Our Little Star

Thursday night they finally made up Brittney drama club performance that was cancelled last month. Our little zebra did and great job and we were very proud of her! The name of their show was "It's a Jungle Out There." Very cute! Cute songs, a few whitty lines. Not too long, perfect for kiddos. Brittney had one of the three lead roles...to give you a little background, the King/lion wanted to find the key to happiness and sent off his two workers Stripes the Zebra (Brittney) and Lucky the Leopard to find it. Along they way they met the Cheetah's, who were "party animals". Next they met the Monkeys who were "going bananas for video games." Third they met the Hyena's that laughed and laughed because "everything is funny to them". Finally they met the Elephants, who know the importance of a good friend, and took time to stop and smell the roses. That is where they found the key to happiness.

We had some video camera malfunctions, so I was stuck using my digital camera for the whole show. So the focus and image stabilization didn't work out so well for me. I appogize in advance for my lack of skills.

The lion, Patrick, was quite the little ham!

I love how Brit was always trying to feed Bo his lines.

Here is Brit with her two leading men.

Brittney told me before the performance that she wasn't nervous because she had already performed the show for the whole school. She also told me that she loves being in drama and her favorite thing was getting to wear the remote microphone on her clothes. Too funny!

First Slumber Party

This is how I find my 7 year old after her first slumber party. She came home crabby, "Mom, a couple of the girls just wouldn't sleep and were talking and giggling all night." This made my her mad...I think I remember feeling like this a time or two at a slumber party myself. She insisted she wasn't tired and wouldn't be taking a nap, after lunch I went downstairs to change loads of laundry and when I came back upstairs...she was passed out!

A Special Night with My Girl!

Brittney had her first slumber party last night, and Brie was a little down in the dumps that she didn't get to go and party. Bill was working, so I told Brie that it would be her special night and the two of us would do whatever she wanted. Here eyes got big as she though about the possibilities. She decided on...

Dinner at La Fonda, followed by ice cream from Cold Stone, then we headed back home where she requested a make-over. She wanted to wear my make-up, "even the black stuff you put on your lashes mom." She requested her hair in a side pony tail, she liked that on one of the Libby Lu girls the other day. Then she got dressed in her new Hannah Montana dance class outfit and requested a photo shoot in front of the Christmas tree.

After the photo shoot we played about 30 games of Guess Who, then read 5 of her favorite books, then at her request snuggled and watched cooking shows until she fell asleep on me. What a fun evening with my special girl!

Lucas is 4!

Happy Birthday to my sweet nephew Lucas! The girls love playing with Lukie as they call him, although we don't get together with him and the Yarbrough family as often as we probably should. I can't believe he is 4 already!

Here Is Nama, Bill, and the Grandkids.

Last here is Luc playing with the new basketball hoop we got him for his birthday! Happy Birthday big guy, we love you!!

Happy New Year!!

This New Years we decided to take it easy, and the rest of our family wanted to do the same, so we all headed to my parents to bring in the New Year. Each of us make a couple of appitizers and we played games, rocked out to Rock Band, and had a good time playing with all the kids.

We even an additional couple of kids for a few hours. Our good friends, Amy and Rick, went out to dinner and we watched their two boys Ryan (20 mos.) and Alex (5 mos.) for them while they went out. We had lots of fun with the extra babies! On our way to Mom and Dads we sure had a car load though. We stopped at the gas station on the way to their house, and you should have seen the looks of sympathy I received while sitting in the parking lot!

Happy New Year to you and yours! I wish everyone good health and happiness in 2009!

Our Last Visit to Club Libby Lu

Sadly, Club Libby Lu is closing the end of January. The girls received a gift certificate from Uncle Denny, Aunt Lala, and Lucas for Christmas - we made our final appointment for New Years Eve, so the girls would be all glammed up to bring in the New Year! Since everything in the store was at least half off we got some good deals!

We are now all stocked up on gaudy jewlery, shimmery kid make-up, and fake nails! Seriously though, the girls loved going to this place and we are sad to see it go!

Here is Brittney...she choose the Glam Princess Do!

And here is Brie...she, of course, wanted the Hannah Montana pony tail extension. You should have seen this girl toss that hair around all day!