So Close I Can Almost Taste It!

Summer.

Yep, only one more week and then it is summer vacation!

On Friday evening, the 8A crew gathered our families together over at the Casillas' house and celebrated an end to our academic school year (in 8th grade, the last week of school is a big promotion celebration, so no classes! Yay for teachers, as well as the kids)! It couldn't have been a more perfect way to end our year! I would say that every single person there had a fantastic time!

The kids had the most fun! They slipped and slid until the grass was flooded! It is nice that they are all a little bit older too, while they played, the adults got to sit around the table/campfire and visit! So relaxing! We each brought a little something to eat and ended the night cooking smores!

Soccer Champ

This past Saturday marked the end of the Kyan's first soccer season!

It has been so much fun to watch him grow as a little goalie (his favorite position to play)!

Our schedule was crazy busy, and Kyan actually had his soccer game an hour earlier than it normally is played, so Lola and I missed it, as we were at her gymnastics class. We tried catching the end and the trophy hand out, but we were too late! By the time we were walking up to the field, the boys were walking to the car! It didn't matter though, Kyan was still as proud as ever to show off his trophy and was happy to pose for a picture!
Good job on a great soccer season my handsome little man!
Love you!

Dear Lillie

Lola and her beautiful tutu were featured on Dear Lillie today!
I feel honored!

The creator also happens to be a Jenni, and over the past few weeks via the blog world and emails I feel like I have learned so much about her and realized that we have so much in common, other than just our name! Another reason why I love this bloggy blog world so much!
Jenni has a beautiful blog and incredible style, I love reading what she posts!
Head over there now to not only check out Lola, but to enter into their BIGGEST giveaway yet (and I mean hurry, it ends tomorrow!) ~ $100 to spend at their shop! Here are a few of my favorites that I have my eye on:

Lola and her Tutu Part II

I thought that I would have had more time during the day today to work on these - NOT the case! However, another late night in front of the computer screen! I emailed some of you the pictures from the shoot, thank you for all of the wonderful compliments that you sent my way! They really meant a lot to me! It helped to have such a fun little lady to work with! Enjoy some of the new ones!

Ok, so I know that this picture above isn't the most focused and it makes me a little dizzy when I look at it, but I adore it! There is something about her innocence that makes me love what I think I might have accidentally snapped in her spinning circle madness!

I was lucky enough to win this beautiful tutu from Dear Lillie, by way of Tatertots and Jello (super cute crafty blog)! I swear, I might be one of the luckiest blog winners on the planet, (yet I can't win a thing at the casino?)! Really, I am lucky in the blog world. I was lucky enough to win a beautiful dress from Dear Lillie, then to win a tutu the next week for Lola from them...I mean, come on!

This tutu has to have been the best win so far, not just for me, but for Lola! It began with her excitement opening the box and putting it on the second she laid eyes on it! That inspired me to grab my camera, snatch her up and get creative with my pictures! She was all about it too, so it made for an easy shoot! I photograph my kids all the time, but I don't take them out on real shoots all that often. However, think that this might be the start of something new (head over to Rosie J. Photography if you want to see some of the pictures again)!

Lola and her Tutu

Lola's tutu arrived in the mail today (another one of my blog winnings, more on that later), and let me tell you, she was excited to get mail!!! The second that she opened the box she wanted to put that baby on! The tutu, made by Dear Lillie, was so beautiful and you could tell it was made with love! Seeing her excitement, I whisked Lola away to the Wigwam Resort for a mini photo shoot! She had so much fun and was quite the ham! I promise to post more pictures, as I have them all edited, but I need to put them together in collages! So tonight (really this morning...it is 12:19 am, what am I still doing up? Once I started editing I couldn't stop!) I leave you with just one!

For My Mama

A song for you today mama, 'cause I want you to know how much I love you.

I am so lucky to have the most amazing mama in the whole entire world (ok, so I am biased...but this is my blog, so she gets to be the most amazing)!
She is the first phone call that I make in the mornings on my way to school. Even when it is to say nothing at all, I just need to hear her voice.
I don't know what has been up with me lately, but I have been needing her more than ever.
I wish that I could be with her today.

Happy Mother's Day.

My best friend.

My mama.
I love you more than you will ever know.

He Melts My Heart

Tonight, after the Suns pulled off another win over the Spurs, Kyan asked if he could watch a movie! Yes, it was getting on the late side, but why not?! It is the weekend.

He has been crazy watching The Mighty Ducks and D2 (we picked those up when he was at home sick this week with strep), so I figured he was off to watch one of those.

WRONG!

He caught his daddy coming up the top of the stairs and had the movie The Sword and The Stone in his hand (as he knows that was daddy's favorite movie when he was little) and asks ever so sweetly, "Daddy, you wanna watch Sword and the Stone with me?" He was so excited and you could just tell in his voice that he really, really, really wanted Chad to lay down with him and snuggle and watch the movie (and this is when the heart started melting).

So where are the two boys? Curled up in Kyan's twin bed, watching The Sword in the Stone. I BEGGED to take pictures and said I was just going to go grab my camera downstairs, when the boys said, "No pictures please!" and told me not to ruin their "moment". So I obliged, but had to post about how adorable they are!