She's crafty!

I have been trying very hard to be more "crafty" lately. Above are a couple of the shirts I have made for the girls and then a memo board I made for their room. I have other shirts that I have made but they are b'day gifts for a party tomorrow and I don't want to give away the gift before I give it!

Watching George

My children are completely and totally addicted to Curious George. There is nothing more important to them in this world. I could run in front of the TV naked with my hair on fire while George is on and I would get looked around and sushed. It's nuts. Is this normal? I let them watch 2 episodes a day but I get asked all day long if they can watch it.

We Love Puzzles

The girls have decided that they love, love, love puzzles all of the sudden. We have had 4 puzzles for about a year now and they will play with them on and off but didn't show a lot of interest in them until now. They just can't get enough! They are so sweet and cheer for each other "yea Sissy!" when they complete it. So cute. Yesterday I took them to Simplicity which is a toy store in Mt. Laurel to buy some new puzzles and they had them mastered in a matter of 5 minutes...no kidding. I was impressed! So, I think there are more puzzles in our near future.

My painting

Brandi had a paint party at her house last weekend and it was lots-o-fun! I cannot draw stick people, as many of you know, but look what I ended up being able to paint! Alice, who does the parties, is an art teacher and she will come to your house and bring everything you need to paint...just supply the friends! I think if you are the hostess you get to choose what you'd like to paint (everyone does the same painting) but Alice draws it on the canvas for you w/ a pencil and gives you the right paint colors, etc. with lots of instruction...she's wonderful! I have been to several of these parties but this is the first time I have ended up with something I will actually frame and hang on the wall. The others are in a closet upstairs never to be seen again. In fact, the very first time I went to do this at Sips n Strokes we did some abstract painting with bright colors and shapes...it wasn't my kind of thing to begin with...but Clint was so sweet and insisted that we hang it in the den. Shea, my sister in law who is an artist, came over one day and when she saw the painting she said, "Oh, that's cute...did a kid paint that for you?" I took it down and shoved it in the closet that very day.

Fun afternoon

We had a fun afternoon today. We blew up the bouncy in the basement and rode bikes in the driveway. The girls are WAY too daring right now. Our driveway is very steep and they like to go up, not all the way, but farther than I am comfortable with and zoom down the drive on their little bikes. Daddy better be getting that fence put up soon or else we're gonna loose two little ones over our 20 foot wall!

Sacked out

If you know my children, you know that they do not nap anywhere other than their beds or in the car. I can't remember what we had done this day, but when we got home and I got them out of the car they went straight to the sofa and went back to sleep.

Family picture

This picture is from February but thought I'd post it anyway.

Sissy, wake up!

This is a video of the girls being silly one day during lunch.

Swan bite

I took the girls to feed the ducks a couple of days ago and they had a great time...until a swan bit both of them! I didn't know that swans were mean but they are. In the video Sutton is the one that gets bitten. But once I turned the camera off Taylor got bitten by the same one. Stupid birds! Honestly what are birds good for? All they do is make noise and poop everywhere. I had a mishap at about 5 years old with two parrots that I was having my picture taken with (one on each shoulder). My hair was very long and for some reason they decided to start trying to tear my hair out and pecked me in the head over and over until someone finally got them both off of me. They were all tangled up in my hair and I was terrified. I swear I have hated birds since then.

4th of July Fun

We had a fun filled 4th of July this year. We cooked ribs, corn, and roasted potatoes and pigged out! The girls loved it all. Later that night we went to Homewood to meet Brandi, Craig, Macy, and Vivi to eat at DeVinci's Pizza and staked out a spot to watch the fireworks show, Thunder on the Mountain...it was great! At first Taylor kept saying "I scared, I scared" over and over but about half way through she realized it wasn't going to hurt her and enjoyed the fireworks. Sutton was walking around saying "I not scared, I not scared" over and over too. We had a really good time and will definitely make it an annual thing to go down there. Lots-o-fun!