Where do these stairs lead?

NO WHERE! Ok, I am not climbing stairs but I don't know how else to describe those elliptical machines. I guess it is in between climbing stairs and walking -shoot I don't know but I do know that I so dislike that machine in our basement! Not b/c it is taking up what could be valuable floor space (which it is) but b/c I just don't like that sort of work out.

Truth be told I really don't like ANY workout but... Want to hear something funny? I HAD TO HAVE IT! It is 3 1/2 years old and I might have a few hours on it but I HAD TO HAVE IT RIGHT AWAY! Now that I do I wish it would disappear and a treadmill would appear but it seems that won't be happening so for now I have to ignore how much I don't like it and deal with the fact it is the only exercise I will be getting until it starts to cool down and I can get out and walk with the girls - living in NC that could be November. Saturday I managed to stay on it for 6 minutes, not b/c I was completely out of breath and dying but b/c it is the most boring thing EVER and it felt like I had been doing it for hours! Sunday I did better b/c Snapped was on so I made it 12 minutes until I called it quits. Maybe I should have brought a cupcake down there to eat while I was doing it to make it more appealing :) I am hoping to bring it up to 20 minutes tonight - baby steps you know? At this rate I will have this baby weight off some time around my 40th birthday in 2 years :)

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There you sit taunting me

I have the strength to walk by you, maybe. It was almost as if I was in a daze last night in the kitchen mixing, filling, and frosting. Why? Why do I do this to myself? The scale and I are far from being on friendly terms with each other. My clothing sits lonely in their drawers and hanging in our closet. Yet in a moment of weakness there I was hand in hand with the enemy and happy. Now the day after I am faced with 22 more enemies. Part of me wants to open the trash and throw them in but I know I won't, I know myself too well. There are 2 little girls BEGGING to help me eat them and after lunch I will let them have 1 - but what will happen to the rest?

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Why doesn't it just rain

and get it over with! It will rain a little and then quit. I heard that "Danny" would be bringing us a bunch of rain and it has looked like it has wanted to all day but nothing worth writing about. It really makes planning things tough. Our big Friday was food shopping for the month at Walmart and then I have been keeping the girls busy after their "naps" this afternoon coloring and putting together puzzles. I write it that way b/c they just stayed in their rooms today and did not sleep. Bummer for mama :( Ruby is sleeping right now and the kids are doing their moves in the living room so I do have a few minutes - not uninterrupted but enough to shower and blog. I was out there and they were showing me some real good ones - camera came out so the moves stop but like I said they are out there doing more now. I have ruined them and took far more photos of them than a mama should :) This morning to my surprise they were cutting a rug to Miley Cyrus (on the Today Show), yes that is correct - THE Hannah Montana. Before going on our Tour the girls didn't know who this was but now they also know who the Jonas Brothers are AND have got a glimpse of High School Musical. Neither girl shows any interest in movies with real people in them yet but it is coming I am afraid. Once it will happen to Piper Violet will be right behind. Piper is really into Cinderella right now so maybe I have some time :) I want my babes to stay babes for as long as I can :)

They have been wearing "ballerina" clothes all week. I thought we would be going to Walmart with Violet wearing hers today but she decided at the last minute to wear her regular clothes. We came home and they both immediately put them back on though :)

For any bloggers that might stop by did you see the giveaway I posted about this morning. OMGosh - go and enter!

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Teachers Pet Cardi, Simple Tee and Poppy Skirt GIVEAWAY!!!!

You must go and check this out! Tell me how adorable Piper would be in this - then Violet, and finally in 3 years (smiling) our Ruby? Enter!
Teachers Pet Cardi, Simple Tee and Poppy Skirt GIVEAWAY!!!!

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The Girl's Room - A work in progress

Our girls have been in their room since January but it is still a work in progress as is everything else in our lives :) We threw 2 twins on the floor and that is what they have been sleeping on. When we got back from our Summer Tour I separated the beds and moved them away from the walls since I don't worry that they will fall out anymore. Today though was a big day. Today we let them pick out their own beds. A lady here paints and embellishes old beds so we went down to her shop and each girl picked one out. We are hoping they will be done next week sometime. How exciting huh? Next they will get to pick out their bedding and then, could it be (???), their big girl room will be done. Really? A room will be done in our home? Oh wait, they still don't have curtains or a curtain rod, I knew it was too good to be true :) Someday it will all be done and they will love it and we will have loved doing it for them!

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Beauty

I have such mama goggles :) Sometimes I look at Piper and she is just so beautiful she will take my breath away (then there are other days...). Ballet will start again in a few weeks and she is totally ready for it! When we asked her if she wanted to do another activity or do ballet again she didn't even hesitate to answer. We signed her up last week. This is not her outfit for class but she was more than happy to wear it and let me take some shots of her with her new shoes b/c she has outgrown her old ones. Typical Zoo girl that she is won't smile at mama anymore when she is holding a camera but I just love the way these turned out anyway.

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Classy little lasses

The other day we were sitting at the kitchen table eating and an enormous belch came from Piper. "Oh dear" I thought, "she is going to be in school in just a few short weeks, what is she going to do there?!!" My daughters don't know how to do anything quietly (if you know what I mean). Thankfully (or at least) they will say "Excuse me" if some sort of noise comes out of them. Matt laughed at my task for the next few weeks of unlearning this "normal" behavior. I am in trouble and will no doubt have some embarrassing conversations with teachers ahead of me. *blushing*

As usual what starts out as me trying to take their picture...

ultimately ends in this :) They know their faces won't stay that way, don't judge us :)

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