Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Girls!!

I just wanted to wish my Beautiful little babies a Very Happy 6th Birthday!  How can it already be 6 years!!!??  I am the most blessed Mom in the world to have such sweet little spirits in my home everyday!  Your Daddy and I  hope your birthday is filled with surprises and a lot of fun!

Here are just a few pictures of the girls that I just love and they show their lives together....they just love being twins!

(Just Click on the Photo Collages to see the pictures larger)

and just a few more in their own individual moments of glory....

They are such precious girls, aren't they?

We Love You So Much!  Have the Happiest Birthday Ever!!!

We want to wish all of you a Happy Father's Day!  Most of you probably don't even look at our blog...just to find out...whoever posts a comment at the end of this post will be entered into a drawing to see who MY favorite man is!!  So you'll have to check out "The Blog" to enter and I guess we'll see who loves us the most in return!!!  Unfortunately all the wonderful men in our life are not pictured here...I don't have pictures of all of you and those that I do...my scanner is not functional at this time, but we love you too! (Uncle Greg, Great Grandpa Nearman, Uncle Joe, Uncle Jed, the late Uncle Jim, Grandpa Abbott and you other wonderful men that have gone before us as well as those who are living a distance away!)  We are grateful for each of you!  

To my Husband and Father of our children, you are truly a man of kindness and charity.  We appreciate your gentleness and love and all that you are.  I'm very grateful for you and love you with my whole heart!

And to my Dad, you are the best Dad in the whole world.  I know that you haven't been feeling the best these days but I love you and wouldn't trade my wonderful memories of you for anything in the world.  I appreciate your sacrifices for ALL of us.  You ARE a wonderful Dad!

In case you were all wondering why you received NOTHING in the mail this year....well I'll tell you.   My groove was incredibly thrown off by a bout of the chicken pox which put us all on quarantine for a period of time!  Please don't think that you were forgotten...you are all dearly loved...we are just trying to keep our little noses above water!  Thanks again to each of you for your phone calls, comments, emails and prayers for our family.  You are the BEST!

Here is a small tribute to you Fathers who dedicate your life to Families.  We couldn't do it without you.  This is also dedicated to our Heavenly Father who deserves a Father's Day gift as much as anyone.  We are grateful for our many blessings!!!

...and for my next trick!!

Don't forget the pause the music player in the sidebar so you can hear the videos!!

My kids can do anything (spoken like a true mother, right?)...Little Man is so funny about cracking eggs though!  One day I was baking cookies or something and he just grabbed an egg and started going to work...here he is doing it again.  Only this time I was prepared, unlike the last one that went all over the floor and everything else for that matter! He did it the other day and got a little over zealous and burned his arm so hopefully he'll be a little more cautious and take it slowly.   This video is so funny and makes him feel so proud.  Whenever he watches it he says, "again, again!!!!!!"  Go ahead watch you'll see!!

Isn't he darling!!!!

Our little jumping bean...

...she is our little jumping bean!  She is so funny to watch because she is the biggest giggler that you have ever seen in your life...she can't stop giggling just look at her face...she's fighting it so hard there at the beginning!!  Love her...can't believe she's gonna be six!!   For anyone interested you can get the jump ropes at buyjumpropes.net for a pretty good deal!  

I'm going to post videos of the others too!  They are also fabulous jumpers but one at a time!

singing in the rain, again and again and again.....

(Go ahead and click on the photo to enlarge it!)

What can I say...we get a lot of rain here in NC and instead of complaining about it (because it sure beats the heck out of the humidity) we just play in it!  The water just rolls  down the streets...it's really quite amazing!  If you've never tried it...it is a must!!  The little ones will never forget it...but you have to remember there are no Rules to Puddle jumping...don't worry about shoes (let them go barefoot) and the clothes will wash...you're just giving them a presoak (which you would have done anyway, right?)!!!

Last day of school and the highlights of the year...

We have given Candy Leis to our teachers for the past 5 years and love our tradition!  My favorite part is meeting the kids after school and giving them their own candy leis to spent the afternoon munching on!  Here are the kiddys with their leis!  Happy last day of school!

We just finished up a new year and can't believe how the time has flown!!  Here are a few highlights about each of the kids and what they did this year!!

HBug had a great year...here's what she did!

• Was involved in Music Club and participated in the Harnett County All Chorus Choir
• Was in a group that made sure that the flag was put up and taken down each day.
• Participated in the School Spelling Bee
• Became a Professional Reader
• Recieved the Math Award
• Sang the National Anthem for the Fifth Grade Graduation and well as performed for the Performing Arts Concert
• Received The Principals List Award for 3 quarters as well as the Honor Roll for 1
• Top AR reader for her class as well as Top 2 AR points for the fourth grade and received a Trophy.
• Inducted into the All Star Reader Hall of Fame
• Received the Writing Award
• Academic All-Star
• Music Achievement Award
• Received the Character Trait Award for Kindness 
• Scored in the 99% for End of Grade Testing
• Became very good friends with the School Librarian!!!

Nanners also had a great year...she

• Was selected to be a part of the after school Art Club
• Was one of her teachers most reliable students
• Received Honor Roll for all 4 semesters
• Received the Writing Award
• Was an Academic All-Star
• Received the Art Achievement Award
• Won second place at the Harnett Off Broadway Art Contest for the whole county.  Her work is being displayed in the Harnett County District Office this year.
• Received the Character Trait Award for Honesty

Lyssa really enjoyed school this year:

• She received the Awesome Illustrator Award at the Kindergarten Awards Day
• Went to Facinate U Museum
• Got to be a line leader
• Received the "Key to the Future Reader" from Congressman Bob Etheridge
• ABC Sound Star
• Student of the Week

Auby is taking off in learning...

• She received the Terrific Painter Award
• Received the "Key to the Future Reader" from Congressman Bob Etheridge
• Super Student Award in April 2009
• Received the Student of the Week Award
• Roaring Good Behavior Award for March 2009
• ABC Sound Star
• Went to the Facinate U Museum

Kindergarten Luau!!

The girls worked so hard and earned their rights to a Fabulous Hawaiian Luau!  They earned points and were able to take part in the funnest party of the year!  They got some extra little gifts for being extra good...grass skirts and of course cool shades to block out that Hawaiian sun!  We had  blue oreos, hawaiian fruit, Hawaiian Punch Smoothies all decked out with bright cups and straws with umbrellas!  We got in some fun dancing (Mrs. B does some DJ working on the side) with strobe lights and party music, limbo and hula hoops...Mrs. B even taught the girls how to do the hula!  We had a great time!