Father Daughter Dance 2018

This month is one of my favorites!  This coming week will be the highlight!  I'm so glad we started the Valentine festivities with the girls most anticipated event of the whole year.  This is our 6th year to participate in our churches Father Daughter Dance.

Father Daughter Dance 2013 

Father Daughter Dance 2014 

Father Daughter Dance 2015 

Father Daughter Dance 2016  

Father Daughter Dance 2017

The girls get SO excited to get dressed up, wear a little make up, get presented to their daddy, get a special little something (this year it was heart earrings and a heart necklace), go out to dinner, eat fancy desserts and dance the night away!  I secretly wish I could follow behind them the entire evening snapping pictures!  We compromise by getting ready early enough to take lots of pictures at home.  I hope they love these memories and pictures as much as I do!

 

P.S.  They didn't have all the fun!  Me and the boys went to Chick-fil-A and then got Krispy Kreme donuts and came home and watched a movie!  :)

Krissy's 5th Birthday Photo shoot

Happy Birthday Krissy!!!!!

Krissy is a little mini-me.  She wants to do whatever I'm doing.  If I'm baking, she's on the counter asking to help.  If I'm working in the yard, she's right next to me doing what I'm doing.  I can't believe how well she's adapted to pre-k and she's actually upset I don't let her go everyday.  Her teacher tells me how much she loves Krissy and how sweet she is.  She loves to play Barbies with Allie.  She thinks Hayden is hilarious and imitates anything he does.  She thinks of Austin as the baby and likes to tell him what to do.  And he never pushes back, he just accepts that role.  I love her little raspy voice and tiny freckles on her nose!

Earlier this month, I took Krissy to the Master Garden in Evansville (she said she would have rather gone to Florida to take pictures - me too, kid!) for some birthday pictures.  Turns out the garden has become a hot spot for rock hunting.  We had to dodge a few more people than usual for our photo shoot.  

You'll be able to tell pretty quickly that Krissy #1 loves flamingos and #2 likes to work it for the camera.  She posed and twirled and posed and cheesed.  It was so fun to take her picture!  I finished the photo shoot with 85 "keepers" but I'm only including my favorites on here :)

We took a break from "Mingy" and the flamingo dress.  I know that these wedding dress pictures may not be everyone's favorite, but I love the idea.  Allie got her picture in my wedding dress when she turned 5, so Krissy did too!  She was SO excited to get to wear it and loved me carrying her around the garden in it.

We still had some sun light after the wedding dress pictures, so we put the flamingo dress back on to wrap up the evening.

We found a painted shell (apparently what everyone was looking for) and Krissy was so excited.  She kept telling me funny things "the ocean" was telling her.