Family Date Night!

This past weekend, Natural Bridge was taking up food donations for our local food bank in exchange for a discounted admission rate.  We decided to have a family date night at the Natural Bridge!  Yes, even Lincoln got to join in on the fun!

It is truly a natural beauty!

 

The girls have been to the bridge several times, but never at night. So, this was their first time seeing the Light Show!  

Our Friday night family date night was the perfect way to end our week! 

 

Unlike other historic places and landmarks, the Natural Bridge has been in private hands ever since Jefferson became its first owner in 1774, when he bought the property from King George III for 20 shillings - or the equivalent of less than $3.  It's currently up for sale by it's most recent owner for $32 million! 

Throwback Thursday!

Only last year, but she looks so much younger!

Our baby boy is getting bigger!

 Lincoln at 7 weeks old 

 

Lincoln at 16 weeks old

 Loving his new "big" boy bed! 

Pete The Cat

I ♥ our local library!  The staff is fabulous and there is always something happening there!  

Mac and I spent our Saturday afternoon at the library with Pete the Cat!

 She loved listening to the librarian read various Pete the Cat books!

Then, it was off to play games and make crafts...

 

 

 
Mac's favorite part was the Puppet Show!  She giggled and giggled!  I adore hearing her sweet sounds of laughter!  

Throwback Thursday...

I've started to see old pictures surface on Facebook with the title, "Throwback Thursday".  My first thought was this would be a clever way to catch up on old blog posts that never got published!

I have a ton of pictures/ideas that I would love to share on my blog.  However, it doesn't seem appropriate to share Christmas pictures in March or a cute Valentine's Day craft in October!  Well, now it's completely acceptable with "Throwback Thursday"!   

I decided I would start with September 2012 until I'm caught up! 

For our first edition of "Throwback Thursday", we're heading all the way back to Izzie's 6th birthday!  That's right, I just finished blogging about her 7th birthday, but it seems that last year's birthday never made it to the blog! 

It was a "Barbie" theme birthday...

She requested frozen waffles for breakfast.  She made it clear that she didn't like my homemade waffles and preferred the frozen ones!  

She decided that she only wanted to open one gift.  She didn't open her other gifts until after dinner! 

 She was thrilled with her Barbie Walkie-Talkies! 

For dinner, we ate at her favorite restaurant, then headed out for ice-cream!

After dinner and dessert, she continued with her other presents.  

 

How quickly the time is passing by! I will be forever grateful that I'm able to spend everyday with this sweet, precious, little girl!