B-day Dresses

Just LOVE these new dresses! Aren't they so cute? Madi insisted on wearing her butterfly church shoes and wouldn't wear her cute brown boots like Gracie. Oh and they have their "church" backpacks on too. I guess that is what you get when you ask your husband to take pics :) Madi is being silly in the only non-blurry shot of herself. Next time they wear them, Gracie will be in the green one.

Cuteness!

Falling out of the shot :)

Gracie in blue and Madilynn in white.

It is so fun to straighten the girls' hair every once in a while to see how long it really is! Their curly hair is soooo beautiful, but man I love their hair when it is pretty straight (since it really won't go completely straight)

3rd Birthday!!

Butterfly cakes!

Madi and her cake

Gracie and hers
Gracie with the presents

Madi and the presents

Raincoats and boots
Cute ladybug outfits from G&G Baird (yes, I know Madi has one shoe on)

The girls had a great birthday! Jeff's mom and grandparents (Hilary too of course)were able to celebrate with us. It was great to have other family celebrate their birthdays with us. They thought the cakes were pretty cool. I thought they turned out okay too. I am NOT very creative but I found how to make them on YouTube and it seemed pretty easy. Jeff did one and I did the other. We kind of made it a competition to see who made the better one. (I think mine was a little better, not telling which one though) The biggest hits of the night were Tempur-pedic teddy bears from my Grandma Lil and the ladybug raincoat and boots from G&G Lau. Madi would wear her boots and coat all day and night if I let her :) Thanks everyone for all the gifts and cards for the girls! They still say they are 2 years old when you ask them, but they'll catch on soon enough.

Random Stuff

Gracie Ann playing with the grass.

Madi in her cute brown outfit and brown boots :)

At Splash in Springfield, we had so much fun. The girls just loved it!

My birthday date!

Fun Saturday

Madilynn about to throw a rock in the water, they could do that all day!

We don't go to the ocean much, because it is usually windy and foggy. A couple of Saturdays ago we just woke up and decided to get the girls out and see if we could hit the tide pools. It was so warm! We were so happy we made the spontaneous decision to just do it and not contemplate it. Sometimes you have so much fun when you don't think too much about it. In the last picture you can see that the fog started to roll in pretty fast, but we were just leaving so it didn't get us!

Fort!

Gracie

Madi

My sisters and I used to build tents/forts out of blankets, chairs, clips, and books. It was so much fun. We had a certain area behind our recliner where we could build it. I miss those days! I decided the girls needed one the other day and they loved playing in it. I know Jeff would have built one way better than me, but he was at work so mommy built it. (It didn't stay up long cuz the girls started to throw their balls on top, oh well it was fun while it lasted.)

Family Pics 2010

Gracie Ann

Madilynn Michelle

Madi and her cheeser

I've been meaning to post more of our family pictures my sister took of us this summer. So here they are. Thanks again Cordie!! Sorry I am so boring about how I post them. My Picasa hasn't been working or else I would have done a collage.