Dance Recital

Haze had her first dance recital with the Mississippi Metropolitan Dance Academy and was adorable. The older girls did Beauty and the Beast this year, so the little girls had Belle's Tea Party in the afternoon and all did routines to songs about candy.."the good ship lollipop," "sugar, sugar" etc....it was darling!


The dancing queen had quite the entourage! Her number one fan, of course, was little man. He helped her practice at home, helped her get ready and cheered her on.





Sug & Joe even showed up at the rehearsal as a surprise!!!!!


Sug is the 100% reason that we can even do dance lessons. She has taken her every Monday afternoon for a year! We are so thankful for all she has done!


Cece and Ray with the little star!


His heart bursting with pride, my heart melting on the side! We are so blessed to have each other and these precious children!


As the country song says....there goes my life!

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Mother's Day, Father's Day and New Orleans

Mother's Day before church






Little Man in his seersucker suit!!!! Love it!


Chilling with Sug and Joe!







We spent Father's Day weekend at Kyle's dad with the whole Clayton clan...swimming and eating in the summer sunshine...so much cousin fun!





We headed to New Orleans after breakfast that Sunday to meet Sug and Joe for three days of HOT fun....


The Quarter.....Haze asked, "Daddy, what is that smell?" Kyle, "that's New Orleans, baby" Haze, "well, I love it her, but shooo wee, it stinks!" The entire trip she reminded us to hold our noses when we were anywhere close to Burbon Street! HILARIOUS!




The aquarium.....




The Zoo







The Carousel

K4 Graduation

It is almost impossible to believe, but Elizabeth Haze has graduated from Hope and will be starting REAL Kindergarten at First Pres Day School in the fall. It seems like yesterday that Kyle and I walked into this new building and dropped our baby off with strangers for the first time and received the call from Sister Tereze saying that she wouldn't stop crying and probably wasn't cut out for daycare!

My, my how times have changed. This place is our children's second home and they are surrounded by loving caring teachers that we feel are like family.

The end of the year ceremony and graduation were so cute. She could not be more prepared for "real" school. We are so blessed that she (and Gray) have this school and these women caring for them.

The besties!

Proud, proud momma and daddy!

After the graduation ceremony, the parents threw an after party at Pelahatchie Shores and had an absolute ball! Even though we are all headed our separate ways, these friends will always hold a special place in our hearts!!!

Easter 2011

Easter was so much fun this year....the Bunny was extra nice leaving not only our baskets, but clues all around the house (just like Blues Clues) as to how to find special prizes! We found D.J. equipment and a drum set in the bathroom, a soccer goal and wedding barbies in the backyard and a new kitchen set in the playroom just by following the clues! They had a blast on this treasure hunt! Of course, I have no pictures as the race was on and there was no time for that!



The real deal Easter Bunny showed up at the club house for the annual Egg Hunt...



Too sweet getting ready to find the Golden Egg!!!!!!

KidsFest 2011

Kyle had had enough "help" working in the yard, so the kids and I headed out to KidsFest in Ridgeland to try to sneak a peek at Dora and Deigo LIVE! Holy smokes this was a fun, fun time!

Here we are heading in all grown up!



Dora and Boots....


Deigo....


The Merry Go Round...



Real Ponies...



The Big, huge tractors, dozers and mowers...



The roller coaster...




Elizabeth Haze the fearless...on the BIG swings, I mean fair style...I wasn't ready for this at all and was very glad that my parents nor Kyle were there to witness this daredevil stunt (in my opinion...it is totally different when it is your baby on these things!)

Let's play catch up!

Life is so crazy, I am lucky to get pictures taken these days, much less update this blog, but I promise to do better! Elizabeth Haze and Gray are growing up so fast...I swear, we blink and they grow an inch! I am so far behind, I am just going to pick and chose some photos of birthday parties, church events, school parties and what not to show their cute little faces! Sorry if your birthday party doesn't get the blog space it deserves, but if your really my friend...you'll understand! haha

Lil Man would rather have a tool or weed eater in his hand than a toy or piece of candy any day! He is all boy....good or bad!


The kids are getting so big, a few months ago we had a back seat added to the golf cart, plus new paint, new wheels, lights and I could go on....that's what happens when daddy goes to the store by himself! haha


Presley turned seven and had a cheerleading party to celebrate. She was such a trooper considering that she had been in the hospital for almost a week. The party was a huge sucess with all the girls sporting their uniforms of their favorite teams.


Headed out to church....a rare serious look for the wild man!!!!


Silly girls at Chuck E. Cheese for Elenora's birthday...um, not sure where Haze's shoes are or why she doesn't have them on!

The Tooth Fairy!!!!

March 24th, I looked at Elizabeth Haze's bottom front teeth with some concern that we may have allowed her to use a sippy cup a little too long. I reached in her crooked little mouth only to find that one tooth was hanging on by a thread loose! I have to say, I was in total shock! I did not lose a tooth until the third grade and my baby is only 5! Two days later, EH woke me up at 4 o'clock to say her tooth fell out in her sleep! Talk about a drama free tooth story....none the less...the tooth fairy was on her way!!!

Here are the matching tooth fairy boxes! (Lil man couldn't totally miss out on all of the excitement AND I decided to be well prepared for the next time this happened!)



The tooth.....



The snaggle tooth princess....


I didn't get any pictures of the 'loose change' fairy dust trail that she left from EH's room to the front door because I woke up to the sound of change landing in Haze's trick or treat bucket and missed the whole thing!!!!!!!