End of 2013 - Part 2

 Kinsley's last day of baby ballet.  They crack me up.  Little posers.

 After a day of dress rehearsals, we were famished.  Time to get our grub on.

 Recital went smoothless.  It was a little more difficult this year having two to get ready and Katie being in 3 numbers, but we did it.

 I love this picture.  

Me and Katie on the last night of recital.  Thank goodness it's over.

 Father's Day 2013 was spent with my daddy.  We got him a large metal sign with Dustin's image on it.  It turned out beautifully.  

 Me and my daddy.

 Eben stayed home with the girls on Father's Day.  They went to the park and swam.

 My daddy and his new guitar.

 Our first Summer 2013 Bucket List activities.

 Playing a Chick-Fil-A.

 Swimming and eating sno-cones.

 Playing dress up and putting on a show for momma.

 We spent the weekend with my step-mom to keep her company.  Cousins are so much fun.

 Girls will be girls.  Hiding in the bathroom from all of the little boys.

 Swimming.

 Time for some fun at the park.  Daddy took off from work so that he could go with us.

 It was so hot that day.

 This picture cracks me up.  She stepped on a spider and then ran toward me with her legs spread apart.  I was laughing hysterically.  I still laugh every time I see this picture.

 Daddy and his girls at the River.

 Tugboat Island is so much fun.

 Snocones to cool us off.

 Our first trip to the library.  They were so worn out.

 Playing dress up in their recital costumes.

Fun in the sun at Maw Maw's house.

 Watching the fireworks at the park.

 Celebrating Independence Day.

My brother's 25th birthday was celebrated with a balloon release.

 Our 2nd annual Louvier family vacation at the beach.  This is what we wait for all year long.

 Heading to Galveston on the ferry.

 A storm was blowing in so we went shopping for souvenirs.

They got to hold a shark.  It was dead.

 Shortly after returning from our vacation, Kinsley was eating apple slices and got choked on one.  It wouldn't go down right so we made a trip to the E.R.  Even after she threw it up and the X-Rays showed no evidence of an apple being in her throat, they still sent us, via ambulance, to TX Children's Hospital in Houston.

It's December and I'm still paying off these bills, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

 We ended July by celebrating Kinsley's 4th birthday in style at Katie's favorite restaurant, IHop.  She calls it Hop.

 And Momma's favorite restaurant, Tokyo.

Our last few days were spent at church for VBS.

Bucket List Wednesday - July 3rd

My girls cannot get enough of the bucket list.  They ask everyday to pull something from it.  They have really enjoyed everything we've done so far.  Here's what we did this past Wednesday, which carried into Thursday.

We were actually supposed to do this last week, but ran out of time.  So, we did it this week.  We made a fairy house out of sticks we collected in the backyard.

We added a few special touches to the fairy house.

They wrote a letter to their aunt and uncle that live in Oklahoma.

We went to the Post Office to mail the letter.  They had to do everything themselves.

Kinsley applying the stamp to the envelope.

They both wanted to drop it in the box, but Kinsley couldn't reach.

After the Post Office, we went to the Dollar Store where they each had $5 to spend.  They got to choose whatever they wanted.  They then had to put all of their stuff on the counter (done with my help), and give the cashier the money.  They had to carry their own bags out as well.

Kinsley kept trying to give the cashier her money before she was ever finished ringing up her stuff. 

She was ready.

After all of that we were starving.  We stopped by a local barbeque place for lunch.  I'm trying to teach them to support our local community as much as possible.  Our motto is to buy local whenever you can.

I know this pic is blurry, but that's a belly laugh right there.  She was cracking up.  I'm wondering when those two top teeth are going to come in.  It's been a while since she lost them.

She posed just right so that she could have antlers on her head.

Showing off their Dollar Store loot.

They couldn't wait to tear into all this stuff.

We spent a good hour playing with this whoopee cushion.  When Daddy came home he played with them until he popped it.  We've got to get another one now.  They were heart broken.

Showing off the Hannah Montana glitter in her hair (That stuff is still in there even though I've washed her hair twice.  I think I need to break out the Dawn dishsoap.)

They each got a cardboard doll house.  They pretend that they are neighbors visiting eachother.

I love listening to them when they are pretending.  They always crack me up.

These are the items I bought to do all of the other stuff in our bucket list.  It's all hidden for now.

After lunch we stopped by the library to drop off our books and pick up new books.  I found Dick and Jane and had to get it.  Katie needs to work on fluency and accuracy when reading.  Gotta get her ready for second grade.

Katie ended up leaving that evening to spend the night with one of her cousins.  Kinsley and I put together her glow in the dark catepillar key chain.  Here she is working on those fine motor skills.  It ended up being too hard for her to put together and she lost interest in it quickly.  I ended up having to do it and it was very difficult to say the least.

We did this the following day, but we froze some of their ponies and Littlest Pet Shop figures in water.  I had purchased a few water guns at the Dollar Spot at Target and they had to rescue their figures using the water guns.  Saw this on Pinterest.

Took them a while, but they eventually rescued all of them.