Happy 5th birthday Catie!

We traveled to Knoxville to celebrate Catie Beth's 5th birthday in April. Everyone enjoyed playing at her house. It was a perfect day to play outside and Catie was SO excited to see Adeline and Evie!

little more April...

So I forgot to post about our fabulous weekend with friends. The first of April, we had 7 adults and 4 extra children visit our house for the weekend. It was a crazy, fun filled weekend with lots of laughter! We just wish we could see them all more. Here are a few fun pics from the weekend at the Thomas house...

Easter bonnet dance

Adeline's dance class made Easter bonnets and put on a little Easter dance show for the parents this week. I have to say, it was pretty darn cute! Adeline is by far the smallest 3 year old in her class, but as you can see, she did pretty well. Her teacher told her to stay on her circle...so she did just that!! She was so excited that her daddy was able to come watch too. Special times!

CINCINNATI

We took a family trip to Cincinnati last weekend to go to a Reds baseball game, visit the Cincinnati Zoo and see some family. We all had a great time! Here's a clip of Evie who was very excited about the homerun!

February in the Grove...and Richmond...and Cancun

February started off very cold here in the Grove. Grammy and Granddaddy came to visit the first weekend in February (which happened to be Grammy's birthday!!). The girls and I made her a chocolate peanut butter cake. It was delicious!
We had a nice Valentine's day celebrated with great friends. Torrey, Dan and Savannah came to visit us over Valentine's weekend. It was great to finally meet little Savannah and of course Adeline and Evie loved her...maybe a little too much! With so man cookie lover in the house, we couldn't resist making chocolate chunk cookies with Torrey! Always a fun time with the Linders!
The next week, Mike and I went to Cancun work a sales reward trip for 5 days. We flew from Nashville to Norfolk so the girls could spend time with Meme and Pawpaw, then we flew from Norfolk to Cancun for our trip. It was such a nice change to go from 30 degree weather to 85 in Cancun. From what I hear, the girls had a great time with Meme and Pawpaw too. They also were able to see grandma, David and Cheryl while they were in Richmond. We are SO lucky to have such an awesome Meme. You would have never guessed she didn't have children of her own : ) She is truly a blessing to us and our family. It was very hard for the girls to leave her. I think everyone was sad. We will just have to schedule another visit soon!
Back to school and work for a week and a half before we head out on our next trip...

January=snow month for Nashville

We had MANY snow storms this month. We spent some time playing in it...College Grove style that is...in the laundry basket (as a sled of course!) and Evie enjoyed tasting it! We made more cookies this month and some snow cream. Daddy didn't travel much this month which was VERY nice. I stopped working full time as well this month. I'm definitely enjoying my days off with my sweet girlies!
We also went to the Circus this month. I was worried the girls would think it was too loud since that's what Adeline said last year, but they both LOVED it! Adeline actually cried when we had to leave. She was sch a great big sis "narrating" everything she saw. Evie said a lot of "oh" and enjoyed the elephants. Adeline wanted to know when we could go back...I guess the zoo will have do til next year!
Adeline started taking dance (ballet and tap) this month and Evie started taking a parent/child gymnastics class. It has been such a joy to watch them interact with their peers. I have really enjoyed spending some alone time with Evie in her gymnastics class too. She is such the little dare devil!
I tackled some winter projects. I painted our master bedroom and bathroom and made some more pants for the girls. The snow has been fun, but we are looking forward to some warmer weather soon.

Three months to catch up on...

Once again it has been a while since my last post. I left off in December 2010...we did many things in December including making LOTS of cookies, went to the Opryland, Saw Santa, had visitors and traveled. We also got our first round of snow in December. Here's a clip from our visit with Santa this year. As you can see, it went well! Well, I can't seem to be able to upload it right now, will keep trying, but there was A LOT of screaming!!
Grammy and Granddaddy came in for a very short visit. They cut their trip short due to a snowy forecast, but we still enjoyed them and opened a few Christmas presents. Here's Adeline's favorite present thus far... (video below)
We traveled to Richmond for a few days at Christmas. Adeline and Evie took a few minutes out of their day to work out with daddy at Meme and Pawpaw's house...too cute!


Christmas pictures to come as well as January and February updates...