shock to the system

this morning we officially started back to school after being off for two and a half weeks. how wonderful it was to sleep in and hang out all day in our "jammies" - talk about WHAT A LIFE!!! well, reality definitely hit in when the alarm went off for me at 5:30 am not to mention the fact that it was a mere 18 degrees outside...brrrrr! the girls got off to school with no problems whatsoever! that always makes for a great day!

we celebrated our "last day of christmas break" with a bit of a shopping spree and lunch yesterday. the girls got some gift cards for christmas and were dying to go spend them. i promised them that i would take them shopping and to lunch at anywhere of their choosing; which ending up being steak 'n shake. (yeah!) lacey, of course ended up spending her gift card on a play phone that looks like blackberry and disney princess press on nails. i just have laugh because honestly i wonder sometime where in the world did we get this girl.....she is just so funny!

our little prankster

lacey is always cracking us up. i've decided that is what the second child is for - making us laugh. i know god sent her to keep everything in perspective because that is exactly what she does! she is so carefree, sharp as a tack and loves to talk. in fact, she loves to talk so much that she has already been moved to "yellow" in her 4 year preschool class. uh?

well the latest in the life and adventures of lacey meredith is her telling stories. not lying or anything, just making up stuff and then telling you later..."i was just trickin' you." it's actually quite funny because half the stuff she tells me i actually believe her, like she hurt herself at gymnastics or her friend madeline got on "yellow" or even that they had a new boy in her class that was moved from the other 4 year old preschool class because he didn't like it in there. where she comes up with this stuff is beyond me? it's so funny because when she starts telling me stuff i have to ask, "lacey are you just trickin' me?"

the one and only lacey meredith

lacey is always cracking us up. we decided a long time ago that god gave us lacey to make us laugh and keep us on our toes. kevin and i both say if she had been born first that would be it. she is so busy. there are many a day i think if i could just have a ounce of her energy i would be doing so good. these days she has learned the art of telling stories. what do i mean? well, for example the other day there was a loud crash in our family room and i asked her what was that noise. her first response was "nothing" and then came "it was just my milk that fell in the floor." Comes to find out in actuallity it was my glass coasters she was playing with that fell in the floor. she has colored on our glass kitchen table only to tell me that she didn't do it, it was someone else. i just wonder who that someone else was? any ideas???