Easter Baskets

My very talented Mama painted these Easter baskets for Ainsley and her cousin, Ann Elise. I love them! So glad she can do these kinds of things because I did not get any of her painting skills.

Sugarland

Daniel gave me Sugarland tickets in January for my 31st birthday. I have to say it was the best birthday present ever! We had an amazing time in Nashville and the concert was unbelievable. I WILL be going to another Sugarland concert one day for sure!

Our picture taken by another Sugarland fan to document the event.

Sugarland trailer

This was an amazing show!

I stood up the entire time. Could not take my eyes off the stage!

Ainsley's 1st Visit to the Dentist

Today was Ainsley's first visit to Children's Dental Clinic in Tupelo. I was impressed before we even got there because they were kind enough to send Ainsley a book explaining to her what would happen on her visit.  The book also had her name printed throughout to personalize the story for her. We had been talking to her for weeks about what would happen at her appointment and she started to get a little scared.  We decided not to bring it up for a while,  so I was not sure what would happen when we actually got to the office. She did tell me she was a little scared, but once we got in the office she was fine. Children's Dental Clinic had several toys for Ainsley to play with to keep her busy while we were waiting. I told her to listen for her name, so when she was called she was so excited and ran to meet her dental hygienist, Miss Mary. Miss Mary was so sweet and made Ainsley feel right at home. Ainsley got to pick out her very own toothbrush, which was ballerina Dora of course and 2 Tinkerbell stickers. Miss Mary brushed Ainsley teeth, then got her settled in to the dentist chair. Ainsley was a little nervous when the chair started moving, but now she says it is her favorite thing about the entire visit. She also seemed to think the light they pull down was going to fall on her, but was fine once it was in its place. Miss Mary counted all of Ainsley's teeth and let us know she has 20 teeth. After Miss Mary was done Ainsley got to play with more toys for a little bit while waiting on Dr. Warriner. Once Dr. Warriner was ready Ainsley got back in the chair, so he could double check things. He did tell us Ainsley has large baby teeth, which is causing some crowding, but nothing to worry about right now. We will just have to watch them with each visit and see what her permanent teeth do when they start to come in. Overall Ainsley got a great report and was told to come back in 6 months. She left with her new toothbrush, stickers, a pink balloon and a token to get the prize of her choice out of the coin machines, so she picked a new rubber ball. As we left Ainsley told me she liked Dr. Warriner and was not scared of the dentist anymore.

Ainsley was a little nervous when the chair started moving, but Miss Mary reassured her everything would be ok.  The next time the chair moved Ainsley was laughing about it.

Miss Mary cleaning Ainsley's teeth.

Ainsley was holding on tight to make sure she didn't fall out of the chair.

Dr. Warriner counting Ainsley teeth. She was told she has 10 upstairs and 10 downstairs.

Ainsley got a good report from Dr. Warriner. Yay!!

Memphis Zoo 2011

Daniel, Ainsley, Papa, Gigi and I went to the Memphis Zoo Saturday, February 19, 2011. The weather has been so crazy around here that we took advantage of a beautiful day. It was a perfect day to see the animals and they were happy for us to come visit them. We all had a wonderful time and could not have asked for anything more.

Ainsley and Papa had a lot of fun together at the zoo.

Ainsley and Daniel - All smiles thinking about seeing the animals.

Ainsley, Colby and Daniel - family photo with the giraffes.

Ainsley in her new canoe.

Daniel, Ainsley and Colby - loved the waterfall.

Ainsley wanted to help carry my backpack, but it was a little overloaded for her.

Papa, Ainsley and Gigi - taking time out for a photo.

Ainsley always rides the carousels with Gigi.

Ainsley and Colby - Ainsley was being a silly girl while taking a picture with me.

Daniel and Ainsley were our guides, so we took a break for them to plan what to see next.

Ainsley and Daniel (and all of us) had a wonderful day!

Valentine's Day 2011

Ainsley kept saying "Wonder what kind of balloon I'll get", so Daniel had to get her 4 balloons.

Wonder what is in my bag?

I LOVE candy!

Look at everything I got for Valentine's Day!

I love all my gifts!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Cheese

One happy little girl!

Snow Day 2011

We got a great big snow fall for Mississippi, so of course we had to play! It is really unbelievable that we got snow Christmas day and got even more snow today. This was several inches though and shut down the roads and gave most people a snow day. Yay!!!! It was so nice to be home with Daniel and Ainsley just to play in the snow and not rush to be anywhere all day.

Ainsley loved her snow day!

Our snow covered house.

Pretty deep for a Mississippi snow!

Daddy thought this would make a good sled for Ainsley.

Ainsley did not think it was a good sled for her to use.

It was so cute to watch Ainsley plop down to make her snow angel.

My Angel made a perfect snow angel.

Mommy I am going to get you!

Ainsley thought it was so funny to throw snowballs at us.

Ainsley had so much fun being pulled around on our float sled.

Ainsley wanted to keep going and going.

I had a lot of fun, but only got to do this once because Ainsley did not want to give it up.

One happy little girl.

Daniel's turn to float sled.