Mother's Day

So Mother's Day is over and I hope that all of the mama's that read my blog had a good one. Here are the girls from yesterday.

We had breakfast at Bob Evans and then ran some errands. While the girls and Matt slept I snuck out and hit Goodwill and Lowe's for some more flowers. Violet is cutting all 4 of her pointy teeth (fangs ??) and has been up and nursing all night long AGAIN! I wonder if that baby will ever sleep through the night, come on baby - mama's tired!



It's funny how I don't notice that we have spider webs on our roses (is that why they are so thin?) until I see a picture of them. How could I miss that when I am watering?

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Wordless Wednesday - 1st visit to the dentist!!

I couldn't get her to look at the camera to save my life but here she is, big girl going to the dentist! She did fabulous and even told the hygienist that she was going to get "the bugs cleaned" off her teeth. Go Piper!

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Pigtails

Lately Piper has been asking for me to put pigtails in her hair. I finally asked her why she wanted them so often and she told me that it was because "Daddy likes them". Today she asked for pigtails for herself and for baby Violet - aren't they SWEET?(!!)

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To the big city we go :)

Yesterday the girls and I went to the city to have some lunch with our good friends Shawna and Amber. We got to ride the trolley (bus that looks like a trolley) to the restaurant and then got to watch the train come and go from the restaurant. It took Piper a bit to warm up but once she is warm watch out b/c she'll talk your ear off, which she did to Shawna on our walk back to their office. Now Violet on the other hand is a challenge b/c of her temper and she is also very clingy with me right now so that doesn't help. I so wanted her to be outgoing yesterday but she is a mama's girl right now that is for sure. Anyway, we had a ball and hope to do it again sometime soon. Afterwards we headed to a mall so I could return some items and they got a double treat - a carousel ride. Piper rode on a bench and Violet on a mermaid horse. It was fun that is for sure. We ended the day with Megan coming for supper which both girls love. It was a very good day, but mama is TIRED OUT!

Hopefully I will actually get a Wordless Wednesday post out today, I have been slack with the camera this week.

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Busy with contests

The past few days my nights have consisted of watching the few shows that I am addicted to (LOVED the past Lost episode!!) and entering as many of the Bloggy Giveaway contests that interested me. There were more than 800 blogs offering prizes, I no where near entered them all only the ones that I thought our family (me) would enjoy the most. Keep your fingers crossed that we get a package :)

The last few days have been HOT to say the least. The kids have been outside almost all day. Between the swing set and our big deck they have been tired girlies at night time. Now if Violet would just SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT we would be all set. I have been playing with my camera again and trying my best to keep it out of auto mode but it is hard when you have 2 fast moving kiddos running every which way. Oh, how I love auto mode :) Anyway, this morning the girls sat outside and played with their playdoh while I played with my camera and drank my cup of coffee. Aren't they sweet :) I totally screwed around with these photos and I am not sure that I like what the end result is...will have to learn more about "fixing" photos.

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Wordless Wednesday - Piper's Tricycle

Late last week Piper learned how to pedal AND steer at the same time- there is no stopping her now!

More WW can be found at 5 Minutes for Mom :)

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Is it summer yet?

Technically no but it is darn close. Sure it may get cool again but I am hoping that the real cold stuff stays away now until winter. The kids were bored today so I dug out the water table that we LOVE over here. Notice the time that I am sitting down writing this blog, the kids have been asleep for a half hour :) Violet's nose is running like crazy, most of the pictures have snot in them b/c of this. I swear she is cutting teeth but I can't figure out which ones.

Then I decided to try and get one of them together, that NEVER works out for me. This picture is is far from being phenomenal but it will get printed out for the fridge b/c I haven't got one of them together since last year! Girls, girls, girls - you're killing me!



I realized that I still haven't taken pictures of the flower bed that I did last week, maybe tomorrow. We are hosting a little playgroup over here so I might have the camera out there by the play area some time or another. All of us girls are missing Daddy :( Love you baby!

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