Alice in Wonderland exhibit

Saturday morning we took my parents to the Gaylord Texan to see the Alice in Wonderland exhibit. The whole inside was decorated with parts of the movie and then there were special events you could pay to see. We just walked through the hotel and Taylor loved all the decorations. Her favorite part were the flowers with faces.

Meet the teacher - KDO

Taylor got to meet her two new preschool teachers and her class this morning. Her new teachers seem very sweet and I know she is going to love her class. Taylor will be going to preschool on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She is so excited to start school next Tuesday.

Butterfly Gardens

We met some friends down at the butterfly gardens to see all the butterflies. Taylor was so excited and I have to admit I was excited to see them too. She loved watching all the butterflies fly around her. Her favorite is the Blue Morpho butterfly (mine too)! We got to see a butterfly release of all the newly emerged butterflies from this morning.



All black butterfly with hot pink spots



Taylor and Harrison checking out a butterfly by the pot



Giant butterfly which had just emerged from a chrysalis



Taylor and Harrison checking out a flower

Blue Morpho butterfly

Taylor and Harrison being adorable

Inside the butterfly garden

Sitting on a bench posing

Standing next to a butterfly

Butterfly release

Just too cute

Newly emerged butterflies that morning

Newly emerged butterfly from that morning

"The Ark" grand opening at church

Sunday morning we went to church a little early to go play on the brand new indoor playground "The Ark". Taylor and I were up at the church on Wednesday to help with a video project for the new playground and she got to play on the equipment. She hadn't stopped talking about the indoor playground at her church since and kept asking when she got to go back and play on it. Thankfully they opened it before Sunday School for the kids to play and then had a huge grand opening celebration yesterday evening for all the kids to come play and have dinner.

The best part is, the church is going to have the playground open everyday for certain hours and it is free for the kids to come play. Plus it is open to the community! I can't tell you how thankful I am for an indoor air conditioned playground right now!

You can go to our church website to see the rap video "The Ark" that the church staff made to present the indoor playground to the church. Taylor is in the video several times and loves getting to watch "her video". Here is the link to the church website and click on "The Ark" rap: www.fbccoppell.org/media-videos (it's the first video listed).




Kids 5 and under playground



Super cute cubbies for shoes



The large playground



Large playground

Taylor on the bridge of the large playground

Taylor just slid down the slide on the small playground

Sliding down the slide of the large playground

Ropes course on large playground

Ball area in small playground

Up in the large playground

First ballet class of the fall 2010 semester

My parents came back in town this afternoon after being on vacation for 3 weeks in Arizona and Colorado. They just happened to come in on the first day of Taylor's ballet classes for the fall semester. Taylor was soooooo excited for ballet and for her grandparents to get to come watch her.

Her summer class had about 10 kids in it and her class today only had 4 kids. It was kind of nice having a small class. I don't know if I will ever get over how cute and precious they all are in their ballet outfits dancing like little ballerinas!



My new favorite ballet picture of Taylor!



She has something about taking her camera to ballet class and taking pictures



Showing us her twirl



Roll call

Stretching with Mrs. Allison

She loves watching herself in the mirror

Painted decorations for Zoey's room

Yesterday I got the painting bug and painted letters, a cross and a mirror for Zoey's room. We are going to hang everything up in Zoey's room today and I can't wait to see how it all comes together. Mom brought up the curtains and the bedding (except for the bumpers) two weeks ago. I'm loving the tropical/surf theme for Zoey's room!



Letters "ZOEY"



Green large cross, pink small cross with hibiscus flowers and a white metal cross



Pink mirror with metal palm trees