Daddy Daughter Day

Or I could say a day off for mom! Randy had the girls ALL day. I had the Relief Society Broadcast at 5:00 and a baby shower at 11:30 already scheduled, so I decided to give myself the whole day off. Randy gave me a four visit spa package for mothers day which expires in a month, so I made an appointment for visit number three...a microderm facial. I spent the rest of the time getting things on my to-do list marked off. It is amazing how much you can do when you don't have to worry about getting kids in and out of carseats, and in and out of strollers and all the other hassles.

Shortly after 8:00 am: Left the house. Decided to check out a garage sale which was down the street. Didn't find anything.

I arrive at Kohls at about 8:30, so I have a good hour and a half to shop without having to deal with hard-to-handle girls. (They don't like to be strapped in the stroller longer than ten minutes unless we are in constant motion). The other day I realized I had not bought a new pair of jeans since long before the girls were born, so I was determined to find some today, which I did. Yea! I also scored with getting a pair of 26.00 sunglasses for $4.42. Hopefully I'll have these sunglasses longer than a month. The girls, when I forget to put my purse on top of the fridge, always go for the sunglasses first and they just can't seem to open them without snapping them in pieces. I love getting good deals. They had these early bird specials, plus I had a coupon for an extra 15% off, then I got $20 in Kohls cash. Now I can go back, to the new store opening on Wednesday, and get more good deals. :)

10:15: Facial.
After my facial, while I'm in that part of town, I have to run to the post office to send a package and stop at JoAnns to pick up supplies for our relief society's Fabulous Friday. Thank goodness for the self post thingie or I would've been in line at the post office for forever. They only have two of what I need at JoAnns...grrrrr!

11:50: Arrive at baby shower where I relax, chat with the girls, and eat yummy food. After the shower I'm off to Beverly's to pick up what they didn't have at JoAnns and luckily they are well stocked. While I was at Beverly's I saw this cute husband, probably in his late fifties, shopping with his wife. He pushed the cart piled high with fabric and other crafty stuff while his wife commented on what she was planning to do with it all. I thought it was cute. I'm off to Payless shoes after making my purchase at Beverly's. I'm there to look for shoes for the girls, but instead find a pair of shoes for me.

After Payless I have a decision to make...do I go to Costco? I try avoid Costco on Saturday's at all costs, but because I'm only picking up one thing, decide I might as well do it today.

I guess it's about 3:00 when I make it to Scrapbooking Made Simple. I've only been there a few times, but I love it! They have I think every imaginable di-cut for your use at no cost if you bring your own paper. I don't really scrapbook anymore, but di-cuts are fun for kids to do things with, so I'm just turning all my scraps into something cute and useful. This place is full of chatting women working on all kinds of projects and it's always stocked with FREE bottles of water, and all kinds of snacks. I resist all the tempting treats, but am grateful for the water.

At 5:00 I make it on over to the church for the broadcast. After the broadcast we have a dinner of yummy soups, salad, rolls and sherbet for dessert. At 7:30 there's several of us girls who are hanging about not quite sure we want to go home just yet. I decide it's been a long enough day and I make it home in time to help put my girls to bed. And now it's time for me to go to bed. :)

Doctor, Doctor

At her two year well check Allyse measured 36 3/4 inches and weighed in at 27 pounds 9 oz.

At her two year well check she measured 36 1/4 inches and weighed in at 27 pounds 6 oz.

The girls had their two year well check on Monday. This was the first time that I didn't have an extra pair of hands to help me and I have to say that they did really well. However, Keira was definitely more relaxed and cooperative with Dr. Mike than Allyse was. There's several doctors at the office that we go to but we love Dr. Mike. He is really upbeat and is so cute with the girls. He lets the girls blow out his little light, and lets them help look for monkeys eating bananas in each others ears. He asks them, "Do you see the monkeys?" They respond, "That's silly." They had to get two shots from the nurse, which of course is so mean, but it was all better once they got the sparkly "stickers" to cover up their little pricks. It was all soon forgotten and as

the nurse was leaving they even waved and said "bye grandma." I can't believer that we're to the point where they only have yearly check-ups. They are just getting so big!

Happy Birthday Keira and Allyse!

I've been a little slow getting the pictures from the camera so I'm now just getting around to writing about the girls birthday. We had a small get together for the girls on Friday night. We had Aurora, Allegra, and Carrie Lisonbee, Carly and Kalei (the Woodhouse twins), their mom and dad Gina and Keith (can I call him that? He'll always be bishop!), and Bill and Janel Schultz...our adopted family. The girls still haven't grasped the joy of opening presents, so it's a good thing we had Aurora there to help them out. It was so fun to watch Aurora as she "ooohed" and "ahhhed", where the girls were like "hmmm, that's nice." Maybe after finding their "big" present before the party even started was enough to make them happy. I found back-packs with wheels on them and I didn't quite know how to wrap them, so I ended up just hiding them upstairs under a blanket. They don't go upstairs unless Randy or I do, so I thought they would be safe. But as I was doing some last minute things on the computer, they slipped past and found them. I should have put them in my closet!

Aurora is ready. She knows what birthdays are all about...the cake!

The girls love books, so I did my best at making a cake look like an open book. It's definitely not going to make the cover of Martha Stewart Magazine, but if nothing else, it didn't taste too bad. Keira eating it up.
Allyse is a "just frosting" girl.

Mommy Moment

I didn't realize it until I had put the seond batch of clothes in the washer that I totally forgot to put detergent in the first batch! I have never done that before.

What is up with that?

When I was at the girls check-up this morning, I happened to glance at a People magazine and about flipped when I saw one of the headlines. We don't have T.V. to watch the news or Orprah, so this was the first time I had heard about the used to be beauty queen turned man who kept the female reproductive organs and had a baby! That is just sick and wrong!

Tag-Six Randon Things

This is a tag from my sister-in-law Teresa. I've done one like this before, but thought it nice of her to think of me, so it took me some time to think of some more random things.

1. My computer skills really stink. I've come along way, but I have to ask Randy a lot of times to help me do something that I've done before and have forgotten.

2. I love to not only read books, but to listen to them on CD. I used to listen to them on my way to work, but now I listen to them while I'm getting ready in the morning...or whatever time it is when I finally get a shower, when I'm doing dishes, or when I'm cooking. It makes just about any task more enjoyable. I often find that I need something else to clean so that I can finish a CD.

3. I have a dictionary close at hand while I'm reading because I like to look up words I don't know, which is quite often. I have terrible vocabulary.

4. When I'm taking pictures I'm always looking at what is in the frame besides what I'm focusing on...usually the girls. If there's a jacket hanging over the couch, or stuff on the floor that's cluttering up the picture I have to move it...most of the time. My house is not spotless, but at least I can pretend that is.

5. I still love to color. The girls love to color too, but they like to scribble a little here and then turn the page, and I'm just not done yet!

6. I'm terrible when called to answer something on the spot. I need time to think things through.

True Confessions

On the a day I should have been rejoicing the births of my little girls I felt like packing them up and shipping them FedEx to China!

Our Two Are Two!

After months of saying "they're almost two", "they'll be two in September", "they're not quite two", they're officially two...and it shows!!