Tuesday, December 10, 2013

hunting trees with friends

 

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thanksgiving snapshots

 

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Let’s Celebrate Kyla!


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Kyla had her friends over for a “faux slumber party.” The girls wore their pjs, had pizza, cake, and a movie night- and got picked up before bedtime (9pm). Kyla decided on all the food and games and the movie choice. She really wanted to play pin something on the turkey. She was thinking feather…. I found hat. It was cute. She loved it so much. We also played limbo. 2nd grade limbo is pretty funny. She choice Teen Beach Movie for the movie. She LOVED this party. I think it was her favorite yet.
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Next up, family party… YaYa decorated a cute little party for Kyla. She was so happy and cute the whole time. Among her favorite gifts…a guitar, a fan, and a Kindle.
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I love this girl.



Kyla is 8!


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Happy Birthday Kyla girl.

* You have the sweetest heart.
* You are becoming a great reader and we are so proud of you.
* You continue to write original songs. We love to hear them and you love to perform them.
* You are funny. You say witty things that make me laugh.
* You love to talk Seahawks and football with Dad.
* You are getting better at movies.
* You like your alone time. You seek out quite and its hard to find around here. You want your own room… we’ll see.
* You love presidents and history. You love to watch Youtube videos about them, read about them, and your teacher says Social Studies is your favorite time of day.
* You love your little sisters.
* You are so creative, it amazes me.
* You could care less about what you wear and you still let me pick out everything.
* You are a great swimmer.
* 8 is gonna be great. We love you Kyla.

Backyard Fun.

 

Backyard family self-portraits with the remote…just for fun.

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10 Years

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In November, Casey and I celebrated 10 years married!

We decided to hold out until November when the weather turned bad to make the trip to Hawaii.

It was so nice, just the two of us. Pretty much the only pictures I took were with my phone.

I love you Casey Bell…now and forever.

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Monday, December 9, 2013

Halloween & Trick or Treat…

 

Yep….. it’s been a long long while. I’m trying to go in chronological order so I have to go way back to Halloween. Is this the longest I’ve ever gone without blogging? I think so.

So let’s back up a bit.

Halloween day. Kyla’s class was one of the ONLY ones that got to wear their costumes to school. She chose to wear her Pocohontas costume…minus the wig and plus this cute headband our neighbor Hilary gave her. Heidi’s class was allowed to wear “community contributor” outfits. So Heidi went as a doctor. Here they are on their way to school….

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Trick or Treat traditions continued with the Stendera girls and the Lombardo girls and the other Bell girls.

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The crew- girls only.

 

We had a to take a few pics with the cul-de-sac kids.

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This was the first year we discovered the “pirate house.” We thought we found it last year but we were WRONG. We’ve lived in this neighborhood for six or seven Halloweens….how could we not know. This place was AMAZING. So cool. A definite must for next year.  Although, Cindy Lou Who was crying so bad that one of her eyelashes fell off. SAD. Poor girl.

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