Tub Time!

I love tub pictures! There is so much you can do with soapy hair!

They can be so sweet with each other!

Love it!

Lilly's Birthday

I already posted the picture of Lilly making her cake but here are some other pics from that night. We are going to have party for her on the 7th of March so this was just us! Lilly got some books from us...she calls them "tories." The best one is called "Pinkalious" and it is about a little girl who eats so many pink cupcakes she turns pink. She has to eat all these green veggies to turn herself back to normal. She calles herself Pinkerbelle, and Lilly loves it!

She is blowing out her candles with the help of her brother. I gave her the candle to lick and she started to eat it, wax and all. Too funny!

Steve did the cake...isn't he an amazing artist! We are making a bigger cake for her party and Steve said he would decorate that one too!

Mommie and Lilly

Fort

Stevie and Lilly made their own fort with my rocking chair. So cute! He is reading a story to her! When they are sweet with each other it is darling...of course Lilly just turned two and we are entering the "don't touch me" phase! This is why we bought the hated mini van...put one kid in the back and one kid in the middle seat.

this is me trying to play catch up a little...just the good ones!

Steve and Stevie worked to pick up all the leaves in the yard and Daisey of course had to help. Isn't she cute. This is right after we got her clipped. Recently Steve and I tried to do it ourselves with people clippers and it was interesting...lets just say that. But I digress to another story. Back to the leaves....


They piled them all to the corner of the yard and Stevie had a blast jumping into them. He would get a huge running start and fly right into the middle.

So much fun!

And the tong! Stevie has his own rake. It is the one Steve broke, by accident, last year so it has a short handle. Steve said Stevie did a great job of pushing the leaves to the corner of the yard until he figured out it was more fun to hurl them into the air and watch them come floating down. Oh well the job got done and Stevie had an awesome afternoon!

I should be arrested by the blogger police

Lilly turned 2 today!
She is baking her cake and tasting every ounce of it!

Jenae her daughter and Lilly

Emily and Lilly

Papa, Lilly and Stevie

Will explain later! Have a broken computer and borrowing a friends. Have to give it back!!! Bummed!

Adventure's in Stevielillydome!

Here are some shots I just can't resist putting up. They are frankly beautiful kids and they need to be shown!

I ordered some new swings for this playground. The old ones kind of rotted while we were gone and the ropes of the swings kept giving Stevie slivers. Stevie got a big boy swing, Lilly got one just her size and I also ordered a bar and rings that we can interchange. Lilly loves to swing and she walks around the house saying "mor wing pease!" It is too cute to resist! Stevie will even push her when she asks...sometimes! Speaking of sometimes...Stevie asked me yesterday if I knew what the word "sometimes" means. I asked him to tell me and he said that it means "17 days you get to do one thing and 100 days you don't." I love it!!!

We put Stevie into soccer this year and tonight is his first game. This is a pic of him going to practice last week with his new shinguards and fancy green ball. Of course he picked out a green ball. Look at the smile on his face!!! When we were at the store picking out a ball for Stevie, Lilly picked out a hot pink volleyball and it made me so proud!!!

Sarah came to visit last week and we of course didn't take enough pics but here are a couple we did get. It was actually chilly so I didn't think Stevie would get into the water. I don't know what I was thinking, the kid loves to get into the water!! We eventually ditched his pants and shirt and let him run around in just his underwear. He had a blast!
Lilly got her toes wet and then was completely content to play in the sand! Maybe if it was warmer she would have enjoyed the water more. Stevie is kind of afraid of the waves and we usually try and go to the beach during low tide. The waves are calmer and there are tide pools to play in. This day we showed up at high tide and Stevie literally talked himself into the water. He would mutter to himself while he walked out to the water "the waves are scary...the waves are scary," and turn to run back to shore. Each time he would get a little farther out until at last he completely sat down with the water about to his rib cage. I was pretty proud of him! We stayed until it started to rain and then hightailed it out!

Lilly with pigtails right before gymnastics.

Update

Hey Ya'll! Greetings from the deep south. I wanted to give an update into our lives. I know... it has been a couple of weeks. Not as bad as a couple of months of neglect but still neglect. So here it is.


The two of them spent the day with their dad while I went to an all day scrap book event. It was a benefit for breast cancer and I had an absolute blast! 10am to 10pm and I didn't make it all day. I know, embarrassing, but the chair wasn't comfortable and at least I made it to 9:30pm right? Close. So the kids went to the park, played outside and from what I hear thoroughly enjoyed their dad! Not hard to do seeing how he is a wonderful dad!!! This is a picture of them eating luch together. Steve sent to me while I was a-scrappin'.

This was taken at the mall...it is a new soft play area and it is awesome. Its a big area with a slide and lots of tunnels and even a boat. Lilly is into doing everything her brother does and was set and determined to climb on the boat just like Stevie. She made it grunting and all. This was taken with my phone camera and it isn't fast enough to catch Stevie's face. The camera has to be state of the art to catch his beautiful mug. He only holds still for about a nano second.

We put Lilly in gymnastics and she loves it. She is a natural climber and we figured this might teach her to ... I don't know climb with style and enhance the coordination so she doesn't fall as much. I swear kids can climb up but getting down is the problem. This is her saying "ta-da" after climbing down the ladder. It is wonderful because the coach teaches the parents to teach the kids. So there is no waiting for turns and there isn't much structure. The coach moves around the room instructing each kid one on one on and apparatus. Lilly's favorite thing this week was climbing the ladder and last week it was the vault. Yes they have a mini vault. She doesn't even make the springs move but she tries hard and has fun doing it!

This is the biggest spider I have ever seen. Stevie found it and was telling me a spider was on the door frame. It was literally so big and kind of in a different position, from my angle, I thought it was a stick. Stevie's kept telling me, no it's a spider. The thing was the size of a golf ball!

Speaking of animals... this is the alligator Steve had a run'in with on the 11th hole at the golf course. I guess there are two resident alligators at the course and this is the small one. Steve almost hit the other one (12-15 feet tip to tail) on the 15th hole last week. This little guy is only 6 feet tip to tail. I don't know... those are Steve's words...to me little is maybe a foot or two not 6.

Things around here are kind of working their way into a schedule and we like it that way. I have a bunch of pictures to post of Stevie's first soccer experience and that will be coming soon!