Each Day at Dawn

Monday, March 12, 2007

KINDERGARTEN

Wow, I had no idea that choosing a school would be so difficult.

Noy and I have researched numerous schools and carefully considered homeschooling. After much prayer, our first choice in schools was St. Mary's Academy. The tuition however was a little steep. Actually a lot steep! But, we applied, let Maiza attend the Kindergarten round-up and be tested. She loved it at St. Mary's. We also applied for a scholarship. This process has taken months. We also had a backup school in which Maiza was tested a couple of weeks ago. They admitted her, but I knew from that experience that our back-up school was no longer an option. So we prayed that God would provide enough scholarship for Maiza to attend St. Mary's if that was His will for her schooling.

We were extremely excited this morning when we found out that Maiza was accepted into St. Mary's! And, not only was she accepted, but that should would also receive over half of her tuition in scholarship! It's so wonderful to have this decision made! This is really an answer to prayer!

A few facts about St. Mary's Academy:

• St. Mary's Academy was founded in 1864 by the Sisters of Loretto.
• St. Mary's Academy bestowed the first high school diploma in the Colorado Territory in 1875.
• U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice graduated from St. Mary's Academy in 1971.

http://www.smanet.org

Saturday, March 10, 2007

My new lens...

ROCKS!!! Look at the color and clarity in these shots!






Thursday, February 22, 2007

today...

Finally caught up...




Today it was beautiful outside. Maiza is recovering from croup and we all have colds...thanks to the children's museum. BUT we just had to get out. So...we did a little shopping (that always makes me feel a little better!), ate lunch at Noodles and went to the park. I managed to get some sweet shots of my darling girls...


This is how much Bella enjoys being photographed. Too bad for me!






How did I manage to get the world's cutest kids!


The Denver Children's Museum

What a great place for kids! Especially when it's cold out and you've been stuck in the house for a month.


They have this huge fire engine that used to be working that the kids can climb on and drive, etc. You know how much Maiza love anything firefighter!





grocery shopping!






EWW! WORMS! They had a live presentation on worms. Neither of the girls wanted ANYTHING to do with this!


They did love painting though!

My funny little valentines...

We had a fun valentines day with the girls. Hard to go out on dates because no one want to babysit on Valentine's Day and can you blame them? It's a made up holiday anyway...uh right?





Maiza likes the camera WAY more than Bella. Can you tell?


Ready for sunshine!

Yes, we are so desperate for warm weather! I don't know how you people in the mid-west handle this stuff!


Finally...

I've been getting a lot of grief about not updating my blog and rightly so...has it really been since Christmas! YIKES!Well here goes!
The girls take gymnastics on Tuesdays. They love it and I love that they get some energy out!





Friday, December 29, 2006

Christmas Morning!





Bella's wanted everything Princess


















Maiza's favorite gifts were spiderman related!












Bella LOVES her new princess gown Uncle Mark got her! She hasn't taken it off since!













Uncle Mark








The gift most requested by Maiza: an $8 "spinner."