Disney- Spring Break

We enjoyed spending two days at Disney will vacationing in Florida for Spring Break.

We enjoyed visiting the Magic Kingdom and Epcot.

Madison and Lillian loved being in the front row for the Dreams Come True Parade

 Mama and her two Sparkle Girls after the show

And a trip to the Magic Kingdom would not be complete without a ride on the People Mover for Cooper.

As always, the Sparkles enjoyed meeting a few of their favorite Disney Characters...
Cinderella

 And Rapunzel were top of the girls list.

 Cooper was excited to meet Buzz Lightyear. He was want to show Buzz his new Zoot gun

 At Epcot the Sparkles continued their meet and greet with Mickey a few of his friends.

 Fist bumps with Mickey

 Lillian and Goofy

 The Sparkles loved sharing their Disney excitement with Grammie Ellie

 Hugging Minnie Mouse before heading around the world.

 A nap for Cooper while visiting the countries around the world.

 Finally getting to meet "blue" Belle

 and Snow White

 Alice from Wonderland was quite excited to meet the Sparkles

 before we headed over to meet Mary Poppins (I love the secret sharing between Lillian and Cooper)

 Enjoying a cooling refreshment

 before we found our ice cream treats

 As we left Epcot, Lillian couldn't resist posing with the Frozen display (part of the Flower and Garden show)

 and both girls with Phineas and Ferb

What a wonderful adventure... can't wait to return in the Fall :)

Visiting Pops

After a long drive in the car, the Sparkles were thrilled to visit Poppy's park.

Cooper and Lillian playing hopscotch together. 

 Just climbing around

 Slide time

 Hanging out on the swing with Poppy

 The Sparkle of Poppy's eye

Guess which Sparkle took these pictures... I love them :)

Adventures of Cooper-Man

Quiet time with the iPad-just a boy, his rufus, and an iPad

 Nap time at the park (Cooper was quite sad to wake up just as we were arriving home to find out that he had slept through our park adventure).

 New Ninja sticks

 Defending the play area with Di

 Ninja nap time

 Getting the bad guys with his Zoot gun

 Enjoying his Egg-celent rice crispy treats from GG

 Bedtime Ninja

Easter Eggs and Baskets

Happy Easter!

Starbucks

The Sparkles are not the only ones to love a Starbucks treat :)

Enjoying a Mama break with my favorite coffee drink and my bible.

Bible Verse Challenge

Madison was challenged at church to learn 5 bible verses in 6 weeks.

On the 6th week- if she could recite all 5 verses from memory she would receive a $5 gift card to Starbucks from the youth pastor.

She not only accepted the challenge but also helped Lillian (who desperately wanted to do the challenge too) learn the verses.

Here are the verses the girls learned.

Psalm 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

1 Corinthians 10:31
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God

Philipians 4:6
Don't worry about anything, instead PRAY about everything tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life

Romans 10:10
For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved


While we were in Florida the Sparkles loved making a trip to Starbucks to order Vanilla Frappochinos and Cake pops :)

Cooper-man

Modeling his new sweat shirt... it even has pockets :)

Say Cheese

Cooper showing off his favorite winter hat :)

Snuddles

Even when he is sick... Cooper is still my happy snuddle boy

Toothless

Lillian has lost her 7th tooth :)

1st Grade

Last week, we attended Reading Night at Lillian's school and we got to see a few of her newest writing projects.

On the 100th day of school, Lillian and her classmates drew pictures of themselves and what they would do when they were 100 years old.

Lillian wrote: When I am 100 year old I will play Bingo. When I am 100 year old I will sleep. When I am 100 year old I will use a cane.

 Then we listened to stories read by the "Super Hero" teachers of her school. Cooper loved sitting my Lillian like a big boy at big school.

 On our way back to the car Lillian showed us her Super Lillian writing.

She wrote: I have Super character when.... I am helping my friends. I have super character when I am with my Mama and dad doing the ladrey (laundry).

So proud of Lillian (and all the Sparkles) and their hard work