pumpkin patch pictures. . .

Prepare yourselves because my daughters were very photogenic during our annual Pumpkin Patch pictures.  For the last four years, Dustin and I have taken Emma and then a few years later, Ellie, to the Pumpkin Patch to take a “few” pictures.  I love watching the girls run around like chickens with their heads cut off [...]

proving me wrong. . .

We hadn’t planned on moving Ellie into a big girl bed until after Christmas, she’s way ahead of schedule.

This is the bottom bunk of Emma’s bed that we’re going to use until Ellie’s old enough for the bed that has stairs on one side and slide on the other.  There would be no sleeping in this [...]

cheap fun. . .

It amazes me that over the last 4 1/2 years of buying toys, we’ve spent well over a couple thousand dollars.  If you think about the big toys, not to mention birthdays and Christmas, there’s alot of money invested in toys that aren’t as fun as kitchen bowls and running into each other.  I wonder [...]

TNSTAAFL. . .

One of the best things about having a birthday is all the “free” meals you get, but if you had one of my economics teachers, you would already no the term TNSTAAFL. . .pronounced tin-sna-full.  That is THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH.  Which is totally true because most of these free birthday [...]

happy birthday. . .to me. . .

L to R:  Emma, Ellie, Ady and Aubrey enjoying some cupcakes.

CHEESE Mama!  Ironically, I put both the girls in “birthday” related t-shirts.  I’ll have to find a 27T at Children’s Place for myself next year. . .make that 28T.

The cupcake was a mini cupcake, meaning very tiny. . .yet my 4-year-old still managed to get [...]