Day 72: March 13 {the hills are alive}

We walked up to the hospital to visit my mom. We thought she was going to get out today, but unfortunately, she didn't. Near the parking lot was a huge hill that my dad taught the kids how to roll down. We spent a few minutes letting them run up and roll down. Ava got the roll pretty good, Brayden kept going sideways. Seriously?? Who rolls SIDEWAYS on a hill?? My kid :)

Day 71: March 12 {beautiful day}

It was so gorgeous, we spent some time outside. Brayden and I laid out on a blanket and every once in a while Brayden would chase the carpenter bees. This is a shot I got of him actually sitting still.

Day 69: March 10 {more camera napping}

My phone was confiscated by a little man at ballet. It keeps him quiet for a little bit, but then I never know who he has taken pictures of, who he has called, or what he has said to anyone!

Day 62: March 3, 2011 {donuts are yummy.}

Oh goodness. If there is anything my kids like more than donuts, it might be me. Might. Getting ready for ballet turned into a process and it just overwhelmed the kids. They had to take a coffee break. Or donut break. Ava enjoys donuts with sparkles (sprinkles).We had to go through the whole freak out of not getting chocolate goodness on the ballet outfit and we did o.k. Then it was off to ballet and to wait for my sis and sister in law to show up for the weekend!

Day 58: February 27 {back to reality}

Getting ready to go, I took some pictures of the condo. This is the living area. The snack bar had director's chairs that the kids loved. This was taken at around 8:30 in the morning. The fog didn't lift until after 3 or so. We were really excited to watch the sunrise but, not happening!!

We went to the Bass Pro Shop on our way home. I had never been and had NO CLUE this huge fish tank was there. My son had no real problem. Freaky. And kinda gross.

Day 57: February 26 {playing tourist}

Saturday I did go to the condo and stay the night with my parents and the to kids. I took the kids down to the beach, it was a little late so it was a bit cold, and we stayed out of the water. It was awesome to watch the sun set and see the babies have so much fun.

Day 54: February 23 {Daddy Love}

The kids can't stand for us to be laying or sitting on the floor without attacking us! Matt took the bait and they played horsey for what seemed live forever!

Day 53: February 22 {splurge!}

Because I was so excited that I finally got to go to Moe's (one of my favorite restaurants ever), it had to be my picture. I was taking a picture of my cup and you know my kids...they had to share their cups too. They behaved so well in the restaurant, because it was just me with them and Moe's is like a Subway but for burritos and stuff. I always call it a cross between a Taco Bell and Subway. We don't have one near us anymore so when we go to Ft. Walton, I really push to go there!

Day 52: {layout}

As it is right now, layouts often sit on my desk unfinished for days, sometimes weeks. I finally was able to put the finishing touches on this layout for Brayden's 2nd birthday. I used K and Company Dreams (I think that's the name) and Core'dinations for the title and tricycle. I stickled the red for the tricycle. I really like all the frames of Brayden opening his presents and Ava's reaction to him getting his own tricycle.

Day 45: February 14, 2011 { Happy Valentine's Day!}

Happy Valentine's Day! This is Ava enjoying her gifts from the day. My mom got us tulips and Matt's grandparents sent the babies a package. Each of them got a monkey and a little animal gift box with chocolate covered animal crackers! There was a card for each of them and a beautiful butterfly wind chime for Matt and me. I hung it up outside and think it will be nice to hear it "chime" with out windows open upstairs in our bedroom. After this picture, Matt came home with baloons and Brayden woke up.

Day 43: February 12, 2011 {Spaghetti at the Reeds}

Have you ever tried to feed toddlers spaghetti? If yes, these pictures are familiar. If not, let them be a warning...

And THAT'S why they are stripped down to diapers. Straight to the bath with them!!

Day 39: February 8, 2011 {looking down}

Ava was eating dinner on the couch and another theme was "looking down." I snapped the picture, and although I don't *love* it, it still fit the theme and I'm glad I took it!

Day 36: February 5 {artiste}

So....I can't keep him away from paint. This paint was up high on a shelf on my scrap desk. He walked out of my room covered with paint. So were my chair legs and part of my carpet. Yeah. I had to cut off the bottom half because, well, his bottom half was kind of showing.

Day 30: January 30 {sick baby}

This is Brayden being a little sick. He spent the day with a fever and coughing so he just laid around on the couch. I just hate it because I feel like he is sick so much. He tries so hard to be in good spirits, he really does. But he just feels so icky sometimes.

Day 27: January 27 {unexpected}

Our Science teacher has a rat for the kids to help take care of and just watch in general. His name is Einstein. The kids came to see him before Christmas and he was super small. In two weeks he grew HUGE. I brought the kids by to see him today and Brayden loved holding him. Ava would pet him but not hold him.

This is the English teacher. Hopefully it's a better picture of how long the rat really is. I picked unexpected because we really didn't expect him to grow this big!

Day 21: January 21 {Pop!}

One of our family's favorite snacks is popcorn. It's cheap and easy and we can all share it!

Day 16: January 16 {overdrive}

Today was a beautiful day and although I spent some of it inside trying to get some scrapping done, I went to my parents' house later. The kids were, of course, outside playing. We ran around, played catch, monster, and rode in the car. We need a new battery for it so you know what that means...Opa gets to push!!!

Layout-Brayden's first hair cut

We finally cut Brayden's hair for the first time ever. It was really long. Well, too long for a boy, I guess...Anyways, I have more pictures I want to scrap, but this is the main page. I used a sketch from an old pagemaps, I think. The title is cut from Robotz, welded on my Gypsy. If you ask him what happened to his hair, he responds with, "um, the lady cut it." So I thought that would be a cute title. The plane is from Mickey and Friends and I used a white gel pen to just add a few things here and there. The scissors are from Happily Ever After and welded with my Gypsy. I'm thinking I should add "before" and "after" with these two pictures? But I kind of like it.

I'm trying to get more elaborate with my scrapping, but I just can't. Either my brain can't think that way or I'm scared. It's a little of both, really. I'm so linear when it comes to these things, flowers, brads and buttons escape me!

Day 15: January 15 {Shhhh...}

The babies played hard all day and ran downstairs. I followed to see them watching Yo Gabba Gabba. I sat with them and withing minutes they were both passed out.

Day 11: January 11 {family...}

Today Brayden cut his lip. Terrible. Courtney (my BFF) was on the phone and Brayden came out saying, "mommy, boo boo" and I turned and he was covered in blood. Scary Mommy Moment for sure!