Holiday Season!

We had a wonderful holiday season this year! We are in our new house and are loving it! The girls have their own playroom, which is awesome because all the toys are not in the living room!

 Our Christmas tree!

 I just LOVE these two little girls so much. We have been so blessed with out two littles!!



Pink Pig!

This year, we took the girls to see the Pink Pig at Macys. Madison was TERRFIED of Priscilla the Pig, so no pictures of them.

 Ashley loved the ride and watching everything...hopefully next year will be better for both of them. But excited to start such a fun tradition with my girls!

 Ashley with her NaiNai...

Madison and cousin Rylie playing outside the ride after we went on the ride.

Thanksgiving!

 This is our little turkey! She fit right in there...and she loved being in there too!

 Madison LOVED helping me prepare the turkey the night before...kinda gross, but fun at the same time!

 Ashley loved her first Thanksgiving...she ate EVERYTHING that was put in front of her, including sweet potato casserole and green beans!

Sweet cousins! Madison just LOVES her cousin Rylie!

Random fun pictures!!

A look back at summer...

 

So I decided to do a post about summer since we are slowly entering fall; which I love! I have selected some of my favorite pictures from our adventures...enjoy!

 

 

Another sweet memory!

The other night, I was putting the kids to bed; I typlically put Madison down first and then feed Ashley her bottle. So we did our normal routine: bath and then pjs. After pajamas, we read some books. Madison was set on "reading" books to Ashley, so we all sat on the floor and Madison "read" her nursery rhymes book to Ashley. She can identify which ones they are by the pictures on the pages. She sang "Are you sleeping Brother John", "Jack be nimble", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and "Teddy Bear Teddy Bear", and the repeated them all! Ashley absolutely LOVED it and was laughing the whole time and smiling at Madison. It is moments like these that make all the stress of raising children all worth it!

Thanks for letting me share!

Quick update!

We have had some awesome things going on in our house lately! First, we got the house painted (pictures to come)! Then, we got new flooring, including new carpet AND hardwoods! I know, I know, who gets excited about new floors?!?! ME! This week we are getting the fence installed; this is very exciting because this means that Bailey will have a yard all to himself, and we can just let him out the back door in the morning instead of walking him (since I get up at 4:30, it is too early for a proper walk!).

And for the kids! Well, Ashley is now rolling over both ways very well! She started on rice cereal (pictures to come!), and is giggling all the time! Madison is now sleeping in real PJ's! I know what you are thinking about that; but she has had a naked issue where she likes to take EVERYTHING off, including diaper. Well, now that she is POTTY TRAINED, I think that is over that finally! It was so exciting buying her real PJ's!

Side note: this morning I found Ashley laying on her belly in bed, this was a first for me! She rolled over in her sleep, which was not too much of a surprise since she sleeps on her side anyways! But it was so fun to see her that way.

Madison LOVES helping with Ashley. Anytime you change her diaper, Madison wants to help and sit on the changing table too. She will sit there and give her kisses all morning when we are getting ready for "school".

Madison also loves going to "school". She gets so excited when she gets there and her friend Matthew is already there. They are too funny together; they always run and give each other a big hug in the morning! Ahh...young love!

I promise to have some new fun pictures soon...life has been way to busy lately to have time to sit at the computer at home and sort through the pictures!

Fathers Day!

We had a wonderfil Fathers Day this year! First, we went swimming in the afternoon after nap time; then we headed to dinner to celebrate my wonderful husband, and father to my two sweet baby girls! I could not ask for a better partner for me to raise our children witth. We love you daddy!

Ashley's first swim!

Mommy and sweet baby girl

loving sistera

Daddy and his girls!

Nothing sweeter then a daddy and his little girl!

Ashley

Here are a few updated pictures of sweet baby Ashley!

 She fell asleep last night while eating...I could not get her up to finish eating at all! She did not sleep well at school for some reason yesterday, and I guess she was too tired!

 I LOVE making her laugh and giggle! Such a fun stage she is in now. I cannot believe that she will be four months soon...the time has gone by way to quickly for me this time! She almost always gives Madison a HUGE smile in morning. Madison loves making her laugh and smile. If Ashley is in her bouncey seat, Madison will sit on the floro next to her trying to make her smile...melts my heart!

Not the best picture, but still a good one of her sweet little smile! I could stare at that smile all day! If only...maybe one day!

Double duty...

So...I tried something new the other day..a double bath! It was actually not bad at all! Madison loves it and she loves to wash her...We have a set plan now, I wash Ashley first, and then Madison gets to "wash" her. Then Madison gets washed. Ashley gets out first, as she needs the most help! Madison climbs out...yes, I said climbs out..and gets her towel on her head and wraps herself up! Then we get Ashley dressed in her pajamas, then Madison gives her a big hug and kiss good night.

Then, we start bedtime for Madison! Get her dressed and read a few books before bed. She now will tell you the names of the books the wants to reads. I love it when she wants to read the Hungry Caterpillar...I just love the way she says it...so innocent and sweet! Although, sometimes before stories, I will blow dry her hair, she LOVES it! She keeps saying "I big girl mommy" while I am drying it. It also helps with her crazy hair in the morning, it makes it more manageable!

Hope you enjoy this picture and story, I was very excited to share it with you!

Sweet Madison!

Whenever someone has a camera out, or even your phone, Madison says "cheese!" with the bigest smile on her face! This was one that I took while we were eating dinner one night. And yes, she did have food all over her chin at the end of dinner...such a crazy kid!

We went to Northpoint Mall to go to Potterybarn Kids to get her a big girl quilt..yes, I said it...a BIG girl quilt...and they have a train there that goes around the whole mall, and she loved it! My mom rode with her since I had Ashley there too! She had such a good time...she kep saying ride choo-choo train...ride choo-choo train...we will be going back I am sure!

Madison is getting to be such a big girl! She is almost potty-trained; and she is helping so much with Ashley. She will go and get something if you need it, and always wants to hold her. Such a great big sister!

Funny story...the other night, Ashley had a very wet diaper, and Madison was so concerned that I was not changing it yet, that she started to take Ashley's pajamas off and weas trying to get her diaper off. She kept saying "Mommy change Ashley's daiper...its wet or stinky"...such a concerned big sister!

Playdate!

The night of Madison's birthday party, we had a play date with sweet LMC! They got a long to good, it was awesome! Here are a few pictures that from that night!

 They loved sitting on the couch and taking drinks from their cups...such big girls!

 LMC has a play house...which we will be purchasing once we get into our new house...and the girls LOVED it! Madison kept going in the front door and climbing out the window, which was then followed by LMC doing it...such silly girls!

We are truly blessed to have such sweet friends in Keri, Brice, and LMC! We love you all!

Madison's Birthday Party!

We celebrated Madison's birthday in April, so I know I am late with this; but things have been a bit crazy around here! We decided to have her party at a park this year since all her friends are old enough now to play on playgrounds! Needless to say, it was a hit! She swung on the big girl swing for the first time, and she LOVED it! Such a big girl now!

 Here she is with her sweet friend Charlotte, aka LMC! They had a blast playing together at the park, it was so nice to see her play with all her friends; there were so many wonderful people that came to help us celebrate our 2 year old!

 Her birthday cake this year was from Publix. It was a pull-apart cupcake cake. Great idea! The theme was Minnie Mouse, incase you couldn't figure that out! I loved the cake, and Madison did too! I think that she ate about 4 cupcakes, but only the icing! That was her favorite part of them...waht a crazy kid!