Four-tunate Mom: the beginning of March = LeaAnn turns 5 :)

I was tired of sweating at night, so I bought a quilt from Walmart :) and I love it. And Lydia loves Kirsten! She loves dressing her up :)

Finally got my Milestone 2 reward in the mail... I've been waiting for this one! :D Love it!!

This same day... we also received this letter... the Kindergarten letter for this little girl... King Dad and I went to our tax appointment in CR this night and ate at the Butcher Block, super yummy!

And on THIS day... Wednesday, 3/2 - Lola brought over the birthday girls' gifts! Thursday is the actual 'day', but Thursdays are also THE 'dance day' for this year... not a great day to do anything else ;) The cherry pie Ms. LeaAnn requested :)

A princess piggy bank for Lydia

And a monkey piggy bank for LeaAnn ;)

And what else could possibly happen on this evening? Well big sister Lauren would help little ms. 4-yr-old LeaAnn pull out her top front tooth!! The going rate for the tooth fairy on a birthday is the age apparently ;) she received a $5 for that puppy!

The next morning... guess who woke up at 5am?? She told us later it's "of course b/c I'm 5!!" :)

Didn't think she would put on the outfit... but she did! How adorable :D

She looked big then and she still looks big now!! She was a big baby!!

Really just surreal... that 5-years passed... and SO MUCH happened in those 5-years... quite possibly more happened in the last 5 than in the 5 before that... which seems insane b/c 3 other kids were born in the previous 5!!

LeaAnn was born and our world was rocked. Complete and udder chaos... I was begging to go back to work in the fall... which had never happened up to that point ;) Our girls' started into the school system, we changed daycare's, I started blogging, I started exercising, which turned into running, Chris ended his jobs at Agri King and B&B and started with New Balance, (HUGE) we bought a camper and started camping (which is a lot of work!! ;) fun, but work), finally got out of pigs, made a game plan to get out of our current house which started with taking Dave Ramsey classes....
The girls kept getting older, at the time LeaAnn was born, we had a Kindergartner, PreK, 16-month old and a newborn.
Now we have a 5th grade, 3rd grade, Kindergarten and PreK... that's INSANE!

It's kind of hard to wrap my brain around all of the changes. By far the biggest change was the job switch (well and having 4 kids ;) It's been for the best, but most definitely not without trials and tribulations...Always re-evaluating, thinking, changing, all good things... just mentally exhausting ;) and there really just is NOT time to be mentally exhausted. But it happens. And we manage, and here we are. 5. years. later.