Celebrating Georgia Kate's 8th birthday!

 We loved celebrating our birthday girl this year!

A few days before her birthday we had a jewelry making party with some of her sweet friends!  Multiplicity in old Katy did a great job with the girls.  

On July 22nd, GK woke up to her birthday table!  We had donuts and she opened her gifts!  She was SO surprised to find out that she was going to get her ears pierced for her birthday!  She had been asking for months and I always told her she had to wait until she was 10.  She was so, so happy!!  We had an appointment for the next day.  We gifted her a pair of silver heart studs from James Avery, which are the same earrings my parents got me when I got my ears pierced 28 years ago! 

She spent the rest of her day rollerblading (her gift from Grandma and Grandpa), having ice cream for lunch, going to her tumbling class, and then having a family birthday dinner at Lozano's! 

The day after her birthday, we went to Target to have her ears pierced by a wonderful nurse with a company called Rowan!  The nurse made it easy and as pain-free as possible.  There were no tears and we had a very happy girl! :)

It was a fun few days celebrating our fun-loving birthday girl!  

Georgia Kate is 8!

Georgia Kate is EIGHT!

 I always say that Georgia Kate is one of the biggest surprises of my life (because I was truly shocked when the doctor said she was a girl) and she continues to surprise me every day!  We are SO different from each other, so I feel like I'm just always surprised by learning new things about her all the time.  I love it!!! 

Here are eight things about our eight year old girl!  

*Georgia Kate loves fun!  She loves having something to look forward to and gets excited about things easily.  

*She has a great sense of humor and has a great laugh!  She loves reading funny books.  Her current favorite series is Junie B. Jones.  

*She is very wiggly and always moving.  She has a hard time sitting still.

*She is our best eater and will try almost anything!  She loves helping me cook and bake.  

*She loves playing with her dolls and barbies.  Her floor is basically covered in barbie and doll accessories at all times.  

*She is very social and friendly!  She's never worried about knowing someone ahead of time at a camp or activity.  She just says she'll meet new friends there.  I've realized over the last year and a half how much she loves spending time with friends.  I'm really hoping that she forms great friendships at school this year!  

*She loves school (see above) and can hardly wait for it to start on the 7th.  She will tell you that she hates math (which was always my favorite subject), but likes everything else.  She loves to learn and loves to have fun with classmates!  

*She loves trying new things!  She's dabbled in a lot of extracurricular activities over the last couple of years.

Have fun being EIGHT, our sweet Georgia Kate!  We love you SO much!!! 

Spring and Summer Sports

Whew!  I feel like we were on activity overload the last couple of months!  The boys continued their weekly ninja class, Georgia Kate continued her weekly tumbling class, and Reid and GK wrapped up their first year of piano lessons!  

We love Ms. Heather!

In addition to their regular weekly activities, we threw in two baseball seasons, a volleyball season, and swim team.  

Rhett's ROCKIES Season:

Rhett had a great second season of baseball!  This year he played 6U, which was a hybrid of coach pitch and t-ball.  

One of Rhett's biggest (littlest) fans! ;)

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We love our lefty batters!

Georgia Kate's EAGLES Volleyball Season:

After trying softball in the fall (and already spending SO much time at the fields), we encouraged Georgia to try something new!  She's tall and enjoys air conditioning, so volleyball seemed like it could be a good fit!  ;) She really liked it and wants to try it again.  

Reid's CRUSHERS Season:

Well, we ventured into the world of select baseball this year, and just as we anticipated, it was A LOT.  Thankfully, Reid loves baseball A LOT.  He never once complained and truly had a ball.  We are really proud of how hard he worked this season!  

Georgia Kate met a sweet, new friend, Emery, this season!

These two sat through SO MANY BASEBALL GAMES this season.  I'm proud of them too!  

Guinny braved the heat to come out and watch a game! 

Reid and Georgia's FIREFISH Swim Season:

After a few summers of wondering what all the fuss was about, we decided to give swim team a go.  Our conclusion?  We aren't really swim team people. ;)  The meets were kind of fun, but the practices were a little much for us.  We're glad we tried it, but we won't be doing it again.  

Somehow I don't have pictures of the kids with their very supportive and wonderful grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.  These kids truly have the BEST family.  We always laugh because the Sciba kids have the largest cheering section at every single event and we feel so lucky!!