Our little artist...

Last week Kenzie came home from school with a bag full of her artwork from the year!

She has always loved to color, draw & paint...

and she says that art is her favorite special in school!

She definitely gets her good art skills from daddy b/c this mama ain't no artist! :)

I was quite impressed with her work!  

I just love the cardinals in this one...

This one is from the fund raiser her school put on back in the fall...

I ordered a mug with this picture on it!

Still makes me smile when I sip my coffee in the morning! 

This one might be my favorite...

I had to include this...

"Why do you need to go to work?"

The girl with a sad face is Kenzie ....

I'm not sure who the happy princess is...?

End of the year show!

Last week Makenzie had her end of the year show.

It might have been the cutest thing ever!  

I wish I had the whole thing on video...I seriously could watch it over and over! :)

Makenzie played "baby bear".... 

 The whole show centered around finding baby bear...

At the end the 3 Musketeers found baby bear and asked "is that baby bear?"

 And Kenzie popped up from her stump and said....

"Of course it is! Who else would it be? I've been right here by the stump of this tree!" 

It was so cute!

All the kids did such a great job!!

 She realllly didn't want to take this picture...

can you tell?!? :)

Water fun day

The other day the Soto girls declared the day a "water fun day".

We got out our little kiddie pool and our water table...

and the girls had some fun!

This one refused to keep her hat on...grrr! 

I'm so nervous she'll burn!

Kennie looks so big in these pictures....or maybe our pool is that small!? :)

My little mini me's

I love having girls. 

I love even more that they want to be like me!  

....but at the same time I guess it's a little scary how much little sets of eyes can look up to you.

I hope I'm saying the right things, and doing the right things because these 2 little girls are sure watching me!

This is Makenzie as me! :)

It's crazy how much this one copies everything you do.  

She had to dress up too with my glasses! :)

Makenzie even fixed her hair like mine....

In this picture I notice Kenzie is holding a phone...

I sure hope it's not b/c I'm always holding mine.

Definitely not how I want my girlies to see me...

as a mommy always on the phone or on some type of technology!

I've been trying to get better at that because seriously what is more important your babies or someone else's status updates!?!? 

 Later that night Makenzie said that next time she dresses up as me she's even going to wear my bra and undies! hahaha! I don't think so Kennie! :)

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a nice Memorial Day weekend to kick off summer 2014! :)  

Makenzie was excited because she had a 3 day weekend plus she was going to her first slumber party on Saturday night!  She was so excited..she talked about it all week!  

Well....Saturday around 4 she started to complain about her ear hurting....and the party started at 5!  

So I gave it a few minutes and then I was pretty certain she had an ear infection.

So I quickly took to her the walk in and yes she had an ear infection

 but she was set on still going to the party.

So I thought maybe drop her off at the party a little late b/c at this point it was already like 6 but just pick her up around 9:30 instead of spending the night b/c I was afraid of her ear hurting throughout the night.

That was the plan but Kenzie was having so much fun with her little friends that I figured she'd be fine throughout the night...and she was!  No midnight call to pick her up! :)

On Sunday we had one tired little 5 year old!!  

And boy was she grumpy!  :)

I was tired of her miserable attitude so I told her to sit on her bed in her room for a few minutes

 and she went to sleep right away!

But after the nap she was back to her happy self again...phew!! :)

So we played "breakables"....

She loves these!  

Grandma Moebs gave them to her when they were moving 

b/c Kenzie would always play with them at their house.

And when little sissy woke up from a nap we took a walk to the ball flats...

This little one is too silly.... :)

 On Monday we started the day at the parade....

Jo loved it ...she pointed to everything!

And after we went to see Abbie since it was her birthday! :) 

The kiddos had a lot of fun in the sprinkler! 

 And on Tuesday Jo was still feeling patriotic and waved her flag during our morning walk! :)