Donuts with Dad

One Thursday morning Isabelle sent an invitation to her Daddy inviting him to Donuts with Dad. She was so excited that morning to take her Daddy to school and show him off =) We are truly blessed that Dave can actually work from home sometimes and take his little girl to school to celebrate such a special day. She loves her Daddy so much! (even the though the pictures below looks like Dave has been homeless for a week and Isabelle just woke up from a comma, I could kill these two what an awful picture.. LOL)

The little girl who eats very little actually managed to eat 1 1/2 donuts that day!

4th Birthday Party Take 2

So for Isabelle's family party this year I decided to use the K.I.S.S. method and keep it simple (minus the stupid)! I bought a beautiful Princess cake from the fancy new Kroger down the street, we had munchies and a bunch of family show up to celebrate Isabelle's 4th birthday!

People came from near and far, Baby Tyler even made an appearance =)

Isabelle sat on the ottoman as she opened her gifts and then she would ask that people come up and sit with her as she opened her gifts.. LOL When I would tell her who the gift was from she would say, "come on up"! It was what she did at her party the day before so she wanted it to carry over. We tried to explain that adults didn't want, but Mom-Mom went ahead and indulged her.

She received so many wonderful gifts, one of gifts she got was from Grandma (my mom) it was an "American Girl Doll". She got one from her party the day before and now she has two! She also received the bathtub, a couple changes of clothes, a slumber party set, and an entire closet of shoes.... The girl is in fake American Doll heaven =)

Isabelle had a wonderful birthday weekend that was magical and fun. It is hard to believe that our little girl is actually four years old. She has grown right before our eyes from a tiny little infant to a full grown little girl that can write her name, say the Pledge of Allegiance, and ride a bike. She constantly amazes me with her wit and charm, and I love her more every single day. Isabelle is cautious, calculating, and loves to snuggle with her Mommy (which I pray will never go away).

Isabelle- Daddy and I love you unconditionally and you are the apple of our eye. The next big adventure in life for you is going to be being a big sister and I know as caring, loving, and nurturing as you are you will be the best big sister a brother could ever have. Happy Birthday sweet Angel, we love you.

Birthday Party #1

Isabelle is blessed enough to have so many people that love her, so this year we had to have two birthday parties for her! The first birthday party was on Saturday, her actual birthday, and the theme was a princess tea party. All of the girls dressed up like princesses and the boys dressed up like superheros. Isabelle insisted upon real glasses dishes for her tea party, so I have spent the last month at every Good Will and CCA in the area but finally managed to find enough cups and saucers. The kids started off with coloring and the tea party and we actually managed to have no spills (a miracle). Then Abby (who even spent the night that night) went around and did the girls make up while I sprinkled princess dust in their hair. They decorated their own cupcakes, did the pinata and finally retired upstairs to play in Isabelle's new playroom. The best part was it was a magical day for my sweet little princess, she truly had an amazing time!

The cupcakes I made for the parents, they turned out so pretty =) I had to do boy gift bags and girl bags, did not think that princess bags would go over well for the boys!

I asked Isabelle why she kept putting her hand up, her reason was so a bird could land on it like Aurora in Sleeping Beauty. Last picture is Isabelle and Abby, Abby was such a big help with the party and Isabelle was so tickled that she was spending the night in her new bed with her.

The four year old banner I made her, it was so fun looking back at the old pictures I have of her.

Isabelle's Prince Charming, Jonah, as people would come to the party she would open the door and say,"welcome to my castle" but when Jonah got there she ran across the room and yelled, "Prince Charming is here" and was he ever dressed the party (ADORABLE, the little love birds).

This is Isabelle explaining to Abby that the doll she just opened is an American Doll.. LOL Isabelle recently discovered the American Doll catalog, after reading it she closed it put her hand on the top and said, "that was the best magazine I have ever read". Since then she has been wanting one, so we are letting her just believe that this doll is an American Doll, is that so wrong??? The answer is NO, those stinking dolls are $100 a piece please let me live my lie for as long as possible.

For the past two years Pop Pop Fish has sending Isabelle fruit bouquets for her birthday, the girl absolutely LOVES fruit! She was so excited to see that she got another one this year and immediately dove into eating it.

Abby is Isabelle's role model now, so when it was time to go to dinner Isabelle had to put a dress on that matched Abby's and do her hair the same. Meagan the "American Doll" even made it into this picture =)

Snow Day #2 for 2010

Some of the snow had melted by the time I took a picture of the house, but an impressive amount of snow had gathered on the table on the back porch over the past couple of days.

Daddy told Isabelle that once he was done with work he would help her build a snowman, so the fun began as soon as Daddy was off his conference call. It was clear to me that this was not Daddy's first snowman. I love the picture of Isabelle falling in the snow it reminds me of the Christmas Story when the little brother fell down and could not get up, she was all bundled up this day.

The first picture is the beginning of a snowball fight with Daddy, apparently the girl is not very good at picking out opponents but luckily Daddy went easy on her.

The snowball battle continues!

We used Mr. Potato head pieces to build the smaller snowman, and Isabelle and Daddy built the bigger one all by themselves (as I manned the camera).

Snow Day #1 for 2010

After the Valentine's Day party we headed home to play in the snow for a little while. I have lived in Texas my entire life (with the exception of one year) and I have never seen this much snow in the DFW area. Isabelle and I had a blast playing and building our first snowman. I have to admit this was my first snowman ever, with the exception of a small one foot snowman and I hardly think that counts. What I am trying to get to is I need some serious practice when it comes to snowmen building =)

Isabelle was trying to catch a snowflake on her tongue like Caillou does.

She is in love with her snowman, she called him her husband. Later that evening she told me that she was worried about her husband being outside all by himself in the cold and she hoped he would be ok.