Cookie Cutie Portraits

Date: Nov 15, 2020

Tis the Season

for a million and one festive pictures of my family!!

Let's kick off the Joy 

with some 

Cookie Cuties!!

Awww I just love all these pictures!

Who's in the Christmas Spirit now??! :)

Laiklyn's Kindergarten Graduation

Date: May 18th

Sadly Laiklyn's Kinder Graduation was cancelled

since school was still cancelled due to COVID-19.

But don't you worry.

We still celebrated her achievement with a little photo session.

What an adorable Kinder Graduate!!

 

She just LOVED school this year and especially her teacher Ms. Francom!

She did amazing and learned SO much!

She's excelling in every subject!

Her reading and math skills are already mid 1st grade levels.

Then she even quickly conquered online school!

She mastered navigating the laptop

and so many new online programs.

We're so proud of you Laiky!

Anthem Light Parade

Date: May 1st

One by one all the events are getting cancelled nationwide

and here in Anthem as well.

One of our favorites is Music in May.

Yep those all got cancelled this year too.

No more free concerts in the park every Friday night in May!

However one of our awesome Anthem residents decided to organize

a UTV Light Parade on the first night that would have been Music in May.

Decorate your RZR with lights, music and patriotism

and bring the Music in May to the neighborhoods instead!

The Light Parade is usually an annual Christmas time event.

But everyone jumped at the chance to get out of their homes

and bring joy to our community.

That afternoon I asked Ryan and Anden to go get the RZR ready.

He texted me awhile later that they were done 

and to come outside and check it out while they drove past.

Uhhh we're either gonna make friends or enemies tonight!

There's no in between on the Trump topic! haha

We had a quick dinner and then loaded everyone up to head to the staging area at the Outlets.

There had only been 2 wks notice for this parade.

So I wasn't sure how if a lot of people would be in it or supporting it from their driveways

Boy was I wrong!

We pulled in and there were rows and rows and rows of UTVs all lined up

and ready to go!

It wasn't until after the parade when I was looking at the pics on my phone

that I realized Ryan had changed clothes into a Trump shirt and hat!! lol

At least you can't say he's not committed! lol

Just hanging out waiting for the parade to begin...

while keeping our 6 ft social distance from others!

(ok clearly not from our own family members! lol)

Load up and finally heading out!

The organizer posted a video of everyone pulling out of the staging area.

I screenshot it when we went by!

(since I forgot to take a pic of our RZR that night all lit up!)

The parade weaved in and out of most of the neighborhoods in Anthem.

Almost every house along the route had families on their sidewalk cheering and waving.

Such a fun night to bring our community together during such an odd time!

We loved being in the parade and waving to so many people we knew!

The parade lasted for 3 hours!!

We cut out at the 2 hour mark and dumped the little girls in bed.

Such a fun time!

And a much needed chance to get out of the house and see other humans!! lol

Trying to Catch Up on Blog Posts!

Date: Apr 3rd

Slowly but surely...with emphasis on slowly

I'm chipping away at catching up on the blog.

You would think that being quarantined would give me extra time.

But on no,

I'm quarantined with 4 kiddos

that "MOM MOM MOM MOM" me allllllll day long!!

So bear with me.

It's April 2020...and I'm working on August 2019 posts.

I refuse to throw in the towel.

So scroll down for updates.

I'll date it as the day it happened...

not 7 months later when I actually wrote the dang blog post! lol :)

Elfy’s Baaaaack!

Date: Dec 1st

Guess who’s Back??!!

ELFY!!

And of course he brought gifts too!

Advent Calendars!

One for the bigs 

and one for the littles!

Let the countdown to Christmas begin!!

Sunday Snapshot

Date: Dec 1st

I just can’t resist a Sunday Best Snapshot!

On this Thanksgiving weekend

we’re grateful to be together!

And of course to be color coordinated for church!

(ok maybe only I’m grateful for that part! lol)