My Small Moments: Last week's update

We have been super busy at the Bush household! I am so thankful for a day of not having to be anywhere for a change! I love the kind of busy we have been - lots and lots of family and friend time! But I'm not going to lie - it's 10:30 right now and I'm still in my pajamas and I'm loving it!

But now I have lots to share!

First: Dance!

K had her first experience at a national competition. She had so much fun!

Love how serious she was with her VERY early morning stretching!

The Pilgrim girls came to see K perform and she was so excited!

Love these little rockers!

Waiting for awards. Each girl got a "spirit stick" to wave during the awards ceremony.

These awesome girls had to wait until around 1:30 before they got to eat! They inhaled some Chick-Fil-A and were so excited to play with their spy watches while waiting in the lobby before the 2nd award ceremony.

The mini company ended up taking platinum rankings on both of their dances and the entire company dance scored platinum as well. They also took first place in their category for lyrical (that's what the trophy is for) and then another first place for the whole company dance! K was so excited she got to take a trophy home!

Later that night we celebrated Cody's birthday at home. He wanted dinner at Spring Creek so we headed there and came back home for cake. K and I gave him a new clip for his video camera, a Slingbox so he can tap into our cable when he is away from the house, and an Apple tv converter for his tv in the man cave.

The next morning (Saturday) K had a birthday party for her friend from school, Lane. It was so sweet to watch all the kiddos from her school run and hug her when she got there. I seriously love the community we have at our school!

Skee-ball has always been my favorite arcade game and I love watching K enjoy it too!

All these sweet kiddos were in K's kinder class this year! Love them!

Sunday we went to church and then headed to a family lunch at J. Gilligans (Irish nachos = YUM!) to celebrate all the Bush family birthdays that were in May and June. Later that night I finished up one of Jen Hatmaker's older books about bible study. So. Good. I love when K joins me in my room while I'm reading. This time she was working on her kindergarten summer workbook that her teacher gave her. If she completes it this summer and brings it back to school, she gets a special treat from her teacher. She has over half of it finished already and I have to limit the pages she does a day so we can make it last! If it was up to her she would have finished the whole thing the first day she had it!

Just ignore the empty picture frames in the back that I haven't filled yet. Pretend they are already full of beautiful family pictures and hung on the wall. ;)

On Monday we "saved" Leigh Anne from having to sit at Starbucks while Matt had some work meetings in Arlington. We picked her up and of course had to get some Starbucks to go while we headed to shop. Our first stop was at the Kendra Scott store in Fort Worth so I could use my 50% off one piece for my birthday. Yes, please! I picked the Rayne necklace with the slate stone. :)

Then we headed to Gracie Lane, which has several boutique booths filled with clothes, jewelry, and home decor type things. We of course had to pick out some bows for baby Caroline that's due in August.

We found some clearance bows that would be cheaper to buy than make. Score! It was fun trying to get a pregnant Leigh Anne off the floor as well! ;)

Then we found these bows at another booth. WHOA! Do people actually put these on their children??

I mean, really???

Of course we had to make sure they looked just as ridiculous on adults too!

We then headed to Hobby Lobby to plan some decor for Caroline's nursery. Leigh Anne picked up the cutest giraffe wooden sign that her sister had seen. It works perfectly in the nursery and bonus that it's Leigh Anne's favorite animal!

After that we headed to Matt's office to drop Leigh Anne off and just to see where he worked. K loves Mr. Matt so much! He's going to make a great girl daddy!

K and I then headed to Souper Salad, which is one of K's favorite places to eat since it basically has all her favorite foods! After dinner we picked up my friend Maggie and headed to surprise Cody by watching his softball game. The weather was so perfect and I always love watching my guy be a stud on the field! The game ended in a tie, so Cody was bummed, but we had fun anyway!

The next day Nicole and her girls picked up K and me and we all headed to McKinney to see Leigh Anne's new house. It was so beautiful! I just wish it was closer to Arlington! :(

We all ate lunch at La Madeleine and then headed to the new Nebraska Furniture Mart. That. Store. Is. Huge. I mean, it seriously needs it's own zip code or something!!! We all had fun looking at probably a 1/4 of the store before we headed to get a strawberry cream bundt cake since it was the last day of June. (We might all have a problem.)

K decided she needed this bed at Nebraska Furniture Mart. I think she mainly just wanted the pink, glittery bedspread. ;)

On the ride over to McKinney and back, one of Nicole's daughter's, Allie, was making friendship bracelets. She taught K how to do it, and K was in love! She begged me to take her to get some supplies for herself. How could I say no to something that would keep her occupied and wasn't expensive??

I love that K made a list of the colors she wanted before we headed to the store!

I need to take more pictures with my real camera! The difference is amazing!

Wednesday, we had a playdate with K's friend, Claire, scheduled. Then my friend Kristi, who teaches kindergarten at our school, texted and said she was wanting to take one of her students who was sick the day of the field trip to the aquarium. I taught this student's brother and it was so funny that both Kristi and I texted her mom the day she was sick and said we would take her daughter to the aquarium sometime in the summer! We decided to make a fun day out of it together, but she only had a few days to do it. I asked Claire's mom if we could take Claire along instead of our original playdate and she said yes. K was so pumped! We had so much fun!!

We met Claire at Chick-Fil-A for lunch before we headed to the aquarium. K watched the window with such anticipation!

Here is our fun group of kiddos at the Dallas World Aquarium!

K got to feed a bird a blueberry!

Claire and K hanging with the penguins

Fishy faces!

After our time at the aquarium, we stopped at Sonic for happy hour drinks and Claire came back over to our house to play for a few more hours before her mom picked her up.

The next day, K and I had a pretty calm day (thankfully!) that was filled with laundry for our weekend trip to Paris for the 4th of July. We also went to the store to get some supplies for the weekend as well. I'll post about our weekend later. :)

Sometimes I let K eat in the living room and watch tv - especially in the summer. It cracks me up that she doesn't need her stool at all anymore, but insists on still using it! Of course I had to snap a picture!

We did have a really yummy dinner that night too! My friend Natalie made this really awesome dish of baked beans with ground beef for Leigh Anne and Matt's baby shower cookout. I looked at several Pinterest recipes and went off of what Natalie told me and just winged it. It was sooooooo good! I was proud that I didn't use an actual recipe and the dish actually turned out great!