Saturday, September 19, 2015

Lainey is 8!

We have an eight year old...an EIGHT YEAR OLD! Our sweet girl turned eight on September 19th. We started the day with our annual waffles with strawberries breakfast on our birthday dishes and spent the day shopping. 


This is the outfit she picked out for herself.
 For dinner she requested Olive Garden, so the whole family went there to celebrate and ended the evening watching our Huskers lose. :( Even with a loss, we still had a great time celebrating our old lady!

For her party this year, we decided to do the whole movie theater thing. Best decision I've ever made! I pretty much had the best of both worlds--I got to do a little decorating still, but I didn't have all of the crazy clean up involved! We love the Hotel Transylvania movie, so we decided that had to be her party since the 2nd one was coming out right after her birthday. She invited a few of her closest buddies, and we had a blast!


red velvet cupcakes with gummy vampire teeth

coloring before the movie


bat glasses and vampire teeth

dressed like the main character, Mavis

Our kids are so spoiled! They will never know what it's like to watch a movie like we did!

Lainey got lots of great things and really enjoyed being the star for the day!  We love you, baby girl!

Monday, September 7, 2015

Back to School 2015

First day of school for Lainey & Mommy--2nd grade and 11th year of teaching


She chose the Vera backpack over Pottery Barn this year. That was a tough pill to swallow! Too old too fast! Here we go, 2nd grade!!!