Happy Valentines!!

Three Silly Kiddos!!

After my last few sessions the kids have come down to the studio to play. I thought the sequences were too funny not to share! Love you and miss you all!

** Dont miss Kayts "rock band" series towards the end of the video. It starts with an "Rock Star!", air guitar, then drums, then paino, "oh yeah", "Oh Yeah", sing your heart out, sing your heart out... And POSE! lol. She did this all by herself and only let me take one shot then moved to the next thing. It was too funny. I love my kiddos!




And can I just say... WHEN DID MY BABIES GET SO BIG!??

Halloween

Ok, kayt was strawberry shortcake (short-kayt!) and Jaylee was Rapunzel. :-) Linc was a lemur and Jacelyn (neighbor girl) was punky kitty. :-)

Quickie of current pics!

Sorry all my words are at the end, and I dont want to re-type them. :-)

Goodnight!

This is just a super quick post so family can see how big my kiddos are. When I downloaded these pics off my trusty point and shoot. (THANKS TIFF!) I myself couldn't believe how big my kids are! Seriously!?? So I know my family should get a kick out of seeing them. Cannot wait to see you all soon!

Oh, and Linc was a Lemur (sp?) for halloween. This is Jayo just in a cheap costume I bought at the same time for the dress up bin. Her crazy wild run pretty much sums her up right now. Crazy and totaly cute!

And kayt is still my dare-devil. She is learning sooo much at school!

And of course my little man is growing so fast! he is really catching up to jaylee. They are only 20 months apart though.. They are finally figuring out how to get along without kayt around all day. I think they are going to be great little friends.

And then there is a random pic of my cupcakes I made for my party. I took other pics, but i guess they didn't download... And then the not so cute pumpkin carving pic. I am adding this because this is the one I couldn't believe how big linc is! :-( Stop growing so fast!!!

We Released a Monster! :-)

So last night my little boy became a man... Or maybe my baby became a boy, either way it seems to have multiplied his "boy energy!" he now goes 1000 MPH all the time! lol.

What did we do you say??

Well we took this sweet little face....

Can you see the super cool gate there by the stairs? Yeah, my AWESOME husband whipped that up in like 30 min for me! What a Stud huh!?? Now you know where Linc gets his awesomeness from! ;-)

And Turned him from shabby curly hair baby to a short hair stud!

And just to show you how cute he is from behind as well!

I just love this little guy!

Sorry for the lack of blogging, much more to come, including this little man's b-day. (yes he turned 1 already!!)

I just had to share this fun milestone!

Enjoy!

Tradition!

Well I know valentines was over a week ago, but I wanted to share the story of this fun tradition!

As long as I have remembered my dad has been my Secret Valentine.

Every Valentines morning we would wake up to find in the main room of the house a row of balloons, all held down under a stuffed animal, box of chocolate and a very special valentines card. Not only did it look cute, taste good and provide hours of play, but my dad took that opportunity to tell each of us how much he loved us and the things he is proud of us for doing over the last year. I LOVE these letters!

I also remember a year or two when my dad would make a Late Late night, (or early morning) run to the local mini-mart for his Valentines surprises, we would hear his car get home, and the rustle of balloons, and know he was at it again! Sometimes it felt like Christmas and I could hardly wait to go and see the fun display and read my card while munching on some yummy treats!

When Jim and I were first married and both working. I happened to have valentines day off and while I was planning busy preparing dinner for our first valentines, I was secretly missing home and my dads little tradition.

But Never fear! The Fed-Ex truck is here! The driver handed me a box from my dad.

I was so excited i opened it up to find tucked inside a real helium balloon that floated to the ceiling! And a big bag of candies, a chocolate rose, two small teddy bears and two love letters. One to me, and one to my new husband. Needless to say the tears of joy were plentiful. :-)

And every-year since my dad continues his fun tradition even though we are far away the girls (and now linc) get their box of Tradition each valentines day!

AND just because it meant so much to me, I am also doing the same for my family, it is my turn to sneak around and place the balloons and treats just right and take that chance to tell each person how much I love them!

So once again, THANKS Dad! Your the best!

And Baby (Jim) Your the best too! (he himself has become a very talented love letter writer and I am blessed with his words of love and encouragement several times throughout the year.) I always tell him and mean it when I say it is the best gift he can give me!

Here are a few pics for you to enjoy!

Yes, the M&M's are for me, from me, and yes I did eat them all. ;-)

This will be the closest thing the girls will ever get to a real kitty, so hope they enjoy!

Just barely awake and mom is snappin' pics!

Doesn't Jim look excited! lol. (I had to wake him up too!)

And These little beauties are the cookies Kayt made of me and Jim. he is on the left, (notice the hairy uni-brow) and I am on the right with EYELASHES! lol. I just LOVED these little cookies, although the fun new sprinkles I just had to try because I bought them in Australia last year and haven't used them ended up looking more like hairy cookies to me, but oh well!


Yummy!

Hope you all had an equally SWEET Valentines!

Dont forget to tell those you Love just that, and you dont have to wait till next Valentines either.

10 months Today!

Well my little buddy is 10 months today!

And as you know already from the previous post, he has been "walking" from object to object around the house for a little while now, but today on his 10 month anniversary, he is WALKING.

Right when he woke up the little goodie went to the window (he cannot stand up without pulling up on something.) but he started at the front window, then walked through the family room, through the kitchen and to the back door, all the while ringing the jingle bells that were left out from Christmas.

So no, the kid doesn't toot his own horn, but he does ring his own bell! lol.

And here are a few snaps I took of him a few weeks back.

Love you Buddy! Now stop growin up sooo fast!

~Mom

The Not so Terrible. . . .

Jaylee is Two.

I could probably leave this post right now and most of you would understand.

But it is much more fun to go into the details of just how TWO she really is!

She is independent, yet always needs something.

She refuses naps, yet cannot stay awake through dinner,

She has the cutest little high pitched, nanny goat voice;

which when turns to a whine, is like nails on a chalk board.

She wants to be big like mommy by wearing my shoes, make-up and oddly my deodorant.

(dont worry, we leave the cap on. lol.)

But she is perfectly aware that she is cute and "wittle" (little)

"Mommy, I hurt my Wittle knee!" "Mommy I have frosting on my Wittle nose!"

"Mommy, my wittle hands are sticky!"

She LOVES her "Bubby" aka Lincoln. She tries to be his mommy and so he often is gifted with fun things like full ropes of licorice, jello jigglers the size of his hand, leftover "unicorn" suckers and the like.

She drives me crazy with her independence, and her picky-ness with her socks and the way they fit in her shoes. (I hear she gets this one from me.)

I really do LOVE my baby girl, and she completely melts my heart when I kiss her goodnight and she whispers in her "wittle" voice...."I wov you too Mommy."

Besides, she wont be two forever, so i will enjoy every little minute.