Celebrating Everly's 6th Birthday!

Nearly six months ago, our baby girl turned SIX years old?!? I would say, I could hardly believe it, but it has been six months and I have mostly come to terms with it. We were still living in a hotel so I asked Nonni if we could do her birthday morning at her house and she said sure! So there we were bright and early ready to celebrate our girl! 

Nonni and the birthday girl.

It seems like just yesterday that she was a baby...

And now she's SIX!!!!!!

I will say this is the first birthday where there was minimal jealousy from the other sibling and we were so proud of Emma for how she handled herself - she was super supportive (even during present time!).

The sweetest girls :).

Present time :).

She was very excited!

Then we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast - her favorite!

Making her wish!

Who wouldn't love this birthday breakfast?!?

Apparently somewhere in there, Emma had a dress change - we decided to snap a few pictures before Papa George headed to work! 

Love this one :).

Nonni and Papa George with the birthday girl!

And again with Emma!

And then Wes and I wanted a picture and this is the best we could get :(.

Love our family!

We let Ev's pick the activity and she picked going to see the Lion King (she actually picked this back when we were living in China and she found out that the Lion King was coming out close to her birthday!).

No complaints from me - I love the music from the Lion King.

Followed by Chick Fil A for lunch (also Ev's pick).

We dropped Nonni off and then the girls wanted to go swimming...

And just like that her birthday was over (I think we had pizza by the pool for dinner).

And it was onto her birthday party. We didn't have access to our house (there was only a toilet with no doors! and in retrospect, we should have had it somewhere else but we had already decided on a pool party just utilizing our patio. We woke up to rain... boo! So we moved the party back an hour and hoped for the best. It ended up raining and it was crazy, but I don't think it bothered the birthday girl one bit.

My mom really helped us out allowing us to use her kitchen to prep everything...

She was pumped about turning six!

Love it when Bobbob and Papa George can join.

We had pizza for lunch, a lot of swimming (all the pictures with Everly in it have other kids too so I won't post those) and then it was time for cake!

And a fun game that Wes made for all the kids!

These girls love their aunt Celeste!

I was trying to get a picture of Emma in her rainbow suit and rainbow earrings...

When someone splashed her!

And that's a wrap on Evsie's sixth birthday! We love her to the moon and back several times over and were so happy to celebrate our girl even with our unusual circumstances :).

Summer Little Things | Part Two

Summer part two is much like summer part one ;), more house decisions, loads of pool time and spending time with family!

One day Wes and the girls met me for lunch and then we went to go pick out our countertop - when you want white quartz with only a little bit of veining, the decision is pretty easy! 

The Clara countertop it was!

Demo on our kitchen started - they took out those lights, closed the box and put in recessed lighting!

We picked out flooring for the girls bath - spoiler, we love it! and so does everyone that has come over!! Inspo was from the first bloggers I followed.

Picked out a front door - we also love this! I am surprised with how much I still really really love considering how quickly we had to make decisions - maybe I will write more about this?

We had a pizza dinner with our favorite Bobbob!

New paint in the master! We went with SW Accessible Beige in the whole house - also super happy with this decision. In case it's not obvious - it's the lighter of the two colors.

The girls bathroom got demolished! We made a last minute decision to rip out that pony wall and we are so happy! This was a critical room because we had to have this room finished before we moved back in - we were still living in a hotel at this point.

Instant gratification for blog readers - the box was filled in!

Special date with my girl - she chose donuts and Target, a girl after my own heart :).

This is the master - floors ripped up and new floors about to go in after paint!

I mentioned in the last post we decided to do the downstairs floors as well - I was so happy we were not living here while they used the jackhammer to get up these floors! We did leave the fireplace - I just love that Wes did this while I was pregnant with Everly.

Master bedroom prepped and ready for paint and then floors - bye bye satin charcoal grey I thought was cool when I was 26 ;).

We got new plumbing - one of those expensive things you will never notice, but obviously have to do.

The pink room became the storage room.

This is currently my favorite view in the house.

With all that house excitement - Emma lost her front tooth! 

We got to spend a weekend with the girls out of town cousins on Wes's side of the family! So happy we got to spend time with them and that Grandma and Grandpa could be there too.

Finally got myself a good picture of her missing tooth - goes down as my all time favorite Emma "look".

They don't love each other at all ;). This was the reunion after Nonni had been in Colorado for a week! How did we ever survive months at a time without seeing Nonni, I will never know?!?

Our sweet hayhead wanted a turn :).

We celebrated Everly's birthday (more on this to come).

We went to our bridge to take pictures (also, more of these snaps to come). 

We moved back into Nonni and Papa George's house at some point (I think this might have been the point?) and made homemade watermelon popsicles.

They were great helpers in the kitchen.

Bobbob had everyone over for a bar-b-que with my cousins. Emma and Everly fell in love with my cousins dog, Moose.

We had a small birthday party for Everly!

Then, we headed out of town to San Antonio and the lake house for a few days before school started. The Sunday we got back, we had our cousins, Nonni and Papa George over for a swim!

We also came home to a painted master bedroom! Hooray!!!

And just like that, summer was over and it was time to start school! We have decided we will not be sharing any details of where we decided to send the kiddos to school, but they love it and we couldn't be happier!