been far to long

soooooo so much has happened since my last post. i never was able to touch base on the fantastic pleva wedding of june 4th. lydia and jordan along with charlotte and sylvie were absolutely perfect. the rehearsal was awesome, the wedding was awesome, the dance recital was awesome. we had a blast and i wish we were able to have something that fun planned every year.

after the wedding came our trip to las vegas. JJ and I flew in late and had a fantastic time spending it together, gambling, seeing shows and experiencing all the fun stuff people do in vegas. the pool was awesome, service sucked but fun none the less.

in july we spent a sweltering day at the waukee 4th of july parade, hot hot hot. spent a little time at Rob and Jenn's with family before we had to take off and find awesome seats for fire works, enjoyed by all. the rest of july is a blur of penny pinching. we went to the pool with Liz Gehrke & annie johannah a couple of times, lots of fun there!

good bye baby :(

so i have been contemplating what to do with the twins and sleeping arrangements. i got a wild hair this afternoon and decided to take down the cribs. it really started by trying to take down the drop sides to create daybed toddler beds. when one wouldnt convert because i was missing a few pieces, it just had to come down. oh well. it only took 2 hours (LOL!) to get them (mostly Sylvie) to stop screaming. we shall see how long it takes tomorrow night and i'm also excited to see how early they will wake up in the morning and more importantly where they are sleeping!

a little ketchup please!

we have been busy having fun here and there since my last post. after a pretty tumultuous morning, we headed to VWM for a few things today during a big thunderstorm. we were able to play inside which was great, then home for a nap that would never be.
lydia is mommy's helper in the kitchen now days, great with quesedillas and now mac-n-cheese. soon, she'll be making us dinner!! so we had hamburgers, mac-n-cheese and fruit salad (watermelon, strawberries and blueberries) everyone at the table is quiet munching, gobbling down their yummy dinner. next thing i know, i see sylvie dipping her blueberries into her ketchup meant for her burger....EWWW! nasty baby!! meanwhile, charlotte does the same with her watermelon...ugh!!
lydia got to try out her new running shoes during our post dinner walk, we played red light green light all the way to the bike trail bridge and each street we crossed lydia asked if we were going much farther, not sure how deep into nature we would get.

100 degrees: summer is here!

today is the first day after the big wedding of my dear cousin Amy Lynn Webb. we thought we'd have a week to relax but oh no! dance camp started today 9-12! JJ took lydia to camp, then the twins and I went to the gym and then the grocery store rounding out the morning by picking up lydia. we went home had a light lunch and down for naps! while the twins slept, lydia and i played tea party with water and little debbies. the twins woke up a bit late so we piled into the car and went to the valley view aquatic center. i wasnt sure how it might work but decided it's not a good idea. charlotte has no fear! yikes! that kid was loving it! sylvie was a little more apprehensive but once she got comfortable she was all about the slide! i was mostly nervous about keeping all 3 alive! charlotte and sylvie split up from me and lydia at one point so after 45 minutes, we called it quits. hit the dairy queen drive thru for 2 dilly bars, a choc/hot fudge sundae for lydia and an oreo blizzard for me (yum, my fav!) check that off our to-do list! i need to find 2 swimsuits with built in floaties!

Zoo Day Part 2

we checked out the dinosaur exhibit and made mom want to go back to chicago! left the zoo and headed to the mall where we shopped and played all thru naptime until i had 3 logs being sawed in the car on the way home. everyone was good and listened to directions pretty well. we had a blast!

Zoo Day Part 1

we woke up today and decided that since summer is here, we need to get started doing summer stuff asap! while daddy slept from working the night before we headed to the zoo!!! we saw that otters, rode the train and fed goats. we checked out the monkies and watched the giraffes.

breaking news!!!

we have 2 very important developments to report from this past week!! lydia lost her 2nd tooth and tied her shoes for the first time!

we are so unbelieveably proud of her! today is memorial day and we spent the morning playing at the park. after naptime, we swam in our pool in the backyard and went to dinner at jasons deli. yummy!! we played a few minutes more when we got home and then off to bed!

we have a loooooong list of fun stuff we want to do this summer so we will get started asap since the summer has officially started!!! yay!