POTD Challenge 6/20-6/26/2010

Father's Day. I tried to convince myself that my girls didn't need new matching dress for Father's Day. The dresses won!


Christopher's Banana Bread recipe. It's the only one I use- I'm sure it's like your typical banana bread recipe but I love that it's in his handwriting and it's a recipe from him mission. We have a container full of recipes from his mission. Including crepes. Yum.

It's a family effort to get Addysen potty trained by the end of the summer. Elodie loves to sit in the bathroom and read to Addysen. Whatever works right?

Cuddling after an afternoon nap.

I cleaned out my "craft closet" and donated all of these pens and pencils to the church library. Who know's how we ended up with so many pencils!

Okay, no more potty pictures..after this one- I figured out that I could get Addysen to stay put on the potty for about 3 minutes as long as I had Justin Bieber's "Baby,Baby" playing on the laptop. She loves that song and really, it's pretty catchy! We all know the words now!

My manly man...

POTD Challenge 6/13-6/19/2010

Playing Go-Fish with dad...


To-Do List for the week. On top of my regular weekly chores, I try and accomplish a few "extra" things during the week. Most times I can't check everything off my list but I got 3 of my 5 things checked off.


We put hooks in our laundry room for all our swim stuff. We go to the pool 3 times a week so it was necessary!

Elodie putting together a 300 piece High School Musical Puzzle. I helped her for a bit but she did most of it by herself. It was a great quiet time activity while Addysen was napping.


I got to take newborn pictures for my cousin. Holy cuteness, and check out that hair! You can see more on my photography blog. Which needs some serious attention. I just need to hire someone to revamp my photo blog!


The girls making Father's Day tie cards at the library.


Lunch at Barro's-or what's left of it! We are regulars there..Never disappoints! Sorry to those who don't live in Az. You'll just have to come for a visit!

POTD Challenge 5/23-5/29/2010

My yummy bacon wrapped chicken skewers...so delish!


Family Home Evening at ColdStone...


Last Day making lunches...I was counting down the days!


Day before school let out I volunteered in the classroom-the last time in Elodie's kindergarten class! I wish I would have gotten a picture of me but I didn't think about it until I was getting ready to leave.


Kindergarten Grad...


First Day of Summer...


We took the girls to see Shrek...Addysen did great until the popcorn ran out!

POTD Challenge 4/18-4/4/24/2010

Sunday reading...and for the record, after church on Sunday is the only day I could care less what the girls wear...which is why Addysen is sporting that getup. I vividly remember Elodie at 2 being very persistent about what she wanted to wear. Addysen is following in Sister's footsteps on that end!


Kindergarten Bake Sale...


Figuring out the potty...I made the mistake of giving her a cookie to keep her on the potty...now she thinks everytime she sits on the potty she gets a treat! You'd think I knew better since this isn't my first go around!


Earth Day- Elodie had Thursday and Friday off for "April Break". We went out to the park behind our house and Elodie picked up a bunch of trash. She is very much aware of littering and can't understand why people would leave their trash on the ground. The whole time she was picking up trash she kept saying "Mom, there's a trash can RIGHT THERE!" I can't decide if I'm creating a conscious child or a snotty one. I tend to walk the line so she gets it honestly!


This is nothing new in our house but I'm glad I thought to take a picture...we have 3ice-cream scoopers and it's not unusual for all 3 of them to be in the dishwasher at the same time. We just love ice-cream! My latest favorite is chocolate with peanut butter cup..which is weird because for a long time I didn't really like the flavor of peanut butter and chocolate...and no, I'm not pregnant!


Another Hair-cut picture...this girl cracks me up!

POTD Challenge 4/11-4/17/2010

Addysen staked her claim on Elodie's old Care Bear suitcase. She pretty much carries it around everywhere she goes and insist on taking it with her when we go places. You should see the stuff she puts in there....a pack rat in the making...if that were even allowed in our house!


She wasn't up for a picture but this is what I mean by pack rat...she was upset because Chris and I weren't letting her take all this stuff with us when we went to lunch. Heartbroken!


Here you will find the Minnie Mouse Elodie got from our trip to Disneyland 2 years ago, an Easter bunny she got a couple of years ago from Grama and Papa Yarn, a brown bear that Uncle Caissy and Aunt Regina gave Elodie the year she turned one, and the ever important, can't sleep without Hello Kitty from her 5th Birthday party at Build-a-Bear Workshop.


I had to take the girls with me on a photoshoot. I was doing Chris' cousin, Taylre's, senior pictures and since she is family she didn't mind the tag alongs. I loaded the car with movies and popcorn and the girls were in heaven...up until the 2 hour mark when they insisted I be done! They are good troopers!


The beginning of spaghetti...I was making this the other night and it got me thinking about things I do that my mom does and I do them without knowing or bothering to ask why she did them. My mom always added carrots to her spaghetti. After Chris and I got married I did the same thing. It wasn't until a few years into our marriage that Chris' sister asked me why I did this. I didn't have an answer for her so I called my mom. Turns out she did it because she wanted to add more vegetables to her spaghetti. And all this time I was just doing it because she did it! That and because it taste good! I can't imagine our spaghetti without!


Park Tricks, she gets braver every time we go outside! Since this picture was taken she has started going down the big slide head first, on her back!


Elodie's last soccer game....

POTD Challenge 3/28-4/3/2010

PawPaw's Dress...

We got a nice surprise when a pink flower bloomed amid all the yellows ones.

Kindergarten Egg Hunt...

The reason I can never leave my job at Kohl's. 10 pairs of pants and 2 decorative sconces for $10. I saved like $175. I got Elodie 5 pairs of school pants for 1st grade and 5 pairs for 2nd grade. She's set for the next 2 years! Each pair was $1.90. With my discount and a $10 off coupon, I totally scored!

A stroller isn't just for babies at our house!

The girls Easter baskets...we had planned this really fun scavanger hunt for Elodie to find both baskets. What we didn't think about was her finding the last clue (which was tucked in the entertainment center of her tv) and going straight to the baskets from there. Bummer! Next year we will hide the clues AFTER she wakes up!

POTD Challenge 3/21-3/27/2010

School Book Fair- I so remember how excited I was over my own school's book fair! Elodie got to pick 3 books and she was over the moon about them!

Addysen found an easier way to get around on her tricycle. She thinks Elodie goes too fast though!

Home-made pizza night!

What was left on Monday of the chocolate cake I had made on Sunday....in our defense, we gave half of it to our friends Shane and Jaime!

The flowers we planted are blooming like CRAZY! And are so pretty!

Lots of outside play means lots of water!

Love this angle..

POTD 2/28-3/6/2010

The girls enjoying a Sunday snack...



Me...when I looked at this picture I noticed it looks like I have a bulging bicep. I may be doing a pump class but believe me, it's just my jacket bunching up!


It's been so beautiful here that as soon as Elodie gets home from school she does her homework immediately so she can go play outside. On Tuesday we decided to take her homework outside. She loved it!! She sat up at the top of the playground and did all of her homework up there!


Elodie and her sweet friend Emma. They pretty much play together every single day.


Waffle night...


Lunch with Grayce at Red Robin on their birthday...


I let the girls help me "decorate" Christopher's presents. We wrote sweet little messages all over the boxes. Elodie thought long and hard about what she wanted to write, Addysen just scribbled!