Biltmore

Built in the early 1900's - it is the largest private residence in the country -0ver 255 rooms - in Asheville, NC. It is seriously impressive, the gardens and estate are breathtaking as well.

Cherry Pie

is Mom's favorite birthday cake and it tastes even better knowing Kurt made it for her - all by himself. He did a great job and it was a great way to end the birthday festivities.

A busy birthday day

Happy Birthday Grandma {she turned 59 today}! We started the day with a Woolley tradition - waffles with warm berries and ice cream. Grandma opened up presents - all of the kids and grandkids wrote their favorite memory that were compiled into a book for her.



Connor helped grandma make cinnamon rolls
Kurt and Grandpa replaced our balusters with wrought iron ones - I LOVE how it turned out. More pictures later...
Our Blue and Gold banquet/Pinewood derby went off without a hitch and Spencer won 1st place!

Grandma and Grandpa Woolley

On our way out to a yummy {day early}birthday dinner for Grandma

Daddy/Daughter dance

These two cuties were so excited to go to the daddy/daughter dance and were SO excited that Grandpa Woolley was in town so he could come too.

Healthy kid

Spencer asked if he could have a tomato for his after school snack today - um, YES! He ate the whole thing.

Dancing queen

Sydney practicing her dance at home after dance class

Brothers

Super Dad

Kurt is Super Dad and got a ton done with the kids while I was gone. Science fair projects, black history projects, cleaned the house, made an awesome breakfast, took them to the park, shuttled back and forth to a birthday party. Seriously, this guy is amazing. Plus, he let me sleep in this morning and this is how I found my family on this beautiful Sunday morning. Playing Old Maid. I love these guys.

Myrtle Beach Half Marathon

13.1 miles later. Great race girls!

26.2 miles for Kathryn! Way to go marathoner!!
Cami and Amy - our awesome cheering section and photographers - thanks for coming!

Myrtle Beach!

Paige Holder, Sheri Manwill, Cami Slaughter, Kathryn Hall, Me, Amy Sorensen and Carrie Burton

Off to Myrtle Beach for the race! I love these girls - the best friends and inspiration!

Fresh air

I spent the day in bed trying to get over my achy body and fever. The weather is so beautiful today so we sat outside practicing Abbie's spelling words. Nothing like fresh air to make you feel better. The sky was so blue and the clouds were so white and puffy.

Fevers

These two woke up with fevers today so they got to snuggle up on my bed and watch tv this morning. I started feeling yucky this evening and had a fever, cough and was really achy. Not the way I want to run my first 1/2 marathon in 3 days!

Cute Catie fell asleep on the couch.

Serious

This girl is very serious about a few things in life and watching her favorite shows is one of them. She is in love with Barney and Dora right now and begs to watch a show as soon as the kids leave for school.

Wax Museum

Sydney as Anne Frank in her class's wax museum today. She wrote a report and memorized important facts about Anne Frank that she shared when visitors pushed the "button" on her hand. She did a great job!

Mrs. Nottingham's class chose a wide range of people who changed the world. From Elvis, Coco Chanel, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, to Joan of Arc.

Valentine cookies

I missed getting pictures of decorating but here are a few of the final results. You should have seen the floor - sprinkles everywhere!

Rearranged

Today we put up the girls new beds and rearranged their room and dejunked! It looks so great and they both love it. Now their old beds are ready for Catie and Connor whenever I get brave enough to put them in beds.....

4th grade awards

So proud of these two awesome students!
Spencer made the "AB Honor roll"
Sydney made the "A Honor roll"

Valentines

Connor excited about his Mickey Mouse valentines
Catie delivering her princess valentines to our valentine hearts hanging on our bedroom doors.

Bum knee

This cute little bum took off his clean diaper, threw it away and brought me another clean one. He was so embarrassed when he saw me with that camera that he went and hid.

And this cute girl put a hole in her jeans and scraped up her knee at school.

Like Christmas in February

I won this $600 lens in a blog giveaway back in December and it arrived today! I am so excited to learn how to use it! It is a 18-270 mm lens and will be my new everyday lens. It takes great wide shots as well as super close ups! Just take a gander...

I was sitting in the sunroom taking this picture
and without moving I got a super close up of my dusty light fixture

Sweet! I love it! Hooray for winning super cool things! It doesn't happen very often but it is so fun when it does!

Abbie's 1st lost tooth

We hope the tooth fairy finds her tonight!

Packers vs. Steelers

Little Packers and Steelers fans watching the big game. Spencer was super disappointed that his favorite team - the Steelers didn't pull out a win but it was a fun game to watch!

La Traviata

Off to the opera - La Traviata. Thanks to Sydney for taking a picture!

Movie Night

We snuggled in for movie night tonight and watched "Follow Me Boys". I had never seen it before - it is an old show and super long but it was great!

Sibling love

So nice when they are happy and kind to one another!

Cool kids

Thank you dollar section at Target for these awesome shades and for entertaining the kids while we shopped!