Rockin' Out

Both girls absolutely love music. Kayleigh likes to sing and Taylor likes to dance. Both of them love to make music. Kayleigh always loves to play with Daddy's guitars. He lets her play with this one and she thinks she is so cool.

My Birthday Party!

We spent my 29th birthday at the State Fair. My favorite people joined me, even the ones not so in love with the fair (thx Tuck and Josh). We were there all day and into the night. We enjoyed rides, fair food, animals, and our friends!
The Birthday Girl...

This ride was a hit! Me & Kaykay, Kristin & Nikki

Kayleigh was so bored on the "baby ride"

Oh yeah! Bring on the rollercoaster. Notice poor Taylor clutching to Gma Lisa for dear life in the seat behind us:)

Kaykay (my daredevil) loved this huge ferris wheel and spin rides

The Tuckers and The Freemans joined us. Rissy said she came for me, but I think it was the corndogs. Sweet baby GG.

Maggie & Gia...

Kayleigh suckered Gma Lisa into buying her this pink guitar. Both girls love it.

Then came the carmel apple. Taylor knew it was a little piece of heaven.

Kayleigh was completed disgusted by the cow milking. She did not like her hands wet and dirty. Kristin, on the other hand, loved the cow. I think she even got a tip afterwards.

April and her boyfriend Tommy. Michael and Taylor.

Kayleigh made a special tie dyed dress & Gma made one for Taylor.

Kaykay finished the night with some more fun rides with Gma Mona.

I had so so much fun. It was a really great day. It was the best way to spend the start of my last year in my 20s! Thank you everyone!!!

Happy Halloween!!

We had a spooktacular Halloween! We started the night with dinner and trick-or-treating a Uncle Jared and Auntie Carrie's house. Kayleigh was a beautiful angel and Taylor was a little devil. Taylor was so good for me doing her hair. I knew she would not wear horns, so I tried to make my own. The bow tie kind of reminded me of like a chip 'n dale dancer, but she still looked adorable. Kayleigh loved her beautiful gown, but refused to call her "crown" a halo. Addison was a sweet little lady bug and Uncle Jared was a tennis player. Their neighbor hood was great. Lots of kids, decorations, and fun neighbors.
This is how every picture turns out that we try to get of all three girls. Not the most cooperative bunch...

Jared and his little bug

This was before Taylor got her sucker...

Oh yeah, Addie finally got a hold of a horn!

We then ventured over to Gma Mona and Papa Joe's house. Baby monkey Gia was there with Uncle Mike and Auntie Maggie. The girls love all of Gma Mona's fun decoration. I really should have taken a picture of the outside of the house. It is full of lights, hanging things, witches, skeletons, ghost, and everything Halloween!

We had a bit more luck snapping a picture of the group this time...


One tired little monkey...

Kayleigh getting silly with the silly string


Yes, even angels have meltdowns...

Even Daddy showed some spirit for a brief moment

Kayleigh was up with a sugar high until 11pm!! Then woke up at 2:30am requesting I bring her some toys...don't think so babe! But not to worry, both girls were up by 7am! Happy Halloween, hope everyone had a great night!!

OMG!!

A SNAKE! SERIOUSLY, A SNAKE!
We were just getting back from the park when Josh stopped us from proceeding into the garage door leading into house. I was like, oh great our first scorpion. Oh no sir, a freakin' snake. Coiled up right by our garage fridge and door. Josh decided to try and "catch" it with two sticks. I called our bug guy and animal control with zero help, so decided to just yell, "don't catch it, just kill it!" So as Josh is like moving it around with two sticks, it manages to wiggle, no slither it's way into a crack in the wall and nuzzle under the baseboard. Josh still standing with his two sticks and me screaming to get a knife, gun, bomb, whatever to destroy this invader. Josh traps it with the sword/knife thing under the baseboard. Then he had to saw off the section of baseboard. The monster is still alive and is still trying to attack Josh. I am still screaming, "kill it now!" He bashes in the head a few times and we say our goodbyes. Yes that is blood. Josh was so sure it was poisonous blood he bleached the entire floor area. It's grotesque body contracted and contorted forever until we finally sealed up the box and threw it away. I wanted to burn it, but Josh said no. We think it may have been a Gopher Snake, which is harmless, but still way creepy!
Josh doing who knows exactly what with sticks and the snake escaping into the wall...

Finally we attack back with a blade...

What up now snake?

Pig Sty

We had a pig flu invasion this week! We were driving home from the cabin Sunday afternoon and the girls were fine one minute, the next minute were tired, whiny, and a little coughing started. By 4:30pm both girls were lethargic and passed out on the couch. My girls do not fall asleep easily. Especially when family is over and we were having pizza and wings. I knew this was more than tired from a busy weekend and they were getting sick. We put them to bed early, hoping they would be better in the morning but knowing it would probably get worse. First thing Monday morning we took them into the Doctor. Both girls tested positive for H1N1 and we started tamiflu. It was a rough day. The girls did not want to eat or really even move. Kayleigh had stomach aches and diarrhea, both girls were congested. If I put Taylor down to even use the restroom poor babe would cry and cough so hard she would throw up or gag. Tuesday morning Josh and I woke up feeling just as awful, went back to the dr, tested positive and we started Tamiflu. It was a long long week!!! It would not have been too bad just being sick, but trying to be sick parents to sick kids is really really hard. Kayleigh was getting back to herself by Friday. I think Taylor starting laughing and playing again Saturday night. Josh and I were pretty good by Monday. To say the girls were clingy would be an understatement. I had to keep changing my shirt every few hours, it was wet with snot, drool, and/or vomit. I love being a mom! I am so glad it is over and we are done with it and don't need to debate the vaccine. We survived the swine!
This is our only picture from the week. We were a scary looking group that did not need to be photographed!