Live from the Manar's...: 2011

Showering Baby Jack

On June 12, 2011 I helped host a baby shower for my friend Lacey and her baby Jack.
Jack was born at the end of July and I'm excited to start babysitting for him beginning next week.
Here are pictures from the shower.
Jack's bedroom is decorated in these bright, fun colors.
It was the inspiration for the shower.

Loved, Loved, LOVED the cake!

I wish you could see the banner detail better.
My mom helped me make this.
It was one of my favorite things.

Table decorations were diaper cakes
and

Gerber daisies.
It was so much fun to do and I'm looking forward to my time with Jack!

Recital Time

Starting in January, Abbie took dance lessons.
She had tap and jazz.
On May 24, 2011 she had her first recital.

Abbie has super fine hair.
She kept rollers in all day, but when we took them out, she had nothing! Nil, Nada, NOT A CURL!
I frantically called my friend Whitney, who has much more patience with hair than I do, and she came to the rescue!

With lots and LOTS of hairspray, she was able to accomplish this.
The girls in her number were supposed to have a ponytail with curls.
I'm happy to report (for all Whitney's hard work) that Abbie's held the best!

One of the fun parts for her was getting to wear makeup.
One of the scary parts for me, was that her make up was minimal compared to the other girls.
YIKES! It was almost a Toddler and Tiaras gone bad recital!

Before her first tap number.

After her ballet routine to "Devil in Disguise."

This was her favorite and she did really well!
Honestly (and I'm not just saying this) she did the best out of her group.
I'll have to see if Papaw can send me the video.
And for further proof, she was asked by her instructor to try out for the Dazzlers.
The Dazzlers are a select dance team.
We passed on it this year. I wasn't ready to shell out that kind of time and money, and MAKE-UP!

Memaw and Papaw came to watch her shake it.
Nona and Nono and cousin Emily came too.

The group.
She's the bottom row, far right.

Nono and Nona gave her a rose for her performances.
She LOVED the whole night!

T-Ball

May 21, 2011
Abbie played T-ball again this summer.
This year her team was The Little Pink Ladies.

And it's "outta here!"

Spring Fling

May 19, 2011

Will's Preschool class

At the end of the school year, Will's preschool had a Spring Fling

Ms. Mary Jo getting her lipstick on!
Included in the Spring Fling, was the Kiss the Pig contest.
The class brought in money and put it in either Ms. Mary Jo or Ms. Crystal's piggy bank.
The teacher with the most money had to kiss the pig.
Ms. Mary Jo was the lucky "Kiss-er."

Here she is meeting her "kiss-ee."

Muah!
The kids loved it!

Our Friends

See this pretty arrangement on my door?
Now notice how the bow is a bit messed up?

That's because I found a nest in the arrangement.
There were 4 eggs.
And then there were these guys...

We had a good time checking on them everyday.

We couldn't help but love them.
We also had more on the side of the house and above our back porch light.
These little guys were much easier to see.
Eventually their nest got so heavy that it fell out.
Andy to the rescue, he used a zip tie to hold the nest in place.

Right before they left us.
They weren't so cute once they started pooping everywhere.
Andy to the rescue again!
And my arrangement was salvaged!

All tuckered out

May 8, 2011
Preparing my Mother's Day breakfast must have been tiring.
She didn't even make it to her bed that night.
I found her asleep like this...

Mother's Day

May 8, 2011
On Mother's Day I was greeted with breakfast in bed from my 3 little lovelies.
If only I could sleep in and get breakfast in bed everyday!