Hand in Hand

Here is a painting Adrianna and I made this past weekend outlining our hands.  I painted hers in green (her favorite color), and she painted mine in blue (my favorite color).  I really liked the outcome so I thought I would share it.  Maybe someone can make an award winning poster of this!

Valentines Pancakes

 

Feb 14th, 2009

For Valentine’s Day morning we made Valentine shaped pancakes. We have just about every shape of pancake molds imaginable and the girls love pancakes so this is a fun treat that we enjoy.  Topped with some homemade raspberry jam and whipped cream, these were more like dessert than breakfast.  I don’t think I heard any complaints though!

Why do you have kids?

My parents used to joke with us that the reason they had us was so that we could do chores around the house. At least I thought they were joking until Adrianna and Alicia took up laundry in our house. Though a front loading washer and dryer may be too low without the ($200 each) pedestals for an adult back, they are the perfect height for little ones to switch-out laundry from. All Sarah has to do is start the load and fold the load. They have even mastered the button pushing on the dryer. And the best thing is: at this age they love it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roller Coaster Crazies!

Alicia Go!

Every little girl and boy needs a roller coaster in their basement.  The girls and I played in the basement this day after Christmas trying to burn off some energy and calories from all the Christmas goodies we’ve been enjoying.  Here is a cute video of Alicia riding the roller coaster.  I love her smile at the end, and her sister rooting her on in the background: “Alicia go!”

Christmas Morning!

Coming down for Christmas morning was a magical moment with the girls. They were both very excited, and it was after 9:00 A.M. so mommy and daddy were awake and rested. Adrianna was especially excited and Alicia followed her lead. All of us enjoyed unwrapping our gifts, and watching them enjoy the moment!

Cousin Bobby came over and we enjoyed a deliciously late breakfast of Pain Perdu (Stuffed French Toast), made with Egg Nog. Yummy! After that we just relaxed, played with the new toys, including a new Wii game, and enjoyed munching on various snacks!

Our Christmas Tree

This is one of three Christmas trees. The girls have loved playing the musical ornaments and looking at themselves in the Christmas balls. They especially enjoyed getting the gifts from under the tree this morning!

…to all a Goodnight!

From our family to yours, we want to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas Day!

Reading to Sister

Adrianna and Alicia love to read at night. They love to read to each other. Usually they each have to have their own book or it can get rather unruly. But for the most part we enjoy our evening ritual of a book before bedtime. I especially love how Alicia will snuggle down into Adrianna’s bed as if she were going to sleep there!

Santa

As you can imagine Adrianna is very excited about Christmas, and though she will tell you that Christmas is when we celebrate Christ’s birth, she is very excited about Santa Claus. Santa was at the store the other day so we got the girls ready to go see him. We kept it a surprise for Adrianna, since she has been asking about him since Halloween we thought she would be so excited to see him. Unfortunately when we saw him Adrianna didn’t want anything to do with him, she isn’t the best with surprises. After a lap around the store she was ready to see Santa and tell him what she wanted. Alicia on the other hand did not want anything to do with Santa, though she did let us get close as long as I was holding her. It wasn’t quite the picture perfect visit we had imagined, but it was much better than waiting hours at the mall or some other contrived experience.

What do you think Adrianna asked Santa for this Christmas? Well, Sarah’s cousin Bobby convinced her some time ago that if she could ask Santa for something she should ask for a pony. A big pony that she could ride. (He owes us for this one!) So, when Adrianna built up the courage to talk to Santa, she asked for a pony; specifically a pony that she could ride. Santa just laughed and smiled! Hopefully she’ll settle for a pony ride from her cousin on Christmas day.

Recipe Blog

Sarah and I love to cook, and eat what we cook! We have been blessed with two girls who are both great eaters and who will pretty much try and eat anything. I thought I would start a food blog as a fun way to share our joy of cooking. Check it out, let me know what you think. In keeping with the theme it is called Penguin Treats. And no we do not eat penguins! Though we may eat an occasional cake or other yummy morsel in the shape of one.

Bon appétit!

P.S. - I would love to have others share their recipes as well, many of our favorite recipes have come from sharing. If you are interested in publishing your own recipes on this blog I'd be glad to add you as an author, just post a comment here or on the new blog and I'll follow up with you.

Brrrrr!!!

We have had some frigid temperatures here lately along with a bit of snow. I personally enjoy the very winter like weather, especially snuggling up with my girls. We are all hoping that we can have a White Christmas with some snow on the ground. Here are some pictures I took Sunday morning.

Adrianna's photo shoot.

In October we had my sister take some pictures of Adrianna for her 4 year old pictures. We would have taken these closer to her birthday but we had a few haircut mishaps, that we do not discuss. Anyway, here are a few of my favorites. Thank you Tamera!

Field Trip

November 19th, 2008

Adrianna's preschool class went for a field trip to Whole Foods last month. It was very exciting because they got to ride on the bus. It was all very exciting, and she still talks about going on the field trip. Adrianna was not shy at all about asking for samples. After the trip they went back to the classroom where they enjoyed snacks. I love Adrianna's smerk as she makes herself a peanut butter cracker!

Pics around the lake

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the Broadmoor outing.

Around Broadmoor Lake

 

We went over to the Broadmoor today to take some pictures of the girls for our Christmas cards. The girls had a great time watching the geese. Though Adrianna did not want to get too close after Sarah said that they bite. Good one Mom! I thought I would post this picture of Alicia just to let you know that I have not given up on blogging, just been really busy this month.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too!

Our girls dressed as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger for Halloween. At first Alicia didn’t like her outfit, but once she realized that she could take it off and snuggle with Tigger she grew quite fond of it.  She now gets to have Tigger in her dress-up clothes to enjoy whenever she wants to feel tiggerific!  Adrianna nearly outgrew her Pooh outfit, but she willingly squeezed into to it to eat candy!  They were both very cute, but if you know our girls you also know their personalities match their sister’s costume.  Adrianna is very much a bouncety, bouncety, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun girl; while, Alicia is much more thoughtful, and reserved, and willing to do anything for honey (food)!  We had a lot of fun this Halloween and we are ready to enjoy the rest of the upcoming holiday season!

   

Happy Halloween

We want to wish everyone a fun and Happy Evening of Trick-or-Treating, or whatever else you will be doing tonight!  Adrianna is very excited to go trick-or-treating, as she has now realized that she gets to dress up and go around asking people for candy and they will give it to her!  Last night we carved these pumpkins with cousin Bobby and she had a blast pulling out the “Pumpkin Brains”.  Alicia enjoyed watching and trying to help scoop, and eating popcorn.  Bobby did a great job helping Adrianna carve her pumpkin (the one on the right).

Dresses

With cute girls come lots of cute dresses. Adrianna is growing so fast that she has outgrown some of her dresses without wearing them much. So we try our best to take pictures of them in their dresses every chance we get. The negative side effect of this picture taking is that every time you pull out a camera Alicia starts saying “cheese”, and puts on her cheesy grin! Luckily we got one of her natural smile as well.  So here they are in dresses that their Grandmother gave them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you Mom for the dresses!

 

Cute, cute, cute!

 

Is it any wonder why she has me so increadibly wrapped?

Playing with friends

Adrianna and Alicia had a blast playing with their friends during our trip to New Mexico. Thank you to Tyler & Ashlyn for being such wonderful hosts, especially Tyler for taking care of Alicia. Adrianna especially enjoyed dressing up as a soldier. Alicia really enjoyed pushing around Patches in the baby stroller, and being pushed around herself in the baby stroller. We all had a great time watching them play together, we didn't have such a great time getting them to sleep at night. All in all it was a really nice trip.