Unforgettable Childhood

Tonight my middle child participated in a Little Princess Pageant. They choose the winner randomly by each child opening an envelope. The little girl with the $5.00 bill wins. Every other little girl wins a $1.00 bill.

We did not have the winning princess in our house, but our princess was beautiful. And she is excited to spend her dollar that she brought home.

Here are a few pictures of our Princess Madelyn.

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The light in this picture is not perfect, but she was having so much fun jumping into the leaves. We love Sunny Fall days in South Dakota.

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I just have to share a few pictures from Nadia’s first day of preschool. I just picked her up and she had a great afternoon. There are only two other little girls in her class so she will get a lot of attention (like she doesn’t already get a lot of that at home).

We have survived our first week of Back to School. Nadia misses her sisters during the day, so she will be happy to head to preschool next week. It is hard to believe it is already Friday. Of course we have to start the weekend with a friend sleeping over tonight. (Sleepovers are very important to our 8 year old). I am surprised that they like to do them here, because my husband actually makes them go to bed. He isn’t a very fun sleepover dad.

I am going to share one of my favorite pictures of the week with you today. We headed to the park on Tuesday. Nadia dressed herself before we left. Her sisters couldn’t believe I let her leave the house dressed this way. I didn’t care. At least her clothes matched. She looked better than she does on the days that she is wearing horizontal stripes on top and vertical stripes on the bottom. When I try to get her to change those days she says, “I do to match mom, see stripes and stripes.”

She thought she would try to attempt the monkey bars, but this is all the farther she got. . .

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My oldest girls headed back to school today. They were so excited (I was, too!)

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Madelyn is headed to her first day of 1st Grade. (I think she thinks when she comes home today she will magically be able to read the books that were too hard for her this summer). She didn’t even want me to walk her across the street this morning. I still did, but she was not going to hold my hand.

Taylor headed to 3rd Grade this year. She is excited to learn how to write in cursive.

Nadia wasn’t too excited that the girls were leaving without her. She was yelling, “Wait for me!”

The girls were ready to leave at 7:40 this morning. School doesn’t start until 8:25. Madelyn’s school is only about 5 blocks away and Taylor’s is about a 5 minute drive. . .

I love the first day of school!

I can’t tell you how many times we have heard, “Aren’t you going to try for that boy?”

Well “that boy” in our house is always going to be daddy. We have three healthy, beautiful girls in this house and the only boy is their Dad. I have three “daddy’s girls”. When he walks in the door at night they still yell “Daddy”.

This picture was taken at the lake this weekend. I love to capture the private moments that Chad shares with each of his girls.

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