Isabella is 5!

Isabella didn't just have a birthDAY, she had a birthWEEK!  She had a great week of turning 5!  She had a party with her Mom and Mom's family, had a party with us and the Bruce side, and a Chuck E Cheese party!  

Heidi and Tyler were gracious hosts of her birthday party where she got lots of fun stuff.  We got her a new bike since she had clearly outgrown her old one.  We rode bikes down to the yogurt shop and back.  Her new bike has a doll carrier so she can carry her babies with her and not in her backpack or totebag on the handlebars - it's much easier to ride this way!

She also had a friends party at Chuck-E-Cheese!  It's great to be 5!

Isabella and Anna (her best friend).  Isabella has on her limited edition birthday medallion.

Isabella with her safety glasses and birthday crown getting ready to enter the Ticket Tornado.  Only birthday kids can go in it!  If they are lucky they'll catch the Golden Ticket!

Dancing Queens

Here are some pictures from the dance recital a few weeks back.  Aunt Rhonda, Gramma and Grampa Wagner, Gramma and Grampa Rambo, Uncle Ryan and Aunt Brittany, and Aunt Nicole drove over to watch them.  They also had Meme and Papa Don, Nanna Bonnie and Richard, Gramma Bruce, Uncle Bob, and us there to watch.  What a cheering section!

They did a really great job.  Isabella knew her dance routine much better this year than last.  Kennedy seemed much more at ease up on stage and smiled alot.  She showed alot of personality in her routines.  She did 3 - which I have no idea how she remembered all those moves - hip hop, jazz, and tap. Isabella did a tap routine this year.

All the eye makeup aside, they looked beautiful!  I look blah and tired compared to these made-up beauties!

 

Shoot!

Don took Kennedy, Shane, and I to Horn Rapids to shoot on Saturday.  This is the second weekend in a row I've manhandled a gun and I'm likin' it!

Shane got to shoot his new Glock again and Don had a new Walther 380 I got to test drive. 

I was not very good but got better as the day went.  I keep switching up left-eye versus right-eye, left leg forward vs right leg forward - I got NO game when it comes to gun-shootin' form.  But I did feel like toward the end of the day I was starting to figure out what works better for me.  I'm excited to try again.

Don brought two .22's which were super fun!  I'd never shot them before and they were a blast. Papa Don gave Kennedy some schooling and it was really cute to watch.

This gun is the one Shane learned to shoot with.

This is the face of happiness!

Kennedy also got to use a newer .22 with a cool scope.  She like that much better and had great aim!  She was going through the bullets almost as fast as Don could load em! 

 We had a great day and Kennedy is pretty sharp shooter.

Sushi Mama

How much does Kennedy want a chameleon?  Enough to try sushi!  She is still saving money for this creepy lizard creature.  She has $130 saved up.  That is about half of what they cost to buy - yikes!  But then there is still the cage, drip misting system, sunlamp, cricket habitat, and plants to buy.  When she brought up buying one of these awhile back, I told her when she learned to like sushi she could have a chameleon knowing that NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS would she even try it. 

I was mistaken...

We went to Mizu Sushi on Friday night for dinner.  She did not like it, not a shocker, but I couldn't believe she tried it.  Her and Isabella ended up having popcorn chicken nuggets and teriyaki chicken for dinner.  The great thing was that we can go there every once in awhile for dinner when I'm really craving me a spicy tuna roll.  Isabella had a great time grabbing the rolls off the conveyor belt as they rolled by. 

Kennedy's desire for a chameleon is apparently more than a passing phase.  She has been saving and saving which I have never seen her do before.  She is also doing lots of research on the internet about prices and species differences...and ok, she may not have liked the sushi but she tried it...I cannot believe this.  I feel my heart softening toward this nasty lizard idea.  We still do not have a babysitter lined up for this thing if we were to get one and I have a hard time believing that will be an easy task.  I'm hoping this remains the reason it's not feasible.  Eek!