Cats

Drawing is a daily activity(sometimes multiple times a day) for both our girls.  I can not possibly keep all their artwork, but I want to keep a good selection to look back on.  These are the drawings they did last night after supper.  Mary Varner started out wanting to draw Cat in the Hat, and then Janey followed with her drawing of a plain cat (as she described it).  I have been saying for a long time that I think Mary Varner has a talent when it comes to drawing (comes from Jim), but Janey is really starting to draw some "real" pictures of different things now too.  I love to watch their creativity come out in their drawings!

 

Mary Varner's Cat in the Hat. She drew this without looking at any type of picture or stuffed animal!  Not bad!!

 



Janey's cat drawing.  I thought she did a great face and whiskers!

Springfest

 The girls performed at the annual Springfest (a.k.a. Kidsfest) at Harborwalk in Destin.  We have enjoyed going to this event every year. Thankfully, the weather was beautiful (last year it poured) and the girls did a great performance.  After the girls' dances, they wanted to get their faces painted. We waited in the line to get some amazing face paintings done.   We wrapped up the day with our good friends the Fann family coming over to cookout hamburgers. 

 

Harlem Shake

While we were in Mississippi, lots of family were in town for a couple of days to attend Doris' funeral.  We always try to have a family cookout when we are all together.  Well, Elizabeth and Hayden started talking phone app talk when Hayden told her that he had the Harlem Shake app on his phone.  He told us that it was an app to aide you in making your very own Harlem Shake dance video.  She immediately started planning for all of the family to make one of these videos( I was clueless about what this was but went along). I found out after making the little video how popular these Harlem Shake videos are in the cyber world.  Anyway, I crack up every time I  watch it because I love watching my 88 year old grandmother in the front center, and especially my Aunt Susan on the far left side (she is going nuts).  My family can be  crazy at times, but we have fun when we are together.

  

   

 

Build-a-Bear

Janey asked to go to Build-a-Bear for her birthday this year.  We go many Fridays to Destin Commons to meet up with some friends for a play date.  Build-a-Bear is right across from the playground so she has been asking for awhile to go.  Jim and I took the girls as our present to Janey for her birthday.  Since her birthday landed on Easter Sunday this year, we decided that Saturday would work better.  We finished the morning off with lunch and milkshakes at another favorite, Johnny Rockets.

The first station was the big "stuffing" machine.  You step on the peddle, and the animal gets stuffed full of the soft cotton filling.  You also put a little red heart that you kiss inside the animal before they close them up.

 

 

 

 

 

Giving our new friends their first baths at the Bath Station



After picking out an outfit, each girl came to the dressing table to get their animal dressed

 

Janey pushing "Rabbitina" to the checkout

 

 

 Mary Varner loves "Snowball" the Cat

 

 

 

 

 

This was on Easter Sunday.  Janey blew out her 4 candle on the birthday cake for our dessert.  This was the final birthday celebration for her this year.  Whew!!

Mississippi cont....

These are some more pictures from our trip to Mississippi over Spring Break.  Janey had a birthday celebration at each grandparent's house.  Her birthday was a week long celebration!

 

We went to the circus with Nana:

 

MV dancing with the clown in the pre-show

This was one of our favorite acts- three motorcycles going around in the metal ball.  They turned out the lights and all you could see was their jackets.

 

Always fun to see the elephants do their tricks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course Mr. Power too

 

 

 

 

Rena, Ben, and Mollie came up to spend the night one night at Grandaddy and Nana's house.  Nana planned all sorts of fun activities for the kids.  One was dying, and  hunting Easter eggs.

 

 

 

The group is ready to hunt their eggs.  It was way too cold to hunt them outside, so we had numerous indoor hunts. 

 

B'B' had planned to take the girls to the Children's museum while we where in town, but when we got their we saw seven school buses in the parking lot.  Apparently, this is a popular time for school field trips to the museum.  We decided to go to Chuck-E-Cheese for plan B.  It turned out to be a great choice because we practically had the place to ourselves!

 

 

 

 



I guess you can tell by all my pictures that our time in Mississippi was a ton of fun.