Once again... what was I thinking.... at church we sewed our own bag. I know that I have many bags, but I don't have one that I sewed myself!! And I did learn a cool thing.... a french seam. It is a seam that is enclosed. Wow... my mom would be so proud of me!
I still need a cool "something" to put on the pocket that will really make it!

ham-bur-burs

So I found this cute little cookie that resembles a ham-bur-bur as Big Sister would say. We are having a work BBQ and somewhere in my mind, I figured that I had more than enough time to make them??? What was I thinking?

Cowgirl up

We love to go to Las Vegas and spend time in the SUNSHINE and time with some of our cousins. We went down there for Big Sisters Birthday and our little cousins first birthday.

The highlight of our trip was eating at Viva Mercados!!! Seriously, this has to be the best mexican food on earth! All the birthday boys and girls wore somberos & ate churros while we sang Happy Birthday. Little sister sure can cut a rug dancing to Happy Birthday. That was the cutest thing to watch.

We also love to spend time in sun and the POOL!!! The sisters think that there is nothing better that "going wimming" We practice our "wimming" in moms tub at home - for hours at a time.

While we were there we got Papa's boots and hats, and our new dresses Grandma made and went got our pictures taken. Cowgirl up!!!

one, a two, a one, two THREE!!!!

Happy birthday big sister!!!!

I can't believe that my little big one is already THREE!!!! She seems to be so big and smart and fun that I can imagine my life without her. Big sister has become quite funny!! She is such a little mommy to not only the Little Sister, but to the mom as well. I guess that we all need a back up sometimes!

Here is my list of Big Sister favs....

1. Your favorite thing to do is to stay up late at night. And believe me, you can do that very well. I think that you will make up for this lack of sleep in your teenage years.

2. Your favorite thing to drink is "toke" Everyone needs a nice toke every once in a while (unless you are three, but somehow.....) Don't worry, she is just like her Daddy and can down a gallon of milk in a mere day or two as well.

3. You love to read, and do puzzles. It is so cute to read (the same books) to you every night and watch you light up. You really are such a smart little girl.

4. You love to go to you Grandmas house. Really, we all know that you love to go anywhere. You are a social butterfly & everyone loves you.

5. You absolutely love your little sister. It is so cute to see my little girls together, playing and having so much fun!!

Happy Birthday Big Sister from all the many people that love you!!!

Happy Birthday

Today is my honeys birthday. I wanted to let him know just how much he means to me. Happy Birthday!!!!
Top Ten reasons why I love YOU!!!
1. Because you let me have control of the remote control, even though you know that I will watch "the fatty show" aka The Biggest Loser. Love that show!!
2. Because you pretend to be amused at my stories.
3. Because you willingly get up with the girls at night, time after time. What a dad!!!!
4. Because you let me beat you at cards!!! Whenever we get the chance to play.
5. Because you like to watch chick flicks with me.
6. Because you let me go to bunco, bookclub ... and never say anything.
7. Because you can build just about anything. Look at my house!!!
8. Because you are willing to let me google WebMD and self-diagnois. Well, till you "had" pancreatic cancer. :) good healing!!!
9. Because you let me wake you up every morning to say goodbye.
10. Because you say that you love me, too!!!!!

spring thaw!!

We took a family vacation to St. George. This came after we all needed a blast of sunshine and a break from the wheel of life.
We went to a dedicatory of Dad's great great grandfathers statue, a walk around town, shopping at the outlets, and a little hike just above St. George.
My girls are just getting so big & having the time of their lives being outside in the sunshine. I have to admit that I, too, also like the Golden Rays.
On our little hike, Uncle Doug joked that there were bats. Gracie believes this because she saw an empty orange crush can, and "Bats drink orange toke" Didn't everyone know that?

Everyone needed the nice break from life and to soak in the sunshine!!!! I am sure that we will put our vote in to make this an annual trip!!!

merry christmas

All I want for Christmas is two cute little girls. We have had the funnest time with Christmas this year.... and only to get better year after year.

Little Sister has helped decorate our tree (again, and again) but has seemed to really enjoy herself.

The joys of Big Sister were helping to decorate the packages.... with ghosts that say boo & Happy Halloween. A couple of holidays late, but still festive. She also loved taking packages around to the neighbors. She even got some of her presents under the tree to give away.

Merry Christmas to all & to all a good night.

birthday girl

I can't believe that my little baby is already turning ONE. She has been quite the little joy at our house. It is so much fun with 2 little girls that absolutely adore one another.... I hope that this lasts through the teen years too.

Little Sis is so fun & loves to laugh & be chased, especially up the stairs. She has been walking for the past 6 weeks & running for the past 5 weeks and 5 days. She wants to be big just like her sister and has the determination that she just might try to be bigger one day.

We love our Little Sister and am so glad that she is in our family..... now if she would just start sleeping through the night again.

happy birthday

HaPpY BirTHdaY!! Mo Mo!!

Happy birthday to a wonderful talented neice. We love you. Big Sister loves to come and stay at your house and play with you.
We think that you are so talented. You dance, you play softball, basketball and volleyball... and of course you can text unlike no other (unless you are at the dinner table)
Thanks for being so cute.
We love you!!!

tamale day

After months of begging Ellie to teach us how to make homemade tamales.... she finally gave in.

We - Delores, Andrea, Michelle, Liz, myself & Ellie brought everything in our kitchen and met at 10 am and worked until 8 pm for 5 dozen tamales. We cooked meat, we made rue, we mixed masa, we mixed masa, and we were still mixing our masa.... especially Delores, and then we finally rolled our tamales. I will say that the first ones were quite thin & nice... towards the end the tamales became bigger and bigger and had more meat in them. I like to think of them as a big girl tamale.
It was a lot of work, but well worth it. We had a ton of fun & will be eating tamales for quite a while.

Thanks Ellie!!!!

Happy RT week

Happy RT week to all my fellow rad techs!!! We are having our own pity party at work, but after a week of planning & the radiologists chipping in (and we only had to ask once) we had a wonderful Cafe Rio lunch!

princess polka dot

here is the story.... I am getting ready to bathe Little Sister and I notice these 3 little "blisters" on the side of her tummy & one dot on her cheek. - the night before Halloween.
Therefore instead of going to work and showing off our cute halloween outfits, we went to the doctor - to get the diagnosis of CHICKEN POX!!!!!! It is was so funny they brought an intern in to see them since he had never seen the chicken pox, and then asked us if "we could leave out the side door!!"
Remember the olden days when everyone got chicken pox!! Now days they immunize at 12 months and then at kindergarten
This weekend has been hard for our entire house - starting with the mom & dad!! Little Sister has had a fever and of course feels horrible all night long!! I think that we are finally feeling better.... now for the recovery period!!

sunday drive

We decided to take a little family drive on Sunday and it was wonderful. We went up to the Alpine Loop - just as the leaves were finishing changing. Since we waited so long in the year we just caught the end of the color changes - but still so worthwhile.

Happy Halloween

One little, two little, three little witches flying over haystacks jumping over ditches.
Flying down moon beams without any hitches.
Hi Ho Halloween is here!

wanted.....

Here is a picture of what used to be my snowblower. Can you believe that someone STOLE it out of the back of our truck on State Street and in the midst of the day???!!! You have got to be kidding!!! What is this world coming to.
Hmmm.... what to buy. sod for our yard or a new snowblower for the winter. Is grass really all that important?
no.... but I am still bitter!!!! did I mention that we had just (about 15 minutes prior) paid $165.00 for getting it tuned up!!!! BITTER!!!

apple back

Big Sister is potty trained!!!! We still have our little accidents, but we are doing wonderful. Big Sis has been doing great for the past month for her mom.... but not for anyone else. Horribly, we FORGOT the ENTIRE bag of clothes and diapers when we went on vacation last week..... that got me thinking that I was only going to buy diapers for Little Sis & panties for her. (don't worry, Big sis is so skinny that they can wear each others)
That is all we needed. She loves them and reminds me all the time..
apple back. the apple on the tag goes in the back. duh.
Just for the record, we used the Potty Watch & it was wonderful for the first little while... and then it was just another toy. A fun one, but not as effective.

is there anything cuter....

look at my little sleeping flower.... well, we weren't happy to begin with, but we had a wonderful photo shoot when it all ended.

get your mammo on

This is my soapbox to all those ladies that are 40 and over....
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month & I hope that everyone out there is current on their mammograms!!!
PINKtober is here!!!

The newest little one

Annoucing IVY JOYE
big Sister Zoe is proud to show off her little sister.