Dentist please

The girls had a teeth cleaning this winter and Cahill came home with a few souvenirs. She was more then happy to chase us all around the house trying to clean our teeth. (she will come to your house if needed)

March Madness

March has been a mixed bag of blessings and terrors. The month started with fun adventures, two trips to Great Wolf Lodge and beautiful weather almost reaching the 60's. We even spend a weekend in Saginaw having a date day and celebrating Tyler's Birthday. But with spring came a nightmare virus which left me in bed for almost 4 full days. The girls and I had atleast a full week of intense sickness. Each morning I now wake up praising the Lord for health. But as the sickness is slowly leaving our home so is the beautiful warm weather. I took these pictures of Ashlynn as she looked outside watching the snow fall and saying "snow go away! 

Coloring crazy

Lately all Cahill wants to do is color and draw. She will color 20 pages a day and draw up to 10 drawings. Some of the time Ashlynn will join her. A lot of this coloring is done in a attempt to avoid schooling I am sure. My fridge and doors are buried in beautiful colors and each sheet has the worth of gold.

Grams Christmas

We did not celebrate Grams Christmas at the cabin but we did celebrate at Debbie's house. The food was a Mexican theme.(insert very happy Jessica) Most of the family was there celebrating and others were missed. We kept the new tradition of white elephant gifts. (always a riot) Cahill loved baby CeCe and sang to her and snuggled her.

Christmas Parties

We had so many Christmas parties this year with so many incredible family members and friends. This year for the first time we decided to host a Christmas party at our house with some of our dearest friends. We ended up with five couple and some fun kids. We had great finger foods and strange green drinks called "The Grinch". We played games until we almost fell asleep. Charades of course being my favorites followed any other crazy ideas we could come up.

Piano lessons

Cahill and I have been taking piano lessons all school year. We are both almost finished with our books and working hard to make it to the second book. Thank goodness for a wonderful teacher who has worked with us financially. Cahill has even been giving her dad some lessons.

Ashlynn and Fancy Nancy

One of the cute series we have been reading is Fancy Nancy. This is Ashlynn's idea of what she would look like as Fancy Nancy.

Reading

If someone had asked me when my children were born what did I think the hardest thing to teach them would be. I would have replied potty training. Wow I never considered that reading would be harder to teach then potty training. We have had a interesting year working on reading. But we have come a long way this year and I am happy to say Cahill is reading well. Ashy loves to sit and listen to Cahill weed through her words. A couple of months ago we started a reading rewards chart. Each chart has 20 spaces to be filled. As of today, Cahill has read 65 books to us and still working away at it. We are no way near perfect readers but still diligently working at it.

Dancing

I realize I am almost four months behind in blogging so bear with me on some of these Christmas shots. Music is a huge part of our life in the Stimpson home. It could be singing, practicing piano or even dancing. We sing in the shower, while we are cooking, when we are cleaning and just about any other time we can. The girls also love to dance all around the house and knock each other over. Cahills favorite song right now is "Overcome" by Peter KNeu (i think that is how you spell his name). If you have not heard this song you are missing out..