Mother's Day part 2

Well last week was all about Emily. Now it is all about Sarah. If I know how Emily will react to a situation, I have no idea about Sarah.

Dear Sarah,

My little baby Sarah...I know that no matter how old you get you will always be my baby. As I look at you, I know that God has great things in store for you. He has given you an enormous heart that I see in how you treat those little ones under your care (real or imagined). He has also given you such a strength of will. I feel no fear that any one will ever be able to get you to do something you don't want to. I also know that when you set your mind to something you will do it.

I love to just cuddle with you. You will just let me hold you and love on you. It is the best. I see how big you are getting and get so sad for the day when you will be too big to fit on my lap. Even your little words "Mommy, I'll always be your baby," bring such comfort to my heart. You are such a joy, even when you are testing the very limits of my sanity, know I love you always. My baby Sarah, I love you so.

 

Mother's Day

Yes...I know that it is incredibly late for Mother's Day, but it has been so busy with graduation and the end of the school year. I read on pinterest about writing a letter to your children each year on Mother's Day. I decieded that since this is where I have been putting some of my thoughts about our wild, crazy lives that I would write my letters here. So here it goes...

Dear Emily,

I look at how you have grown up this past year and I am so amazed. Poor child, the more I see you, the more I realize how much you act just like me! Even how you get upset, you act just like your mommy. I'm sorry :) I know as you get older you will hate to hear this, so I will stop saying this as you grow.  But there are times your Daddy and I just look at you and can see Mommy!

I love how much you love everyone. There is really no one who is not your friend. You love everyone so much! It just thrills my heart to see how much you care. You just care about everyone and don't care how they look or have or say...you just care. As I watch you take these steps out from under our protection and into this big, hard world, that others will see your big heart and keep it safe. That others will realize how much a treasure it is to have such a big heart and not work to make it hard.

As a parent there is such a joy in seeing your child suceed and soar in things they love. I watch you read and see you discovering all the great things you find in books. I love to see this world opening up to you. I also watch you discovering soccer, tball, and dancing. I wonder what you will soon grow to love...it has been a year of letting go and discovering. I am learning to let go a little bit and realizing I can't keep you safe from every little thing, and  you starting to discover who you are, who you will turn out to be. I am so excited to see you grow up and so proud of the young lady you are becoming. Our little princess!!

Dance 2012

Well this has been the first year that we have done dance at a studio. It is sure different! Emily loves it like I knew she would. Sarah....well....at least we got some pictures :)

U of A Accounting Student of the Year!

Well normally I talk about the girls and what is going on with them, but today I get to talk about their Daddy. He has been working really hard to finish up school. I know it has to be very hard to go to school full time and still be a wonderful husband and father. Most of the other students are just that students. They haven't really had to step out of that role yet and be more. But he has. I thought about all of this at the banquet to honor him and several other of those students. As they were calling off the other students' achievements, I realized that many of Aaron's accomplishments are not things that can called off on stage to the applause of others. Things like having 2 healthy and well adjusted kids, putting his own dreams on hold to help raise those kids, being the leader of a house, balancing a budget on a teacher's salary (let's see the people in Washington do that!), and being a husband. You can't really stand on stage and say those things, but in reality many of those students will struggle with balancing just that job their first year, but Aaron he will soar! I tell him that I knew that when I married him he would do great things. I see those great things everyday, and I am so excited for the world to see them soon.

Easter 2012

Easter 2012

Well Easter ended up being a little different this year. We weren't able to make it to Nana and Papa's house the Saturday before Easter, so we ended up doing Easter at Grandma's house first.

Emily and Sarah getting ready to hunt eggs at Grandma's house with baskets ready.

 

After we hunted at Grandma's house on Saturday, we went to church the next morning.

Emily calls them her "Target" dresses.  "Mommy it can be both kinds, target like an arrow and like the store." :)


We were finally able to make it to Nana and Papa's house the next weekend. It was nice to see everyone. Emily and Sarah were really excited to see cousin Lauren.

So much fun having cousins you can play with. 

Then it was time to do some more egg hunting!