Night, Night...

Aren't they just adorable?! Lizzie insists on having baby Abby join her in bed when we ready bedtime stories now. It's so cute. I guess she doesn't want her little sister missing out on all of the fun... what a thoughtful older sister, but I think it's more that Lizzie likes the extra company. Either way it's priceless.

My Sleeping Beauty...

The other night Ben and I were playing video games when Lizzie came waltzing down the stairs, hopped up on to the couch and smiled at us, then the next time we turned around she was completely and totally conked out, mouth dropped to the floor. It was by far the funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time. Ben and I were laughing so hard I thought for sure we were going to wake her up. It's one of those things were you just have to see it, or maybe it was just funny to us and you had to be there, but either way here's our little wand wielding, magic hat wearing princess fast asleep and in a completely different world from the rest of us.

Happy Easter!

On Easter morning Lizzie went straight for Abby's basket and totally jacked her Peekaboo Farm book... she wants to read it every time she takes a nap now, even though she's way beyond little books like that. I think she likes it because she wants to pretend she's every animal. After going through the baskets and finding that the plastic eggs were filled with jelly beans and m&m's... Lizzie's two favorite things, we went to our church. Man, I wish we had an 11am service every weekend. We would always be there on time then. ;) It's amazing how much just a half an hour makes. The service was packed (I can't imagine what the 9:30 service looked like) and for the little kids they had bounce houses and a little petting zoo, which Lizzie loved. After church we went home and started getting things ready for later that day. We invited a bunch of friends over from Ben's work. I call them the lunch gang, because they're always the ones that eat lunch together in the kitchen instead going out to eat. There was around 15 of us, once you added all the little kids. I still can't believe Ben made me ask our Jewish, vegetarian friends if we could serve ham. We could have done a million other things, but he really wanted his ham. At least they're were really cool about it and didn't mind. Anyways, it was a really fun time just hanging out, playing rockband and enjoying a meal together.

Lizzie stealing her sister's book

Petting the goats at church... she was more fascinated with watching the ducks play in their water than anything else.

Easter on the Farm...

We went to the farm on this last Saturday, they had a big Easter weekend theme going on, so we thought it would be fun to get outside if we were going to go see the Easter Bunny. I was actually really surprised when we pulled into the driveway and saw so many cars, but luckily once you get inside it never really feels that crowded. They had an easter egg hunt, not the traditional look for little eggs hidden everywhere hunt, but more like a scavenger hunt. They had big, huge laminated easter egg posters hidden through out the animal center for us to find. Lizzie loved it... of course we never finished the complete list, someone got a little distracted. ;) Aside from the egg hunt, Lizzie dyed an easter egg, ate some candy and met the easter bunny. She ran right up to him and gave him a huge hug as soon as she saw him, that little girl is not afraid of anybody! Ben thought he was a little creepy and couldn't stop thinking about how this poor teenager was stuck in this ugly bunny suit when it was over 80 degrees outside. It was hot outside, we were all wishing we would have worn shorts by the end of the day, but we all manged to survive the day with minimal breakdowns and enjoy the beautiful California weather, plus we brought home a lot of fresh fruits and veggies too.

the easter egg hunt list

Abby's awake, but it won't last for long... she was loving the bumpy wagon ride.

We can't go to the farm without feeding every, single animal!

Lizzie with the bunny

attempting to dye the plastic eggs too

still asleep in the shade of her car seat

Lizzie enjoying a little break and beautiful breezy hair

Mm, fresh picked strawberries and look who's still asleep! ;)

My Little Girls aren't so Little...

So this last weekend was quite the weekend in our household. My two little girls don't feel quite so little anymore and it makes really sad and excited all at the same time. On Friday night Lizzie willing gave over her pacifiers... all of them! We put them in a big manila envelope and sent them off to the pacifier fairy, who will then deliver her precious binkies to little babies who need them more than she does. I was totally shocked and amazed at how incredibly easy it was for Lizzie to get rid of them. If anyone knows her, you know how attached she is to her pacifiers, but she was all for the ideal of being a big girl and helping others. I think Ben and I were more traumatized by the whole ordeal than she was. I don't know why, but we've just seen her for so long always with them and now she seems so grown up... only babies use pacifier and I'm sad she's not my little baby anymore.

In return for handing them over Lizzie got her very first video game that's especially designed for toddlers. It's called Smart Girl's Playhouse. Its got memory, coloring, puzzles, free-form drawing, whack-a-mole, and a piano... plus some other stuff. It's pretty much all of her favorite things rolled into one slick DS game. Lizzie loves it and figured out how everything works rather quickly... that's my girl! ;)

So far she's only asked me for her pacifier once these last four days, which is totally amazing to me, but on the flip side she's been having a really hard time falling asleep without them. She doesn't cry or throw a fit or anything like that, but she just stares at the ceiling or is really fidgety all night long. Last night was one of the better nights for her, but that's because she wasn't all alone in her room. Which brings me to my other little girl.

Abby's growing way too fast and last night Ben and I assembled her beautiful crib and put it in Lizzie's room. Abby was in our room in her little travel crib that has a bassinet attachment, but she's a little over the weight limit now and obviously a little squished when she tries to move around. It was definitely time for an upgrade. Lizzie loved the fact that she had company and now her room has become the girls' room. She thinks it's pretty cool... I hope she thinks that way for a very long time! ;) They're both growing up so fast... I wish we could slow them down a little bit.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day...

We had a play date at the park this morning, and of course we all dressed in something a little green in honor of the day. I actually had to wake Lizzie up this morning at 9am so we could get ready to go and there's absolutely no way she would have gotten up unless I mentioned that the park was involved in our plans for the day... she was more than a little cranky since she was up last night until 1:30 am (I'll explain why in a later blog), but once we got to the park, after watching the garbage truck do its thing all the way down our street, Lizzie was her normal spunky, outgoing self. Abby was a dream baby all morning long, smiling and cooing at everybody, just being mellow, chilling in her stroller. She's such a great baby... I got really lucky with this one. Anyways, happy Saint Patrick's Day!

My happy little noodle!

Moving Day...

Okay, so it's been a little while since I've posted anything on here, but at least there's a good reason for it. We moved... again. I know, I know we move a lot. This would make move number 8 in the almost 9 years we've been married (ugh, I'm so tired of moving). Now before you all go crazy on me let me explain, we're still in the same area, with Ben at the same job, we just moved across town... away from the ghetto, if you can call it that... where we used to live, and closer to our friends, church, and other fun stuff. It wasn't really that bad where we used to be, but just a slight exageration! ;) So, we ended up moving west this time instead of our traditional southernly direction, but I love where we ended up. We have a beautiful 4 bedroom town home (twice the size of our last place) within walking distance to a park and we even have a garage that's attached, so no more hauling kids and groceries up a flight of stairs! Did I mention Ben's sister now lives with us?! Which is really nice so we can all save a little money... and plus with Heidi here all the time (well when she's not at work or out having fun that is) we have a built in babysitter. ;) Anyways, that's what's new with us down here, still a few random boxes left to unpack, but other than that we're all settled in.

We really do need a truck that big!

We have way too much stuff!