Emily's 7th Birthday

Well, my Princess turned "7" this past Tuesday. I still can't believe it, I think I am in denial, LOL. Anyways, our celebration started at the Olive Garden. As you can see Emily LOVES noodles.

We arrived home from Emily's birthday dinner to see this beautiful scene from our backyard.

We then got to the good part where we sing "Happy Birthday" have cake and open presents!

Happy Birthday my Princess!

Did you say Emily can sew???

Emily did a sewing camp last week. She enjoyed it so much. The teachers were very surprised at how fast she picked up threading the machine, sewing with the machine, hand stitching, etc.

You can see the lovely aprons and critters they made. I guess I will have to pull out my grandmother's sewing machine so she can teach me how to use it, LOL!

Foam Bubbles Party

Emily was invited to a foam bubble party this weekend for her friends birthday.

As you can see it was fun!

Emily goes to Championships!

Well, we made it to the stadium this morning at 6:45 am to find out that the electricity had gone out about 1:20 am and CPS was working on getting it working for us. So at a little after 7:00 am we were able to enter the stadium. Because of the outage it set everything back about 30 minutes.

Here is Amy waiting...

It is time and Emily is ready for the freestyle event.

Emily has the silver cap on.

She takes a look over to see where her opponent is.

She gives it her all.

She is pushing forward.

She takes 1st in this heat but not the event.

WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU EMILY!!!

I can't believe that a little over a month ago she couldn't swim across the pool and look at were she is now.

Summer is off to wonderful start...

Well, we are having a wonderful start to summer! The girls are enjoying Swim Team, VBS's, Outings, Etc.

Emily has participated in 2 more swim competitions this past week and will have her final one this Saturday.

We are so proud of her because she started about a month ago not knowing how to swim and is placing in competition.

Amy has made progress and is now walking on her tippy toes and lifting her head above water (this is HUGE for her). I know by next year she will be participating in competitions also.

Here is Emily at one of the meets last week.

My two little princesses!

Emily takes 4th in swim competition last Saturday

Oh how we are so proud of Emily. From going from not knowing how to swim, to competing last Saturday and taking 4th place.

She truly has become a little fish!

Coach Melissa giving Emily the pep talk.

Coach Melissa letting Emily know she believes in her.

Get mark, Get set, Go...

Look at her go!

YUMMY, YUMMY...

Ok, I am not a big Betty Crocker Boxed Brownie Mix fan. I prefer my homemade ones from scratch and if I have to use a box mix I like to use Duncan Hines.

But I have been reading blogs everywhere raving about this particular "Cookie Brownie Bar" mix. So I cracked down on Tuesday and bought the box and made them yesterday. Let me just say that these bars are YUMMY, YUMMY!!!

Everyone is right these are delicious. So the next time you are at the store do yourself a favor and pick up a box of Betty Crockers ~Cookie Brownie Bars. You will be happy that you did.