Celeda

Two funny little girls!

Yesterday me and my friend Jessica went out for a quick little shoot of our kids...and of course trying out my new camera! (YAHOO....happy birthday to me & my Canon 5d Mark11) here's one little picture from our day. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new camera and am excited to see the magic I'll be able to make ;)

Lauren and Hallie are loving preschool, and currently have lots of imaginary friends/pets. Celeda is the main friend at this point. Hallie's "celeda" lives at Target....and Lauren's "celeda" lives at Costco. (funny that those are the two places I would totally choose to live if I had to live somewhere else) Here's a few things about Celeda---and I have NO clue where her name came from---

*Celeda can drive

*She has her own car

*She can scare away mice

*She knows how to do laundry

*She loves doggily (hallie's imaginary puppy)

Believe it or not Celeda has told Hallie she can come live at her house...SO if I'm being a "rude mom"... that's the threat. "I'm going to live at Celeda's" . Then I say great, have fun walking :) Then it's over with.

You can see they have fabulous imaginations which I actually love, and laugh at a lot. They can spell & recognize their names and a some letters. Although they are very trying on my patience, I SURE love these two. Sometimes I wish my life was as adventurous and majical as theirs:)

HALLOWEEN!

LOOK at me :) Another post! yahoo!!! Halloween was so much fun this year! Lauren & Hallie were so excited to go trick or treating. They kept saying... "just two more houses, k mom?" It was funny. They've been doing lots of fun Halloween activities at preschool this month including "The Spooky Walk" I'm not sure exactly how it goes, or what its all about...but they talk about it all day long! So.....Hopefully your Halloween was as "COOKEY....and SPOOKY" as ours! *cookey and spooky come straight from the spooky walk song :)














and LOOK! we found a twin for ella so she didn't feel left out:) This is my brothers little boy who's just a couple months older. So fun. Happy Halloween.....and now for MY birthday ;) yes.

10 months

TODAY! crazy. Take a look at the TWINS when they were this age :)

Ella...

This little baby is too sweet & cute for her own good! I sometimes think I could just eat her up- okay maybe I always think that! She is getting to be so funny- and show some real personality! She says Mama, Da Da, & I swear Hi (in a really high pitched sweet voice) She had her 9 month appt and weighed 19 lbs! Thats so big to me- She's crawling everywhere, even up the stairs. She stand up on holding onto anything & even gets brave enough to balance every once in a while. She LOVES lauren & hallie...and is starting to be so excited when Ryan gets home. My favorite thing is how she has learned to gives kisses! She loves all the food I have offered her, and could eat a can of puffs a day! She is such a happy girl, and we LOVE having her around. I think I'll go get her from her crib right now and snuggle the little chubby ;)

HOLA

we are alive.....

crazy.(like their hair) but alive. (tell your kids if they cut their own hair it will look like this) I am so sad to be so far behind that I can't catch up. Remember when I promised to be better? oops. sorry! The worst part is you kind of missed this baby grow up...



she is BIG (big as in old and big as in chubby) and SO much fun! We love her! The little stinker is already crawling everywhere...even up the stairs. It about gives me a heart attack- and she climbs up looks back at me and laughs. How can I stop her from turning one?

Lauren & Hallie are LOVING preschool! and I might be enjoying it too :) They are definitely little girls now. They have just recently started fighting.... "I'm not going to be your friend again, EVER." I hear this about 10 times a day. I remind them that they are the only friends each other has and they usually get right over it. Drama I tell you!

The good news is this- I have been thinking how much i love to blog, and look back at all my old posts and realize that I'm happy to have them...
The bad news is- I work all day and all night keeping up with my two businesses and my family- it doesn't leave much time for blogging- but we'll see...maybe just maybe I'll find some time! good night ;)

Pancakes

Tonight I asked the girls what they wanted for dinner. PANCAKES!!! they both screamed. Every morning we wake up, they ask for pancakes...
For some reason when I was pregnant with Ella I made pancakes pretty much every single day. Lauren & Hallie would each get a turn to stir, then I would empty the dishwasher while they cooked. My pancakes became perfect! Light brown...not too airy, not too heavy. Tonight I started to believe that I may have created a comfort food of pancakes for the twins. We had good mornings together while eating those yummy pancakes. They had my full attention, good music in the background, and I believe over those pancakes they learned to pray.
The bad thing about them asking for pancakes every morning now is that I have not made them once since Ella was born. Maybe its because I am parched in the morning from nursing, and want a bowl of cereal with lots of milk, but they just don't sound so yummy to me any more. but...tonight....as I made pancakes, I unloaded the dishwasher, looked over at my babies-who I noticed have completely grown up in the last 7 1/2 months since the other baby came and realized how much I loved our pancake breakfast mornings. I think I'll start making pancakes again more often...maybe even Ella can try some soon.

do you blame me?

for wanting to win one of these???