Spray Paint Art

One morning I was looking for something fun for the girls to do. So we filled up some spray bottles with paint, water and soap (just enough to not clog). Hung up larger pieces of paper on the side wall of our yard and let them spray away.

This is what the finished product looks like.

Below is what you would expect to happen when you give a one year old a spray bottle with paint in it. She sprayed Rachel and Rachel was not happy. Thankfully, it washed right out.

New Favorite Photo of the Girls

1st Family Hike

March 26th we went to Red Rock for a hike and took the girls with us. They did great! We did the Children's Discovery Trail that ends at a seasonal waterfall. Lucky for us it had just rained and the mountains still had snow, thus we had a small waterfall. The girls climbed behind it and Rachel even touched the falling water. Another family from my MOMS Club joined us and that made it more fun for Rachel to have a friend to hike with. At some points during the hike you have to climb up rocks and down them and we had to tell the girls to stop holding hands or we were going to see a domino effect as they pushed each other off the rocks. This is certainly something we need to do more of. One of these days we'll have another free Saturday.

Who needs a growth chart?

I do actually have a growth chart. It's sitting under the bathroom counter in the girls bathroom waiting to be put up. We've had it for at least 2 years now. But who needs it when you have stairs?

Feb. 2010

April 2011

This time Rachel actually noticed that my knees were bent and tried to push them down.
All I have to say is ouch!

New Nightgowns

My grandmom, grams, made my girls matching nightgowns. They love them! And they look so cute in them I had to snap a couple pictures.

Rachel, loves nightgowns! Ever since Grandma Wendy made a few nightgown/play dresses for the summer she doesn't wasn't to wear anything else to bed. Grandma Donna made things even worse with a Disney Princess Nightgown that we're constantly having to take off of her because she randomly puts it on over top of her clothes. Now that she has a second set

that fit right now she's in Heaven. Especially, since she and Ashley can match. I did a quick hem on the newest nightgown since she spends half of her time playing it. These jammies have cats on them and they are all of a sudden her favorite animal. She makes me laugh.

Ashley is my sleeper. You mention bed and she's running up the stairs. She enjoys everything that goes along with her bed. Bath, Brushing teeth, Troy (her bear), Paci, Jammies, and Books. But even more than sleep she likes doing everything her big sister does. When she saw Rachel put on her new nightgown and saw that she had one too she was so excited she literally jumpe

d up and down to put it on.

2 month update?

WOW! I can't believe its been that long. January was pretty uneventful (I spent most of it trying, in vain, to catch up on my scrapbooks), but February has been jam packed with visits. I'm using smilebox bc its the fastest way to upload a bazillon photos.

First we went to Houston for our "Christmas" trip. Christmas was when we wanted to go but found an amazing deal of 1/2 price tickets if we waited, so we waited and went out for Valentines. Rachel must remember Grandma Donna and Pop-pop's house because she didn't miss a beat. It was funny, while we were on our way if anyone asked her where she was going she'd tell them and then add, "because they miss their little girl. But when I get there they will be happy!" It took Ashley some time to adjust to having "strangers" around, especially when they wanted to touch her. She learned to say bird thanks to Sky my parents parakeet. Surprise, Surprise, Mike was able to make the trip with us! Thanks to my parents for watching the girls while Mike and I celebrated Valentines. We went to Saltgrass for a steak dinner that was yummy and then went to the House of Blues to see Plain White T's play where my sister and her date joined us for a very enjoyable concert, especially since none of us listen to them! Well okay Mike has a little, but it was still a good concert and we only knew 3 songs between the 4 of us.

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Not too soon after we got home we got a phone call from some friends of ours from LA wondering if they could come out for spring break. Could we say no? Well yeah we could have, but that would never happen! So the next Monday our friends Anna and Kyle Johnson came out with their 3 kiddos for a few days. Not too many pictures were taken since this was there vacation and not ours. They turned us on to a new game called Pandemic, the kids had their first sleepover, and just had a blast having friends around all the time. The first night we went to put the kids to bed, Anna was singing them a bedtime song and so I joined her and Rachel turned to me and asked me to stop singing. Then a minute later she says, "Mom, you can leave now." Okay big shot, I get a hint. After nap time the day they left she was still asking where they were. She's even asked where her prince (their son) is when she's pretending to be a princess. I just keep telling her someday your prince will come. I hope it's a long time from now. I'm not ready for that.

Snow

Yes it actually snowed in Vegas and I have proof.

After much persuasion and patience the girls finally decided to go out in the snow just before the snow all melted.

First they had to clean off the snow that gathered on the picnic table.

It was no longer snowing, but that didn't stop Rachel from trying to catch snow on her tongue.

The snow started melting as soon as it stopped snowing, but it was still a nice change from just rain.