The Best Moments

This morning, just before my alarm went off, Evelyn came downstairs and crawled into bed between Blake and me. We snuggled her between us, and just lay there for a few minutes before the day got started with all of its needs and busyness. Those are the best moments as a parent, when we are just together, wrapped up with the people who love you just the way you are, no matter what. Those quiet moments are the ones I think I will cherish for the rest of my life.

Evie's First Glasses!

Evelyn has been complaining that she's having trouble seeing the white board at school and also didn't do well on her vision screening at her annual check up, so I took her to JCPenney Optical today to get a proper eye exam and pick out some frames. She looked so adorable in all of them that we had a hard time deciding, but we finally narrowed it down to two pairs. Since they were running a good promotion, we were able to get both!

Our top pick:

The back-up pair:

Meili's Birthday Party

We had a blast on Saturday celebrating our friend Meili's birthday! It was a pool party so there was swimming, of course, but when a storm rolled in we did crafts and played a few games. Happy birthday to sweet Meili!

Picked Darcy's out on the first try.

First Day of School 2016

School started early this year (almost two weeks), which kinda stunk on the front end of the year, but will be nice in May when the girls are done by Memorial Day. Evie is in third grade and Darcy (my baby!) started Kindegarten.

Shrimp Cat

Snuggling

I took the day off to spend the last day of summer break with the girls. It was a rainy day so we stayed in our PJs and watched the Olympics all afternoon. This sweetness was totally spontaneous: