Classic

I forgot to post these awesome pictures yesterday.  Here is Ryann being silly with her ice cube.

Cara "freezing" outside of the pool.

 Ryann learning how to shoot water out of the noodle.

 Ryann and Cara each picked out noodles from the dollar store and they were so excited to play with them.

1 week countdown until swim lessons!!

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!  We spent it with family and friends. I should have spent some time trying to teach the girls about Memorial day, but being a slacker mom I just played with them instead and enjoyed my day off from work.

 Some day I will spend the time to tell them all about their great grandpa Cochran and his military service, their uncle Ron and his service, and not to forget their Grandpa Hamilton, Great Grandpa Kevern, and all the other military men on the Hamilton side.

But until that day I will let them play in the sun and have fun spending an extra day with mom and dad.

Mother's Day... LATE!

Since returning back to delivering babies and getting phone calls all throughout the night, I have had a little bit of a hard time finding the time to blog regularly. I can't believe that I didn't blog on Mother's Day... but I guess one could say that it is "my day" so I didn't really have to do anything at all.

However, I was spoiled... SUPER SPOILED!... on Mother's day.
I had a delicious breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls with these cuties.

And I had lots of homemade cards, pictures, and flowers. I even got a SPIbelt (small personal items... Rich says it is just a mini fany-pack), a pink nail polish, amazon gift card, and an awesome watch that has all sorts of gadgets that I haven't figured it all out yet. I have figured out the calorie counter, the heart rate monitor, the watch itself, and the pedometer. There are endless more possibilities. 

Overall it was an amazing and wonderful day. I was spiritually uplifted, slept in, spent time with my family and my wonderful in laws, and I thought of the wonderful mother's in my life who have made me the mom I am today.

The Hunt

Ryann and Cara hunt Easter Eggs differently. Always have, and I am sure they always will. Ryann searches out more, she looks for the one she wants and sneaks over and grabs it.

Here she is searching and finding her eggs.

Then she gets the eggs and looks through them all, waiting to decide what candy to eat. Ryann is a take it or leave it kind of candy girl. She will eat it if she wants, but never really eats it just to eat it.

Now Cara is another story. She sees an egg, screams "I SEE ONE!" then goes charging straight for it. She often beats out Ryann because she is pure adrenaline going to get that egg.

She is persistent. She looks and looks and looks until they are all gone.

Candy is serious business for her. She grabs a piece, eats it just because it is candy, and then if she doesn't like it then she spits it out to the closest person who will take it.

I think if she had it her way her candy would have been entirely gone or thrown away by now, none of this save stuff for later game.

Tulips

Yesterday morning we spent Easter Breakfast with our friends. I was trying to get some cute pictures of the girls so I had Ryann sit by the tulips. She loved them and smelled them and petted them and just was so excited that she even started drawing a picture of them.

Cara, not so much. She hated them. When we got home she slept for 2 hours. I think she would have liked them more if she didn't get up at 5am.

Happy Easter

What? There isn't a giant blow up chicken in your neighbor's yard??

You better find some new neighbors... or come to Arizona for your next Easter celebration.

Happy St Patty's Day

We had a fun time yesterday playing with friends, eating at the park, dressing in green, spending some time with uncle Cory and so much more.

Ryann was showing me a "grumpy face"

Then she wanted to take a picture so everyone could see her carry Cara.

And my sweet Cara Kay posing for the camera. Love that little nugget.

Yesterday was so much fun to watch my girls play together at the park. There were so many friends there but they spent the entire time together. Ryann doesn't leave Cara out and it was just so sweet to my heart that they are such good friends.

Seriously- a mother's dream. Thank you girls.