St. Patrick's Day Parade with STA

It is tradition for the St. Thomas Aquinas 3rd graders to walk in the St. Patrick's Day parade. 

She was up and ready early! 

I got to go spend the day with her.

It was such a fun day with our girl. 

Claire Turns 7

Claire is such a strong, kind, smart, and funny girl.  She is always happy and willing to help anyone.  She is the first to notice someone sitting alone or if someone needs some extra attention.  We joke that she loves an underdog!  She always makes a point to thank me for all I do for her and tell me how much she loves us!  She loves being with her family and each of her sisters adore her.  She is on the jr. swim team, does flamenco, plays on the kickball team, and does gymnastics. She loves her school, friends, and her teachers.  She is such an incredible little girl.  It is so fun to watch her grow and see how people are so drawn to her.    We are so lucky she is ours! 

A donut party before school

Our sweet (and silly) 7 year old! 

Her favorite pizza for dinner...

and gifts. 

Her pink cake, made with love by Audrey and Caroline.

Favorite color: Blue

When I grow up I want to be: a famous flamenco dancer

Best friend: Allison and Neve

I love to: Dance

Favorite food: Jimmy Johns 

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Daddy's night at Preschool

Daddy's night at preschool is always a big hit.  The prep is very extreme.  Dress shopping and picking out the perfect shoes and bow. This year Audrey wanted to pick out Daddy's outfit too! 

February Fun

February fun includes recovering from the holidays and all the travel, staying warm, and being home! 

This girl is silly.  If I turn my head she disappears into her room and puts on as many items of clothing as possible. 

She loves to ride Sandy at the store. 

Claire did the talent show at school.

She likes donuts

She also loves her biggest sister

We were invited to an Olympic party.  Emmerson spent hours prepping for it. 

Finally enough hair for piggies! 

Quinn invited Audrey on a day date.  She was so excited. 

These two are such sweet friends! 

We are still living in a construction zone so at any given time we are all hiding from the mess and noise in one room. 

Audrey was so excited to take her valentines to school.  Valentines day is one of the girls favorites.  Daddy was traveling for work but we still tried to do all our special traditions.  

Heart pizza 

A special dinner

Gifts of course! 

Popsicles are yummy even when it is cold outside. 

We officially have another big girl that can read to the little girls. 

Audrey's number 1 treat....olives!

Best buddies! 

Daddy's 4-0

Daddy was traveling for work the week before his birthday so we had plenty of time to get everything ready to celebrate. 

We did some shopping and wrapping, decorating, baking, and pushed our contractors A LOT!

Nothing like a homemade cake!

We had a couple more surprises up our sleeves.

While Daddy was traveling for work we begged our contractor to get our room done.  When he left it was far from done!  Our hope was for Daddy to get to sleep in our new room the night he got home for his 40th birthday.  The guys worked pretty much around the clock for 5 days! To call the room done might have been a stretch but by the time he got home there was carpet and furniture!  And 4 happy girls waiting for him. 

We had one last surprise.  We headed to Bloomington for what Daddy thought was a just a date night away.  When we got there all of his favorite people were waiting on him to celebrate. He was so happy and felt like we moved mountains to make this happen.  5 couples got 13 kids covered to sneak away for the night.