Kimbri's 6th Birthday

I can't believe that 6 years ago, Kimbri made me a mom. She has turned into such a smart, kind, spunky, and beautiful little girl. She works hard, does her best, is an amazing helper to me and her two younger siblings, makes friends really easily and is the best note-writer there ever was! 

Kimbri is seriously always writing me notes. And on days when I feel like I'm not doing good enough, I see the notes everywhere around the house from Kimbri, and they remind me of how meek and pure kids are. She loves me no matter what, and is always reminding me of that. And sometimes I need those reminders, because let's face it, she is the first child and I feel like she has been the guinea pig with a lot of things. She was the first kid we had and she has been so patient in so many things, whether she remembers it or not, while I have been trying to figure out this whole mom thing.

I love how genuine she is. I love that her heart is huge. I love that she really feels and lives life to the fullest. When this girl is happy, the whole world knows it and she is ecstatic! When she is excited about something, everyone hears about it. When she is sad, everyone also knows it ;) But I really do love that she is just that genuine. That she really feels. That she has emotion and is real. 

I'm so grateful for Kimbri in my life. She has taught me so much in her now 6 years of life. I just hope that I can teach her as much as she has taught me! I LOVE YOU, KIMBRI!!!! 

Kimbri really has a lot of fun when she can play around with the camera on my phone. I've included some of the selfies she has taken the last little bit. Also, another time we took lots of pictures was at the school bus drop off. She is definitely NOT camera shy, haha! Here are some Kimbir pictures: 

Kimbri Photo Shoot

So I've been trying to catch up the family blog for the year 2016. I got so behind because of internet issues that we had while living in Utah, but it has been one of my New Year goals for 2017 to catch everything up by the end of this year. Now that we are moved and getting settled, I'm working more on this goal. 

Anyway, while I was sorting through pictures, I found some pictures I forgot we had of Kimbri! One of Olivia's friends, Makayla Cazier, wanted to use Kimbri as one of her photography models. So we got some cute free pictures out of it! Kimbri has so much personality and loves doing poses for the camera, so this was right up her alley :)

They said she insisted on wanting a picture with the flower
down her dress like this. Haha!

Headband Project

This was a random project I had to earn a little extra money during the summer before Brenna was born. I had made up some headbands for Brenna and used the leftover fabric to make extras and sold them. It not only paid for the material itself (free headbands for Brenna!) but it also made quite a few headbands out of a little amount of fabric! I had so much interest in them when I posted them for sale, that I ended up making a ton more and selling them on Facebook yard sale pages. It costs about .30 to .50 + my time to make a headband and then I was selling them for $2.50 each. Rick was busy studying for boards and the kids would go to bed around 7pm so I had several hours alone each night that I worked on this little project. It was fun to have something to fill my time with that earned a little extra income.

Topsail Beach

July 15: a We went to the beach! Last time we went we checked out Holden Beach. It was nice and we loved it! But this time we decided to try out one called Topsail Beach and it blew the other one out of the water! Mostly because we found an awesome spot that was close to bathrooms with plenty of parking. It was away from the crowds, the sand was SO soft and smooth. It wasn't windy and the waves were perfect for the kids to do their boogie boards on. They had worked for my mom when we were still living in Utah, picking up tons of pine cones, and had earned some money. So when we were at Sam's Club earlier in the week, the kids decided that's what they wanted to spend their money on. And it was a good thing because they are obsessed with boogie boarding now! It was so relaxing to just hang out on the beach with just our family and have some together time. I know we need to really take advantage of our time together because next month is when residency is going to get a lot harder! But for now, we are enjoying spending a lot of time with Rick :)

She loved finding seashells and putting them
in her pink bucket!

The boogie boards the kids saved up their own money for!
We got them on clearance at Sam's Club.