7.28.2024

Ady // 10 Years Old

Oh my sweet punky bear. My what a year it's been. You are still our social butterfly making friends WHEREVER you go and everyone simply loves you. You are obsessed with babies and little children and at the baseball field they swarm you. All of the little siblings this year on the team LOVED you and you are always absolutely wonderful with them. You love animals almost as much as tiny humans and your goal in life is to be vet. Anytime you see a baby anything you squeal just like your momma did when you're little. You are also the best sister ever. You idolize Drew and have such a special bond with Will. You 2 ask for sleepovers constantly and are just the tightest little snugglebugs. You put in SO much effort in school and rarely get upset that we push you with extra practice and tutoring sessions. The amount of work you've put into dance this past year has been incredible. Did you always love it when I made you stretch and work on skills? No. But you did it. And you grew immensely! Like you gained SO many new tricks and are quite flexible now. This all will help when we move studios after 7 years at Eminence. Resilience. That's your word. No matter what you do that is hard or you don't like (ie: allergy shots now for 5 years) you are resilient and just do it. Although you can have sass and sometimes be sneaky, overall you're a good girl with a good heart. You are still the only major snuggler we have and I'll take all the hugs and 'leans' as I know they'll end soon once we hit middle school. You absolutely hate piano but only have 2 more years of lessons (mommy mandated, sorry!) and I know you can power through. Your favorite clothing is all athletic type, you wanted your room a bit less 'little girl', and you've started getting into some products like lip gloss. Thankfully we had to see a dermatologist due to a bit of acne and she told you all about not doing these 10 step routines that all the teens are in so you're good there. You like curling your eyelashes and adding some blush though. I love you so much my blue-eyed beauty and am so luck you're mine. Here are some pictures we took last week...









And then I told you to do whatever you wanted and this was the pose you struck...

And now for your stats and interview!

Height: 56.23 inches (76%)
Weight: 75lbs 10oz (58%)
Shoe size: 2 or 2.5
Clothing size: Between medium and large or 10-12

Favorite color: Beige
Favorite type of food: Italian
Where is your favorite place to eat: Pastaza
What do you want to be when you grow up: A vet
What makes you happy: Playing with my family
Favorite subject in school: Reading
What is your favorite show on TV: Bunk'd
Favorite movie: The Switch Again
Favorite activity: Dance
Favorite sport to play: Dance
Favorite song: Helpless from Hamilton
Who is your favorite friend to be around: Vivian
What is a goal for yourself this year: To get an aerial
If you could be an animal what would it be: a dolphin
What are you scared of: spiders

7.24.2024

Gulf Shores 2024

We loved Gulf Shores so much last year we decided to go back this year but, bonus, we met our friends from Utah and Georgia! On the way down we broke up the drive over 2 days and stayed in New Orleans. We had to get some good creole food as well as our favorite beignets! On the drive to Gulf Shores we ended up finding this little NASA visitor experience place which the kiddos loved. Then we enjoyed a few days of fun in the sun with our friends ending the last day just the 5 of us. It was a great trip and although one husband and one kiddo wasn't able to make it we still enjoyed it all!











Our view from the balcony. It was the same place we stayed last year. We saw dolphins every day and enjoyed most of our meals out there!








Ady with one of her childhood best friends who moved away 2 years ago. They were back to attached at the hip SO fast and I think it was so good for them to see each other!




2 of my favorite people on the planet, Kelly and Marti.





















Sunset dolphin cruise that was amazing. We had 7-8 dolphins swim in the wake of the boat and they were jumping nonstop!