Since I've neglected this blog

I thought I'd update you with some recent pictures of my girls courtesy of my amazing babysitter: http://maracav.blogspot.com/

Happy Halloween

We started the day at the donut shop - you know, we thought we needed to jump start the suger overload bright and early. Next, the girls participated in a Halloween storytime at the library. It's always so fun to see all the chitin's dressed up and all the DIFFERENT costumes.

Saylor was a Lily and Sophia was Cinderella. I had initially ordered Sophia a sunflower but once the Cinderella dressed arrived for disney, the sunflower costume was out.

Last night Saylor switched it up and went as Belle. Here they are trading candy.
Finally, Saylor came home and sorted all of her candy treasures...from favorite to least favorite.

Happy Halloween!

Do you think she's trying to tell me something?

Final Disney Post

I'll just recap the remaining week in a few photos. Sophia meet her twin and it was her highlight of the trip. Saylor sassed up like Belle and she was the bell of the ball.

Really never felt the need to feed them to the sharks - shockingly.

and Sophia finally warmed up to all the characters by the end of the vaca.

Life is good.

A weekend Friend and another SPECIAL friend

Saylor was the chosen one on Friday to tend to Blackey Fuzz - the preschool bear. She was THRILLED and I was thrilled because returning to school after a vacation had been a little daunting and this perked her up! Blackey Fuzz was wonderfully behaved and he/she is welcome back anytime.

The other special friend is someone unbeknownst to me but I'm FOREVER grateful. Evidently I left my wallet at Panera this morning. My wallet, consisting of my credit cards, debit card, drivers license, house key and CASH (which NEVER resides in my wallet but it was a special occurrence since we just went on vacation). ANYWAY, my guardian angel was looking out for me because it was returned back to me - consisting of all the above. Remarkable and thankful that good people still exist!

day 3 of Disney

Loads of characters we start to relax...

a little ice cream

and the triceratops's spin.

day two of Disney

We started at Hollywood Studios with a character lunch then traveled to Magic Kingdom. Sophia COULD NOT WAIT for the up/down aka carousal.

living like a bug. petting June.

Hollywood style.

met a few characters.Sophia was not to sure...

and Saylor's favorite part of the day - the bippidy bobbity boutique.

we survived...

our Disney adventure. I'll post day by day since we all know my blogging track record has not been so hot the past few months. Speaking of HOT, Florida had RECORDbreaking temperatures while we were there. It was HOT.airplane ride via southwest. Bags fly free.

bus ride to Hollywood Studios.sharing the magic!

the best job...

for a 2 and 4 yr old - picking up tennis balls. The girls has a 'BALL' watching the high school girls practice tennis and loved assisting in the ball chasing endeavors.

never grow up

I'm pretty sure he never will...and that's just one of the many things I love about him. I thought this was a fun picture of my hubby riding the neighbors scooter.

Disney Attire

I'm making the girls a few new outfits to sport when we go on our Disney vacation. Here's the one for Saylor:

We can't wait to meet Mickey!

runner not a jogger

Josh was a sponsor for the "Run your Buns Off" race this morning. I guess waking eager, he decided to partake. He surpassed me in the category of jogger promoting to runner when he placed in the race. We're so proud.

National Eat Together Week...

this blog told me so. We celebrated today at McDonald's...and yesterday and maybe tomorrow. :)

what's for dinner

this was my feeble attempt to make dinner more conspicuous and appeasing dinner.

I'm not sure it worked although it was consumed and in the end, that's the point.

wow

I'm completely speechless aside from one word - WOW!

first day take two

Sophia started her first day of school this week. She was extremely hesitant when she woke up that day. Thinking it was going to be a long year gaging from the past when each week was a battle prying her from my arms, she wandered into her classroom and started exploring. We said our goodbyes with a hug and a kiss and I was off. She was such a big girl...we'll see what next week brings once the newness wears off.

A little love from big sis before we left.

lake weekend

We had the entire lake to ourselves last weekend - it was perfect, aside from it being a titch to cold. It was only the second time this Summer we had our boat out . Sophia tubed for the first time - shockingly and Saylor skied for the first time, getting up on the first (and only) try. She's a little too daring for me. I was honestly sore from tubing with her. She continually told Josh to speed up all while I was shaking my head in FEAR!

two cute tushes.

life.

this one...she can test your patience to the very nerve, but she can also make you laugh until you pee your pants.

tea party for two

Sophia refused to wear the sassy skirt but once she settled down they actually had a little fun.

First day of school

Today was my big girls first day of school (preschool that is, the elusive kindergarten is next year). She was actually giddy when she woke up - which is a first for us. Here's a little video of us singing the First Day song, much like last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZvBcHBtQ1I

she helped me make cupcakes for the PERFECT morning breakfast. It's such a treat to fuel my child with sugar prior to the first day school - high energy on the first day and sweet little girl on the remaining.

final hug for big sis.