Sadie

Couldn't you just die! My poor little heart just jumps out of it's chest when I look at this picture.

We had our friend Julie Campbell come and take professional pictures of our girls. I was so pleased!

Jane

Another day at the park

Rocket launching

57 years old, but still strong as an ox

Sorry David, Todd can't let you get a basket

Congratulations graduates

Both David and Jared graduated from college on Saturday from the University of LaVerne.

Update on potty training

Need I say more????

Memorial weekend

Jane got to go fishing on a boat

She also got to ride on a tractor

We went up north to visit some friends of ours over the weekend. They live in a town called Visalia. This trip was a blast for Jane. She got to do all these fun new things... I didn't get any pictures of the dairy farm we went to, but it was a great time.

This silly swimsuit made her look more like a terrorist bomber than it ever helped her float

Sadie's blessing

Sadie looks like Todd!

Turns out Jane is not as tough as we thought

What kid doesn't love carnivals? Ours didn't like these 2 rides, but she loved the train and the slide. I don't know who had more fun, Jane or her dad?

Sadie and her friend

Thank you Cyrus and Julie, and DJ and Rachel for coming to Sadie's blessing

Family at the park

We had a delicious lunch at the park. Todd and his dad played catch, while my brothers did their hanging out and horsing around.

Jane's friends

Bloody bean Karma

Okay, here is a funny story (well, I think so) since it turned out okay, but it did freak me out at first. The other day Jane was eating lima beans. After five minutes or so I heard her snorting and sneezing while making all these weird noises. I looked over at her and she had her finger way up her nose and there was blood all over her upper lip and finger. I wondered if she had something up her nose. I looked and saw nothing. I squeezed her nose and felt nothing. So I figured she gave herself a bloody nose from shoving her finger up there too far. But she kept making those noises and her eye was watering and a little red and puffy. So I started to panic because I remembered the following story:
When Katie was 3 and I was 10, I shared a room with her. Late one night after being sent to bed Katie was asking for a snack, so I went and found some raisins. Everyone knows how fun it is to make a 3 year old laugh, and I was no exception. I found that if I pretended to feed her nose instead of her mouth that she would laugh hysterically! Well, one of those raisins got sucked up her nose after a laughing fit. I tried to get it out, but was not successful. Katie had started to get upset so I took her down to my parents. They too weren't able to get it out. They worried and worried until they took her to the ER. Luckily at the ER she sneezed and the raisin shot out!!! I sure felt horrible about sending her into the hospital. I have never heard the end of it either. In fact it spawned a few family jokes and a poem about "A girl named Rose who stuck a bean up her nose, Oh that poor little girl named Rose. When she tried to get it out it went further up her snout, Rose wanted that bean out of her nose, she tried with a vacuum hose"... and so on until all these items got stuck in her nose. This has really been a family joke for quite some time. Well it got better with the continuation of my story about Jane.
Then I realized I had one of those baby bulb syringes that aspirate their noses and mucous. So I used it on Jane. After literally 100 tries a bloody lima bean revealed itself at the base of her nose. A few more sucks and it was out. SO GROSS. I know, but know I think it is pretty funny. KIDS!

It's all about Pooh

My child is being introduced to potty training. She has been telling me for months now when she goes in her diaper. However, if she is unable to understand the concept of using the toilet, why try? So lately I have felt like maybe she could give it a try, so I bought her a toilet, bribery candy, and we have been talking and talking about it. The result is this: she does not want to do it, but everything in her life has now become related to potty talk. I bought some shampoo to use on her hair now instead of just baby soap. She will only call it hair poo. Any dirt, smudge, fuzzy, garbage, leaves, etc. that she sees that is any shade of brown in also called pooh. Then the one that really makes us laugh is when we let her get in the hot tub. She gets in and starts to wander around on the step until she freezes and runs back... during this fit she is screaming water farts, water farts! It took us a little time to figure out that she was not farting in the water, but that she thought the water was farting on her. Turns out that what she was afraid of and calling water farts were the jets blowing water and air on her! I bet every family has funny potty training stories.

Jane's Birthday

Jane is 2!!!!! We cannot believe how fast time goes. She seems like a little girl to us now, no longer a baby. We threw a little party over at my parents house and Jane definitely knew that it was a special day for her. Notice the ponytail actually staying in. I learned a low one holds better than a high one.
I really feel like a family now. Having two kids demands all of my attention, I am out numbered now. Having just one kid is like bringing a buddy around with you wherever you go, but 2 seems like I am more of a mom with more responsibility. I am sure happy to have such beautiful and healthy girls.

Birthday cake

A little confusion between sandbox toys and eating utensils