Monday, May 31, 2010

May Photos

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Memorial Day Weekend

We had a very busy Memorial Day weekend! The weekend started out with Aiden's 4th birthday party on Saturday. The girls had a BLAST, as they always do when we get together with all of our friends!

We went to the Frisco Rough Riders baseball game on Sunday. It seemed like a great idea and fun for the whole family when I bought the tickets a week or so ago...little did I know it would be 98 degrees that day! We got a great deal, 4 free hats and 4 McDonald's value meals were included with our tickets. Here is Mikaiya modeling her hat:



Unfortunatly, Braenna's day wasn't quite as good. She overheated very quickly and while Mikaiya and I were of getting snacks, Jeff tried to calm Braenna down. An usher ended up coming down and telling Jeff he could take Braenna up to the shade right as Mikaiya and I came back. She didn't calm down there either and he ended up taking her to First Aid to cool down. They gave her an ice pack and it was her new favorite thing:


She did get to have some fun though. Here she is about to "High Five" Daisy, one of the mascots. Mikaiya was curled up in her seat with her eyes covered during this part of the day...she still hasn't gotten over her fear of people dressed in costumes.
Here are Mikaiya and Daddy enjoying our wonderful seats in the shade thanks to the incredibly nice usher who did a great job of watching out for people!!


We didn't do a ton on Memorial Day, mostly had some nice family time. Here are the girls posing for pictures out back. We are loving the flower bed we put out there last year!!


The rest of the day we spent outside. Here's the girls playing in their tubes NEXT TO the pool...they'll get it eventually!! Haha, no really, Mikaiya gets it, she was just joining the fun with Braenna. Mikaiya even got to go use her tube over at Riley's house later in the day too! It was a fun day!

ABC's Video

This video is from lunch on Sunday. Braenna has been really into learning her ABC's and Mikaiya is really into helping her! Here they are signing the ABC song together. It's kind of hard to hear Braenna over Mikaiya, but she is actually singing along too!


Mikaiya's First Dance Recital

Mikaiya has been taking ballet and tap at school through a company called Kinderdance. She had her first recital this past week. It was pretty cute to watch! They started off with the "tots" (2 year olds) and we got to watch most of them go running to their parents before they even started. There were a couple that really got into it, but for the most part they didn't like it. Then we moved on to Mikaiya's class which was the bigger girls. They actually did pretty well! We are still working on getting the pics from the recital off of Jeff's camera phone. Since it was in the middle of the day on a school/work day, some of us were a little disorganized and managed to leave our camera/video camera at home! Here is a picture of Mikaiya in her recital outfit when we got home...they did a little dance with their bears, so she wouldn't take the photo without her!!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Mikaiya's First Trophy

We went to Mikaiya's end of the season t-ball party today at her coach's house. She had a blast playing with her little t-ball friends, but the highlight of the afternoon was getting her first ever trophy! She loves it and is so excited to have it as you can see in this picture:



She was also awarded "best dressed" as you can see by her selection of outfits to wear to an outdoor party with her t-ball team...which is almost all boys!! We were sad to learn that in TX they don't play in the summer, but she will be back at it again when fall comes and hopefully we can end up on the same team because apparently her team was the only 4-5 year old team to not lose any players throughout the season. We had a great coach and a great team!!

Sisters

The girls are really getting good at playing together. I thought I would share one of my new favorites of them playing. They like to push their little chairs around on the wood floors and this time they lined them up so that they could both sit together...too cute!!

Summer is here...

...And out comes the pool! We actually got it out last weekend! Mikaiya is a fish again this year, and frustrated that the pool isn't deep enough to swim in. Maybe someday we'll have a real pool, in the meantime, she's making the best of what she has:

Mikaiya playing on her tube:
Splashing around in the pool:
This is about as close as Braenna would get to the pool...she's not quite into it yet:

Saturday, May 1, 2010

April Pictures

April was one crazy month here in the Stampf household, and there are tons of pictures to prove it! Here is the link, hope you enjoy!!

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