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tooth #6....GONE!

I love a few things about this picture...number 1-her tooth looks so teeny tiny in her 7 year old hand...number 2-Landry's little hands are trying to grab Ashton's hands to get a good look at the tooth.

This is perfect for our sweet Landry Paige!

Our sweet friend Rebecca bought this shirt for her daughter a few years ago and just knew this is would be so appropriate for Lan-Lan. She so sweetly gave it to us so Landry could wear it. It totally suits her...things have gotten MUCH better, but she still has her TWO year old moments!

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rootin' for the Saints

I am not a Saints "Fan"...I am not a hater...I just love my Chiefs. But today, for the Super Bowl I was a Saints fan. I sported my cute "Fleur De Lis" hat to show my support for New Orleans.

*A cool little note....my bro-in-law Jeff and his dad are in Miami at the Super Bowl!!
They have been die hard fans all their lives so it was only fitting that they made it to to the Super Bowl to watch their team. Jeff made the trip in for the weekend all the way from England since that is where he and his family are living these days! Totally Awesome!

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Sassy Saturday Picture #1

This is the dress I picked for the Daddy Daghter Dance. Mamo and Papo gave me it for Chrismas! I just LOVE it! I can hardly wait to to wear it! I want to wear it write this minute!
I think I will look glmorus with my zebrue dress and pink sweter!!!

~Ashton

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Today for our after school snack, Ashton and I had celery with peanut butter and some mini chocolate chips.

Landry wanted to have some too but I am still too nervous to give her celery, she can't have pb yet so she got a few mini m&ms to along with her fruit snacks and crackers. It was a yummy snack that we haven't had in a long time.

Happy Friday!

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ahhhh....finally....a little organization!

I finally took on the daunting task of organizing my recipes. I have had them thrown in an overflowing file folder for I don't know how long. All I know is that every single time I needed a recipe, I had to flip through my file folder and it took forever and every time I would say how I needed to get them organized. (These are just the ones I have printed off the internet or have found in magazines or people have given them to me.)

But now, I have a nice neat little binder with dividers and I love it!

I don't know how in the world I didn't do this sooner!

{I know this is really two pictures, but I combined them into one so I think it counts. I couldn't decide which picture I wanted...again with my horrible indecisiveness!}

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{sorry for the horrible picture...I was messing with a different setting and didn't have time to play around with the editing like I wanted to}

Today our "Pea" started her very first swimming lesson EVER. She was super excited and loved every single second of it. I wanted to get pictures, but with it just being me, and I had to be in the water with her-you get the idea, and on top of that I didn't want to leave my camera just lying around while I was in the water.

So...when we got home, I snapped a picture of her wash-n-wear swim diapers that we had to get for swimming lessons. She was beyond tickled that she was able to pick out the two she wanted all by herself.

She was pretty excited to tell Daddy and Ashton that she "went fimming with Say-wah" today.

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Landry's "Duh-zerrrrt"

One of my girls' favorite part of lunch and dinner is dessert. They always get to choose something little {one cookie, a few skittles or m&ms, chocolate chips, a powdered donut, chocolate raisins, etc.}

I love watching Landry eat. When she is finished she pushes her place mat away and smiles and says "I duh-zerrrt puh-lease". Her lunch time dessert of choice lately has been 10 mini m&ms. We have been working on her colors and the other day I showed her how to sort her m&ms which she thought was the coolest thing ever. She did it on her own over the weekend and Ashton literally screamed and almost wet her pants...she didn't know I had shown Landry a few days before. It was hilarious!

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This week the 5th graders at Ashton's school are holding a fundraiser. They are selling passes to dress according to a certain theme. She was pretty excited for this day!

Project 265~Round 2

Well....as of yesterday I officially completed my first Project 365. I had a lot of fun with it and enjoyed it so much that I am going to continued doing it again. I like trying new things out with my camera and when I actually take a photography class, this will be a great way for me to practice what I learn. I also love that I am able to document things from our days that I wouldn't normally.

This year I am going to add "Sassy Saturday". Every Saturday I will turn my camera over to my Sassy Big Girl and she will have the opportunity to choose what picture to take, take the picture, and type the text to go with it. We are both pretty excited....I can't wait to see what she does with it!

My new layout is compliments of my dear friend Jodi...once again she made this for me. We sat at her computer together browsing through her stuff and bouncing ideas off each other and she did the rest. She makes it look so easy....I only wish I had a little of that brain of hers when it comes to computer stuff. I so appreciate she took the time to do it for me....you're the best!

Thanks a ton Jodi....I LOVE it and I LOVE that you did it for me! You rock girlfriend!

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Motivation.

This morning we ventured out to have Landry's 2 year pictures taken and we also wanted to try for a family picture IF the toddler in our bunch was cooperative enough.

Well....my poor youngest daughter has NEVER in her life had a sucker or lollipop of any kind. Nope, not even at dance when Miss Heather gives all the other kiddos one, not when Big Sis gets one, not when Carly gets one...not at the doctor's office...not ever.

After the picture taking fiasco we had with her for her 18 month pictures this last summer, I decided today might just be a good day to let her have a sucker for the first time. She is beginning to understand the "If you do ______, you get _____".

This sucker turned out to be a LIFE SAVER! This girl cooperated much better than I expected. Daddy even opened it up and let her have a lick or two part way through the shoot when she started to lose interest in the pictures. I only wish I had gotten a picture of her face because it was priceless when she took that first lick...and then the second one. And after those few licks she went back to being Miss Cooperative. It was greatness.

The best part was how she sat in my lap and licked her sucker while we went through our pictures which is quite time consuming. After she finished her sucker she and Sis went to play with the legos. I wasn't stressed and I didn't break out in a sweat trying to keep up with her and look at pictures like I did last summer.

Don't get me wrong...we did have a few times where she acted like a normal two year old, but overall, I was quite pleased! There was not one single fit and it was so nice!

Today I got the "Best Mommy Ever" award in her eyes. She loved her sucker....and it totally worked. I am so glad we had some "motivation" for her today! These bad boys will be used in the future when we need her to cooperate for something...these are "special occasion" suckers after all!

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Today our BG attended a "Legacy Line Jr. Clinic" at the high school where she will most likely go. She absolutely loved it!

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mmmmmmm.....

Today I busted out a few of our Valentine's Day decorations....which include this double heart candy dish with valentine colored dark chocolate M&Ms.

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ummmmmmm....really.....already?!

YEP. This is what you think it is.....Our little 2nd Grade Rock Star Daughter is learning CURSIVE!

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sigh.

I have been looking online for over a week now (actually longer off and on) at ideas for what I want on my blogs. It is a new year and I am SO ready for new layouts! I only have 4 days left before I finish my 365...I am so sick and tired of looking at our family blog....I really, really, really don't love it....it bothers me every single time I pull up my page....I am just over it!

My problem is that I have found several things I think I kind of like, but nothing that I just love. I have no idea what I want. I don't even know what colors I wanna use. Why won't something just jump out at me....maybe because I am a VERY indecisive person...yep that could be it!

I am frustrated....and wish I could find something. Sorry for all the negativity on this one...I will keep at it and I will find something....