Sunday, May 8, 2011

Summer Fun

It was summer come early at the Sparks house today. It was hot enough for us to drag out the ole water slide this morning. The girls had so much fun!


It was up the slide...


Down the slide...


The girls dragged a bunch of toys and miscellaneous stuff into the pool part...




Even Jackson got in for a very brief few seconds...


And you can imagine they were pretty wiped out afterwards...


Makes me more ready for summer than ever!!

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Dreaming...

Lately I have been spending a lot of time dreaming about which bunk bed I am going to buy for the girls when we finally have the time and money to put into it.  So, now I am asking for your opinion. Which of these do you like?

This one is definitely in our price range but it's a little boring and I can't find it in white...


This is Jay's favorite. It's on the expensive side but I like the storage in the stairs and on the side and the attached desk. We could pretty much get rid of all of the furniture in the room practically.


The trifecta, über expensive BUT it would sleep all three of our girls once Jena is big enough for a bed and that has a lot of appeal!


My favorite, because it is moderately priced, has the attached dresser and it's at Rooms To Go so it's in stock pretty much whenever we want it and also they have nice sales now and then.


Jane's favorite. Obviously. It's actually out of the question because it doesn't have stairs, which is kind of a must for me because bunk bed ladders terrify me. It's actually the cheapest out of the bunch surprisingly but again no stairs. I thought I would put it on though because Jane LOVES it so much. She goes back and forth over which bed is hers, the little one at the top because it's up higher or the big one on the bottom because she's the biggest.

Jena's First Birthday Pictures






Pictures

Here are some recent pictures from the girls' school.

Jill's class picture


Jane's class picture

Girls with the Easter Bunny. The preschool director emailed me and said it was so cute because Jena refused to sit on the bunny's lap until she saw her sisters and then she was all smiles.


Bluebonnet pics




 Another of Jane's school pics...

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Coloring Eggs

We colored eggs on Easter Sunday. You will see Jill is once again in her uniform, a purple dress with attached tutu that she refuses to take off except for a quick wash. And it usually gets washed around three or four times a week because she wears it as soon as we get home from anywhere, she wears it to bed, and she wears it pretty much anywhere and everywhere that she can. I actually had her dressed in a matching dress she has like Jane's but she purposefully poured water all over it, then said, "It's wet Mommy" and then took it off. Naughty thing! So here are pics of these cute girls coloring eggs...






Earth Day

So I was super excited to hear that Lowes was giving away a free tree for Earth Day. I have been wanting to plant a tree. When Jay and I moved in to our house there was a beautiful willow tree in the backyard and not three months after we had moved in a bad storm uprooted the tree and we lost it. :( Now we have no tree in our front or back yard and I have been wanting to plant one in both. So, off we go to Lowes to get our free tree. Jay waited in the car with the girls while I ran in and as I came out of the store holding a lunch size paper bag with our free "tree" sitting in the bottom two inches of it, I could see Jay 50 yards away in the car laughing hysterically. Oh well. We decided to go on with our plans to plant it, albeit in a small pot. (They said it can be transplanted in the ground after a year or so). 

We took it over to my moms knowing she would have all of the supplies we needed. Here are the girls putting the dirt in the pots...




And planting our new tree, which Jane has already started calling our Christmas tree (it's a pine). I don't have the heart to tell her that even by Christmas it won't be as big as she is.


We also planted a strawberry plant that we got from Rachel.



So there we are doing our part. Happy Earth Day everybody!

Jena, the birthday girl

We celebrated our littlest princess' birthday a little late but Jena was just as joyful all the same. Here is the birthday girl...


Jill helped Jena try her first birthday cake...


Here is Jena's favorite birthday gift...


My dad calls Jena "his little lamb" and so he found this cute lambchop. Jena likes it but Jill loves it and keeps walking around yelling, "My sheep!"


This one was a hit too...


Still, it was back to this one...


My mom got her these crawling balls...


Quick pose with the birthday girl!


Happy birthday my sweet girl! This year has gone by so quickly that I can't even believe you are one already! I can't begin to tell you how much joy you bring to our life. Your sisters ADORE you and you them. You are our precious "Nena" and you will always be my baby!