It's so hard to believe that we are almost half way finished with 2012!  Seanna's 4th birthday is rapidly approaching and she is planning her party already.  It's been a busy spring for all of us and no exception with Seanna.  She took a trip to see her Grandmother Kathryn a few weeks back in Tucson and played with her cousins and her sister for a few days.  She LOVES airplane rides too and is an amazing traveller.  A few weeks later, she and mommy were able to spend just some mommy /daughter time together as she accompanied me back to Ohio for Baby B's 1st bday party.  We spent several days in Ohio visiting friends and family.  It was wonderful and a very special bonding time for us both.  We returned and we began her swimming lessons again (same Coach as last year) but this year she was the "leader" of her group and did amazingly well with her pulls and is able to do breast stroke and breath an entire length of the pool.  She is passionate about swimming and tennis and I honestly believe one of these sports may be in her future.  She has also signed up for soccer league this year and we are excited to see how she does.  The two weeks of swim lessons are over and she passed with flying colors.  She even got to hold Coach Mike's Gold Medal that he won for the 1500 m freestyle back when he was a freshman in college!  Pretty cool.  Last person to see the medal was Sir Paul McCartney!!  Awesome if I do say so myself.

School year is winding down and she is ready to be out for the summer.  We are working on her letters and numbers and it was pretty cool to watch her write her very own name a few months back.  She is smart as a whip and loves to read and is equally a jokester like her sister (who is only 17 months now but tries to keep up with her every move)!

2012 and moving quickly

Oh boy!! We are all SOOO happy to see 2011 end as it was quite a year filled with too many challenges for us.  We welcomed 2012 in style and embracing our new goals for the upcoming year.  To wrap up 2011, the flood in our home ended up being about a 4 month process.  We lived on concrete and without furniture right up until the week before Xmas.  We lived at home during the entire process as it was too hard for the girls to live in a hotel and so we braved out the dust and grime!  Everything is back in place now and we are having alot of fun.

Halloween the girls dressed as matching pirates (thanks to a friend of mine that made their costumes) and they looked so cute they made the local paper!!  Matching outfits has become a very important thing to Seanna so we have to whittle it down to similar styles and perhaps similar colors :).  

She is doing really well in school and loving all of  her teachers and classmates.  Sunshine's sister celebrated her one year bday and mommy turned another year older right around the Thanksgiving holiday.  We went back to Ohio for Thanksgiving so little sis could meet alot of the extended family that are unable to travel.  We were hoping upon our return that the home would be complete with flooring, but unfortunately that did not happen!

The Christmas holiday was wonderful too as we stayed home as Wes was on call for the Xmas weekend so we had a very low key morning followed by alot of friends opening their homes to share the date with us since we weren't able to travel to our familes homes.  

We had a huge party on New Years Day to celebrate our home being back together and start 2012 on the right foot.  We had 40+ folks here and tons of kids, jump house and lots and lots of food.  Everyone stayed until late into the evening and want it now to be an annual tradition.  :)  (I haven't broken it to them yet that next year someone else will have to host).  

Sunshine is getting so incredibly tall and her feet are growing along with it.  We've cut her hair in super cute bob and thinking that she might start to play tennis in a group setting here very soon (her sister is DYING to play with her and that's going to be a whole different challenge ).  We've made up her class V-day flowers (instead of cards) and looking forward to her party at school.  

Hope all is well with all of you!!

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