The true story.. To all moms out there!!

I LOVE this!! I just died laughing when I saw this! SOOOOOO TRUE!!

My favorite part....

"Now you are Chuck E. Cheese and I am Dora Explorer."

Hahahahahahahaha

Just thinkin'

Today I have been thinking a lot about how the girls have grown and how big they are and how fast they are growing.

Its a little too fast in my opinion but I think I say that every time!

I decided I was going to do a comparison for myself and I cant believe what I have come up with!

It even surprised me...

A LOT!!

This is Riley at almost 2. Its the earliest picture I could come up with at this point. I have baby pictures printed but I don't know where the photo box is to find one to scan!

(This shirt Riley is wearing is a 12 month shirt... at almost 2 years old... Mak is wearing it already at 8 months!!)

(Oh, and the shorts she is wearing were 18 months she got them early because she has the (cutest) biggest pum. But she wore them into shorts until after her 3rd birthday! Finally her bum got way to big for even the stretchy and we had to retire them to a bag to wait for Mak.)

I just have a hard time comprehending that Riley went from that adorable little girl all happy in her pigtails... to THIS.......

An amazingly beautiful almost 4 yr old!

I honestly am having the hardest time with this!!! She has grown so so so much!

Now Makenna.

It is amazing how much a baby can grow in just 8 months!

From this amazingly sweet infant, someone who relies solely on others for her complete happiness but is content just to be held and comforted, to this....

To an 8month old that loves to crawl and pull herself up and dance. Independent but still very attached. Loving and cuddly but still very much wants to learn and explore. She can do just about anything that she wants to and I am afraid she is gonna start letting go of furniture too and get herself ready to walk! She is growing up so fast and I am missing my baby!

Now they can laugh and play together and both of them love each other very very much and it is such a blast to watch them laugh together!!

I cant wait to see them grow together and watch their relationship grow.

(that picture up top was supposed to go on the bottom but I messed it up and now its not working!)

Is it alright....

Is it alright that I just am so so sick of renting crappy apartments that I think would work out well for us then turn into a nightmare at every turn??

YES

Is it alright that I haven't had air conditioning in my house since last Thursday and no matter how many times I call no one is coming to fix it?????

NO

Is it alright that I had to foil up (ghetto-fy) every window in my house to keep as much sunlight as possible out of this place so that I didn't feel like I was in hell all day everyday??

Sure it is but its really annoying!

Is it alright that my kids have been in a constant sweat since last Thursday because no one is fixing the problems I have here???

NO it sure isn't!!!

I have been so so frustrated with our living arrangements since the second we moved in here and the problems just keep getting worse! I thought this move was gonna be a great one for us and I was really excited about it but it has just been a nightmare!!! I have spent A LOT of money trying to make my crappy situation feel like home but right now all I want to do is pack all of it in a box move it into storage and move somewhere where we can save up money so we can finally become homeowners. Then I can put the stuff in a permanent place. Make it really feel like home because it will be. I know being a homeowner comes with its own set of issues and financial responsibilities but I am so ready to take on whatever part of that I have to face!

I think people really need to rent out in the first couple years of marriage to really appreciate what being a homeowner means! People take it for granted!

Sorry for the venting session but I am at my breaking point!!!!

The eyes say it all

I guess my camera works pretty well when there is some natural light coming through my windows. I don't know there is still something weird about it. Even if its just on automatic setting. I really can't figure this thing out!

I take better pictures with my phone! Sad!

These eyes get me everyday!!!! I never could pin point the color of her eyes. If you ask her what color her eyes are she will tell you purple.

Shes cute!

Really though, there is some yellow some blue some green. Some days different colors stick out more depending on what she is wearing.

Dale a few weeks ago said something about her Hazel eyes....

THAT'S IT!

She has amazing Hazel eyes!

Since Mak was born her eyes kept going darker and darker. They started out a crazy blue color and slowly turned a little more green. The only thing is that in every picture that we take they always come out looking more brown. Her eyes are actually a gorgeous shade of green. Almost an olive green.
I keep thinking that maybe they will still keep changing but I haven't noticed any change in at least 2 months!

I always wanted babies with green and hazel eyes but I never thought it would happen.

Turns out green eyes run in both sides of the family

My girls got the luck I guess!!

My collection

Yesterday I took the girls and myself over to a friends house to learn how to make felt flower hair clippies and to let riley play a little!!
I was able to get the giraffe print and the yellow and black one done while I was there and had patterns. It was so fun!! I am so glad I have learned how to make these cute things!!

When I got home I wanted to make some more and I found a few traceable patterns online but of course my printer is out of ink! But while I was looking a saw a picture of cute bow-tie looking clips and cute circles with initials on them! I hand traced the bow tie in two different sizes to make the cute black and white ones with my own special touch and of course a circle isn't too difficult I just had to make it the right size to cover the clip!

I am very very proud of these cute things and I cant wait to stick them on the girls hair. (and Mak's headband since she lacks hair!)

Of course they aren't perfect but I think it adds a little too them.

Perfect in their imperfections!

Please....

Just look....

HERE

And HERE

And HERE

My sister is awesome!!!!!

We have been taking pictures lots lately trying to finish some projects around the house!

My girls are amazing models, if I do say so myself!

AND I DO!!!!!!!

What to do.....

I started thinking yesterday about the girls birthday parties.

Makennas 1st

(HOLY COW!!!)

Bugs 4Th

(ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!)

Both of their birthdays are in the summer.

(Stinks!)

Where do you hold a birthday parties in the summer when

1. Your family numbers= a small battalion.

2. Your "house" is too small.

3. Its too hot outside to go to a park.

4. You have no desire to invade someone else's space AT ALL.

5. You want to decorate cute!

6. You don't want to do a public place. i.e. peter piper pizza (see number 5)

Is this asking too much?

I need Ideas...

Ready......

Set.......

GO!!!!!!

She's Pretty Fly

Riley is scared of flys....

I could end with that but I wont. I will share a short story with you.

5 minutes ago Riley Bug started turning in circles like a dog trying to follow a fly that kept landing in different spots on her.

I was pretty amused. No matter how many times I told her the fly was gone she kept hitting herself on different dark spots on her clothes thinking it was that fly.

She keeps me laughing

?+?=??

What does this...... Plus this equal?

Hopefully a more fit me!!

She's A Little Tea Pot.....

Short and Stout, Shes painting a handle,
she's painting a spout!

Aren't those fun?!

The Easter Bunny brought Riley Bug a "Paint your own tea set" To put next to her Easter basket this year! The box was too big to fit inside.

I couldn't have seen her more excited!

She LOVES tea sets! She had a big plastic princess one that was loud annoying and would get EVERYWHERE!

I have been wanting to throw it away for a while but never found the right solution. All the tea sets seemed to be all the same. Last week sometime, though, Dale and I were walking around at different stores having fun alone on a date night and I saw this cute little porcelain tea set!! It wasn't expensive and I knew she would have sooo much fun painting it all by herself!!

SOLD!!!

We started painting them tonight and at first I had a hard time relinquishing control.....

I had a image in my head of what I wanted it to look like. Then Dale made me realize that she was 3 and when she had this when she was older she would wonder if she really painted all by herself...

"No, hunny sorry! Mommy has control issues and didn't let you do it by yourself"

I had to let go, so I did!

The result was pretty fun I think!

Now we have to let them dry for a day and cook them and they will be free to tea party it up!