Special Visits

We've had some special visitors lately...

Grandma Lykowski

and then a few days later, Ms. Alisa and Alexis

Very special times :)

Lindsey's First Haircut

Little Linds finally got her first haircut.  It was just getting a little unruly.  She loved it!

We Love a Fair

So, we're always looking for a good festival or fair to go to, so when we found the Cabarrus County Fair online, we thought, "why not?"  Man, was it not the most fun we had as a family in a while.  It had been a long few weeks in the hotel, then getting moved into a new house.  We desperately needed a family night out of the house.  The girls knew we were going to a fair, but we we came around the corner and saw the huge ferris wheel and all the other big "fair" stuff, my goodness, we had never heard such screaming before from them!  They were kicking and screaming and going down right bizerk!  We saw animals, a petting zoo, pig races (they even swam in water), ate delicious fair food (including a deep fried Reese Cup...Yowza!), took a family ride on the ferris wheel, kinda won a goldfish (the guy gave us one even though the girls didn't get the ping pong ball in the the glass jar), and the girls rode an unlimited amount of rides!  So much fun!  (Fish update:  The fish, aka Ariel, lasted six days. It was a good life lesson though.)

Ballet

Lindsey started a ballet class at the YMCA and loves it!

All Smiles

It doesn't take much! :)

First Day of School

The girls started their new school.  They were so excited!  I'm so thankful our kiddos are ok being away from us.  It is a true blessing.  They just walked right on into their classrooms and didn't turn back.  I hardly got to say good-bye to Whitney.  I had to peek my head in the room to say bye to her.  She clearly had more important things to do.  I can not believe this is her last year of preschool.  Yuk.  And Lindsey Kate, she just waltzed right in, went straight to her teacher and said "Hiiii!"  Sweet girls...

Preseason Finale

Finally...the last preseason game.  It seemed to be a long preseason this year.  We played the Steelers at home.  Since we are still new to the area and we haven't found a babysitter, and this team doesn't have babysitting at the games, the girls got to go to the game with me.  This was Lindsey's first game to go to.  I was pretty nervous about the whole thing since the game didn't even start until their bedtime and well, it's not too fun for two little girls, and it's a long time to stay confined to one small area...but they did great!  I was so thankful.  They ate plenty of snacks, danced to the music, colored, played games, did stickers...we were prepared.  The game, on the other hand, not so great, we lost.  Ben played the whole game except the first series at the beginning.  Today is actually cut day...we're hoping to make it through.  But either way we'll survive. :)

Getting a Panther paw print

Having a pretzel

They cheered for their daddy!