds followed my lots of swimming and sliding followed by dairy queen!

Love you to death baby girl!

So happy!

Last weekend Bella was with her dad so i go to go out for the first time in a long time it was a great time with about 20 people. here is my mom and brother!

This summer is proving to be an amazing one! Bella and i are so blessed with the family and friends who surround us. This weekend we are headed to St. Louis for a weekend at the Zoo!

Dance recital June 2012

Miss Bella has been taking dance class since November. She absolutely loves it. Now i wouldn't exactly call this a hardcore dance class. they mainly worked on things like bear crawling,rolling, and a few ballet things.Going into the class she didn't want me to leave her side and i sat in the classroom for EVERY single dance class as opposed to being on the outside looking in. She really started to warm up and as long as i was in there she participated in every single class.  About 3 months in to the class the infrastructures started talking recital i immediately ruled it out. The thing is the recital was at follinger which is a huge auditorium on the university of Illinois campus and they thought a bunch of two year olds were going to climb on stage and perform i thought they were crazy! After talking to a few other moms i just decided to give it a go, my only hope was that she would at least get on stage. I honestly wasn't concerned if she was going to perform or not i just wanted her to be on stage. Well i am proud to say she did AMAZING! not only did she get on stage but she did most of the routine. it was so amazing to see my little girl who was afraid of the class blossom into being on the stage and performing in front of 200 + people.

This was the night of rehearsal. This is her teacher miss Kristen and her friends Julianna and Haley!

Again the night of rehearsal. Warming up backstage!

I might of told her if she got on stage and danced she could have ice-cream afterwards. can we say spoiled?

Getting used to being on stage!

The night of the actual performance we had dinner at longhorn steak house it was amazing!

Baby girl and i right before her performance!

Loves her hannah!

Mom,Bella and Grandma!

Isabella, mommy is so proud of you. You truly rocked it!

Memorial day weekend 2012!

Wow i am little far behind on blogging. I will be posting serval posts today and in one of them will reveal why i am so far behind on blogging so keep reading!!!

Our memorial day weekend was fabulous! We headed to Knoxville Tennessee Thursday afternoon for a long weekend of relaxing in a cabin with my bestie Sara. 5 bedrooms 5 bathrooms 1 sauna, 1 hot tub all in OUR cabin it was HEAVEN! We didn't do much the hole weekend besides relax in the pool. Sunday we did venture in to pigeon forge Tennessee to a go cart track that had a kiddie side to it and it was a BLAST. I love Tennessee it was so peaceful. it was about a 9 hour car drive and Bella did awesome. I will let the pictures do the talking of how amazing our weekend was!!

Ready to hit the pool!

getting some sun!

Bella is in LOVE with horses. this was probably her favorite part of the trip!

She road so many rides at the go cart track and was FEARLESS!

She loves her aunt sara!

We spent LOTS of time swimming in the pool at the resort!

Weekend recap!

This weekend was a good one. I had 3 cousins graduate this weekend. 2 cousins graduated from high school while the other one graduated from college. ALL of the graduations were at 2pm on SUNDAY! With that being said we split up the party's and we had a weekend filled with family! Friday night we had a cookout/bonfire with the family. nothing better than s'mores and little ones around a fire!

Sophie and Sydney got into town from missouri and Bella was one happy camper!

 Sophie and Sydney stayed at our house for the weekend and little miss Bella couldn't of been more happy to have her cousins sleep over two nights in a row! Saturday we woke up and had breakfast of champions (Donuts & Chocolate milk) this has always been a tradition when these three littles are in town! Saturday during the day we spent getting ready for Hannah's graduation party and playing outside in the amazing weather!

Doughnut anyone?

This girl loves her cousins!

Saturday night was the big graduation party for Hannah!

Don't know what we would do with out Hannah!

Glasses Hannah got for graduation!

Sunday we had breakfast with the family followed by the graduation ceremony. Followed by my other cousins graduation parties!

Breakfast with her favorite girl!

Getting a little pool time in before graduation

Ready for graduation!

 

It was an amazing weekend spent with lots of good family. I don't think we will all be together again until the biggest week of the year which is my small towns fair! haha! Its the little things when you are from the country! This week brings a 3 1/2 day work week followed by a trip to Tennessee to see my bestie Sara!

The temps for this weekend in Tennessee look to be amazing!

Mothers day weekend!

Hello Everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I know i did. This weekend was FULL of nothing but time with Family & being outside.Be ready for picture overload because it was that great of a weekend!

Kicked off the weekend on Friday night with Drinks with some of my besties.

 Saturday morning we were up bright and early for a trip to Menards for Flowers. My flower bed was over take by weeks and needed some TLC. We spent most of Saturday Planting flowers and grass seed around the house.

Before.. LOTS of weeds!

Bella LOVED planting the flowers and watering the garden.

Saturday night we both took showers and got cleaned. We had dinner and grocery shopping to get done so Sunday could be full of nothing but outside and relaxing time!

 

 

Dressed and ready for Mothers day brunch with the family!

 

 

 

Bella made this at preschool. Not going to lie i might of cried when i opened it. I just cant believe how big she is getting.

Outside time with the neighbors.

Lots of swinging

Four generations. My grandma,My mom,Myself and Bella!

Grandpa and I

My mom and Bella

It was VERY bright so someone stole mommy's shades!

A little sprinkler action!

 

 

 

Sunday was a great day. As you can see from the above pictures we were outside literally ALL day. We did everything from wagon rides, to swinging, to sprinkler, to chalk. it was such a wonderful day and Bella and I are so blessed to be able to spend the day surrounded by all of our family.

Well hello there!

Sorry for the unintended blog hiatus. It has been quite the week! Wednesday night late/ early Thursday Bella woke up sick. It was glorious.. NOT! puking,fever,chills. She was all better Thursday around 5pm after a full day of sleeping and cuddling

Finally feeling better Thursday evening so she was a coloring machine!

Friday was a 1/2 day at work for me followed by the rest of they day spent outside in the amazing weather. Friday night we had to take my dad to the airport in Bloomington so we hung around Bloomington shopping and eating!

Dairy queen and the park on Friday!

 Saturday i worked all day and Bella was hanging with her dad. Then i picked her up and we came home to help Hannah get ready for prom! Saturday night we hung out for my friend Nathaniel's birthday. Nothing better than steaks on the grill and sitting around a campfire!!

Hannah was so pretty in her prom dress!

 Sunday we relaxed in the morning and then went and helped Maria get moved into their new house. They are STILL waiting on baby beau to make his appearance! Sunday evening we had family dinner at Buffalo wild wings! (Classy i know). Followed by a little bit of shopping.

Ready for Sunday dinner.

Monday was a normal work/Daycare day for Bella followed by a night with her dad. I worked late making up for Thursday that i missed. Tuesday was preschool day. Bella goes to preschool 2 days a week and then to a home daycare 3 days a week.Tuesday night we had dinner with my family. Wednesday  was a normal work day and Bella was with her dad. I had dinner with a friend at chili's and then went and got some stuff at target for our upcoming trip to Tennessee!! Hope everyone has had a good week and has a great mothers day!!