Chalk Art

We had Sarah's cousin Bobby over for dinner the other day. The girls always love when he comes over. This time it was nice enough to go outside to play and Adrianna had been dying to use her sidewalk chalk. Bobby showed her the fine art of body outlines. They had fun drawing outlines and other art on the patio. Alicia even had fun opening and closing the door, and playing in the play house.

Pizza Picnic

We started a tradition of late night dinners in bed with Adrianna when I was in school and would get out of class around 11 p.m. Now we reserve eating in bed to special pizza nights. We usually pick up a pizza at Little Ceasars, we make Root Beer floats, we cover the bed with a sheet, throw in a movie and enjoy! The girls love it, though Alicia usually bounces around more than she eats. It makes for a fun and exciting picnic!

8 Year Anniversary

Sarah and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary this week on the 22nd. I took the afternoon off and we went to lunch and a movie with everyone. Lunch at Olive Garden was nice and then we went to see Nim's Island at the dollar theater. Adrianna enjoyed the movie, Sarah and I tried our best at taking turns entertaining Alicia. Popcorn worked well, until she dumped it on the floor and tried to eat it from there.

We kept our Anniversary simple this year, we are enjoying our girls very much and neither of us could ask for anything more than to enjoy spending time as a family.

Tithing Lesson

We had my parents over for dinner on Sunday. Adrianna loves to have company over, especially her grandparents! Alicia didn't mind the extra arms to hold her either.
After dinner we had granddad teach a quick lesson on tithing. Adrianna's sunday school class was on tithing so we hoped to reinforce the lesson. When Adrianna learned that we are supposed to give back 1 out of 10 pennies of our income she had second thoughts. "My penny!" Given a choice between the one penny or the nine remaining she easily chose the 9. Adrianna is quite possessive of her pennies.

Dresses

We thought it would be cute to take pictures of the girls in their matching dresses. These were their Easter dresses for this year and they are so darling in them. Well, Alicia is pushing out several of her top teeth and she wants to be held non stop, especially when she is tired. As you can see in the bottom picture, she was not happy when we put her down to take a picture with her sister. She did fine when I held her!

As you can imagine she was quite a treat during church, she loudly expressed her opinion when mommy put her down to give her arms a break. I lucked out as I was asked to help out in one of the primary classes.

Sketti Face - Happy Face

The other day we had spaghetti, so we stripped Alicia down to her diaper and let her have at it. She love it, stuffing handfulls into her mouth and smearing her face with sauce. Adrianna told us that Alicia had a sketti face, afterwhich she said "sketti face is a happy face."

Alicia was perfectly happy with her sketti face until we had to clean her off. We thought about taking her whole chair outside and hosing her off, but we decided the sink would be a little more hospitable. Though she put up a fight at first, she had a great time splashing me from the sink.

Nacho night

July 8th, 2008

To celebrate Adrianna's "big girl" hair cut (she had about 4 inches cut from the back), we enjoyed some homemade nachos. Sarah has a wonderful recipe for nachos piled high with cheese, meat, tomatoes, green onions, olives, and sour cream. After dinner we enjoyed some banana slices (since the bananas are sliced we can't call them banana splits). Adrianna enjoyed everything so much she insisted on giving everyone high fives, which she exclaims: "give me five hands!!!"

Drum Corps

The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, have been practicing at the local high school for the past few nights. On Saturday morning Sarah and I woke up to their instrument tunning. We decided to take advantage of the cooler day and we walked down with the girls to watch some of their practice. Adrianna was absolutely amazed, we think that is partly because the Madison Scouts are an all boy corps. She loved the beat of the drums, the marching, and the "horns" and trumpets as she called them. Alicia wasn't so thrilled, she did not enjoy the noise as much, espeically the sharp chirp of the metronome. We really enjoyed watching them, next year we are going to plan on going to the competition they have in Denver.

Adrianna loved it so much that she insisted on going down Sunday also where they were practicing again before heading out to Albuquerque. Lets go see the "horns" daddy!

4th of July Weekend

This Fourth of July we spent most of the weekend with Sarah's cousins who were in town to celebrate her Aunt Carol's birthday.

On Friday we enjoyed homemade pizzas at her Aunt's house with her children and grandchildren. Aunt Carol has 14 grandchildren ranging from 3 to 17 years old. Adrianna was dreadfully shy at first but after about an hour she was running around with the gang hunting grasshoppers and enjoying each other. Alicia enjoyed the attention as she was the youngest little one there (and the cutest, in my opinion).

On Saturday we went to Bear Creek park to celebrate Aunt Carol's birthday. We were joined there by more of Sarah's cousins. We had a great time playing at the park with all of the kids. Alicia learned to enjoy the slide with some help from her cousins. She went from being deathly afraid to go down the slide with me to not being able to get her away from the slide before the evening was through. All of us had a lot of fun, thank you to everyone for inviting us.

New Blog Design

I decided to make some changes to our blog design, I found this template and fell in love with the picture of the girl in the header. It reminded me of Alicia at first glance. I hope everyone finds the new layout appealing.

Luau Birthday Party

Adrianna was invited to a friend's (Morgan's) birthday party to kick off our long 4th of July weekend. It was a "luau" party with several fun backyard water activities. Adrianna especially enjoyed the pool and the trampoline. I even got involved with the water gun fight. We all had a good time even though Alicia did not appreciate missing her morning nap. She did enjoy the cake and ice cream though! Thank you Morgan for inviting us!!