Kindergarden here we come

Miss Makenna graduated from preschool tonight.  It was a very sweet little concert, as usual. Can't wait to see what next year brings.

These two amazing women have supported both her and us so much this past year.  It will be a sad day when she moves on to another school.  Thankfully, she'll be there all summer
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Fashionista

If Peter Pan and Snow White had a child......

at Mardi Gras.
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One

Been loving this lately.



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Happy Birthday Ally

Today was Ally's birthday and she chose to have it at the bowling alley.  The up side is they did everything.  Her parents just had to provide the cake.  The bummer is getting 5 year olds to wait in between their turn (3 other kids).  The natives got a little restless.

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Channeling her Jewish heritage

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Talent

Not quite the level of talent as the last post, but still, we're proud.

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This kid isn't mine

But man he kicks ass.  Oh yeah, he's 12.


Here is Lady Gaga with her version.

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Happy Mother's Day!

For the past few years, Makenna and I have flown to my parent's house for Mother's Day.  Because Benjy would be in the middle of final projects and it was just best to not be around him. Now those are done, and traveling with Safiya seemed difficult, so we stayed home.  We had lunch with his mom, sister, and her family.  It was a nice day, minus the fact that I caught what the girls had so I've been alternating Tylenol and Advil every 2 hours so as to be able to stay vertical.  Taking Safiya out to eat is a serious nightmare.  Who, WHO designed restaurant high chairs with a bar just at foot level?  Because that is just an open invitation to stand yourself up.  We need to remember to have Makenna stand on something for family photos.  I feel like they look like she isn't part of our family.  Otherwise, a nice photo I think.

The restaurant had an incredible balloon artist.  You could seriously go up to him and request a purple elephant balancing on a piece of celery and you would get it.  Exhibit #1:  Makenna wanted a pegasus unicorn.  That she could wear.  Side note:  she is very into pegasus unicorns right now.  She and her best friend play pegasus unicorn every day at school.  But I thought you were either one or the other.  I didn't think you could be both.  But who am I to argue with a 5 year old.

Hope everyone had great Mommy's Day.

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She's legal!

Safiya got her passport today!


Which means she is now legally a citizen.  They even sent back the paperwork they were supposed to keep....like her green card.  So now she has all of her original paperwork documenting her adoption process.  Hopefully she'll think that is cool someday.

And this will make our trip to Europe so so much easier.  Cuz let's be frank, Benjy and I traveling through three different countries with a little Ethiopian, um yeah.  Could cause some serious problems.

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After

And here we are enjoying it the next day with new carpet and a new sand table.

Sassy pants.

Love this hat!

Happy Daddy

Happy Bubba

Happy Kiva

Happy Mommy.

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Before

We don't have a yard.  So we LIVE on our deck in the summer.  Here is the winter clean up mess.

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