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Messy Signs

Apr 20, 2012

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On to messy signs!

We teach our kids ASL starting pretty early. A few of them caught on more then others, but its been so wonderful for us. I totally recommend it to anyone! Have any questions? Just ask away! Our kids really love Signing Time!

Here is Jillian showing some of her favorite signs! I find that if you start teaching signs around the time they start table foods, it seems to click better for them. Some of Jillian’s first signs were…

And…

Jillian is 21 months (she was a preemie so shes really more like 18 months) and she has about 15+ signs. No! Stop! And eat. Seem to be her favorites this week! 😉

I asked her to look at her hands…

And she signed…

And one more picture for good measure! She is so cute!

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jeramy

i can not stand what a mess she is. SO HILARIOUS! and signing IS amazing! i’m glad you taught our kids. 🙂

ajira

I enjoyed sign language too! It was so awesome to have one more way to communicate with my darling HRG. Jillian, ugh! She slays me with her adorableness. Love the ‘dirty’! 😀

Brave

Apr 17, 2012

Here is one of the sweetest families I’ve ever met, and I am blessed to call them friends. They have quite the story, but for now I’m just going to ask that you keep them in your prayers. Dad is being deployed. I get all teary eyed thinking about all the amazing people I’ve met living near T.A.F.B. It takes a special family to be a military family, and I wouldn’t have the life I have without them. I am more grateful then I can say.

You can see how sweet, fun loving and tender this family is from these images, but that is just the tip of the iceberg, they are loyal, devoted and they are fighters. Each. And. Every. One. Of. Them. The word Brave should have their picture next to it in the dictionary.

Vanessa’s Bracelet says: Live everyday like he is deploying tomorrow.

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Wendy Zippwald

OMG…I want that bracelet! Love the image of them kissing the children in the middle! So sweet Sharon.

jeramy

beautiful images babe!

Heather Hoffman Spiess

AAAAWWWW Vanessa ‘Henley’ Pearson I love them. They have me teary eyed also. Love you all! Sending Prayers for you all.xoxoxoxoxox

Jeff Barnes

So Proud of Them one tough Family ……

Barbara Meraz

Great family! Love them!!

She’s Got the Ballet Bug!

Mar 27, 2012

In case you couldn’t tell… This is a graceful bow. 😉

For Maggie’s birthday ‘Auntcy’ bought her ballet lessons. She has been begging me since then to get her into “ballet class”, only the options for ballet class around here were a ballet combo class (She wanted ONLY ballet) Or, a real fancy ballet academy for the low price of… an arm and a leg. 😉 Finally, the spring issue of courses offered by the community center was published, and lo and behold… Princess Ballet! Whoo hoo! After her first class she is ready to eat, sleep and drink ballet! She just asked if we could put a big mirror on the wall and get her a new CD player for her room to play ballet music. Oh boy!

Now I may have gone overboard with all these images and you are under no obligation to watch this slideshow. She was just so stinking cute! The class was darling and every week they get to learn a new princess dance. Fun! Right?! And no dance class would be complete without a sticker at the end! I sent Maggie back to say think you to her teacher and to my surprise Maggie gave her a great big hug! 🙂

Princess Ballet

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Heather Cortes

Oh my goodness that is the sweetest thing. How did I know it was going to be Mags that has the ballet bug?????

Wendy Zippwald

She can not possible be this big and this cute! Dance on Mags!

Jody Williamson

My heart is melting. These are amazing!

Auntcy

She looks so happy!!! That was fun to watch.

Princess Ballet

Mar 27, 2012

One of Maggies life long dream was fulfilled today…

She got to go to a real ballet class!

I’ll have more to share soon. I just have to cull through 50,000,000,000 images I took of the 45 minute class and but that together with all the video I took. 😉

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Mindy A

Eeeeee! I feel her excitement!

jeramy

oh boy! the video was even better than this image….she is SO CUTE!

Coffee With a Friend

Mar 21, 2012

I had coffee with a friend today and decided to bring my camera. Each week I try to get Jillian over to play with the “Bruh-bers” at least once and today I brought my camera. One of these days soon I’m going to follow these guys and their siblings from the moment they wake up till… till they are annoyed with me! You have no idea how cool and funny these kids are! Their folks aren’t too shabby either! 😉

Wanna hear something ~~funny~~ CRAZY? Together Jen and I have ten kids. No joke! T-E-N… TEN! Ten kids! I really want to take our families to the mall! How funny would that be! Or out to dinner! Do you have a table for fourteen available?

Some of these images crack me up! Yes, I know its not right to put bows on boys and then post it on the internet. He’s just so cute! And Mr. E. wasn’t taking the ball from Jillian… They are perfectly matched and I WILL have some amazing images of them together for their wedding slideshow. 😉 Enjoy!