Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Happy Birthday Grandma!






Happy Birthday Grandma!

We are sooo excited for my mom's visit next week. This is when we are really going to celebrate her birthday!

I am having a hard time posting pictures of all of her grandkids. She is the best grandma ever. She makes a special effort to spend time with each kid individually. Sometimes I feel like my girls really miss out, not being close to grandma... but it does make the visits we have EXTRA SPECIAL!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Transportation Day

Every year our local community holds a "transportation day" where they have all sorts of cars, trucks, motorcycles, helicopters, hummers, limos, etc. We walked down and let the girls run around like crazy. Lines are no fun so we only got pictures with the vehicles that didn't have a lot of lines.
Here are the girls on the school bus- we did have time to sing "wheels on the bus." Both girls are pretty dang good at singing that song.
Ryann couldn't figure out who she was supposed to look at when daddy took this picture of her on the caterpillar.
Not the best picture of me, but I was very surprised that all three of us were looking at daddy when he snapped this shot of us on the fire truck!
It is always fun to go and see lots of friends and friendly faces.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Garage Sale Steals

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I took the girls out Saturday morning to get them out of the house while I let Rich sleep in (don't worry- he let me sleep in Sunday!) and we went to a garage sale.

I found a second "guy-guy" for Cara.
He is brand newish so he is soft and cuddly- so it will take Cara some time to get used to him. "guy- guy" is the name for her soft little lovie, with a bear head attached to a small blanket and then a lion printed in the corner. Seriously- she could have picked something better than that... but she must have known it was from her 2nd cousin Cecily (and my aunt Susan!)
Ryann also found something she couldn't live without.... yes, scroll down and see the ridiculous pumpkin costume for a baby that she put on and wouldn't take off.
Obviously we had to leave with it since she wouldn't take it off.
It is hard to be firm with a 4 year old who is wearing a cute little pumpkin costume.
So yes, she took it home.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Goose Egg

Little Cara Kay ran into a wall the other day. Yes, a wall. I think it jumped out of nowhere and ran smack into her.
Either way she and Ryann had some fun in the bath- but you can tell she wasn't feeling 100%
Check out my FLO on the faucet.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Serious Issues

My computer is having serious issues- it makes this funky noise and only a black screen appears when we turn it on... I guess I should expect multiple computer crashes for a PC that is 3 years old- right?

Crossing my fingers it miraculously restarts itself today.

Don't worry- we have an external hard drive that backs up EVERYTHING on our computer. So we didn't lose anything- just the ability to blog daily and play farmville on facebook.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Park Time!

I am not sure why Rich and I always live close to elementary schools. Okay, not ALWAYS, but the 2 places we have actually lived while married our almost 7 years have been within a stones throw of an elementary school.

It is pretty fun when the kids are old enough to play on the playground!
Cara loves it, even if we go late at night before bedtime.
And Ryann is just growing up and climbing all over the playground. Seriously? A rock wall is a little to fast for me!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Fridge Raider

Ryann has learned how to pour her own milk, into a sippy cup. I am not sure if she is spilling or not because we never catch her doing it. If she is- then she cleans it up really well.

Since we haven't caught her- here is what we are guessing is happening.

There are just signs that she is doing it.
Like open cabinets.
Chairs next to the fridge and all over the kitchen.
Sippy cups half filled with water and half with milk.
More sippy cups in the fridge than we would ever use in a week.

These two sippy cups that are now in the sink were filled with milk and sitting back in the cabinets. We aren't quite sure how long- but at least an entire work day.
Oh- I forgot to mention the empty milk cartons.
I think I will never buy 1/2 gallons of milk again- even if they are on super sale.
The strangest thing is that she seems to be filling the cups half way with water before she puts in the milk. Maybe she watches me fill the cups with half juice and half water.

Then Cara won't drink the milk that her sister so kindly got for her- because instead of 2% or whole milk it is less than skim milk.