What we've been up to lately....

a backwards review of our life the past few weeks....

Shopping at Zona Rosa...

Sneak peak of our bedroom furniture...please excuse all of the real life clutter...

Playing peek-a-boo with a plastic container.... :)

POOL time... loving the hats....

We are kinda famous there :)... we attract a lot of attention and sometimes its creepy :-/

they love the little fountains...

Fine Dining with Mommy.... all by ourselves!

they actually did really well and we made it out in under an hour! WOW!

Shopping at Zona Rosa, watching the frogs :)

LOVED this place :)

I caved, I cut my hair off... it just wasn't going well growing it out and I am so glad I made this decision!

I was stopped by the way.
4TH of July with the fam :)
G- man is crawling...

piggy tails :)

Trying out Makeup
Mari and gabi... and Andi

Andi

Tired girls..... this is after the falling down the stairs, nose gushing blood and swelling the size of china.... and then theres the Orange soda incident alll over the front of our white shirts:)...And Daisy rolling in manure and jumping...nearly drowing in the pond...while Brian and my brother in law nearly sink in the raft... .AHHH I love my family... wild and crazy

Sunday before the 4th on our "runway " modeling our TOO big dresses :)

Trying big girl pig tails YAY!

she didnt think so.... doesn't she look like Brian in this pic? He thinks she looks like me :)

Lots of time on our sunporch...including porch picnics :)

Time at the grandparents house

Making smores and eating marshmallows :)

Helping Grandma in the Garden.

Preparing for Garage Sales.... I don't think she has her priced high enough ....

more Gardening.

More Peek A boo!

Cousin Meg came over to help mommy at the pool....

More Picnics....

I am loving my weekends with the girls.... I am soaking up every bit of summer! Loving it and enjoying them... SIGH....

If only work could go better...................................................................

BACK!!!!!!!

Our laptop is finally fixed. SO glad. I don't even know where to begin. Life has been pretty crazy. I didn't even get to finish posting all of our vacation pictures. I am going to have to sit down and get organized and decide on my next topic.
SMALL update:
I have started on my decluttering and reorganization. We had a very slow garage sale. Another one will take place in the fall so I can hopefully get rid of more stuff. The hardest is kids clothes. I have friends that want the girls stuff, but they are a ways off from the sizes I have to sell. We have officially sold ALL of our tiny baby stuff except the cribs and pack and play. I am trying to motivate myself to sell my Pottery Barn Kids baby bedding Yes, I am pretty sure the baby factory is closed....more on that in another post.
We finally got our carpets cleaned. For our 5 year wedding anniversary we bought grown up bedroom furniture and we are in the process of getting rid of our College furniture. This was a good thing because it forced me to downsize and get rid of clothing I do not wear. I just have to do my closet next.. UGH.
My money makeover is in the baby steps... or maybe the womb steps?... I have started making very small changes. No eating out during the work week unless I am invited by my awesome ex-coworkers that I miss OH SO VERY MUCH! :'''( (more on this during another post). I have really tried to account for where my money is going and tried to tell myself "no" when it comes to the girls clothing...it is really hard for me ... I LOVE and I am ADDICTED to shopping for the girls. Its just fun for me :) (again... this is another post). The next step is to pay off my one and only credit card which will hopefully happen by the end of the month. EXCITING! Then after that I will be focused on the only debt I have, student loans...YUUUUUCCCKKKK! When I lost my job I deferred them for 6 months and I must say... it has been nice not having that extra worry... and having summer fun money. But all fun comes to an end RIGHT?
I have a list of summer goals... I will share that in another post... Right now I need to find my second summer read. I am hoping for something inspirational but I need suggestions. Otherwise, I may read the Jaycee Dugard story... which... is more like reading the social history of a patient/ or individual I have on my case load... sad...but I have probably read similar stories to hers...minus the kidnapping.... Anyyy way.... I will be back again soon. .....

Vacation 2011 part 2

Here it is... the black eye!... its on my right or your left when you look at it... you can barely
see it but its there!
The first night away... the girls loved the chair in the hotel!

Flooded Sioux City Iowa.

Sand baggers in Sioux City Iowa

Lillian at the Hotel.

Joelle.

Sioux Falls had these awesome statues all over down town. I LOVED them!

my favorite the dancing lady.

We ate a a fancy grilled cheese place called " Chedds" all they served was different kinds of grilled cheese and I stepped outside of my box and ate something new and LOVED it :)

The girls and I at "Chedds" ... I was really tired. The girls were excited about the blow up cow hanging from the ceiling.

Husband

The Hubs/travel agent/ dadddddyyyy/pain in the buns/ patient man.

See the little Dog Lillian is holding?... We left with 2 and came back with 1 :( I also taught the girls how to jump on the bed during our trip... they would get really hyper and bounce and giggle and then I would bounce with them... and that would really get them rolling :)

LOL this makes me laugh so hard. Their diapers were so full of water from being in the pool that it looked like they had little "ghetto booties" oh I laughed so hard... it was great!

on our way to the pool....
Joelle

I bought us all matching sunglasses because I'm "one of those moms" and I thought it would be cute, but the girls wouldn't wear theirs.. bummer!the twirly birds sun bathing....
JoelleMe and Joelle.

Cutie Patooties!

LOOK at those Lashes! They are so lucky. (Lillian)

See the lovely lavender wrist bands we are all wearing? It was a struggle to get those on! The hotel had an indoor water park and to get into it we had to have the bands...well the girls freaked... my guess was because the last time they had to have those put on was when we were in the accident and sitting in the ER. Poor girls are traumatized! They wear bracelets and anything else but no wrist bands :(


I love them.

*LOVE*

3 of my most favorite People.

Sometimes I just looked at them in the back seat and thought about how blessed I am!

pretty waterfall on a trail.

The last picture at the park before my camera died. I didn't take my camera charger with me because I am a little gun shy. I am paranoid that people are going to steal from me!

I hope to post more later this week.

Vacation 2011 part 1

Instead of doing one big post I am going to have to break it down . So there will be several parts, covering vacation and a few things that have been on my mind.

The twirly birds before we left on Monday night. All set to go.

A DVD player= blessing in disguise.

We thought we were detouring around the flood but ended up going through it...

one lane was closed because it was under water, scared me because we were so close!

This made us Laugh

They were prepared .

This covers day 1. Day 2-3 will be my next post. Followed by my self revelations and things I have learned. (HA!)

Out of the office...

after tomorrow We will be on vacation! YAY!
Once we return...(and when I have time) I have a BIG blog post coming up....
I finally bought a new camera, I have been inspired a little... you will hear more about that then..
My ten year high school reunion is also next weekend and just a lot of little thoughts... and updates on the twirly birds... until then....
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!