Cousins!

This picture would be youngest (almost 6 mo.) to oldest (3 yrs): Evie, Kade(1 yr), Gracie (2 yr) and Lane.  They have a lot of fun together.

Ugh...Peaches

She will probably kill me later in life for posting this photo, but its so funny.  Peaches aren't her favorite, but they are growing on her. Her favorites are prunes and applesauce.  She does really well with the rice cereal and fruits. Once we hit the 6 month mark, we'll try adding some vegetables.

Pretty Pony!

When she is in the mood, Gracie will let me put her hair into a ponytail.  This was the first in quite sometime and I realized just how long her hair is getting! I hope she lets me do it more often cause I really like it!

Our Pretty Princess Turns 5 Months!

Miss Evie is now 5 months old!  She's babbling a lot more and loves spending time in her jumperoo and walker.  We are working on sitting up, but still have a lot of practice to do.  She is such a smiler and it really lights the room up.

Teeny Weeny Swimsuits!

I found these cute swimsuits at Carters, however they were sooo small on them. Gracie had a 3T on and Evie had an 18 months - both were tight.  Evie actually fit into Gracies lengthwise!  I think my girls have long torsos. In the end, I had to return them. Now they won't match. I found some equally as cute suits at Gymboree, but I liked these that were slightly similar.

Evie's 4 Month's!

This pretty princess has grown quite a bit in the past couple months! Her personality has presented itself. She's a very sweet girl with a temper when she gets angry. She likes to laugh and giggle and enjoys lots of attention. She's been trying to roll, but can only make it onto her side. I have a feeling she'll be moving at an early age as she is already moving in circles on the floor. She's quite the character and is pretty patient when it comes to big sister picking on her all the time.  We've been trying out rice cereal here and there and playing in her jumperoo, but all that activity and food still don't fill her up or wear her out enough for a whole nights sleep. She gets up 1-2 times in the night, which makes her Mommy pretty tired. This girls just keeps growing - now in 6-9 month clothing. Hopefully next month I'll be able to report that she's sleeping better - yeah right.

Oh No, I'm 30!

What an old geezer. Just kidding. I can't believe that I'm 30 already! Mom and  Dad came down for the day and took me and the girls out to eat. We stopped at Scheels so I could shop for my Mexico trip coming up! Other than that not much celebration for the 30th. I figure if my next decade is as exciting as my previous one (graduation from college, started nursing career, got married, had 2 beautiful girls, and many more fun times) I can't wait to see what it'll bring!

New Years 2010!

New Years was pretty mellow this year. Hoff had to work on New Year's eve for 8 hours, so he didn't get home until 10:30-11:00pm that night. I had to work on New Year's day, so I got to bed pretty early - 11ish. The girls and I celebrated early with fun hats and watched Ice Age. Low key, but we had fun.

Christmas 2009

Well the weather really ruined Christmas this year. . .stupid blizzard. We ended up having my family christmas on December 23rd. We made a break for home on December 24th, as the storm had simmered for a small period of time. We had to follow Dad with the tractor out to the highway, but once there the roads were ok. We stopped down at Grandpa and Grandma Lunds for a brief period, but otherwise all grandparents christmases were canceled.  We celebrated with the Hofmeister clan on Christmas Day. The girls got very nice gifts and Gracie had fun unwrapping her gifts. Hopefully next year the weather will cooperate, but of course it's my holiday to work. Go figure!

Fun at Grandma's . . . .In The Bathroom,

Lane is potty trained and when # 2 comes along he's just like a guy and sits on the potty and reads books. Well, Gracie thought she had to poop too and followed Lane's lead of reading books.  It was just a comical site and we had to get a picture. I'm sure they'll kill us later for taking this picture.

Happy 1st Birthday Kade!

Kade loves Mickey Mouse, so that was the birthday theme.

We all had little Mickey hats to wear. They were very cute and the kids thought they were funny.

Gracie loved the "birday cake". We all had a laugh cause Amanda made a Mickey Mouse cake, which of course has black ears. Everyone who ate the black frosting got black lips and teeth. It was funny.

Booyah Santa!

 

Rarely is Gracie speechless, but when she seen Santa she entered shy mode.  She would only wave hi and liked jingling his jingle bells. (I know what your thinking; quit being disgusting). Evie had no problem sitting on Santa's lap and got her poor hand tangled in his big old beard. Only when we were leaving did Gracie open her mouth telling Santa "Bye" and gave him a fist bump and said, "Booyah". She got a pencil from Santa and enjoyed a sugar cookie. See you next year Santa!

Snow Fun!

Gracie had been begging to go out and play in the snow. It finally warmed up a little and Hoff took her out to play. They rode on the sled for a little while and then Hoff dug her a tunnel through one of the big drifts of snow by our house.  The mere 20 minutes she was out there wasn't near enough, but I think her hands and cheeks had had enough.  I think Gracie would honostly freeze to death before she came in the house. Next time she's begging to go outside, I'm going to try Maria's awesome idea and bring the snow into her in the bathtub.

Evie's Baptism

On December 6th, we got little Evie baptized. Gracie and Evie were surprisingly very good during the service. Clint and Colleen were the sponsors for Miss Evie. The good Lord was already watching over little Evie cause that morning Gracie decided to feed Evie Coco Puffs and she did choke on it. I gave her the old whap on the back and out popped 1 puff. Hopefully that was our one and only choking experience.

Let's Paint Mommy

Gracie loves to paint. . . . . .and obviously she loves to eat it too.  I leave the room for one minute to change Evie and I returned to find her painting her fingernails with the water paints.  Her back was to me and I went to get a wash cloth and when I turned to face her I seen the mess on her face. Oh yes, it was in her mouth also. Thank goodness its non toxic!