Braenna's 3rd Birthday

June 7 was a busy day in the Stampf household as in addition to Mikaiya's 4K graduation it was also Braenna's 3rd birthday! We knew it was going to be a crazy day, so we did a little rearranging of present opening and celebrations to fit it all in. She did get to have cupcakes at school with her friends on her birthday. Here she is posing with it in the morning before school. She was so excited!!
This turned out to be a popular gift! It's a lady bug tent. I think Mikaiya likes it just as much as Braenna!

Since we didn't have many little friends to invite to her birthday party this year, we decided to do it up at Great Wolf Lodge in the Dells. Aunt Teresa and Emily were able to come up and stay with us and Aunt Cece came up for her party too! Our room was really cute for kids, it had it's own "Kid Cabin" with bunk beds and another bed...perfect for 3 little girls!!

Present opening is always an adventure! Mikaiya and Emily couldn't help but "help" Braenna! They are all very interested in her Barbie horse!


Here is the birthday girl with her cake! She picked it out herself this year...her main selection requirement? PINK, of course!!

We decided that it was time to move her out of her toddler bed and into her big girl bed as part of her birthday celebration. Here is her official new big girl bed, pretty pink floral bedding and all!! She loves it!

Mikaiya's 4K Graduation

On June 7, Mikaiya officially graduated from 4K! We are so proud of her! It was a very nice ceremony for the kids. Here is our proud graduate posing outside of the school before her ceremony:

We had to do a "redo" on the diploma pic...The camera and I are still not friends and I could not get it to take a picture in the 3 seconds sh ewas up there during the ceremony. That's okay though because this one turned out so cute!

And here is a cute family pic we got after the ceremony:

Aunt Cece, Aunt Teresa and Emily were all able to attend as well! All in all, it was very nice.

4K Graduation Videos

Mikaiya graduated from 4K last week. It's been really busy since and I am just now getting to uploading her videos. This first one is the song they kicked it all of with:

Here's their next song:

And this is Mikaiya getting her diploma...she's so proud!

Hope you enjoy!!

May Happenings and Pics

Well, I have to say, since we have moved to WI we have never been so busy!! Life is going full speed ahead and we are struggling to keep up! May was another crazy month! May started with the first weekend being our anniversary and Mother's Day. Aunt Cece came and watched the kids for us while we took a long awaited night away to the Dells. We had a lot of fun...maybe a little too much! Mother's Day was great, but a little rough due to way too much fun the night before! The girls got mommy some great gifts and we had some good quality time together and some yummy DQ! We also had Aunt Cece's wedding shower and bachelorette party this month which was a lot of fun! Mikaiya even got to come to the shower and help open presents, she LOVED being included!

Then came our trip to TX to visit our TX family. We had so much fun! Thank you to everyone for your hospitality while we were there! We got to have a little happy hour with some old work friends, two fun evenings with all of our "friend" crew, Izzie's birthday party and a great afternoon/evening at the Hemphill's pool. It was all so fun. The girls really enjoyed having all of their little friends around again and I realized just how much I missed the place that was my home for 10 years. And how incredibly lucky we are to still have all the wonderful people from there as part of our lives and our kids lives. Here's to hoping that I improve on my "keep in touch" skills ;) Hopefully this trip will become an annual event!!

Well, those are the big highlights for the month. June is already looking to be a busy one here also, so I'll apologize now for when I'm late with June updates!

Here is the link to our May pics...sorry they are all out of order, our new camera and I are having a few minor disagreements on my download preferences!

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A Little Behind...

I realized tonight as I was working through May picture uploads that I never finished April! It was such a crazy month with several blog posts and photo uploads, so I thought I'd done them all! Needless to say, I somehow completely missed Easter! So here is the link to all of our pictures from Easter this year. The girls got to go on TWO Easter egg hunts, one here at our house and one at Aunt Teresa, Uncle Kory and Emily's house. What lucky little girls they were!!

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