A Photo a Month for 2014

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Wordless Wednesday

Maya K's 7th Birthday

The day started with a trip to Dunkin' Donuts for breakfast. To make it even MORE special, we ate our donuts outside on a table under an umbrella!!!

Once we were home, Maya K got to open one of her presents.

Nathan and Maya K went rollerblading for a while and Maya K worked to get used to her new blades. She was a little shaky at first, but she adjusted pretty quickly!!!

We took a "break" for the rest of the morning and Maya K went up to her bedroom to play with some new fairies that she got from her cousins yesterday :-). Then she got to open a few more presents before lunch.

Maya K chose what foods she wanted for her Bday meal and she chose porcupine meatballs, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob, and fruit!!!! I didn't know how the corn on the cob was going to work with her missing and loose teeth, but she devoured that corn!!!!!

After lunch, we took Maya K on her first mini-golf adventure!!!! She had a ton of fun!!!!!

We were VERY hot and tired after mini-golfing, so we stopped at McDonalds on our way home for some ice cream!!!!

By the time we got home (around 3:20ish) we were all very worn out. Maya K was looking forward to her quiet time :-). She got to open her last two presents and then she went down for quiet time and I fell asleep on the couch while Nathan did the dishes (I love him!!!).

Dinner was leftovers and then Nathan left for his softball games and Maya K and I snuggled up on the sofa to watch Little House on the Prairie.

Maya K said multiple times today that it was one of her best days ever!!!!!

Happy Birthday, my 7-year-old little girl!!!!

Valentine Party

Maya K has been super excited to get to go to her very first Valentine Party!!!! The local homeschool group we are a part of had their party today and Maya K has been looking forward to it all week!!!!

She looked so cute this morning that I had to take a few pictures. Well, I had to try!!!!! It's sometimes hard to get a nice smiling picture of her!!!! :-)

Books, Books, and MORE Books!!!

Books are important in our house. VERY important!!!! I have always been a bookworm and Nathan has become more so in the years that we have been married. And we were THRILLED when we discovered how much Maya K loves books!!!!

Our second day in Ethiopia with Maya K.

Home for One Week

Maya K and I go to the library every week and bring home between 20-30 books every week. She looks at books in the morning when she wakes up, I read to her before breakfast, I read to her as she finishes eating her lunch, she looks at books on her bed every afternoon during her quiet time, I normally read to her at least once or twice during the afternoon or evening, and Nathan reads her a story at bedtime every night.

Books are EVERYWHERE in our house!!!! I thought it would be fun to go around our house and take pictures of everyplace I found a book :-). I didn't take pictures of all the containers of books in the garage. Some days I find them in even more places, but this is today. (These pictures are un-edited; I didn't clean house before I took them, so excuse the mess!!!!)