1st Day of School

Clayton's 1st Day of School!!!

Clayton is going to Sprouts at First Baptist Church Hurst this year. This has been a HUGE adjustment for all of us since she has ALWAYS been watched my family or close friends!!! When she was 7 months old, we tried to go "day care" but Clayton and I both cried ALL day for those two weeks. It was awful!!! This seems to be a great fit!!! Mrs. Sarah (the director) sent us this picture on the 1st day from her cell so we could see what a great time Clayton was having!

Here a lots of shots that we took before school that day!!! It was September 1st which happens to also be my birthday!!!

In the parking lot before school started. (I got to take her to school!!!)

After school...she made it...with VERY few tears!!! She made a "mirror" as her project that day!!!

She did such a great job, she got a "prize" from the "prize closet" that night! She was so excited!!

She got a little Strawberry Shortcake play dough set!

Picture Session

We decided to take Clayton and Memaw-Memaw (as Clayton calls her great-grandmother!) to get some pictures taken together! Clayton absolutely adores Memaw, and the feeling is completely mutual! They play for hours and hours, and we are so blessed that my grandmother is able to get around and play with Clayton the way she does! We took some "generation" pictures and some 3 year old b-day pictures since Clayton will be 3 on Tuesday...and my grandmother will be 85 in a couple of weeks. The pictures turned out pretty good...the photographer wasn't awesome, so some of the "shots" that could have been amazing were missed! So, here are the pictures...enjoy!






























We decided to take Clayton and Memaw-Memaw (as Clayton calls her great-grandmother!) to get some pictures taken together! Clayton absolutely adores Memaw, and the feeling is completely mutual! They play for hours and hours, and we are so blessed that my grandmother is able to get around and play with Clayton the way she does! We took some "generation" pictures and some 3 year old b-day pictures since Clayton will be 3 on Tuesday...and my grandmother will be 85 in a couple of weeks. The pictures turned out pretty good...the photographer wasn't awesome, so some of the "shots" that could have been amazing were missed! So, here are the pictures...enjoy!

Dance Recital

Dance Invasion!!! This is a picture from the end of the recital when ALL of the dance company was on the stage!!! (Well, everyone that was still there!!!)

Granna, CaCa, Uncle Grant, Aunt Starla, Keldan, Briley, Mommy and Daddy all came to my recital!!!

The Bunny Rabbit Blues

Both of the classes together performed during Act II- "The Wheels on the Bus"

Clayton next to her friend Mary

Clayton's favorite part was the Daddy/Daughter dance at the end of the program! She got to dance on stage with her daddy!!!

Treats for being a WONDERFUL dancer!!!

Mrs. Jami, Clayton's dance teacher (and owner of the company)

Worn out little dancer!!! She was sooo excited that she got to eat her look-alike cookie!!!

A Quick Little Story...

Greeting to my fellow bloggers! It has been SOOO long since I have posted! So much has happened in my life over the past 6 months...I am sure at some point I will go back and share some of it...but for now, I have a funny Clayton story...one that if I don't post, I will not remember...

We are in the living room watching the Rangers...Clayton is bored and NOT wanting us to watch the game, but she is standing in front of the tv with her new roller skates on...singing silly songs that she is making up as she goes along like "I am twisting and singing and dancing in my new skates...la la la." Mark and I are both cracking up at her and laughing along with her as she "performs!" Mark thought he would be clever and say, "Hey, Clayton, why don't you make up a song to help you spell your name?!?" (Remember, before this kiddo was 2, she could name 20+ Strawberry Shortcake characters, all the fairies, princesses, mickey characters, pooh characters, all her aunts, uncles, cousins...TONS and TONS of things...but she for whatever stubborn reason REFUSES to spell her name...though I was writing it for her the other day and she finished it)...ANYWAY...Her daddy suggested that she make up a song to spell her name and this is the song she came up with..."I can't singing a song that spells my name because I don't know how to spell my name...I don't know how to spell my name...spell my name, spell my name"

That's all I've got for now!