Anastasia graduates from prek!

Well, the last of my baby girls graduated last week from pre-kindergarten. I have mixed emotions about this whole end of  pre-kindergarten process. I am so grateful she has had a wonderful year with new teachers and new friends. But I am sad to see Ana leaving her school. Just like her older siblings, she attended Knox for a few years and has grown so much and learned so much. All the teachers are caring, loving and it's been a great Christian atmosphere for my children. I know Ana is ready for kindergarten, but man it feels weird to say that my last daughter,, my fourth child, is going to kindergarten in the fall.

Anyway, last week was the pre-k graduation/spring sing performance and it was beautiful! Ana was of course her normal jovial, sweet, endearing self. She sang her heart out with her friends and did a few songs in sign language. Here are some picture highlights! 

This was one of the songs that the kids sang and used sign language for and it was such a sweet sentimental song. It made me tear up because it talked about following Christ everyday and having him transform us.  And the kids sang so beautifully and seeing my Ana on the school stage one last time, really got the tears flowing.

After the songs, the pre-k teachers gave each child a certificate and they walked across the stage. The reception afterward was nice and in between snacking on treats we were able to take some pictures with Ana. Uncle Mark came to support Ana and brought her a lovely rose bouqet that made her smile so big. She said she had never received flowers before and her older sisters always got them for their school activities or dance recitals. 

Congratulations Anastasia on graduating pre-kindergarten. We are all so proud of you and love you so much! 

Hope you guys have a fantastic Friday and a great weekend! 

Happy Thursday Peeps!

I hope you guys are having a great day and enjoying the weather. It was so cold and rainy last week which made my kiddos upset because all they want is to go outside and play. The cold Winter had us having major cabin fever and we are anxious for warmer sunnier days.

Today on the blog I'm sharing some pics of Ava's 8th birthday! It was last month, but with the festivities of Easter, I simply forgot to add a post about my mini me.
It's hard to believe I gave birth to this 8lb 6oz baby 8 years ago! Where has the time gone? Why cant babies stay little forever? 

                                                             Ava at 1 week old.

She was my biggest baby girl and is a unique fun loving child. She is super smart, loves to laugh and smile and her passion is cheerleading, playing the violin and making arts and crafts. We call her the queen of arts and crafts, because she will take tape and any type of material and make something cool and neat out of it. She also is very blunt and is a no nonsense type of girl. Don't sugar coat things with her, tell her the truth and she will be happy.

So she woke up on her birthday with tons of presents to open. She screamed when she opened the American girl present. She is a true girly girl.

 After opening presents, she went to school and I brought her a Chik- FilA lunch and she was ecstatic to see me. But she wouldn't let me take a picture with her because she wanted to be first in line in the lunch line. #secondgradeproblems ha!


For dinner, Ava requested a pizza dinner from Cici's pizza and Portillo's chocolate cake. So once Martin got home, we headed to dinner and she ate her heart out. My girls love the macaroni and cheese pizza from CiCi's.

Ava decided to forgo a friend party this year and requested a family party. Since both sets of  grandparents were coming over the house for Easter dinner, we decided to celebrate her birthday with cousin fun, cake and tons of presents! 

She had two great day of celebrating!