Its been a busy couple of months but finally an update!

Introducing "Sweet Dreams Bella and "Rock a bye Avery"

smells like(sweet smell) looks like, feels like, weighs like a real newborn....glad they're not real.

These are played with only on special occasions. The label even says "not a toy or to played with by children" WHAT?!?!

 At the park with Eli and Everett (3.5 twin boys and RUBY-6

 Trista helping daddy dig up the driveway! FInally a driveway so our kids will stay on our driveway and not the neighbors.

 Out to lunch at their absolute favorite place....Rainforest Cafe or aka...the Jungle Restaurant, followed by frozen yogurt and a Carousel Ride!

 Bike riding on the trail. They picked their own  biker outfits and all.

 At the wave pool with Jenny- their other fav. place that we finally just got an annual membership because we go so much.

What a crazy couple months this has been. I've had a  very time consuming client, a couple closings and changed real estate company's!!(which I realize doesn't sound like much but it is when you are a full time mom and wife too:) This is a recap of just a few things that we've been up to.
New roof last week(insurance claim), Chris started to dig up the driveway and realized it was going to be a bigger task that he didn't want to tackle so contractors are finishing it up once the rain stops. Chris put in a new bathtub upstairs-- BYE BYE "harvest gold" as they call it from the 70's! Yuck! The girls heard me say how much i did not like that tub that they started to say, "this is disgusting" when they'd get in to take a bath.
They LOVE to ride their bikes, swim, chew GUM, go to school (MDO), make sno-cones, swing and play with their neighbor friends- Race, Abby and Madison. Have I mentioned how GREAT FOUR has been?! I love this age.

Been a hard days night and I've been working like a dog!

So this is what happens when I work FULL TIME. Lets just say I've had a very time consuming buyer. 42 homes, 3 contracts and I wish I could say we have a done deal but not yet!
So...I was trying to pull some pics from my phone but I cant figure why they wont upload. Its 1:21am and I am too tired to figure it out. Will have some pics up soon. To Be Continued......

RETRO GRANOLA

2013

This year I made Jonathan a personalized photo collage Granola Container and put RETRO GRANOLA in it for his Birthday which is (APRIL 10). Hope he doesnt check the blog cause I havent mailed yet:)
I dyed the COCONUT and then baked it. Got the idea this year when I was up at 4am dying coconut green for the "grass" to go in the girls rice Krispie treat "nest"
This was so fun to make. Next time may put a little more coconut! Obviously I'm using GRANDmoms recipe and it is hands down the best granola ever!! Hope you like your birthday gift, Jonathan. LOVE YOU!!!

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE this age!! 4 is fabulous!!

 trista and mommy

 serious sadie and mommy

 LOVE MY GIRLS

Picasa has some new features I was playing around with. This was a rainy day. We had spent all day inside, 1 hour splasing in the hottub followed by a warm shower. 

HAPPY EASTER--Sugar Overload & a easter bunny believer!!

On Friday the girls planted magic beans in the ground hoping that lollipops would grow.

We waited and we waited and finally......

TA DA! Lollipops rose from the ground on Sunday morning;) (glen "planted" 105 lollipops at 5:30am Sunday morning before the girls got up) He loved seeing the look on their faces.

Their Easter basket(per their request) was filled with garden shovels, watering can, cotton candy and candy filled eggs. They also got sidewalk chalk, veggie straws and a mini gum ball machine. The Easter bunny left (at 1:30am Sunday morning) a trail of eggs starting at their bedside and they trailed all the way down the hall, down the stairs which led them right to their Easter baskets!

Yesterday we went and rode our bikes on the trail. Well.....they rode and I jogged behind them. Trista is OFFICIALLY a bike rider without training wheels!! Sadie started riding without hers last summer(2012) but Trista just wasn't quite ready. SO proud of her. We had  a picnic at the park then rode our bikes for about 2.5 miles. 

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