How the heck?

If anyone would like to enlighten me about how to get rid of those big blank spaces between my pics when I post, I would GREATLY appreciate it!

Hey Remember Me?

Its been a while since I updated last. I really have to figure out how to get myself in here to blog more often.

I might as well start with right now. As I type this, Riley is wanting me to hold on to one of her belts and 'fish' with her. She's so funny...she's telling me Mommy...its not a belt!! Its a fishin' pole! Her imagination is amazing all of a sudden. She loves to ask questions about everything and remembers EVERYTHING you tell her. She makes me so proud!

Out of nowhere, she knows all the words to all the songs we've ever sung to her. She loves to sing along to the music in my car. Its too cute! There have been times where I thought she was trying to talk to us and I turn the radio down and say "What Riley?" and she tells me "Mommy I was singing! Turn it back on!!!"

I think she might finally be potty trained! She spent a few days running around naked all day. I couldn't keep clothes or a diaper on her, but she didn't have any accidents on the floor. She's been in 'big girl panties' for almost a week now and only wears diapers to bed at night (and when we go out---I'm not a fan of pee in my van LOL)

Maddie has 8 teeth now and LOVES to use them. This little girl is going to eat us out of house and home. Anything you put in front of her, she'll eat...and eat...and eat! She's getting so big and smart. I think we are just a few weeks from her walking. She doesn't crawl much anymore. She will hold on to anything--the wall included to get her through the house on her feet. Right now, she just seems afraid to let go and walk. Soon enough I'm sure.

Maddie is SO different from Riley. Riley was a more laid back baby. She was content to just sit on my lap and play with my fingers or just lay back and sleep on my chest. Maddie is my wild child! She doesn't sit still for anything. It used to be so easy to put her to bed for the night. More recently, I thought Riley kept her awake at night until a night last week. I heard the girls screaming (playing) and I assumed Riley had climbed into the crib with Madison. I went to check on them and there was Maddie---JUMPING UP AND DOWN IN HER CRIB SCREAMING-GIGGLING!!! And Riley was laying on her bed, under the covers saying "Maddie! Ssh!! I sleeping!!"

I've got spring fever REALLY bad. We got ONE snowfall this year--last week. It came by surprise overnight and then was gone 2 days later. Unfortunately, it came at the tail end of everyone being sick so no one got to go play in it. I brought some snow inside for Riley to play with and she loved it! I think it was too cold for her because once she built her snowman, she was done with the snow we brought in and didn't ask to go out to play in it again! LOL

I did get some pics I'll post at the end since I have no idea how to put them IN with my text without messing the text up.

I've been doing pretty good with keeping the house clean and organized. I went on a mission at the end of the year to clear stuff out and I think I did a pretty good job. All I have left to get rid of is baby gear that we don't need anymore. I tried Criagslist with it, but only had a few bites. I think I'll just have a yard sale when the weather warms up some.

Ronnie has the stairs built in their new place in the basement. He's got the support wall up too! Its only a matter of time before we start putting holes in the floor and building walls all over up here. I'm excited to get it all done, but not at all excited for the in between part. Hopefully, it goes fast and we can settle down and relax soon.

Oh well...its supposed to be gorgeous today so I'm going to go get Maddie down for a nap and get some stuff done so that maybe I can bring them to the playground or even out in the backyard in a little while.

Here are a few pics that are hanging out on my camera...

My flowers for Valentine's Day...

I tried to get a picture of Riley but she was watching Max and Ruby. This is the best I could get.


Here's Maddie. Her head looks much bigger in this pic than it really is LOL

Wild Child...


The snow...


Riley's snowman...


We put him outside to see if he could survive the night. We found this in the morning...we just aren't sure if it was murder or snowicide :o(

No one reads this huh?

Oh well. I'll just keep updating once in a while anyway.

We went to a Hillary rally that Bill Clinton spoke at last week. Stood in the rain for a bit only to get turned away. Luckily, my sister overhead that they had an overflow room and we could go there to hear the speech. Afterwards, we were on our way out and she overheard again that he was coming in there!! He heard about the overflow room and felt bad that so many waited so long only to not be let in, so he came over and shook hands and talked for a bit. With both little ones there with me, I didn't get many pics and the ones I did get didn't come out well...but here's a quick clip of his motorcade leaving...

After that we went for lunch to Nifty Fifty's with my sister. I got a few pics of the girls playing while we waited on our food.

She didn't want me to take her picture LOL

Maddie just wanted to eat the hat so my sister put it on her head, I clicked and then the hat came off LOL

She's so pretty! But I'm not biased at all!

We started some cherry 'ma-toe' seeds. I'm hoping to grow enough to give Riley her fill this summer. She LOVES them! We are going to do a few more veggies and herbs but have to wait until after the last frost and although its supposed to be 72 today, we are nowhere near the last frost until April some time.

She's so cute. She tells me every day that her seeds are done.

The girls are a mess, but Ronnie almost never lets me take his picture, let alone one of him smiling.

Super Bowl Sunday. Maddie didn't last much longer after this picture. But Riley surprised me. she sat through the first half of the game yelling at the tv just like Mommy. For some reason, I think she 'gets' football. She was really into it and kinda knew when and why she was cheering!

She'll be walking any day now :o( (oh and I know she doesn't match but she got her pants dirty so I put sweatpants on her)

I finally got around to making a bow board for their hairbows. Not bad for my first time...now we just need more bows. I'm making memo boards for the older girls too...I should probably get on that pretty soon.

Feel free to leave comments so I know at least SOMEONE is reading besides me! Thanks!!

Happy Halloween

So pretty!!

Isn't she cute!?!

Mommy's Flower and Butterfly.

Almost all of the girls.

By 5:30 Riley had had enough!

Mmm...blue raspberry lollipop!!

Finished it!!!

Ok...so I decided to make Riley a tutu to go with her butterfly wings. I knew I didn't want it to be flimsy so I decided to double it up and squish each piece tight together. BAD move! This thing is SO full!

Here's a pic of Becky modeling it. It was only about 50% done at this point and Riley wouldn't put it on.


















Then Riley decided she did want to try it on. Mind you...still not finished.

And finally the finished product! Like I said---much fuller than it needs to be, but still pretty dang cute! I put some blue and purple satin ribbons in with the tulle and added a few jingle bells (her wings have bells) and then finished the waistband in satin ribbon too. I'm thinking of making a few and putting them on ebay to see how they sell. Anyone want to buy one?

Brittany cut her hair!!!

Brittany's been bugging me for a while to get her hair cut. Out of nowhere today I was just in the mood to bring her. I was tired of seeing her hair the same way every day...so off we went...


I almost forgot to take this picture. She was on her way back with the woman to cut her hair and I called her out again LOL


before:

after:



If I had to guess...I'd say she cut about 8 or 10 inches off!!! Brave girl! She LOVES it!!!

Random pictures...

Here's Maddie!!!!

Miss Riley with a sticker on her nose...LOL
Maddie is learning to scoot....but backwards only so she ended up under the table LOL Not happy with that outcome.

Riley trying on her tutu for Julie...LOL

Then Becky wanted to try it on too!

And this one is here just because its my favorite!!