NYA BLISS, IYLA JADE AND LEILA SKY

Easter 2013

2013-04-03T08:19:00.001-07:00

Ready...Set...GO!!!

"LOOK MAMA!"

Get those egss

Bunny Iyla

So happy with herself

Sister pic

Such a beauty

LOOT!

Look, the egg matches her dress.

Pure delight

Such a fun grandma

Annual Carter Family Egg Hunt on Saturday and Easter Sunday at "Moms" with family and friends!

Mini Vacation

2013-03-28T21:35:00.000-07:00

Daddy took a few days off work to spend time with me and and the girls. We wanted to make the best of his time off so we went on a little mini vaca. We went to The Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa then stayed in a nearby hotel and then went to The Florida Aquarium (also in Tampa). It was so much fun and so stress free. We will totally be doing it again soon...we had a blast!

Cayo Costa Camping Trip

2013-03-27T16:47:00.001-07:00

And to think...this awesome pictures were nearly lost. I am so glad we found my camera and my brother was nice enough to send it back to me.

Leila's 3rd birthday party

2013-03-19T15:39:00.000-07:00

It is a good thing she is so damn cute

Ruby, Sophea and Lei

"Hi Mama!"

Best buds...Ruby and Leila

Jack, Sophea, Finley and Leila

Awe.

The frosting matched her dress

She is three....boohoo

My baby is 3....NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Our life lately

2013-03-19T15:30:00.002-07:00

Nya kartwheeling

Erika and I at her bday dinner

Cute Iyla in her classroom

Mom and Nya at brunch

Three little beauties

Upside down Iyla

Visiting the petting zoo

VB practice

This is just a hodgepodge of events that have been happening in the past few months. We always seem to have something planned...life is good!

Annual Camping Trip

2013-01-22T07:44:00.005-08:00

Sisters

Tyler and Iyla

Nya and Daven getting ready to race

Baby Leila

New favorite picture

Coming in for the WIN

Sweet Iyla

She played with this tree for hours

Kaya and Nya

The kids

Piggyback time

The whole group

Suzie and Me

Iyla and Suz

Action shot

Yelena and Erika

We just got home from our annual camping trip. We usually go every October but this time we went in January because October was too busy for our group. We are so lucky to have such an awesome group of friends to do this with every year. We always have an amazing time and the kids make tons of memories together. They just play outside, ride bikes, go on hikes, have scavenger hunts, make s'mores, go fishing and everything else you can think of that is involved with camping.

Totally Leila

2013-01-09T10:08:00.002-08:00

I stole this from another parent blogger. It was too funny not to share. This COMPLETELY describes Leila...and Iyla sometimes too!

46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Some of these are total guesses. Educated guesses, but guesses nonetheless. Seems like it’s hard being a kid.

Her sock is on wrong.

Her lips taste salty.

Her shirt has a tag on it.

The car seat is weird.

She’s hungry, but can’t remember the word “hungry.”

Someone touched her knee.

She’s not allowed to get in the oven.

I picked out the wrong pants.

Her sister looked at her.

Her sister didn’t look at her.

Her hair is heavy. (a personal favorite)

We don’t understand what she said.

She doesn’t want to get out of the car.

She wants to get out of the car by herself.

The iPad has a password.

Her sleeve is touching her thumb.

She doesn’t understand how popsicles are made.

The inside of her nose stinks.

Chicken is gross.

A balloon she got six months ago is missing. (so TRUE)

A puzzle piece won’t fit in upside down.

I gave her the wrong blue crayon.

The gummi vitamin is too firm.

Netflix is slow.

She jumped off the sofa and we weren’t watching.

She’s not allowed to touch fire.

Everything is wrong with her dress.

There’s a dog within a 70 mile radius. (not so much this one)

A shoe should fit either foot.

I asked her a question.

Her sister is talking.

She can’t lift a pumpkin.

She can’t have my keys. (while I am driving usually)

The dog is in her way.

The dog won’t let her touch its eyeball.

The inside of her cheek feels rough.

Things take too long to cook.

She has too much food in her mouth.

She (almost) sneezed.

She doesn’t know how to type.

The DustBuster is going to eat her.

Her mom is taking a shower.

Someone knocked over her tower.

She got powdered sugar on her pants.

The yogurt won’t stay on her spoon.

EVERYTHING IS TOO HOT.

Christmas 2012

2012-12-26T18:02:00.003-08:00

Nya and River

Iyla at her school program

The cast (including baby jesus)

On their way to The Nutcracker...I LOVE this picture!

A baby with an itouch 4...look how happy she is!

Sparkle Toms

A mermaid for Iyla

Look at the chaos

Panda headphones

Her first Justice dress

Sisters

Nya with both grandpas

The golden child

Nya with both sets of grandparents!

Christmas is almost here

2012-11-15T08:20:00.001-08:00

I took some Christmas pictures of the kids for our cards this year. These are not the actual ones we used on the cards but it is sneak peek. Next year...I am hiring a photographer!

Disney Halloween Cruise 2012

2012-11-03T05:49:00.003-07:00

Iyla with Peter Pan

Leila enjoying the Nemo slide

In the Mickey pool

Iyla, Keith and Nya going on the Aquaduck slide

Day one

Sunrise from our stateroom

Getting her hair done while eating ice cream

Best friends

Dance off

Homies

Ta Da

Little dancer

Deck party

Learning new moves

Pure happiness

Lunch with a view

Pirate night

I love Nya's face here

Will and Leila

Castaway Cay

Buddies

Beauty

Beauty and the Stud

Trio of cuteness

The gang

At the Halloween parade

Goldfish with attitude

Happy fish

Peacock baby

The dining crew singing Nya happy birthday on our last night

The cruise was awesome. Nya Bliss had a blast for her 8th birthday. Leila was "challenging" to say the least but it was still fun to be with our friends and family. I am really glad Jan came...she was a huge help (as always)! Iyla loved the kids club and got to do a lot of really fun things in there with the youth team. They had some fun Halloween activities planned for the kids and we saw every live show they offered as well as a movie in the movie theatre. The pools were nice and heated so the kids loved that!

WARNING: Full on Bragging!

2012-10-26T19:06:00.000-07:00

Prepare yourself because I am going to be one of those super annoying mom's that brags about how perfect their child is right now. I had Nya's fall conference this week. First of all, she has 118% grade average. That means she has scored perfect on every assignment and gotten all the possible extra credit. Lets not forget how much school she missed prior to the tonsilectomy...and she still did this well! She also took 2 different standardized tests at the start of school. On the first one, she scored higher than ANY CHILD in the second grade at her school (there are five 2nd grade classes). On the second test, she got one of the highest scores (99.3% to be exact) of all the 2nd graders in all of ORANGE COUNTY! She is also being actively screened on a weekly basis for the advanced/gifted program. She missed the gifted program by 1 point last year. She is also reading at a HIGH 5th grade level!

Ok, so we have determined that she is SUPER smart! But, she is also REALLY sweet and compassionate. There is a boy in her class with diabetes. He has to go to the school nurse 2-3 times everyday for his insulin shots and monitoring. His mother sent an email to the dean of the school and the teacher saying that her son told her that Nya never stares at him or makes him feel weird when he gets his medication. He said that she makes him laugh and tells him jokes so he does not think about his diabetes. She does not ever ask him any questions about what is wrong or why he has to go to the nurse so much. She is always looking after him and she tells the teacher when she thinks he might not be feeling too well. The teacher was going to check with his mother to see if she minded if I got a copy of the letter. I want to save it and show it to Nya when she grows up. How sweet is this kid??? Pure perfection!

iphone pics

2012-10-11T07:12:00.000-07:00

It is a good thing he is SO cute!

Iyla at her open house

Nya on "decades day" at school

Lately...

2012-09-29T13:59:00.001-07:00

I love this picture!

Iyla looks so damn cute

The doc testing Nya's eye infection

Princesses on Ice show

Nya's last fun play date pre-surgery

Before surgery with all her presents from Erika

Nya after surgery...totally miserable!

Cutest DOG ever

Halloween costume preview

We have not been doing much lately. We are getting into the swing of school and the girls other activities. Nya has just had her tonsils out and she is recovering. This is very painful for her and we are hoping she recovers quickly.

Photo Booth pictures

2012-09-04T11:19:00.001-07:00

The kids got to be a apart of a really fun photo booth at a friends birthday this past weekend. How fun are these pictures?

Daddy's home

2012-08-30T11:00:00.001-07:00

I like this one...

REAL men play mermaids...

He was a little sick of the picture taking!

"Throw me Dada!"

Daddy got home early one day and he wanted to take the girls to the pool. They had so much fun with him!

1st day of school

2012-08-20T11:53:00.000-07:00

Today was the first day of school...it is hard to watch my kids grow up BUT I sure am happy to be back to some kind of a routine and schedule! I know I am biased but they were TOTALLY the cutest kids at their school...by far!

Iyla's 4th birthday party

2012-06-25T05:44:00.001-07:00

The Art of Animation

2012-06-15T16:55:00.002-07:00

This is our week so far...

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday - Nya was at her friends Kaya's beach house.

Tuesday night - Nya spent the night with "Mom".

Wednesday - Me and my mom with the 3 girls went to Coco Key ALL DAY!

Thursday - We started out with an early morning trip to the ER due to Leila having a dislocated elbow (playing too rough with Daddy). The ER trip was quite easy thanks to my bestie Stacy and her husband Eric (having a doctor friend really ROCKS). Then....Me, Nya, Iyla, Leila, Amy, Sarah, Nathan, Emily, Jenn, Helena, Steven and Lilly all went to the Disney Caribbean Beach Resort. Then Sarah had a sleep over at our house with Nya.

Friday - We picked up Nya's other friend Penelope and went to the NEW Disney Art of Animation Resort (pictures below). Kerrin and little Lilly came and met us there. We dropped off Sarah and Penelope and picked up Lilly S. We left there and met my mom and her friend Fran for dinner and ice cream in downtown Winter Garden. Lilly is now spending the night at our house with Nya.

Leila loved this fish. She kept saying, "I gonna go say Hi NEMO'S best friend!"

Sarah, Nya and Penelope

Sarah, Nya, Penelope and Iyla

Sarah, Leila (so pissed that everyone is on "her fish"), Iyla, Nya, Lilly and Penelope

Oh Iyla Jade

Lilly and Iyla on the anemone

"Where is the friggin' water???"

"Oh, there it is!"

Nya on top of the giant Nemo climber with Penelope, Sarah, Charlotte and Vivian

Phew.....what a week!

Coco Key Waterpark

2012-06-13T14:38:00.003-07:00

She was really into this water gun

She got the hang of it pretty quickly

A rare Nya sighting, she was all over the place! I'm glad it is fenced in so she could not get too far away

Weeeeeeeeeeeee

Happy baby

CHEEEESSSEEEEEEE!!!!

Red tongue from her special drink

Puppy dog eyes

We had such a fantastic day! I am so glad my mom came with us because she is always such a HUGE help. The kids loved this place and we will definitely be going back...very soon!

I found a few pictures

2012-06-11T08:26:00.002-07:00

Her little face looks so sweet in this picture...

We were feeding the manatees and sting rays

Best friends for ever- Nya and Lilly

"Reading" to her Grandad

Daddy lounger

I was organizing all my digital iphoto files and I found some cute pictures that I never posted. They were too cute to ignore!

Memorial Day pic

2012-06-06T17:40:00.002-07:00

Forgot to post this before...I love them!

Yup, I am bragging

2012-06-06T17:39:00.003-07:00

Getting started

The Presidents Award!

She is so cute!!!!

Oh yeah....

Sweet teacher...

This day deserves documenting. My sweet Nya Bliss won the presidents award again...2 years in a row! this is an award that has to be approved by the state of Florida. She was submitted by her teacher, which then had to be approved by the guidance counselor, the assistant principal and the head principal. This award is based on outstanding academics, exemplary behavior, great attendance and overall positive character qualities. She got an official certificate and a signed letter from President Obama!
I must say that I am not at all surprised that she won (again) but I am very proud none the less. She is a truly wonderful & inspirational example of a child. She had a great support system (me, Hakim, "Mom" and Grandpa) at her graduation ceremony to watch her achieve this honorable award. Nya is AMAZING! But then again...we all knew that! Also, on a side note...she won "best smile", the "Life Saver" award for always helping others in need and she was voted most likely to become an author (because she is constantly writing stories in her free time). Yeah for NYA BLISS!!!

Summer plans...

2012-06-05T10:24:00.001-07:00

For those of you who are asking where/what we will be going/doing this summer. Here it goes...

1. The last day of school is the 7th of June.
2. End of the school year, summer kick off, pool party (hosted by mwah) on the 8th.
3. From the 9th-17th we will be hanging with friends/family, doing the theme parks & laying low.
4. From the 18th to the 22nd Nya will be in summer camp with some of her best friends.
5. Iyla has her BIG 4th birthday party on the 24th of June with all of her peeps.
6. We (me, Nya, Iyla, Leila and River) leave for Maine on the 26th at 3am (Yahooooooo).
7. We leave FROM Maine on July 31st (5 weeks total)
8. Nya and Iyla will be enrolled in "cirque du soleil"camp for the week of August 6th.
9. We will be doing a lot of hotel crashing, beach days and last days of summer fun until...
10. School starts on Monday, the 20th of August!!!

Random pics

2012-05-24T13:56:00.001-07:00

Animal Kingdom

SOOOOOOO funny

This was my Mother's Day wake up call...hilarious!

She is so darn cute

Collecting treasure

Lake fun

Little model

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!

These are just random pics from my iphone but they were too cute not to share!

Meet River

2012-05-24T13:52:00.001-07:00

We have a new member of our family...

River is a 5 month old pure bred AKC registered cream/white labrador. We have just loved having another dog. He plays so great with Chance and we are so much more active with 2 dogs than we were with one. We take a lot of trips to the lake, dog parks, "fetch field" and even the splash pad. Chance has really loved having a constant playmate and we love having River.