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Family date night.

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I would like to start by saying that I didn't have my camera. (I will now hang my head in shame and cry.) I wanted to at least write it down since it was so fun. A couple weeks ago after Jon's health fiasco we got a note from Grandma Sapp. A card for Jon, and a note for Kaylee to be more precise. The note came with a twenty, and instructed Kaylee to take the family out for dinner. She was SO excited to plan out a family date night.

Kaylee indded planned it all out. She was so excited to take us to Red Robin. YUM. And were all looking forward to a night out. And then our plans got postponed a week. And patience is not a strong quality for an excited five year old. We herd about family date night every day leading up to it. So a week later when the day came she was almost bouncing out of her converse on the way to school.

Right after school, and I do mean right after we got buckled in and stuck in exiting traffic, Kaylee announces that she needs a toilet NOW. So instead of going home, and since we couldn't turn around to get back into the school we headed straight to Aunt Shannon's house and made it just in the nick of time! And then instead of going home we stayed to visit. Which is why Kaylee didn't get her outfit change, and I didn't have the camera for our family date night.

Why didn't we use our phones? In an effort to save money for our adoption fund we have downgraded our phones. They do take photos, but they are SUPER horrible.

Jon met us at Shannon's after work and we visited for a bit before heading out to dinner. Jon on the drive to Red Robin. YUM. decided we should also take the kiddos out to the movies. So after dinner we went and saw Planes. The kids did great! AND it was Regan's first movie theater experience. His eyes were bugging out of his little head taking it all in when we first arrived.

All in all it was a very successful and fun family date night. We are all looking forward to the next one.

FSA family night.

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Such a fun night with our adoption friends last night. It is always so nice to get together with friends. It was nice for some of the guys to finally meet and chat. Bromance was in the air.

 

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These two are getting their little man in about a month. I can't hardly stand how excited I am for them! They of course loved on the baby lots for practice.

 

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Miss Kenzie was loving my shoes. So I of course had to get a picture of her adorable self.

 

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And her Mama is one of my favorite people to take random photos of. I love you Michelle!

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The kids were pretty worn out from playing hard. Kaylee was on the verge of a meltdown which she later had. It was awesome, and not at all embarrassing…… Sigh. But before the meltdown the children had fun in front of the camera for me.

 

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Love these buttmunches!  Big thanks to Sally and Brigham for letting us invade their lovely home.

A giant ruler

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A long, long time ago I dreamed of having a growth chart that we could move around with. I shared this dream with Jon. And then nothing. I saw all these cute kid growth charts that you could buy, but they only went up to five feet tall. Now if the children take after me that's not an issue, but Jon is six two. I really wanted to have a chart that went up to 6.5 feet. And only heaven knows what height genetics our future children may have. I decided that we would have to make our own.

So the years passed, and I never found anything that I LOVED design wise to make/buy. Plus it was all so pricey. Fast forward 7 years. We now have a kindergartner, and I have been taking a daily photo of her. Day two of school Jon laments that we don't have anything to visually note her growth in the photos. I remind him of my growth chart dream, and we promptly get online and look up some options. Low and behold we found something that we BOTH love. For the right price even! (Go here. So easy and so fast!)

We bought our supplies and then waited a few days for Jon to have a "good" day so he could help with this project.  This is something I totally could have done myself, but it was SO much fun doing it together.

026We could have done this project much more frugally, by painting the ruler marks on, however for ease, speed, and convince we paid extra for precut vinyl. It was SO very worth the ten bucks.

027 031 032 Anyhow we've been chatting about how this thing is going to get filled up with our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren's measurements. Happiness.