Two for Two-sday

Its Two for Two-sday and I thought I would share this pic...

the girls and daddy... sharing a soda!

I love this pic b/c this is just classic. The girls each with their own straws drinking from daddy's glass. The girls love to sit on daddy's lap and eat or drink anything that he has!

Happy Twos-day!
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(Finally) Friday Foto Fiesta

For this Finally Friday, I have to show off this pic of the girls...

Courtney and Cadie... belly dancers!

The girls were trying on their new pjs... they have little tutu's with them. The girls had so much fun spinning around in their little tutu's. I had no idea they would love the tutu's the way they did! They had so much fun and for some reason, decided they needed to dance around with their bellies hanging out.
I just had to sit back and laugh!
Jannea actually captured this shot on her camera, but she generously let me scan her pics to my computer before she headed home!
Thanks Aunt Nea... you are the bestest!

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Two for Two-sday

On this special Two for Two-sday, I thought I would show what it is like to try to get Courtney's hair cut!
Notice that her sister has to sit with her...

Courtney and Cadie...... April 10, 2009

Courtney has had at least 4 haircuts. Cadie... None!

Our hair dresser Melanie did trim up a few of the long fly away hairs that Cadie had. So, maybe now her hair will take off and grow. When it came time for Courtney to get her hair cut... Cadie hopped up in the chair and was ready to get her hair trimmed!
Cadie loves to have her hair combed and trimmed and loves to sit up in the chair and loves to look at herself in the mirror! She is such a diva!

In order to get Courtney to sit still... not only does Cadie sit with her...

... but we also bribe her with a sucker!

The little turkey! JM calls her the skunk... now you know why!

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Way Back When-sday

Time for way back When-sday!

Since we are gearing up for Easter around here... I just wanted to post a pic that was taken just 1 year ago!

Amazing how much the girls and JM have changed in 1 yrs time!
I loved JM with his short hair.... *sigh*
Courtney in this pic has really short hair and now she has a whole head full!

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Two for Twos-day

For anyone who has watched the Max and Ruby cartoon, you might know what is going on here...

... the girls doing the hippity hop dance!

It cracks me up to watch them sing and dance to stuff on TV!

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Two for Two-sday

Its time for Two for Tuesday!
Up this week is the twins....

The girls have started exerting their independence and since have learned to take toys away from the other one! In an effort to promote kindness, when one twin hurts the other twin... we make them hug each other!

Courtney hugging her sister Cadie!

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Happy Birthday Hubby

Today is my hubby's birthday!
Too bad he had to work all day!
However, once he came home, I had supper ready and his parents were here!

Shortly after supper, we had cake and ice cream...

Look at all those candles!

Whew...

Got all of them blown out (took 2 breaths though)!

The girls eating ice cream....

and cake! It was so yummy!

The girls...

and Grandpa J.

Sammy...

eating cake... and later on ice cream!

I missed getting pics of Grandma J and Annie... they were here too to help JC celebrate too!

JC said it was a great birthday... that is what every wife LOVES to hear!

Special Thank you to Grandma J and Grandpa J for helping with the girls while I got everything together!

Barnyard Days

The Cuba High school always puts on Barnyard Days. The students can bring in their pets or tractors or livestock... whatever to show off for the day. Every since my kids were little, I have taken them to the school for this day and let them see the animals. It is always a huge hit. Here are the highlights...

Bunnies...

... my personal favorite... but the girls weren't too sure about them.

Cadie...

... found this hamster the most captivating!

Courtney....

... really liked the cats.

Grandma J even came out to join the girls...

... they really liked this pug nosed dog!

The ducks...

...Cadie liked them too.

This would be Annie's favorite...

...a horse

The girls were a little shy at first, but once they spotted Emma everything was a-okay! They went over and greeted their dear friend and then proceded to walk from one animal to the other to another. They were very interested in all the animals and liked to pet them. All the animals were very good natured and did very well considering they had roughly 200+ kids that came through and visited today!

Valentine's Weekend Recap

Friday, the kids got out of school early. Jen and I decided to take our crew over to Peoria to have their pictures taken. It was pure chaos... but we loved every minute of it!

All of the kids...

Jonah, Annie, Hannah, Jeffrey and Sammy
Courtney, Emma and Cadie

My crew...

Jonah, Annie, Jeffrey, Sammy, Courtney and Cadie

The 3 amigo's....

Courtney, Emma, and Cadie

This was to be the twins 2 yr pic...

Courtney... Cadie wouldn't cooperate and sit on the blocks with her sister!


Cadie...

Finally got her to smile!

Courtney...

this is her 2yr picture

Cadie...


pouting!!!

We had so much fun... of course trying to get the twins to cooperate is always a challenge!

Happy St. Valentine's Day

More pics to come... but here is a preview...

see the balloons...

Courtney

whats in there??

Courtney, daddy and Cadie

Oh! its em ems....

Courtney, daddy and Cadie

and there is candy hearts...

Courtney, daddy and Cadie

Wagie Rides for Tuesday!

My Best Friend Jen and I had our balloon release. I did video it... however, I need to watch it and then download it to my computer before I can share it!

Anyway, I did take a few pics. They turned out beautifully!

Jen and her girls came over to our house (because I had worked and the girls had been sick). She brought balloons, and tied NUKS on and waited so patiently for me to grab a shower!
(I'm lucky she has the patience of a saint!)

As we were getting ready to leave, we see this...

Emma thought that was pretty great, having a NUK tied to the end of the balloon!

Emma...

trying to figure out how to get that balloon off the NUK!

The twins were loaded up and ready to go...

it was such beautiful weather and the twins LOVE their wagon! We decided to just walk down the gravel road by our house. We had talked about walking all the way to the bridge... however, that is quite a walk and neither me nor Jen was up for that!

Emma was excited to be in her wagon too!

We headed down the road... only to realize, we left without one pacifier and Emma didn't have her sunglasses on! Big sister to the rescue! Hannah ran back and grabbed her sunglasses for her!

We walked a ways down the road and picked a dry spot to set off the balloons...

Jen helping untangle the balloons and get the girls all set up!

Emma and Hannah...

with their balloons to send to Tuesday! Hannah picked out a really pretty butterfly balloon to send! We soon discovered that the balloons with NUKs didn't fly... so we quickly snapped them off and released the balloons!

Once we watched the balloons float off into the distance... we noticed Cadie taking off into a field!
She had to wade through a ditch full of water... twice!
So, the messy girls got put in one wagon together!

Hannah and Cadie

While the tidy girls rode together!

Emma and Courtney

We walked back to my house and as we got closer and was attempting to put the wagons up... Cadie takes off running across our yard that is so soggy from all the melted snow and not packed down yet b/c of construction last year. As I take off after her... I loose my shoes! They become stuck in the mud! I ended up running across the yard without my shoes!
To make matter worse... not only is Cadie a mess from the watery ditch, I'm a mess from running across a muddy yard without my shoes!
For those who don't know me... I hate dirt and mud and yuck!
Cadie wasn't allowed in the house until all muddy clothes were removed. As for me... well, lets just say I am thankful my neighbors weren't home!
Im also thankful that Jen's camera was safely out of reach!
Hannah... well, Hannah thought it was quite cute to sing a little limmerick for me! Won't say which one... but lets just say she saw way more than London and France!

OH! I almost forgot! Jen ordered Tuesday tiles for us and they came in the other day! These are the cutest things I have ever seen! If you haven't ordered them you have to do so by February 14th! Don't forget to mention FOR TUESDAY in the comment field!!

Friday Foto Fiesta

Its time for Friday Foto Fiesta!


I didn't take this pic... but I love it!

Cadie, Emma and Courtney

playing while Jen and I were trying to have an adult conversation!
It was at this point we decided to go to McDonalds... the kids could play and we could visit. Sounds like a win-win for everyone!

Thanks Jen!

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Way Back When-sday

These are from last year...

Cadie...

her 1st birthday!

Courtney...

her 1st birthday!

I love how messy they were!
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The Twins Room is done!!

Finally,
and I really mean FINALLY the twins room is done!

Jason and I finished the painting on Thursday, and put the trim up on Friday.
To me it is so perfect and just how I imagined it would be.
Pretty pink carpet, pink walls, purple trim and white bead board. I love it!

Courtney's side...


Cadie's side....


We moved the cribs back against the walls (they had been in the center with a narrow walk-way between them). Now I just have to put pictures up on the walls. I haven't put any pictures up since we are still waiting to have our hardwood floor put down.
Jason was worried the pictures would be in the way or get knocked off. So, we have left the walls bare. I am sure I could hang stuff in the girls room without too much worry. I may work on that this weekend.

Way Back When-sday

In honor of the girls turning 2....

Me and my dad... on my 2nd birthday

I also added a pic of the girls...

we recently had a debate about if I had more hair at 2 than Cadie does at 2. The answer is clearly... YES. I had more hair than Cadie!

However, we both pale in comparison to Courtney and her long curly locks.

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Two for Tuesday

My friend over at Eight is Great hosts a Two for Tuesday!


I am here to share a pic of my sweet twosome...

The girls discovered there was a cake left unsupervised on the kitchen table, they quickly climbed up on the table, got the top off and was digging in the cake with both hands!
Amazing how quick they can do that stuff!
(though, I had to grab my camera before getting them down and telling them they shouldn't be up there)!

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The TWINS are 2!!

My babies are officially 2!!

... the girls first thing this morning!


We even had a big party to celebrate it!

We had family and friends come out for the afternoon. The girls got lots of cool things, and lots of great birthday wishes. The big gift was the Barbie Mustang car!
The girls really liked it, but we learned they are just a little short in the legs! They can't reach the pedals yet! However, they didn't let that bother them. They were perfectly happy sitting in it and Annie would push the pedal for them to help them drive around!


Aunt Nea giving Courtney driving lessons....



They got sock monkeys....

... and a new table and chairs set for their birthday from my parents.


They also got little pianos from my parents for Christmas...

We had a little Christmas with my parents as well. My mom was sick when she was suppose to have her Christmas with us and so she brought out our presents today.

I got a couple of new Harley shirts and some twin figurines from Willow Tree. Jason got flannel lined pants and a shirt. The kids got more toys! Just what they needed! Actually, they had already opened their presents at my parents a few days ago... so the only ones to open stuff today was the twins and Jonah!


Emma brought the girls an Aqua-doodle...

...it has been a huge hit, and Thank Goodness Jen knows me so well and got them something they can't mark up the carpet and the walls with! LOL


Emma and Courtney taking a ride....

... at one point Emma was driving and she is able to reach the pedals and knows how to operate a car! We just had to watch out for the furniture and our toes! The girls will have so much fun this summer playing outside in their "cars"!!



By the end of the noc, the girls were happy to sit in their car...

...and watch Dora.


The party went really well, only one major melt down. My Aunt Cindy didn't give Courtney enough M&Ms and Courtney started crying! Poor girl, she knew 6 M&Ms just wasn't enough!

We tried out our new ice cream maker and had homemade ice cream! Daddy did a great job operating it and Grandma made her famous receipe! We had cupcakes and brownies and it was all very delicious. The big kids spent most of their time down in the basement playing guitar hero! Not even ice cream would pry them upstairs!