Boo for the Flu!!

One unfortunate thing about having little kids is the germs that come with it. Especially when your kids go to daycare. This is the 2nd time in about 9 days that I've been sick. It is no fun! I'm gettin spring fever so bad it's not even funny. Hopefully my girlies stay healthy. Another unfortunate tidbit that childless people may not know is that children generally have a cold ALL WINTER LONG, until the age of THREE! Poor little babies.

The little Moments

It truly amazes me everyday how much Gracen loves Hadley. Everytime I get stressed out about having 2 little kids under the age of 2, I just look at them interacting and my heart melts. This morning, Hadley was playing on the floor and Gracen was playing peek a boo with her. As I was rushing to finish getting ready, I heard Gracen start to scream, and my initial thought was something bad happened, like she stepped on Hadley (leave it to me to think the worst!) When I got to the living room, Gracen was just worried that Hadley was "getting away". Hadley has recently started to roll all over the floor, and it worries Gracen that she's going somewhere. I tried my best not to laugh, Gracen just wasn't done playing yet and she thought Hadley was getting away. Oh kids. So easily amused. I love it!

Pictures as promised!

Heres a few pics from our recent Valentine's photo shoot. And by Valentine's I mean they both had hearts on their shirts... haha

2010 What?!

Honest to goodness, where does the time go? I cannot believe that it is 2010, let alone February 2010. So much has happened and I can hardly remember it all. Our computer fried, so I have yet another excuse as to why it's been so long since the last post. But we just got a brand new laptop so I'm all out of excuses!

I have yet to post a pic of Hadley Jean, who is growing like a weed everyday. I cannot believe she is 4 and 1/2 months old! She's rolling all over the living room, and starting to eat solid foods. Gracen can hardly wait for her to get big enough to "play".

Ms. Gracen is just full of personality. She is her mother's daughter after all. She talks a mile a minute, and definitely commands attention. She is learning sign language right now, and LOVES it. Another way for her to communicate her demands. Right now we are trying to teach her patience among other things. She is dying for a puppy, but with all the craziness we have going on this year(3 immediate family weddings!), I think it'll be 2011.

Pictures to come soon I promise! (And not 4 months from now).

MmMm Fall!

I can't believe it's already the middle of November! We finally got the internet at our house, so I'll be able to keep up a little better on the blogging :)  I was going to try and back track and update on what's been going on since June, but that just seems way too time consuming, and I don't think I would ever catch up. So we're just going to start fresh! Can't wait for Thanksgiving next week, and of course Black Friday shopping!!! Iowa here we come!

Circus

This year the circus was in town over Mother's day weekend so we decided to take Gracen. She definitely enjoyed the lights and the music! I'm not sure she quite understood the rest, so we'll just have to take her back next year!




The tigers, they were pretty cool, but we were a little dissapointed there was no jumping through firey hoops.


Just enjoyin the circus with Daddy

My favorite part was the elephants!

The Princess visits the Crown!

Memorial day weekend Ms. Gracen and I headed down to KC to go play with Aunt Nanie while Daddy worked and finished (almost) the fence in our backyard. We had tons of fun. Gracen did not so much like Baxter (the dog), but did love going down to Crown Center. They had a family festival going on with live music, face painting, bouncy houses, train rides and much more. Gracen loved the dancing and music, but will probably enjoy the other festivities more next year. Most of the other kids were in their swimsuits running through the fountains, but I don't think Gracen is quite that bold yet. After an hour or so in the sweltering heat, we headed inside for some shopping. We took Gracen to the toy store where she proceeded to taste everything. We also stopped at the Crayola Cafe, for drinks that came in souvenir crayon cups. We used to have cups almost like that when were little, so of course we had to get her (and ourselves) one. She made it to the lego display, where everything was made entirely out of those teeny little legos. It was actually prettyu neat. Aunt Nanie liked the monopoly game the best. By the end of the day she was definitely done.

Sunday we went to Nebraska Furniture Mart (where it was a zoo) and out to eat at Famous Daves. Nothing too exciting. Sunday night and Monday were spent playing outside with Daddy and watching him work on our fence and grill yummy foods!