The girls being silly....

I cannot stop looking at that smirk on Sadie's face. Droopy bow and a look like this fun is over, mom.
Trista on the Left---Sadie on the Right



I was surprised how well they did. Kudo's to child photographers- Chris and I were exhausted by the end.

Family Photo Shoot Aug. 2011

None of these have been "touched up" or "Cropped" by Chris.



Sadie on the bottom
SADIE 2 years and 8 months
Trista 2 years 8months
Sadie the kisser!


I don't think much needs to be said on this post.
They speak for themselves.
A HUGE Thank you to Juju(mom) for all their outfits!

I think we've got some tom boys

Atta Girl.....way to take the lead, girls.




Chris figures he may not get his boy so he's gonna make tom boys outta the girls. Saturday he took the girls around and around the yard on a Yamaha 250 dirtbike. They held on tight to the front handlebars and loved it. Today was the first signs of cooler weather. There was a nice breeze, leaves falling and we were out messing around in the back yard when the neighbor boy, Race decided to come out and play.
Race- the absolutely adorable little boy has a four wheeler and was nice enough to let the girls TAKE OVER. Trista and Sadie rode that thing all over. Chris and I have often talked that when or if we ever get out in the country more on some land we'd love to get the girls "real" ones. Those were some of the best memories growing up. Go Carts, dirt bikes and mud pies! I was so mean I remember making a mud pie and put it in the neighbor girls mail box cause she was being mean to me. So all you friends out there........beware....I can make a mean mud pie!!
Another fun day at the Y pool and swinging in the back yard.(pictures of that coming soon) They LOVE, LOVE, LOVE their swing. The other night I had to move Trista from the queen bed in the guest room down to her toddler mattress on the floor (that's for another Blog) and she woke up and said very clearly, "I wanna swing, mommy." It was MIDNIGHT. The swings were long over due. Chris picked them up on Friday when he was running errands at Lowe's with Sadie and I had Trista. We try and do that every now and then. They do so much better with a little break from each other. I taught Trista how to dip her Wendy's fries into her frosty. She liked it...who doesn't?!
Life tends to revolve around Pool, Bubbles, Swinging, Popsicle's and GUM.
After all...we should be enjoying the little things in life.

Never a dull moment

First it was Geisha women in the house now its Ghosts! And once again its always when they are way too quiet upstairs and I am busy "cleaning" up another mess downstairs that I always find them getting into something they shouldn't be. I knew this because NORMALLY they are fighting over something that the other one wants but this particular time they were laughing. They were laughing for awhile but I couldn't quite think of what they could be having so much fun over upstairs. I did a mental check in my head---bathroom doors locked....check. Powder bottle that fell behind the bed the night before.....Oh Shoot! I skipped every other step going up but it was WAY too late and so the pictures show the fun time they had.
The bottle was empty and here is where it ended up.
If any other mother has experienced this they know that powder does not stay where its "sprinkled".....it goes EVERYWHERE. There was a nice layer of "dust" all over the bed, pillows, furniture, down the hallway floors, in the bathroom and over into the other bed room. So, when I went to suck it up with the Dustbuster it started to just blow it out the back cause the Dustbuster canister was too full. UGH!
The best part to this story was that we had a real estate showing on the house within an HOUR!! Gotta love my life!

July Happenings

This month, once again, has flown by. Titi and Uncle Bill came to visit. I love how the girls havent seen Titi in months and they greet her as if she was here yesterday. Titi- I tried to call you on Friday but no answer. I'll try again tomorrow.
We always enjoy their visit cause Titi is entertainment for the girls for hours plus I was able to get outta the house for a couple of hours and run errands and best of all I get a freezer stocked full of the best home made eggrolls! Thank You Titi- we love when you visit- come anytime- Love you both!

July has been a busy month of YMCA workouts and pool time. The girls are getting more use to the "childcare" thing. Poor Trista's little lip quivers when I drop her off. But it only takes a few seconds and she is busy playing with all the kids. Its funny though cause as soon as I round the corner at the YMCA entrance she starts to say "no play kids, mommy" I tell them that I only ask for ONE hour(okay- sometimes 2 hours) a day and they are going to be just find playing with the kids!
I'm so glad they have each other though when I drop them off.
The adorable cupcakes you see is a cupcake class I took that was so much fun. We learned how to make pigs, dogs and.... kitty cats that you can't see cause the girls were already devouring them. We worked with fondant which I've never been a fan of but surprisingly it tasted pretty good and its come a long way since I last tasted it. The lady's who own the cake place gave us their homemade cupcake recipe and their butter cream frosting recipe- that was the best part.

Did I mention that I'm taking a second language course? Its called trying to learn twin talk. I have interpreted more words that NO ONE would know or figure out unless you were around the girls. My favorite is at night time when we are putting them down for bed they say "no key-do, mommy" which means NO CLOSE DOOR. I love all the new words they are learning and figuring out.