They asked the girls whether they wanted to be a princess or a rock star – Noelle picked princess!

Anna Kate picked rock star!

Anna Kate was in heaven – such a little ham!

Noelle’s an old pro at this!

When we got home, the girls played dress-up before bed!

Love my girlie girls!  Rose was smiling and jumping up and down watching her big sisters play… she’ll be right in the mix before long!

We got to go out to eat with the Pond family to celebrate Grand Papa’s birthday this weekend!  We wish Grand Papa and Aunt Michele a very happy birthday today!!!

The Pond Fam had a blast at the Davis’ wedding on Sunday!

Beautiful.

Dee, baby Layla, Kelli, and Anna Kate!

My buddies had a blast tonight!  They are looking forward to Uncle Stephen’s wedding coming up really soon!

Phil and Stephanie having a good time with Mike and Rose!

Congrats Sam!!!

Love this little two year old!

This is one of my very favorite faces Anna Kate makes.  She is usually saying “Yep!” or thinking about doing something silly when she makes it!

And this is the lovely bride, Brenda, who did an amazing job planning her incredible wedding!  During the music in the ceremony, Noelle leaned over and said, “Mommy, this music sounds like royalty.”  So cute!  Tonight was so elegant, yet laid back and fun! 

Anna Kate and Emme were chatting it up; this is the only pic I got of Tate because the little buddy was on the move! 

Emme and Noelle had a blast hanging out!

Emme even got to hold Rose; she’s such a big girl!

And then there were these two…

Pretty adorable!

To eat her eggs, she dumped them off of the plate onto the table… next time, we should just serve her eggs fresh to the table!  Silly Anna Kate!

The Skittles did so great at their first soccer practice!  Noelle had SO much fun!

“Red light, green light” learning ball control

Noelle kept doing her hands in the shape of a heart at Mike… it was hilarious!

I was really surprised at how well Noelle did considering this was her first practice… the other girls were so sweet to her!

At the end of practice Coach Suzanne let the girls pile on top of her – they loved it!

Here are the cute little sisters!  Thankfully they have each other to play with while the big girls practice.  They had a blast too!

This is Carson.  She got into the mascara right as her Mommy was getting them out of the house.  Although her Mommy was stressed, it was so so cute!

And here is some proof of our Texas drought.  It is really really hot and dry.  We desperately need rain!

Tanna got these dress-up hats and had us over for a tea party this morning… it was too perfect and something Anna Kate has looked forward to all week long!

“Cheers!”

This is what life is made of!

I just had to turn some of these into black and whites… you can really see them pretending to play tea party in this sequence – too cute!

We went out to eat with the Fearings this week to celebrate Landon’s birthday and hang out with our buddies… the girls are crazy about this guy!!!

I love this “bling” picture of Landon and Anna Kate, and I love this picture of Rose I took while we were getting ready to go to dinner. 

Another day this week we went swimming with some friends.  We really wanted a picture of the kids together since we haven’t gotten that many, but Landon wasn’t in the mood for hugs.  Heather and I were both telling Anna Kate just to grab him and hold on… it was so funny!

Here’s Landon trying to escape the love cage!