Laura Vegas

and our second birthday girl this week … my baby, alyssa! actually sarah would be considered the baby of the two of them … but i’ve always called alyssa "my baby". well … she’s not a baby anymore. and how old is she?

poor thing doesn’t have enough fingers anymore. lol! she’s the big "11" years old today. i know i say this every birthday … but where the heck does the time go?!?! i told her tonight as i was tucking her into bed that she was getting so big. she said that no, she wasn’t getting any bigger. so i said that she was getting so much older. she said that her body just wasn’t agreeing with her age. lol! poor thing is still so tiny … shorter than her little sister in fact (who is almost 3 years younger). but i always tell her that big things come in little packages.

insert note to self here: remind alyssa to always take her retainers off before taking pictures! not quite as pretty or decorative as the braces were!

she really didn’t want to bring any attention to herself today … so she refused to take the cookies i had bought for her class. bad enough you can’t take anything homemade to the schools these days … i actually went and bought cookies and then she didn’t want them. so now we have 48 cookies (only because she has 35 kids in her class) … store bought cookies to top it off. lol! and i thought it was funny that she asked if i’d be there to pick them up after school (like i have ever NOT been there) … and i said i was going to be there with a huge bunch of balloons to greet her. she was yelling at me "don’t you dare do that"! i was totally kidding around. but then her dad came out right before school got out … and he mentioned that he was going to get her some balloons and carry them over to get her from school. lol! and he was totally being serious. good thing there were no balloons in sight!

then the usual fun birthday stuff … homework, daycare kiddos, soccer practice. lol! they picked up her favorite dinner on the way back from soccer … kfc chicken and mashed potatoes. her big gift was from her dad … a mp3 player of some sort. i know nothing about this kind of stuff … but it even stores videos and movies on it. he got some of her favorite cds all loaded up … and the new soccer movie "gracie". she got a ton of new clothes … some really cute shirts and hoodies. a couple of movies, a new cheetah girls cd, a electronic game thing they like to play on the tv, and a couple of mini backpacks for carrying her important stuff (nintendo, mp3, books).

her party is saturday. both alyssa and sarah have later soccer games this weekend. and then we have about 8 girls coming for a sleepover. how loud does that sound?!?! bet joe is glad he has to work that night. lol! i figure with 10 girls or so … i’ll have to have them sleep in the playroom downstairs. nothing but floor space down there. i told alyssa i would just sleep on the couch in the family room … and she looked horrified. told me to sleep upstairs … she didn’t want me "listening in". yeah right … i’m not about to leave that many girls downstairs by themselves. lol! shouldn’t be that bad though. i’m not one of those sleepover moms that let the kids stay up all night long. maybe 1am if they’re lucky. certainly not the 4am that alyssa stayed up until at one recent party. lol!

stop back by friday afternoon … i have a couple of new layouts to share! thanks for stopping by!