Computer SAvY

Where is our computer? Where did it go? Oh, it died!! That's what happened. My dear friend Meagan is allowing us to borrow her computer, hinse, no pictures this time. We've been having a lot of fun lately though. Play dates. Warmer weather so more playing outside. Gram moved in last week and the girls are thrilled! Now going through the stuff so I can get my bike out of the garage :0) Yard sale this weekend! Chris's birthday was Monday. Nice to spend sometime with him. I just adore him and he is so much better at showing it then me. But I try. Kinsey will be 1 on Friday. So wild! Love her dearly and so thrilled that she has curly hair!!! Ok, hope all is well. I'll post pictures when we ever get a computer :0)

Christmas Day

Sorry this is late, tried to post pics. but was having trouble at the time and now I'm finally getting back to it.
Dad, Lisa, Stacy, Hollywood, Aunt Sharon, Uncle Reggie, Gina, Aunt Dee, Uncle Adrian, Nate, Desi, Syd, Jack, Honey, Natalie. I sure did miss you guys!!! We enjoyed our time with Chris's family though. Reagan did get that puppy that swims to her, WAy to go SANTA. And Kylie got a camera from SANTA "And I didn't even ask for one, SANTA is SO SMART!" Way to go Santa!! Kylie also got a big roll of paper, which didn't come with nearly as much excitement. Don't know why :0)
The girls got scooters at Mima & Papa's house, which Kylie still asks if she can go outside to ride her scooter. Good food, I didn't have to cook anything tehe. I tried to help clean up but I have this little girl who gets into things she's not supposed to when she isn't at home in her secured area. Thanks Kinsey :0)
We went to Grandma Judys for dinner and again had good food and got to hang out with their favorite uncles again. Kyle and Jared. We got to see their Great Grandma Nena, what great presents! An awesome pink coat that Kylie has been wearing everyday since it's been in the 40's in the am. Thanks Nena! And more Barbies, delicious smelling gingerbread GIRLS and so much more fun stuff to play with. Thanks everyone! Kylie bought a barbie with her money from Aunt Dee and Uncle Adrian and Reagan bought a zebra and hot pink purse because Stacy has one like that. All of the other money we put toward Disney passes and get to go until April now. WE LOVE DISNEY!! Thanks so much for such a blessed Christmas. I hope yours was just as good or better!

Walking Already?

Yes, Kinsey was 10 Months on the 12th of this month, but she started walking on the 5th. She is right on schedule for our girls. Kylie was the day she turned 10 months, Reagan a week before that. So let's get ready to keep everything a little higher, stairs blocked off, and so on. She is so proud of herself. Clapping now and started high fives a week ago. Daddy was the first to get one of those. :0) I love when she growls back at you too. Had to take her out of church today because was so loud talking and squealing. So we kicked a ball around, she was right on with that too! What a fun lovin girl she is. LOVE IT!!

FINALLY!

Christmas began on Christmas Eve with my side of the family. Jared and his girlfriend Chrissy and my Mom (aka Gram) came over. Gram sure did fill the bottom of our bare tree!!! We were also blessed to have Chrissy's Dad, and 3 other friends from church come over. Good food and good fun. And because the girls got to bed late and passed out on our way to drop off our 11th gift for our neighbors, we got to sleep until 8 on Christmas!!!
I asked the girls to hold up their gift high so I can see them, "No, Higher Reagan" She sure did try :0) Aren't their dresses pretty, Thanks Gram!
And do you see Kylie's puppy, well Reagan got one too and thought it was so cute. I had to tell Kylie that she was getting one because she wanted to buy one while we were shopping with Hollywood in VA after Thanksgiving. Well, Reagan had asked for this puppy who swims to you from Santa. On Christmas morning I get woken up at 8 by Reagan saying (in a really stern upset voice " Mom, I didn't want the puppy that barks and wags it's tail, I wanted the puppy that swims to me. Santa didn't bring me a puppy that swims to me." Me "Well, did you go downstairs and look to see if Santa brought it to you?" R-"Yes and it wasn't there" M-"did you open your present from Santa" R"I did't see one" (all of this in a sad voice) M-"Well, let's go downstairs and check. C'mon dad, it's Christmas"

Waiting is the hardest thing to do...

So we have tons of fun for Christmas.. and getting ready for it too! We did the 12 days of Christmas for a neighbor girl and her family. The girls had a good time running up and dropping it off. Many a nights I had to do it because they had glass doors and sometimes went to bed late. Once Reagan went up there and the dad was right there on the phone at the door, then another time we drove by and they were looking for their present. Goofballs! We plan on doing this again each year :0)

We also got to decorate our house, KYLIE LOVES THAT. "Let's put that here, and this there, and oh this looks good here" I finally had to say that the decorations had to stay in the house, once I found them in the garage several times.

We got to get together with some neighbors and decorate ginger bread houses, though Reagan ate pretty much all of her decorations. I should have taken an after picture, sorry bout that. I'll try to do better, my new years resolution. My first one I've really made :0)

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree

Okay so we are not allowed to get a fake tree, only real or Chris won't touch it. So the traditional christmas tree hunt was made to good ole Home Depot. We usually get a Frasier Fir but tried a Douglas Fir this year because of the fragrance and yes, a cheaper price. BOY was that a MISTAKE! It has shed soooo much. I have swept up 7 + dustpans full of pine needles and only more are falling off each day. When we were hanging ornaments we were basically stripping the needles and leaving sticks. SO SAD. Definitally going to get a Frasier Fir for future references!

Swimming... IN DECEMBER!?!

So all those friends of ours whom we love who get snow, You can KEEP IT!! We get to go swimming in DECEMBER!! LOVE IT. These are some pictures from our last trip to Aquatica for awhile, our tickets expire in Jan. and don't think we'll make it back before then. It has dropped below 80 and that's too cold for me to swim in :0) Kinsey is a trooper and does the lazy river even though she has to wear a life jacket she doesn't like. She puts up with it for a while, what a trooper. WE had a blast though being one of the few families there. Good Times!

Thanksgiving...Finally!

Thanksgiving Vacation! We got to go to my dads for Thanksgiving. A short but nice trip. The girls just LOVED Aunt Stacy. And she was such a good sharer :0) We enjoyed the park and Hollywood, who's always looking good. While we had a playdate Chris got to ride Hogs, and I had to inform a friend that they weren't real 'hogs' but Motorcycles. Silly Dana.

We also enjoyed the cooler weather. A nice walk in the woods, shopping with Hollywood. When packing we had a tough time finding things for the girls to wear. Good thing we have tights!

I was glad to have help with the girls. And one day I came back and all our laundry was done. WOW! Thanks Lisa!! A TON!

GAmes, good food (magic cookie bars, etc) and Fun with Aunt Denise too. She was so sweet with the girls, funny too. Thanks for letting us hang with you Denise! Good times were had by all. Thanks Lisa, Stacy, and DADDY!!!

Aren't me and my sister so cute together? :0)

Make Overs by Stacy!

Kids Say the Darnest Things...

Where do I begin.?. So lately my mom keeps reminding me I need to write these down. So here they are to share. Two birds right!

Kylie and Reagan were helping me make chocolate dipped peanut butter balls (buck-eyes) the other day when AHHH CHEW! Reagan sneezed right in the WHOLE bowl of Giradelli Choco Chips! Then Kylie proceeds to chew them and SPIT them out back into the bowl!!! YUCK! I threw those out! Explained that I don't mind a mess when they help me bake but what is up with that? Some angry tone and why did you do that? Kylie "I just wanted to soften them up" Because we needed to melt them to dip the balls.

FHE, Family Home Evening. Which Reagan says "I have a great idea, let's have a family home evening!," about every other day. Which I love but we don't get to do. My favorite is when I get to say, Yeah, Let's do that and she gets so excited!

So I was talking about how Jesus fed the 5,000 with so little. I compared it for Kylie to her whole school and Dad's old school all eating one loaf of bread that I was holding. "Could this happen?" "no." Me, "Well, Jesus did it!" Kylie "HOLY CRAP!" With all amazement and seriousness in her voice.

Reagan is a shop-a-holic. She has about 12 purses and yes, everyone has something in it. Some, to the max! She will stop looking for a place to hide during Hide-n-seek to shop and then get bumbed that she didn't get to hide.

Kylie "Who is the loudest mom?" "Well, Reagan is the loudest singer, you (Kylie) are the loudest talker, and Kinsey is the loudest screamer." Why my neighbor felt the need to ask me "Did anyone ever tell you your kids are loud?" I will never figure out :0)

Kylie is loving writing now. She asked me to walk her in to school today so that I could see her pilgram and what she was thankful for. She was so excited to show me. She was thankful for ME!!!!!

So we're taking bets on when Kinsey will start walking. All she wants to do is stand!!! Our friends were kind enough to give us a walker and she is enjoying that, so am I :0) I think it will be by Christmas. That's 5 weeks. And I only have 18 more lbs. to loose from her :0) Not her fault I like cookies. Which I haven't had n e in 3 weeks now. YEAH ME! Gotta Love those Girls!

Updates posts

Just wanted to let you know I published a few posts tonight. I hope you get to check them all out and enjoy! Love ya and Miss ya!

Kinsey

7 months and counting! What a beauty she is. She's eating with her fingers now and holding her own bottles sometimes and trying to stand up. When she sits in the back of the stroller she grabs the front chair and trys to stand up. She loves to jump and has such great balance when I hold her like a cheerleader on her two feet. She loves the pool and can sit in her little floaty now for a few weeks, what fun for me now!!! I can swim hands free! Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't leave her there to just float while i swim, I stay right by her. She has curly hair, which I ADORE! FInaLlY. That's the best thing I got going for me, I had to pass it on :0) She is very patient and tolerant of her sisters and our running around. She is spending her first night in her room with the girls. Let's see how that goes. She sleeps 7 hrs. uninterupted and Kylie and Reagan are sound sleepers so it should hopefully work. :0)

Play Dates!

So with school in and me babysitting a darling little girl Ella, so good and pleased to watch her, we make Monday errand/tidy day, Tuesday storytime day, Wednesday is splashpad/park, Thursday playdate day, Friday is lunch at school day. We've gone to the St. Cloud Lakefront, park, Universal Studios to see Barney, Boat, Friends houses and friends here. Good time! It gives me a time to get to know the moms too. I really love doing the outside activites too! Like the horse back riding with the Pratt's on a Saturday. And now that the weather is BEAUTIFUL the outdoor activities will be even more enjoyable!