Cute March Pics

Here's just a few cute photos of the girls from this month.

When the girls are awake I usually wake right up because nothing good happens when they are unsupervised, but last Sunday I could not get myself out of bed and when Hailey shut my bedroom door I accidentally fell back to sleep until my mind remembered the girls were out in the living room by themselves. When I got up this is the scene I saw...

Hailey took it upon herself to get breakfast ready since I wasn't doing a good job of it. It was very sweet of her.

The following pictures are from playing camping. Kids love tents and it conjures up thoughts of marshmallows and who can say no when she even went as far as to make a colored crayon fire.

I'm so excited....I just bought all of this for 84 cents.

Thanks to my friend Vanessa teaching me about coupons and CVS bucks!

Little Leprechaun

I haven't really had much to blog about so here is a random one just so I don't let the month pass by without one.
When Hailey came home from school on St. Patrick's day she was telling me how there were leprechaun's that had come and messed up the classroom and stole cookies. Just around the same time I looked over at Aubrey in her green shirt as she was dumping the glue pens out and had just got done stealing Hailey's green necklace; I laughed and we called her a little leprechaun for the rest of the day. She for sure is a leprechaun, look at her hair she's got a lot of Irish in her.

Here is another addition to the family we got this week. The reason we got it was because this week at preschool was pet week and for show-and-tell the kids were suppose to bring a picture of their pet. Although Hailey begs almost daily for a pet this is the most I was willing to put up with. I feel guilt all the time that I am not a pet person because I know kids love pets but my guilt never outweighs my desire not to have one so I try to take them to the zoo and pet store as much as I can.

We have been trying to do a better job of taking turns doing Family Home Evening and this night Hailey did the FHE on being healthy. For the activity we wanted to see if we could plant tomatoes from seeds and then we had fondue for dessert. Hailey loves being a goof in front of the camera.

Sketch of Art

We haven't really been up to anything other than normal life which is a good thing but I don't really have anything to blog about. I am posting a framed sketch that we received in the mail over the weekend from my brother (his friend sketched it). My family wanted to see how it turned out so that is why I am posting it, but it is an amazing picture. I am in awe when people have talent like that.

I wasn't sure how to turn the flash off and the reflection was getting in the way so I had to take it at a weird angle but you get the idea.

The girls were more excited about the box and had some post fun with their Dad.

Walking around

Here's a clip of Aubrey walking, she is doing really well. She still crawls part time but I think the transition to full time walking will happen as soon as she speeds up the old lady walk a bit.

13 1/2 months old

Happy New Year

I wasn't able to keep up on my blog once the holiday season hit. I was prepared for Christmas but was kept very busy with sick kids and then a trip to Utah and then normalizing back to life in Florida. We had a fun Christmas spent with my side of the family in Utah and we (except for Charlie) spent New Year's in Utah as well.
Some of the highlights: Being with family, playing games, bowling, lazer tag, watching movies, trip to Temple Square, and Hailey's favorite: Sledding. We even celebrated a few holidays like an unbirthday and Easter since we aren't in Utah during those times. Hailey really enjoyed the snow, I enjoyed it but really love my warm Florida winters. Here are some of our snow pictures.

Aubrey's 1st Birthday

My baby turned one today(Monday Nov. 24th). Hailey asked me if I was going to have a baby boy now that her sister wasn't a baby anymore because she turned one, kids say the darnedest things. I would have to say that Aubrey's 3 loves are eating, being outside and animals so we incorporated all of those things throughout the day. We started the festivities off with a picnic in the front yard.

Then we went to the zoo, we go there quite often because we have a year pass and the kids love it. The weather was perfect and we saw most of the animals in the exhibits (some days they are hiding)


We saw the giraffes first, it's always so fun to see them up close. Hailey fed them but Aubrey was too afraid but who can blame her, they are huge.

I love how Aubrey points at everything. She already talks using her hands.

It's hard getting everyone to look at the camera at the same time, I thought it was cute how they were all looking in different directions. I suppose the birds flying around were a bit distracting.

After all that fun Aubrey took a nap while the rest of us got the house ready for her birthday dinner.

Charlie made a fabulous dinner including steak, pork tenderloin and shrimp but what Aubrey really wanted was the cake.

Here's daddy helping her cut the first piece which is tradition for the birthday person to cut the first piece in Charlie's family.

We let Aubrey have her own cake to dive in to, we all loved watching her stuff her face. I think she could have ate the whole cake if we would have let her, as it was she ate about half.

Happy as can be!

Afterwards we did the present opening. She knew right what to do and started ripping the paper off and playing with whatever was inside. Here she is opening one of the presents Hailey got for her. I didn't know what Hailey had wrapped up but this one happened to be a sippy cup of milk so as soon as it was opened Aubrey started drinking it, ha ha. Hailey promised that it was wrapped up that day.

The other present Hailey gave her was a drawing she drew and it was so cute because even though Aubrey had opened other toys she took the time to appreciate every gift even the drawing.

Here she is with her other presents.

It was a fun day and we loved celebrating Aubrey's 1st birthday as a family.