The Hunsaker Family

November 2011

2011-11-27T14:01:00.001-08:00

To start off November we got together with some friends and (no kids!) and went to a KU Football game! It was great weather and we had such a fun time! (If there are any fellow Ute fans reading this, don't worry we have not converted to KU, we are still Ute fans at Heart!)

Happy Birthday to Jake!!

The girls were so excited to bring him breakfast in bed!

Here they are doing the "ssshhhh" sign, because we had just set up the birthday surprise for Jake to come check out! Thanks to my great friend Amanda, she helped me sew University of Utah Bean Bags to go with this Bean Bag Toss game Jake likes!

The girls helped me bake and decorate the cake!

How Fun! We now have two aspiring photographers in our house!

THANKSGIVING!

We had to do a pose showing off these adorable Turkey hair things our sweet friend Amanda made for the girls!

We had a fun Thanksgiving with the Brady's and the Knickerbocker's! We are so grateful to have fun friends out here! It makes me a lot less homesick when we have each other to celebrate with!

The Kid Table! We made them some fun Turkey Cups!

And here they are with their fun turkey blowers!

Now that Thanksgiving is over.............Samantha and Sadie are checking out the toy catalogs and making their Christmas Wish Lists!!

The Bird Feeders!

2011-11-06T20:02:00.001-08:00

Since I am on a roll with posts, I thought I would put up these cute pictures I took of the girls today! They have been LOVING preschool so much! The other day, they got to make pinecones covered with peanut butter rolled in birdseed! BIRDFEEDERS! They have been ecstatic about these! So, of course we had to pose with them! Poor things, they kept talking all the way home from preschool about how we needed to come right home and hang them in a tree! Well....the shepherd hook will have to do since we sadly, do not have any trees!!! And since they were already posing we decided to do a few more!

They have always been cute to Shelbie, but it sure seems like in the last month or so, that they are so much sweeter to her! I think she is finally old enough that they can interact a bit better with her! I especially love the high pitch voice they use when talking to her! After listening to a few videos, I am sure they are getting that from me! I love how they are smiling down at her in this one!

Almost 20 Months Old!

HALLOWEEN!

2011-11-06T19:43:00.000-08:00

Magnum P.I. and Punky Brewster!

Our "Good Witches" and The Cupcake!

When I was talking Sam and Sadie into being witches (because I had got their costumes on an awesome deal the year before) we had to assure them they could be "good witches", they were not a bit interested in being the "scary kind"!

This was quite the trick or treating experience, with Shelbie along! She was NOT happy about sitting in the stroller! She was happy as long as she was the one pushing!!! It made for an interesting and a little bit frustrating night! Thank goodness she is so stinkin cute!!

My best memory of her this night was when we passed a fun house that was playing the monster mash! She just busted out dancing! It was awesome! She would not stop!

Samantha and Sadie could not be bothered with wearing their hats! They kept blowing off as they would run door to door!

The Loot!! They were thrilled! We have enough candy to last us our whole life!!!

Pumpkin Carving Party!

2011-11-06T19:32:00.001-08:00

Samantha and I starting our creation!

Sadie and Dad getting started!

Shelbie's cute pumpkin, that Jake carved in her honor!

Singing songs and doing scary sounds!

Trunk Or Treat!

2011-11-06T19:27:00.000-08:00

Our Adorable Little Cupcake!

Grandma Casey's Quick Visit

2011-11-06T19:21:00.001-08:00

We were so thrilled to get a visit from Grandma Cas!! Unfortunately, my sweet Grandma Chris ended up passing away while she was out here! It was such a blessing to see my Grandma be released from the pain she has been in! What an amazing lady she was! So, we got in as much fun as we could, and then Shelbie and I flew out with her back to Utah for the funeral! I am sad I did not get more pictures, but here they are making Halloween Jello Jigglers! We always love it when Grandma is here!!

And sadly, this is the one of the only pictures I have of being in Utah! But here are Briggs and Shelbie having a good time!! I am so so happy I was able to be to the funeral! To celebrate my Grandma's wonderful life! And what a great time, I had reuniting with cousins and Aunts and Uncles, and especially seeing my own family!! Can't wait to see everyone again soon!

Fall Sunday at the Park!

2011-11-06T19:13:00.000-08:00

For Sunday dinner a couple of weeks ago, we packed up a picnic and headed to the park! It was such a great fall day! We had such a fun time playing in the leaves! We went on a little Nature Walk, we even crossed over a stream walking on the rocks! The girls kept talking about what an amazing adventure we were having! I am so glad we got out as a family to appreciate the beautiful weather! And made fun memories too!!

Pumpkin Patch

2011-11-06T18:33:00.000-08:00

Well......I have done it! I have given up on posting in chronological order! Here is where I say that I really hope to keep up on this! Which I really hope to do! At least every other week or something! I just cannot stand to not have all the fun things we do, and my cutie girls growing up not documented!! I am going to be posting a zillion pictures, because really this is just a scrapbook for us, and I have the hardest time leaving pictures out, they all mean so much to me!! So be prepared! If anyone even still looks at this! So....here goes!

These are pictures from our trip to the Deanna Rose Pumpkin Patch! Funny thing...it was like 80 degrees this day! But it was fun to get us in the Halloween spirit!!

The Hayride!

So thrilled to have Shelbie actually looking at the camera, and smiling too!!

Our fun group! minus Shelbs, she was having too much fun pushing a stroller around!

August 2010

2011-05-01T20:15:00.000-07:00

We like to go feed the ducks at Wyandotte Lake Park on Sunday afternoons!

Shelbie 5 Months Old!

I have been wanting to go rent paddleboats at Shawnee Mission Park for a long time, so we joined up with the Knickerbocker's and headed out there, little did I know that it would turn out to be one of the most horrifically sweaty experiences of Jake and I's life!! Funny thing though, I would still do it again!!! Just not in August!

It took Samantha a few minutes to warm up!

He looks happy....but if there had been a microphone on our boat, you would have heard a different story!! To our credit....we were out of shape, but really there was something wrong with our boat!!

At one point, I was sweating so bad, that I had mascara running down my face!! I was having to splash lake water all over my face to get rid of my makeup!! What a hilarious experience!!!

I cannot get over these cheeks!! ADORABLE!!

CUTIE GIRLS!

Love the Rolls!

Shelbie's First Parade!

Fun with the Brady's at the Tiblow Day's Parade in Bonner Springs!

July!

2011-04-08T20:38:00.000-07:00

To start off the month we took the girls to see "Annie" at Theater In The Park! We had such a fun time! Can't wait to do it again this year!!

For our first 4th of July celebration, we went out to Independence to watch fireworks and listen to an orchestra play patriotic music!

Shelbie slept right through it!

Here are the cuties after church on the 4th! I absolutely loved them in these fun summer dresses!

Our Patriotic Girls!

We got together with some fun friends to BBQ and do a fireworks party!

Samantha sneaking as many potato chips as she could!!

Getting started with the fireworks!

Sadie doing sparklers!

Shelbie watching the fireworks intently!

It ended up being a total down pour!!!

The power went out at the party we were at as well!!

What a memory we made!!

The next night we did our own little firework show to light off the rest of our fireworks!

Here are some pictures of Shelbie around her 4 months old mark!!

We adored this Eiffel Tower onesie that Aunt Holli made for her!

Just had to document Shelbie's totally awesome rat tail before we buzzed it off!!

Get a load of those cheeks!!!

One week that Jake was out of town for work, the girls and I set up their princess tent to spice things up around here! They had so much fun having sleepovers in it!

I hope they will always be this close!!

June!

2011-02-27T20:57:00.000-08:00

More fun pictures from our visit to Utah in June!

Getting ready for her first visit to the pool!! About 3 months old!

Loved this one of her awesome cheeks!! Cannot get enough of them!!

I love Sadie's reaction to the sand castle!

Samantha! Bubbles at Bear Lake!

I love that we are so lucky to get to spend some fun time with the cousins!

Fun times at Grandma and Grandpa's House!

I love that Sadie is trying to catch Samantha!

Melo and I painted the girls fingernails and toes! They LOVED IT! The best part is that they walked around so very careful not to mess up their "paint polish" for hours afterwards!!

Shelbie Claire.....3 months old!

We could not resist a photo shoot with Briggsy Boy, since their outfits just happened to coordinate!

SHELBIE CLAIRE'S BLESSING DAY!!!!

What a joy this sweet girl is in my life! Love her to pieces!! What a special day!

May!

2011-02-02T20:44:00.001-08:00

Finally! Pictures from May!!

A big event in the twins life! We made their beds into Bunk Beds!! You could not even believe how hyper they were about this! They still talk about the day that Jake and his Dad put them together!! Luckily they just worked it out one time, and decided Samantha would have the top bunk and Sadie the bottom!

And then we headed to Utah, of course! To show off our cute Shelbie to everybody!!

Aleigha, Jana and Shelbie!

The girls hanging out with Gracie for a Popcorn Party!

Here is Shelbie doing one of her first smiles for us! She is just about 2 mos old in this picture!

Another adorable pose by Shelbie!

Here we are riding the Trax train in SLC! What a fun event that was!!

And Shelbie slept through the whole thing!!

Just another cute pic!! She frequently has this wide open mouth expression!!

We visited Temple Square to enjoy all of the unbelievably beautiful flowers in bloom!

Love how much fun these two have together!!

They could twirl all day long!! Especially in the super fun "twirly" dresses!

Me and my Shelbie Babe!

I know my expression is a bit off in this pic, but I adore the big cheeses from the twinners!

I just love this one, that they are both walking along admiring their little flower they picked!

Sisters!!

These next few are some of the fun we had in my parents backyard! They have such a fun swing back there and we always have a good time with the bubbles!!

Sadie Janie!!

Samantha...surrounded in bubbles!!

I love that Grandma Cas knows how to make the gigantic ones!!

Samantha Dawn!

Couldn't get enough of her in this sweet little giraffe outfit!!

We headed to St. George for some Fun in the Sun!!

Who knew that 2 little cups could bring 2 girls so much pleasure!

Glad I actually caught a picture of her in this cute outfit! She grew so fast!!!

It has been so much fun watching these girls love Shelbie so much! I don't' know that Shelbie always thinks it is much fun!! She is really patient with them for the most part, Thank Goodness!

I especially love in this video how cute they are with each other!! Shelbie should already have the words to ABC memorized, she has heard it already a trillion times!!

Fun Pictures from March and April!

2010-09-15T20:05:00.000-07:00

These are just a bunch of fun pictures that I wanted to have record of over the months of March and April.

These girls LOVE their "Burella's"!!

I just had to post this, because this is my sister Melodie being such a good sport and letting Sadie comb her hair, over and over and over again! It was so cute how much she loved to do it! And then when she had it just perfect she would say "okay, now your bootiful"!!

A fun moment with Briggsy Boy at the park!

Loved this one!

I just adored them in these cute little knee socks and Paris shirts!

Shelbie obviously not enjoying her photo shoot! She was about a month old here!

Easter Dresses!

Love her in these daisies!!

The morning routine!

Shelbie at 6 weeks old!

This is at a fun restaraunt called Fritz's Railroad where the train comes around a track at the ceiling and drops down your tray right to your table! The girls loved it!

Our cute friend Caleb! They moved far away! We have missed him and his fun Mom a lot!!

While Jake's Mom was out here, she did the girls hair up in these sponge curlers for the first time! Samantha was loving to pose!!

Sadie didn't love it quite as much, her's were out within minutes!!

Grandma Janet also helped us start our first garden! The girls were SO into it!! She let them pick out seeds at the store, and they were so happy to get them planted!

Shelbie in the cute outfit her Daddy picked out for her!

The girls on their first pony ride! They were actually pretty brave! We were amazed!

Easter!

2010-09-10T20:55:00.001-07:00

Hello Friends! I am finally back to posting! How thrilling to finally be working on this, it is inevitably on my to do list almost every single day!! Sorry though....I will now be posting about Easter in September! I am still crazy about posting chronologically!! So, let the catching up begin (again)!!

We kicked off the Easter festivities with the annual Cerner (Jake's employer) Easter Egg Hunt! It was a fun Daddy Daughter Date for Jake and the twinners!

Here they are checking out their loot from the hunt! Jake said they had a hard time picking up eggs because they were too busy keeping an eye on the distance between them and the Easter Bunny that was there!! Hopefully they get over this fear of characters in costume before our trip to Disneyland later this year!!

They always have a bunch of fun activities going on there. Here is Sadie getting her face painted for the first time!

Also a first for Samantha!

The result! I was sad to have missed out on the fun, but thrilled for my reason for staying home, with our little Shelbie girl!! They had a blast with their Dad!

Cutie Girls!

Here are the girls Easter Eve! They were picking out a spot to leave their baskets for the Bunny!

Checking out their fun surprises!

Chocolate Bunnies!

The girls are showing off their most favorite surprise hands down!!! It was magic wand lip gloss! They kept applying more and more and more, I don't know if you can tell but they have it pretty much up to their noses! We got such a kick out of how much they loved it!

Here is Sadie showing off an egg she found that the Easter Bunny hid in our backyard!

I just have to post how hilarious this was! The Easter Bunny had hidden plastic easter eggs with fruit snacks in them around the inside of the house, so when we headed outside to find the eggs we had colored, Sam kept picking up the eggs and chucking them back down!! She was so totally not interested in anything that did not have a treat inside!! Obviously, she got over it, but it was so dang funny!

The Bunny Bubbles In Action!!

Samantha left, Sadie right

And here is our most adorable little bunny!

If you can't tell, that is a cute little cotton tail on the bum of the outfit!

Introducing Shelbie Claire Hunsaker!!!!

2010-07-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

I am so thrilled to finally introduce our adorable Shelbie Claire to the blog! Too bad these are already so out of date! I promise to remedy that soon! I am trying hard, I promise!! Shelbie will be 5 months old on August 12th! I can't even believe it! She has been such a happy, easy going baby! Bless her sweet little heart, because the twins can sure give me a run for my money! They have been quite cute with their little sis! They even still will just stop and say to me, "Mom, I really love my baby sis" or "Our baby is so so cute". She puts up with quite a bit of attention, that is for sure! She has been smiling a lot, and just recently really giggling! We can't get enough of it! The girls love to sing to her, we can usually get some big grins out of Pat-a-cake and I really think she will be able to sing the ABC song the minute she learns to talk, she has heard it many many times!! We just can't imagine our life without her!

Born March 12, 2010

at 7:58 a.m.

7 lbs 9 oz. 18 1/2 inches long

Our first family photo!

Next to meeting their new baby sis, the free cheetos from the hospital snack room were by far the best part for the girls!!

Getting ready to take the little cutie home!

Just over one week old

Two Weeks Old

First official bath!

These are cute pictures from her one month photo shoot!

I was not prepared to be a part of the photo shoot, but I do adore this sweet picture!

Stay tuned for more up to date pictures soon!

Dance Class!

2010-07-18T21:27:00.000-07:00

I'm Back! Finally! I have been excited to post these fun photos of our little ballerina's! This was their first time taking dance! We signed them up with a couple of their cute friends for a session of dance to see how they would like it, and it was more like LOVE at first dance!! They absolutely loved every minute of it and have asked me zillions of times since when they get to go back to Dance Class? It has been especially cute to hear them pretty much every prayer be "Thankful for my Dance Class"! Thank Goodness we have got them enrolled to start again this fall!

This is them getting ready to head out on their first night of class! Sam left, Sadie right

Sadie Janie

This was one of their favorite activities there, the Train! Sam is the leader and that is Sadie and our cute friend Britt!

Samantha Dawn

This is one of the few moves they remember and love to perform! Shuffle-Step!

Taking a Breather?!

On Samantha's left is our other cute friend Gabbie!

Wow! What is this?! My darling ballerina's brawling?! Yes, that is Sadie pulling Sam's hair and Sam reaching to retalliate!!

Can't get enough of these cutie girls!!

I promise, promise, promise that the next post will be full of pictures of our Shelbie Claire! I have a million cute ones, I am having a hard time deciding!!!

February!

2010-03-08T23:28:00.001-08:00

Here are the girls modeling these cute aprons that my amazing sis-in-law made for us for Christmas! They love wearing these, they especially love the pockets! And it has been fun....they are so very interested in helping out in the kitchen!!

I just happened to be craving chocolate chip cookies and Jake was out of town so we decided to whip some up! Unfortunately they did not turn out! I think I might stick with the ready made dough for next time!! But atleast we made some fun memories!

Here is just a little photo shoot after church one Sunday. They were loving their knee socks! And I was loving them in them as well!!

Just incase you don't know...Sadie is in brown, Samantha pink.

Our cute friend Quinci put together a fun little Valentine playgroup for the kiddos! It truly is amazing that we got even just 3 of them looking for this photo!

These are the adorable flowers that Jake brought home for the girls and I for Valentine's Day! What a doll!!

AND GUESS WHAT EVERYONE????!!!!! (Well to those few of you that still happen to check my blog!!!!) I AM CAUGHT UP!!! I truly am so proud of myself! Now if I could just keep up with it! Just in time to hopefully be posting baby sister pictures very soon!!!!

Stay Tuned!!

Twinners Turn 3!

2010-03-08T22:42:00.000-08:00

Can't believe my twinner girls are 3 years old already!!! They of course chose to have a Princess Party and it was perfect!

We played pin the glass slipper on Cinderella!

Princess....Princess....Frog (instead of Duck Duck Goose)

Pass the Poisoned Snow White Apple

and of course Cake Time! I must say...I hope that practice makes perfect because this cake decorating thing was a little crazy! I think the problem is I had watched a how to video a few times on line to make this Barbie cake and believe me mine did not turn out like hers! Oh well..the girls seemed to love it and that is all that matters right?!

Sadie as Cinderella!

Samantha as Snow White!

I also have to publicly thank my cute Mom for her artistic abilities! She made these princesses and mailed them out special for the girls party!!

As Sadie would say my new "Bycicle", I don't know why I get such a kick out of her calling it that! We have since had a few nice days and tried to have them ride these outside....it is going to take some practice, that is forsure! But they sure seem grown up riding these!

What a fun day! So glad we had fun friends to help us celebrate! I can't even express how much I love these two little girls! What joy and excitment and DRAMA they bring to our lives daily!!! I feel so lucky to get to be their Mom!!

January!

2010-03-08T21:03:00.001-08:00

We were all about the ice skating this winter! While we were still in Utah for Christmas Break Jake's awesome aunt and cousin that teach ice skating spent some time with the girls at the rink! It was so fun watching the girls try to learn to skate! They had such a great time! How lucky we are to have these super nice relatives in the business!

Jake got out there and got some practice in as well! This pair of skates treated him A LOT better than the last time he tried!

Here is Sadie sporting "Safety Knees"

Wish we could even dream of affording ice skating lessons for the girls someday!

They sure had fun!

While we were up in Logan there was a beautiful snow storm and we decided to take the girls out sledding! This is really one of their first times ever playing in the snow! Thank goodness they had fun cousins there to play with!

Aleigha and Samantha

Jakie and Sadie

Thanks to Grandpa Brucie, he did all the work with the sled!

This is just a cute picture I took of the girls back here in Kansas, they put Jake's hats on and were being so dang cute with each other!

December!

2010-03-02T20:56:00.000-08:00

This is a crazy long post with tons of pictures!

What can I say...December was a busy fun month!

It is too hard to leave any of the details out!

First of all...here we are decorating the tree!

The girls of course decked out in princess attire! This is a daily occurence!

Samantha!

Sadie!
Our tradition is always to watch the movie Elf while decorating!

Samantha left, Sadie right

This is at Jake's Annual Work Christmas Party. Thank goodness they were happy to pose with Mrs. Claus, because they kept saying "No, Ho Ho!" Which translates to please don't make me go near Santa Claus!!

Cookie Decorating!

This was the closest we got to Santa...waving at him in line!
Jake did carry Sadie up to see if she would change her mind, but she freaked, and the most hilarious thing was Samantha screaming, "No, Sadie, No!!!" like we were putting her in danger or something! It is sad to have them be so worried, but quite comical at the same time!!

Afterwards, Jake had a great idea to take the girls to the outdoor skating rink down at Crown Center! Here they are all set to go give it a try!!

Dad and Sadie in action!

Dad and Samantha! Poor Jake is starting to feel it!!

It was so sad.....we are thinking that Jake did not get the right size of skates!! He was feeling some serious pain pretty quick!! What a good sport, though!! (Don't worry...more pics to come of our 2nd time ice skating and Jake was skating like a professional!!!)

I just had to post this picture because it cracks me up that out of all the shots we took the one where the girls are finally both smiling and looking so cute at the camera and I am the one messing it up!!! Of course!!

Here we are showing off our attempt at Graham cracker gingerbread houses! They didn't turn out to be anything very deluxe, but we had a fun time making them!!

I am assuming now with the haircuts people know who is who, but just incase....

Samantha left, Sadie right

We headed to Utah for Christmas of course, and had a fun Christmas Eve with Jake's family! Here the girls are posing in their new Dora nightgowns from Grandma Janet!

It was so fun to have the girls be more into the Christmas fun and traditions! Here we are getting cookies ready to leave for Santa!

The girls were so WASTED! Too much partying I'm sure! So Jake spent half the night with them! Here they are all knocked out! I wish I could get the video to load of us waking up the girls for Christmas morning and them both crying and saying "NO, SANTA!" They were so worried the night before thinking that Santa would be in the house while they were asleep, that we finally told them we would have him leave their presents outside and we would bring them in for them! Of course once we got them upstairs to check out their loot, they were thrilled! I hope they remember this for next year! What a great guy Santa really is!!!!

We didn't really get a lot of great Christmas morning shots, but here is Sam opening up some blocks!!

And Sadie opening up her Fashion Friends!

Here they are with their new princess purses and jewelry that they picked out for each other!

Playing with Grandpa Spencie and their new baby dolls!

We had a great Christmas Day party with my family, again not a lot of great pictures captured, but we all had a super fun time!

The official Christmas Day family picture!

Well...it just might happen, I might be caught up before our newest little addition shows up! I am 38 weeks today, so hopefully you will see a few more posts this week!!

Princess On Ice!

2010-02-14T21:52:00.000-08:00

(I finally got around to blogging again! So if you care to know, there are 3 other posts below this)

This had to be the highlight of our trip! Jake's sister Holli and I decided to take our little princesses to Disney Princess On Ice! We had such a fabulous time! This also kickstarted Sadie and Samantha's princess obsession! They wake up begging to wear their princess dress ups and would sleep in them if we let them!! There are a ton of pictures of this fun event, but they were all too cute I could not decide!

Snow White a.k.a Samantha

Sleeping Beauty a.k.a Sadie

Princess Hailey, Sadie and Samantha

They were glued once it started! It was so much fun watching them enjoy it!

Pure Delight!

I am thrilled to have caught the Ooohh face!

November!

2010-02-14T21:24:00.001-08:00

We headed over to the park to get some fall leave fun in! And to try out our new camera!

Sadie

It took Samantha a little bit to warm up to the idea!

Jake got an amazing opportunity to head to Egypt for 2 weeks for work! We were thrilled for him, but not up for the 2 week single parenting challenge, so the girls and I packed up last minute and headed for Utah!

While we were there Sadie Janie got a haircut!! I had a hard time deciding if we should do it, but her hair was really turning into a mullet! So we did it, and are so glad we did! She of course looks adorable and her hair looks so much healthier! She was so cute about it, she kept worrying that her haircut was going to blow away when we were out in the wind!!

We headed up to Bear Lake for an overnight stay with some of my family! This was probably the first time the girls had been out in the snow for the season. This is Samantha!

Sadie

The group of us up at the cabin

Checking out the beautiful scenery!

A dip in the hot tub!

They put on quite the performance for us! The fireplace was the perfect stage!

Ooops...More November!

2010-02-14T21:22:00.000-08:00

Here a few more pictures I wanted to add to November!

We were so glad that we were able to go over and spend some time with my Grandpa Reed and Grandma Eunice.

Here are the cousins on Thanksgiving making Turkeys!

Here is Samantha showing hers off!

My parents have this fun swing in their backyard. Thank goodness the girls know how to hold on tight!

Sadie

Samantha

We had a great idea to do a photo shoot of our little Utah Cheerleaders for Jake's parents for Christmas, we tried first at Target and were unsuccessful so we tried again and got these cute photos!

You should see how many we had to take to get this one with them all smiling and actually looking at the camera!!

Cutie Girls!

Go Utes!

Halloween!

2010-02-13T21:30:00.000-08:00

We did a fun Halloween dinner at our house, complete with a Jack-O-Lantern pizza, Witches Brew, and Halloween Jello Jigglers. Too bad Sadie felt the need to show off her belly in this picture!

Our Utah Cheerleaders!!

Sadie left, Samantha right

This was hilarious! This was the first house they went to and Sam comes waddling back from the porch like this!! Oops...looks like the tights might be a little small! We all got a great laugh from it though!

I don't know who had more fun, the girls or Jake and I witnessing their first Trick Or Treating experience! They were ecstatic! They ran from house to house, knocking relentlessly, and then they would announce and rave about the treat that they were given! Also randomly yelling out Go Utes! The houses that had dogs got quite a reaction as well!

We went out with our fun friends the Knickerbocker's. This is their cute little "Dorothy"!

And this was the best....the girls couldn't even hold their little pumpkin buckets by the end of their route! They were so full! So they came home and organized all their loot! What a fun memory this night was!

Pumpkin Patch!

2010-02-13T21:00:00.000-08:00

We took the girls to a fun Farm/Pumpkin Patch. They had fun activities for the girls, a corn maze, and then we took the wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick the perfect pumpkins!

Fun Times in KC with my Family!

2009-12-28T23:18:00.001-08:00

I finally posted all of September!! There are 4 different posts, so scroll down if you want!

These are the fun things we did while they were in town!

We went to a Royals Game!

Here is Samantha going completely ballistic at the attempt of a picture with Slugger! I wish I could upload the video of Sadie running away at even the sight of him!

Samantha

Another trip to the farm! The girls have been telling Grandma and Grandpa all summer about their trips to the farm, so we had to go show them all the fun!

We went to a park to cook tinfoil dinners and marshmallows, and lucked out with this beautiful sunset!

Marshmallows! The girls are a lot more interested in cooking the mallows than eating them!!

I love tinfoil dinners! These were especially delicious, probably because my Mom prepared them! I have such fun memories of going up in the canyon and having these growing up!

Per Jake's suggestion (he is all about our guests experiencing Kansas City's finest attractions) we visited the Federal Reserve. It actually was pretty interesting, I have to admit.

One of the girls other favorite activities is riding the carousel at the mall. So we brought the crew to experience that as well! Sam always picks the zebra, and we are proud of Sadie that she will finally ride her very own horse.

Baby Briggs!

It was so fun to have everyone come out! Can't wait for your next visit!

Nauvoo!

2009-12-28T22:34:00.000-08:00

This is a bit backwards...we stopped at Carthage Jail on our way back. This is one of my favorite of the spots we went to. It is truly amazing to realize all that has happened at these sites so long ago! We were so glad we got to make the trip!

My parents and my sister Melodie and her cute little guy Briggs came for a visit to Kansas City and we went on a roadtrip up to visit the church sites in Nauvoo!

The Sunset over the Mississippi was Amazing!

Samantha

Sadie

The Circus!!

2009-12-28T22:25:00.000-08:00

We took our first family trip to the Circus! I absolutely love how excited the girls get about things now! That must be Samantha's excited face below!!

Daddy and Samantha

Sam doing another crazy face, and Sadie in front!

September 2009

2009-12-28T21:49:00.000-08:00

Finally....some pictures of the fun we had in September! The girls really got a kick out of feeding bread to the ducks, so we did it a lot!

This was Daddy's first trip with us to the fun little farm we have in our area. This was so cute...the girls wanted so bad to feed the little goats the bottles, but it totally freaked them out at first, so Jake would hold the bottle and the girls would hold on to his wrist and say "Look! I fed myself a goat!"

Sadie

Samantha

Sam getting more brave!

Can't wait to get back there next summer, it is such a fun place and the best part is it is FREE!!

Official Announcement!

2009-10-25T20:40:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to announce that we are adding a new edition to our family this coming March!

IT'S A GIRL!!!

WE ARE THRILLED!!!

In other exciting news....I finally did another post!!

Two actually! See below!!

4th of July!

2009-10-25T20:39:00.000-07:00

Sam Left, Sadie Right

Samantha Dawn

Sadie Jane

We had a fun 4th! Had a BBQ with friends during the day and then a fun fireworks show that night! We are lucky to live close to a baseball stadium that was doing big fireworks and a concert venue that did a great show also! We were surrounded! The highlight for Sadie was the Cheesy Doritos! And poor Samantha got her first sparkler burn!

On the 3rd we went down to see some fireworks over the Missourri River! This was our attempt at a family photo!

Sam left, Sadie right

I am so glad this video posted, I tried last time and could not get video to post! I just have to say that the girls love to sing and we sing lots of different songs, so around the 4th of July to switch things up because Old McDonald and Twinkle Star we're getting kind of old, I started singing them some patriotic songs. For some crazy reason they both took to God Bless America, and started requesting it 60 times a day! I am sad that Sadie isn't singing a long very well in this video, because she seems to love it a bit more than Sam. In fact, still to this day it is her pck for her bedtime song every night!

August!

2009-10-25T20:38:00.000-07:00

Look at me getting all caught up! Maybe I will even have Halloween posted in November?! These are just some highlights of things we did end of July and August!

The girls got their first purses! We went one night over to an outdoor shopping complex and they went in and picked them out, and then strutted all over the place with them!

It was ADORABLE!

Jake brought us home these flowers, Just Because!

We were all thrilled!

Samantha left, Sadie right

We took a fun trip down to Crown Center, we went to a Lego display and then outside to run through the fountains!

The girls with their cute friend Britt! Samantha is loving it!!

I guess this wasn't a fun hightlight, Poor Sadie! She got her first set of stitches! It is actually pretty comical now to think back to mine and Jake's reaction! This was our first big injury that we have dealt with as parents, and we were both a bit frantic at first! Sadie had climbed up into her booster seat up against the counter top bar and we are thinking she must have stood up and slipped and fell onto Samantha in her booster seat! All of the sudden she is hysterical and Jake runs over to comfort her, we sit her back in her chair and I look over and their is blood running down her shoulder!! She must have sideswiped the edge of the counter with her earlobe and it kind of severed it! Jake laughs at me for calling it severed, but I don't know how else to describe it! There was a big slit in her ear lobe!! So anyways off to the E.R. because of course it was at 9:00 on a Saturday night! It was kind of brutal having to watch her get the stitches! She was trying so hard to be brave! And it was adorable....Samantha started singing her songs to help her feel better! She ended up with 6 stitches, and I honestly think going to the Doctor to get them taken out was probably more traumatic for her than getting them in!!

Sadie left, Samantha right

Cuties! Sadie left, Sam right

A cheesegurger cook out!

Samantha left, Sadie right

Fun with friends at this cute little farm we have close by!

Sadie, Amelia, Samantha

The girls with their "boyfriend" Caleb!

We often get asked if these 3 are triplets?!

This was the girl's first parade! These are our cute friends Erika and Alyssa. They are so cute to Sadie and Samantha. And I just have to say in regard to my God Bless America comment earlier that the girls also associate Erika with God Bless America, so that is what they call her! They have just recently shortened it to America.

Samantha

Sadie

A fun trip down to Union Station! They have a big indoor train table!
The girls could have watched forever!

I just had to post this because if you can tell, the girls are drenched! We have a shopping complex by our house that has these big fountains, and the girls cannot help themselves! They start out just sticking their hands in it and within seconds they are soaked! They LOVE it!!

Sadie left, Samantha right

Utah Trip!

2009-10-12T21:03:00.001-07:00

These are the zillions of pictures to highlight our time in Utah! Jake had a work trip to the University of Utah hospital in May so we went with and the girls and I stayed through most of June! Such a fun trip! We feel so lucky to get to spend so much time with our families and friends!! So consider that a warning....this is a super long post of pictures!! It was way hard deciding what to post!! (and p.s.- I am sure this is due to my infrequent posting that I still cannot figure out how to post my pictures in order!!!)

We were so lucky....Jake flew in and we met up in Vegas for our 4th Wedding Anniversary!

We decided to stay at the "Paris" Hotel to relive some of our memories from last year (in the real Paris, France)! We had such a great time! And were so lucky to have such willing babysitters!!

While we were there we went and did the Gondola ride at the Venetian Hotel!

We went to a restaraunt and ordered this Big Kahuna, it was crazy! It had an erupting volcano and everything!!

This is funny....I couldn't stand leaving Utah without going up to Bear Lake. We drove all the way up there and it was cold and windy! Oh well...atleast we attempted!

Fun with Grandpa Spence in the wagon!

An unforgettable trip to the fountains at the Gateway! Grandma Janet being a good sport and helping the girls be brave and get wet!!

Fun with Cousin Hailey!

I was lucky enough to take a quick girls trip to Santa Barbara! We went out on a whale watching tour! It was awesome!! And really windy!!

We were so happy to get to be there for my nephew Isaac's Walk for Autism!

It was such a neat experience!!

Jake and I got the chance to go on a date to the Bountiful Temple!

Fun with the Cousins!!

Our good friends the Tippett's Wedding!

It was so great to get to be there for their big day and see all these good friends!

Cutie Girls at Temple Square! The flowers were amazing!

I ran a 5K with a couple of my great friends down in Provo!

Me and Mindie

My awesome cheering squad!

Me and Kristan in action!

A 4 generation picture with my Grandma Chris! It was so good to get to see her!

The M&M Store!

Getting ready to tour the strip in Vegas!!

Sadie left, Samantha right and our cousing Baby Briggs!!

Hoover Dam!

My Birthday Party!

Sam admiring her "mallows"! We had a smore party in my parents backyard!

Sadie and Grandpa Brucie!

Easter!

2009-09-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

Okay...again the disclaimer! I refuse to not post in order of events! So bear with me that I am finally getting Easter posted in September! Baby steps....Remember!!

And now I cannot even get the pictures to move into the order I want! So oh well, here they are as I downloaded them.

Sadie Left, Samantha Right

Our Robin Egg Blue Lipstick Picture!

I remember loving to lick those eggs and use the color as lipstick?! I am sure some of you have to know what I am talking about, right?!

The girls showing off their loot from the Easter Bunny!

Our egg coloring party! Sam left, Sadie right

Cutie Girls on Easter Sunday!
Sadie left, Samantha right

Their first trip to the Carousel at the mall!

Samantha was a big fan!

Sadie...not so much! Thank goodness they have the non "scary" ride as well!

The girls in their new shades! Giving the camera a Thumbs Up!

Sadie left, Samantha right

Jake's work puts on a fun Easter Egg Hunt, and other fun activities. This is the girls checking out their eggs they just gathered!

Sam left, Sadie right

Daddy and his girls....Sam left, Sadie right

Samantha admiring her bunny box she just made!

And Sadie hers!

And that concludes, the Easter Festivities! Stay tuned for my next post of our trip to Utah!

I am determined to be caught up, so I can post Christmas in December! Wish me Luck!!

Baby Steps......

2009-07-13T20:54:00.000-07:00

Okay, so any of you that might possibly still check my blog will realize that I have not posted in a REALLY REALLY LONG TIME!! So I am making an effort to start posting again, but for journaling purposes I hate to miss out on all the things that have happened since the girls birthday in February! So, I am going to start my posts from where I left off....I just want to give a warning that you might be reading about Valentine's in July! Sorry!! So here goes...I sure hope I can keep up with it this time!!

Grandma Casey's Good-Bye at the airport

These are at Red Robin on Valentine's Day!

Daddy and Sadie

Mommy and Samantha

We surprised Jake Valentine's morning with the girls in their new Utah Cheerleading Outfits! They have some room to grow into them, that's forsure!! The Elmo slippers were there own addition to the outfit!

St. Patrick's Day!

2009-07-12T22:23:00.000-07:00

We had an exceptionally warm day on St Patricks Day that we headed to the zoo! Oops...no pictures of that, but here is the bubble party we had afterwards!

Sadie left, Samantha right

I just have to make mention that Sadie had a complete and total meltdown when I put these new flip flops on her feet! (Now she asks for her shlip shlops!)

The girls got a package from Grandma Janet in the mail and had a blast with all the packing peanuts! We let them live it up!!

2 Year Old Birthday Bash!!!

2009-04-09T20:23:00.001-07:00

Our Twins Turned Two!!!

(2 months ago that is)

And we celebrated big time! We went all out girly and did a Strawberry Shortcake Party! I am quite sure this meant more to me than the girls....I LOVED Strawberry Shortcake when I was a little girl! So I was thrilled to find so many cute things for their party! We celebrated in Utah right before we came home and again on their official Birthday when we got back! So we have tons of pictures....here are our favorites!!

I am sad this is the best picture I have of the Strawberry Shortcake Cheerleader that my Mom made for us! Thank You Mom!! So instead of "pin the tail on the donkey" we played "pin the megaphone on the Strawberry Shortcake Cheerleader!!" This is Samantha getting ready for her turn!

We also attempted Musical Chairs to the Strawberry Shortcake Theme Song!

Present Time!! Sam left, Sadie right

Samantha Swinging at the Piniata!

Sadie's Turn!

Checking out the loot!

Getting ready to blow out the candles!

Sadie left, Samantha right

As if you have not seen enough pictures yet......(this blog by the way is also my scrapbook, so sorry for so many photos)

The Kansas Party!! This was on their Official Birthday!

Attempted picture of the partiers!

Avery and Evie our "Honorary Partiers"

Cupcakes! And suckers, for Sadie!!

Sadie Janie!

Samantha Dawn!

The girls picked LoneStar Steakhouse for their Birthday Dinner! Great Taste, huh!

Sadie left, Sam right

We were lucky to still have Grandma Casey around to help celebrate!

Sadie left, Samantha right

Here is the footage of the girls blowing out their candles!

Samantha left, Sadie right

Well....Time is flying! I absolutely cannot believe that the girls are 2 already! I have to admit that I think there is truth to the Terrible Two's statement!! It is getting more and more interesting everyday!! Believe it or not...Sadie and Sam can do their fair share of bullying, that is FORSURE! But Thank Goodness they are so cute, it totally makes up for those frustrating moments! They are so full of personality, and I absolutely love watching them interact with each other! They can be such good friends to each other! How lucky for them to always have a buddy! They make us laugh, and keep us highly entertained! I am so grateful for the love that they show towards Jake and I as well! I feel so lucky to be their Mom! (Now next time one of them is relentlessly slugging your kids at playgroup, REMIND ME I SAID THIS!!)

UTAH FUN!!

2009-02-16T20:17:00.000-08:00

I'm Back! And so so so behind on blogging! So get ready for a huge post with tons of pictures! We had such a great time in Utah! It means so much to us to get to have all the time with our family and friends! We did so many fun things and made lots of great memories! We are happy to be home especially to see Jake! And it has been great to see all of our fun friends here as well!

We took the girls out for their first sledding experience! It was especially fun for me that it was down Old Main Hill in Logan! I grew up sledding there, and have lots of great memories! Unfortunately it started raining and was so windy right when we got there! So we only made it half way down the hill one time!! Oh well...it still counts, right?!

Dad and Sadie

Mom and Samantha

This was the attempted 2nd trip down the hill! They were not excited about that!

We were able to go see the lights at Temple Square and a delicious dinner at the Spaghetti Factory with Jake's Family!

Samantha loving her Spaghetti!

Sadie thoroughly enjoying every last drip of the Spumoni ice cream!

The cousins!

Me and Holli!

It was so much fun to have the girls get to spend all kinds of time with their cousins! One of the highlights was a "tea party" at my brother's house! All of the kids were so cute to the girls!

We were lucky enough to spend about a week in Sunny St. George! The first couple of days Jake's Mom and sister and cousin Hailey were down there with us! We shopped and hung out! It was so much fun!

One of Sadie's new moves....the dog pile!!

Sam, Sadie

Poor Hailey!

Aunt Melo, Baby Briggs, Gracie, the girls and Gabe!

Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Cas

Making Wishes at the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite!! Sadie stripes, Sam hearts

These are just some more random pictures while in Utah!

Samantha and Ryker eating chips!!

The poor girlies got the stomach flu for about 4 or 5 days! It was so crazy to see them lying so still! This never happens!!!!

"Bampa" Brucie all decked out for a choir concert! Sam left, Sadie right
It is hilarious to hear the girls call for their "Bampa's" it is their new favorite word!!

Sadie left, Samantha right

We had a fun early birthday party for the girls...it is so much fun to get my whole family together! It is so crazy and LOUD!!

Samantha and Baby Briggs! I was so glad we got her to sit here all cute with him and not attack him! Sadie was NOT interested! They were so JEALOUS if I was even near him! Good thing we're not having a baby around here anytime soon....I would be so worried for its life!!!!

These next few pictures are the beginning of 3 different 2 Year Old Birthday Bashes we had for the girls!! They were so spoiled this year! We are so glad we were able to celebrate with everyone, it was so much fun! These pictures are from the little party we had with Jake's family before we came home.

Blowing out the candles!
Sam left, Sadie right

A cake picnic!!

Loving their new Strawberry Shortcake and Crepes Suzette dolls!I don't know who is more excited...me or them! I loved Strawberry Shortcake dolls back in the day! I love that they are still cool!!

Well....I know this post is already CRAZY LONG! So I am going to wait and post more birthday party pictures soon!!

Christmas 2008

2009-01-11T20:00:00.000-08:00

I apologize for taking so long to get these Christmas pictures up, but here they are in all their glory! We were lucky enough to spend the Holidays in Utah with family and friends. The girls were awesome and really got into the dolly strollers Santa brought them!

As you can see from the pictures the girls have been having so much fun playing with all their cousins! We have done so many fun things...and I still have oodles of fun pictures to post, but the computer is giving me all kinds of grief tonight so I will have to try again soon!
P.S.-The adorable Ute baby by the presents is my new nephew Briggs!
He just turned 1 month today! We were so excited to meet him!

Santa!

2008-12-19T21:10:00.000-08:00

We took the girls to see Santa at a fun Christmas party Jake's work put on! Just as expected, they HATED HIM!! We attempted earlier in the month and the girls, especially Sadie went into full body convulsions just at the sight of Santa! So we have been talking him up, and when you ask them what Santa says they say Ho! Ho! Ho!! But as you will see from the picture, again he was not a hit! Maybe we will have better luck next year!! It was still worth going, it was a great party! They had fun balloon artists, little games, cookie decorating, and Breakfast.

Samantha - the balloons are flowers if your not sure!

Sadie

Cookie Decorating!

Samantha cannot get out of the sled fast enough!! Fun Memories!!

Here is another view, this one was taken by Jake's Work!

Here is my attempt at trying to get the girls to hold still long enough to show off them knowing that Santa says....Ho Ho Ho!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!!

Dolls!

2008-12-04T20:29:00.000-08:00

I just thought I would post a few cute pictures of the girls playing with their dolls! They have started playing with them a lot more the last month or two. I love how they just started carrying them around and saying "Ahhh, Baby". The video is trying to capture the cute saying!

Sadie is in grey, and Samantha is in pink.

Jake's Birthday!

2008-11-25T21:54:00.000-08:00

It was Jake's Birthday on Sunday! I am so glad there is a day to celebrate Jake! He is such an awesome husband, and a great friend to me! And such a fun, cute Dad to the girls! We had a great time celebrating! This was my first attempt at being a cake decorator! Let's just say I won't be starting a business anytime soon! Hopefully practice will eventually make perfect! It is just funny how you have something envisioned in your head and then the finished product looked quite a bit different! Oh Well, I think it turned out good enough that you should be able to tell it is a Ute Jersey! Thanks to the Utes for winning the big game on Saturday, any of you that know Jake will realize that them winning was Present Enough!!!

The Birthday Boy!!

Make a Wish!

Jake with Sam, Me with Sadie

They love waking Daddy up in the morning! Sam standing.

The girls are showing off their newest trick! They have discovered that they can climb up on our tall kitchen table chairs! Although it is entertaining to see them be so proud of their new accomplishment, it sure makes things more interesting!! Goodbye Tablerunner with Centerpiece! Sadie left, Samantha right.

I just have to give credit to my cute husband, for my "Just Because" flowers! It meant so much to me! I think Jake was actually missing Paris! (Like he does atleast once a day!) And remembered how we loved to buy fresh flowers from the cute little shops right by our flat! Fun Memories!

I have received requests to post more video of the girls! I'm glad you enjoy them as much as we do! I have to apologize in advance for my horrible rendition of Ring around the Rosy!

Halloween Etc.

2008-11-04T20:49:00.000-08:00

We had a fun time celebrating Halloween! We tried to get the girls to say "Trick-or-Treat", but we ended up settling for a "Boo" instead! These first pictures are from a fun party they held at Jake's work, they went all out! There were fun little crafts to make, cookie decorating, balloon animals, a spiderweb catch (aka fish pond), good food and a huge trick or treating set up!

Our Little Fairies!

Sadie left, Samantha right

Sadie and Daddy making their pumpkin craft!

They had great decorations!

Mom and Samantha

Samantha

Sam Left, Sadie Right

Sadie

Samantha

We also hit up our old ward's trunk or treat! It was so great to see all of our good friends!

Aren't our little friends costumes so cute?! Elsie is a giraffe and Amelia a chicken! To be honest...I can't tell which twin that is?! Oops!

Samantha

Okay this is bad.....I have not mixed them up in a long time! I really thought this was Sadie and now all the sudden I think it might be Samantha?! I promise in real life I can always tell them apart!!!

Okay, this one I'm sure! Sam left, Sadie right

We met up with some friends at the Deanna Rose Farmstead, it is a fun little farm where you can check out the animals and if you are brave (which I am not) then you can get in and pet the animals and feed the lambs bottles etc. We will have to bring Jake along next time, he is brave!

Sam left, Sadie right

I just thought this one was too cute to not share!! Samantha left, Sadie right

They are geting so good at saying "Cheese" for the camera!

Here is a video clip of us trying to get the girls to show off!!

Our Latest Adventures!!

2008-10-22T21:08:00.000-07:00

Well, I hate to admit this but back in February Jake and I signed up to run the Kansas City 1/2 Marathon (with the hope of losing some pounds) and for some crazy reason we forgot to train for it!!!!! We are sad, but now looking back we are thinking it would have made more sense to expect us to be more disciplined with our training when we are not living out of the country and here there and everywhere! This most likely is just an excuse to make us feel better, but since we had already paid for it, we decided to atleast try to run the 5K! We are so glad we did! We had such a great time doing it together! It was a bit comical since we really weren't even able to run the entire time, but it was just so much fun to be downtown and chatting with each other along the way! It is amazing how many people show up for these events, it makes it so exciting! We are determined to keep up the tradition and try to do one together every year! And hopefully it will kick us in gear to really get working out so all the Grandmas and Grandpas and little kiddies don't pass us up next time!! Here are a few of the pictures......

Here we are at the Starting Line....Super Bright and Early!!

Jake in Action!! It was so fun, they had bands playing to pump you up along the way!

Here we are in front of the New Sprint Center, start of Mile 2!

What a Stud!!

Another fun thing the girls and I did recently was visit a cool little Dairy Farm with some of our super fun friends!! We got to taste test all of their yummy flavored milks, see how they bottle it, see baby cows, and see how they milk them! It was all very interesting! It was pretty funny though, it was just us and a whole elementary school class. The owner did part of the tour, he was a really cool guy, but the best part was while we were in checking out the baby cows he came up to us and said "You guys must really be bored today??!!" But honestly, we were thoroughly entertained! It is just fun to get out and switch up the scenery, ya know!!

Thank Goodness the tour was stroller friendly!!

Our next adventure is a bit of a re-run! I know we already posted about visiting the Louisburg Cider Mill, but we got the chance to head out there again with some friends so we couldn't resist more pumpkin pictures of the girls!!

Love this picture of Samantha's cheese! (left)

Our attempt at a group picture!

Baby Evie, Mason, Sadie, Samantha

Watching the yummy doughnuts being made!

Sadie, stopping to smell the flowers!

Samantha Dawn!

We had a great time, definetly worth 2 visits!

A Trip To The Louisburg Cider Mill.......

2008-10-07T20:58:00.000-07:00

It was so much fun, a couple weeks ago Jake and I took the girls up to The Louisburg Cider Mill for the Pumpkin Fest! It is the cutest place, you can walk through and see how they press all the apples to make delicious cider and they also make really yummy cider doughnuts. For the Pumpkin Fest they had a Pancake Breakfast, which any of you that know Jake and his love of the pancake, will realize that was probably most of his motivation in going!!! We got a few cute pictures of the girls with the pumpkins, Sadie for some reason was afraid of them, which seems to be the new trend, she is really pretty apprehensive about anything new these days!!

Samantha Dawn

Sadie Jane

Sam left, Sadie right

I actually got more smiley pictures at home before we left! I am slowly realizing that no matter how long I stand there and hoop and holler and say "Cheese" I am not going to ever get a perfect shot of them both at the same time anymore!

Sadie

Samantha

Samantha left, Sadie right

Daddy's Girls!!

Sadie left, Sam right

Today it rained and rained in the morning so I decided to put the girls in their adorable galoshes and raincoats, by the time we left the house it had pretty much stopped, so they were all dolled up and all we did is go to Wal-Mart!! It really does feel like playing dolls somedays!! I only wish I had as much fun getting myself dressed as I do them!!

Samantha left, Sadie right

This is a funny background for a picture, but I love it! This is in our garage, there is the tiniest little cement ledge that the girls discovered and love to sit on! I promise they do have jean skirts on under there! It looks a little questionable??!!

Go UTES!!

2008-09-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post some fun pictures we took at the Utah vs. Air Force game last weekend! Since it was only an 8 hour drive we decided to make the road trip! It was so much fun to meet up with some of Jake's Buddies, and just to see how much it meant to Jake to be there made it totally worth the drive! Thank Goodness the Utes won the game, that was an added bonus!! Here are the pics!

Jake and his Buddies!

Samantha left, Sadie Right

Sadie left, Sam right

I know you can't see us very well, but this is a rest stop along the way home, I loved this big Sunflower, Just in case you didn't know it is the Kansas State Flower!!

On Sunday before we headed back we got to meet up with my great friend Kari in Castle Rock and had lunch! It was so great to see her, we should have taken a picture!

Okay so we all know that I have been a HORRIBLE BLOGGER! So of course I have all kinds of catch up pictures to post! Here are just a few.....and as always I hope to be posting more often!

This is one of my favorite spots in Kansas City, it is a really cool fountain down at the Country Club Plaza! Sadie left, Samantha right

Love this pic of Sadie!

We took these when our great friends Kristen and Jeremy and their cute daughter Emerson came out to visit us! It was so much fun to have them here!

Samantha's New Trick!!

Sadie doing Patty Cake on her cute Cheeks!

Sadie left, Sam right

Thank Goodness for these precious sister moments!! It helps me get through the boxing matches that seem to be happening a little more often these days!

Oh and by the way.......Sadie and Samantha are starting their own band!!

There's No Place Like Home!

2008-08-21T20:51:00.000-07:00

We made it back to good old Kansas City! We have been busy trying to get our life put back together, and I promise to finally post pictures of our townhome when I finally get it decorated one of these days! It truly has been great to be back and see all of our fun Kansas friends! We really do feel so lucky and blessed to have had the chance to have this European Adventure and the girls and I for our fun time in Utah! Thanks to everyone who made the last 7 months so totally fabulous for us all!
This is a fun video clip of the girls on our LONG Roadtrip home! A HUGE Thanks to Jake's totally awesome parents for letting us borrow their truck to get here!! Overall it wasn't so bad, but oh how fun it was to finally get here!!

We got right back into the Kansas City Scene by attending a Royals Game for Friday
Night Fireworks!

Sadie Loving Some Baseball Game Nachos!

This Cup Is As Big As Samantha Is!

And I just have to say....I was dreading the humidity and it really hasn't been too bad!

We just found a little tikes climber/slide on Craigs List, it is already worth every penny we payed for it! The girls love it to death!!

Sadie....after a spontaneous run through the sprinklers!

Samantha Dawn

Sam left, Sadie right

Another new thing they love is spinning around in this chair!

Sadie left, Samantha right

And to end I just have to put this cute video clip of the girls playing in our closet! They get such a big kick out of it! I love it! Sadie is in the yellow, Samantha pink.

Finally an Update!!

2008-07-13T22:10:00.000-07:00

I know some of you have probably given up looking at my blog seeing as it has been FOREVER since I have last posted! I feel sad to have gotten so behind, because there are lots of fun pictures and events that I had planned to post about! I am glad that the reason I have not updated is because we are having TONS of fun living up our time here in Utah!! I promise to get caught up someday!!

So...I am just going to throw on some pictures from our fun 4th of July up here in Logan! We had a great time! The last couple years I have missed so much the old traditional 4th of July's we had growing up! We always would go to the Fireworks Show at Romney Stadium and then get KFC and go up to Bear Lake for the day, and then we always had our own fireworks show that night! Here are the pics.... Hope you enjoy!

Sadie Left, Samantha Right On our way to the Logan Fireworks!

Sadie Left, Sam Right

The Crew!

Sadie Janie

Samantha Dawn

Fun in the Sun at Bear Lake

The Family Firework Party!

Love this picture of Sadie!

Okay here are just a couple quick video clips of the girls, They are growing up way too fast!!!

We're Back!!!!

2008-06-04T22:52:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to say Hi to everyone, and that yes, we made it back to the good old U.S.A.!! I have to report that the girls were fabulous on the LONG flight back, to which my parents and I will be forever grateful! And although we feel broken hearted to have left our MOST VERY FAVORITE PERSON IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (Jake) back in Paris, we know he is thorougly enjoying his time as a Parisian, and the girls and I will be forever grateful to him for the opportunity it is giving us to spend time here in Utah!!

I would love to be able to express all of my feelings and emotions about our wonderful time in Paris and our adventures to Germany, Switzerland, Austria and England, but truthfully I feel a bit overwhelmed and exhausted to be able to do it all justice tonight!! So.........hang in there and I promise to be posting fun pictures of all we have seen SOON!! For now feel free to check out my doll of a husband's blog.......snuck44.blogspot.com He is such a cutie, he made a fun slideshow of some of our funnest events. Thank You Jake!! I love and miss you tons!!

And to all of you, I can't wait to see you and talk to you all! Thanks for the Welcome Home notes, it is great to be back!!

So Funny!!

2008-05-13T07:16:00.000-07:00

I forgot that I got this cute footage a few weeks ago! This is in our apartment, the windows here have supplied us with quite a bit of entertainment!! Sadie is the one trying to shut Sam in the window! I love that I got their cute giggles on tape!! It makes my day!!

Sorry its a little shaky! I really need to work on my filming skills!!

Fun Times In Paris!!

2008-05-13T06:37:00.001-07:00

Just wanted to post a few more pics of some fun days we have spent hanging around Paris!! I knew this would happen, but it has flown by! The girls and I only have about 3 weeks left, and a lot of that will be spent roadtripping around to a few more countries with my parents and a trip to London! So I am trying to value everyday we have in this Beautiful City of Paris!!

It has been so Amazing!

No matter how many times I have seen the Eiffel Tower by now, It always blows me away!! And it looks even more beautiful now with the pretty blossoms on the trees!!

Me and my "cutie girls" in the Tuilleries Gardens that lie in front of the Louvre Museum

Sadie left, Samantha Right

Sadie being "So Big" out in the courtyard of the Louvre! The girls love to finally be free of thier strollers and get out and walk around here!

Jake and the Girls just chilling on one of our favorite bridges in Paris!

Samantha and Daddy goofing around at the Jardin d'Acclimation!

Just had to post this one because it seems to be the epitomy of "us" in Paris! The girls living off pretzel sticks (this seems to be the only "constant" in their diet!) And strolling around barefoot, because they hate their sandals! We usually start out with them on and within a few minutes they have the velcros undone and are using the footrest of the strollers to try to rip them off their feet!! We have given up, yet feel unbelievably embarassed and grossed out when on the subway they may all the sudden TRY TO SUCK THEIR TOES!!! YUCK!!

Sadie Jane chatting it up with the ducks at Jardin de Luxemborg!

Samantha Dawn going for a stroll at Jardin de Luxemborg!

Actually I can't tell you who is who in this one!! But I thought it was adorable!! The girls have always been fun, but seem to get more fun everyday! I am sad that they probably won't ever be able to remember all these good times they have had in Europe! Hopefully we have enough pics to document the entire trip for them!!!

Happy Birthday to Cousin Hailey!!

2008-05-08T08:42:00.000-07:00

Today is our Cute Cousin Hailey's 1st Birthday!!

We wanted to send lots of Birthday Hugs and Wishes!!

Love and Miss You Guys!!

SUNNY BARCELONA!!

2008-05-05T04:09:00.000-07:00

So....Obviously with the pictures of another trip.... We are trying to live it up with what is left of our time here in Europe, without "breaking the bank"!! We found a great deal to Barcelona so we took it! And we had a blast! Too bad it was so short! We woke up way before even the crack of dawn on Friday morning to fly there and came back Sunday afternoon, so yes, it was a very short trip, but so worth it!

The first day we took a Hop On/Off Bus Tour, which was a great way to see the city in a short time. Here are a couple of the sites:

Port Vell- The statue of Colombus

The Sagrada Familia by Gaudi-This place is one of a kind, one of the craziest things I've seen! It was amazing!

Montjuic! It looked so cool at night too! They light it up really neat! None of our pictures at night really turned out! :(

The Ramblas- This is a super crazy street with lots of street performers and tourist shops! They have a huge market - Boqueria Market, it was fun too! Too bad our camera broke right after this picture!! But.... it had to be meant to be, we looked up from trying to fix it and spotted a PC City store right off on one of the side streets! Thank Goodness we were able to buy a new camera, or you wouldn't be seeing any of the pictures below! But Funny that right after we got home, OURS STARTED WORKING AGAIN! Oh Well!!

Probably our favorite thing we did was go to the BEACH!! We had read it wouldn't be warm enough to swim so we didn't bring suits, Whatever! It was so warm! Oh Well, we'll save that for next time! The girls were not to sure what to think about the sand and waves!

Here is Samantha, Cracking Me Up! I guess you really can't tell from the picture, but she has her left leg up in mid air, she kept holding it up trying not to have it touch any sand! She sat like this forever!

Sadie Jane

Samantha, again not a fan of the sand!!

Sadie and Daddy

Samantha and Daddy

By the end Sadie was all about the sand!!

I just had to put this one of Samantha, This girl LOVES Ice Cream!!

Sadie! This is the girls on the way to the Airport to go Home!

Samantha! Looks like we wore them right out!!

Sorry there were so many pictures, but we had such a fun time, I could not leave any out!

Hope you enjoyed!

Normandy

2008-04-22T04:13:00.001-07:00

Here are the pictures of Normandy from our Road Trip......

We were so glad to be able to make it to Normandy as well! We went to the D-Day Museum and then played on the beach for a bit! It is honestly unreal to be here and try to fathom the events that took place on this very beach that the girls are now playing on!!

Above is the little beach city of Arromanches.

There were 5 different beaches along the coastline that the Allies landed on. This beach that we visited was part of Gold Beach. They knew they would need a port to bring in supplies and this place was nicknamed Port Winston. They built a prefabricated harbour, and towed it in sections across the English Channel.

This first picture on the left is what is left of the Causeway they built to help bring in soldiers and supplies from ships to the shore. And the next picture is what is left of the Phoneix Caissons, they were brought in across the channel and then sunk! They had guns set up on them, and they formed a protective sea wall. The largest one is thought to be as heavy as the Eiffel Tower, 7,000 tons!

So there are some facts for you!! It was an amazing experience to visit there!

Samantha Left, Sadie Right

ROAD TRIP!!

2008-04-22T02:40:00.001-07:00

Just wanted to post some fun pictures from The Roadtrip we took this past weekend! We headed out to the coast to see the Absolutely Amazing Mont Saint Michel and we were lucky enough to be able to stop in the city of Arromanches to see the D-Day museum and walk along one of the Beaches in Normandy! To start off....driving in Paris, I am so glad it was Jake driving! He did a great job, it was a little scary at first, but that just made it more of an adventure!

THANK GOODNESS FOR GPS! It saved our road trip! That's forsure!

So, here are some pictures of Le Mont St. Michel:

The Abbey was built in the 11th Century. During the 17th Century was used as a prison.

The Monks returned to the Abby in 1874

They still hold church services here and we got to hear the big bells chiming, it was amazing!!
Of course, these days there are a few hotels and tourist shops on the island as well.

Here we are awaiting the tide to come in! The days we were there were "High Tide"! It was so crazy to walk in and see the water far away and then walk out and have it be right up to the walkway! Jake made us get to higher ground, I kept promising him I wouldn't let him drown!

This is the view we had from our Hotel Room! It was actually a lot better than it looks from these pictures! It was the perfect trip!!

In these pictures: Sam Left, Sadie Right

Sorry! I am having trouble getting any of the pictures from Normandy to post! I promise those pics are to come! It looks like I have given you plenty to look at for today anyway!

A Walk In The Park!

2008-04-13T14:46:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post some footage of the Chicks Walking! So many of you have not had the chance to see them in action! Sadie pretty much had it down right before we got to Paris and Samantha has perfected her walking skills here! We were so thrilled that the weather started to warm up, so I got brave enough to venture out of our building by myself with the girls (which I am proud to say we made it out without too much problem!) We are so lucky to have a beautiful park right close to our flat! Here are the Girls In Action.......

P.S.- I promise I usually have their hair done before we go out in public!!! They are looking a little straggly here!!! Their hair has grown a lot!!

Easter Dresses, Luxemborg Gardens and Tutu's!!

2008-04-02T05:36:00.000-07:00

Hi!!

So again as usual I have some catching up to do!! To start we had a good Easter, very low key, it was sad not to have been able to do more for the girls due to our everything-has-to-fit-in-a-suitcase situation! But we were able to get them some plastic eggs, and they have had a ball with them! How easily entertained they are!! We went out to atleast buy some chocolate bunnies, and ended up that all of the stores we went to had chocolate hens instead?! But it was delicious! And the girls, of course looked adorable in their Easter Dresses!

Sam Left, Sadie Right

Samantha, I think she just saw the Easter Bunny?!

Sadie!

These next pictures are from Luxemborg Gardens, I don't think you can tell from the pictures how beautiful and fun it is here! Thank Goodness it has finally started warming up a little bit, so we took advantage of a day without rain and a little bit of sunshine to come here and hang out! The girls were especially excited, because most of their time sight-seeing in Paris has been from the stroller, while trying to keep them warm! They were thrilled to be walking around and checking everything out, especially the Pigeons!

A graham cracker picnic!
Samantha is in the pink jacket, Sadie in White!

We are having such a great time here!

And are so lucky to have this opportunity, but we miss you all!!

Okay sorry this post is so LONG! But I promised a few of you that I would post pictures of the cute tutu's that my sister-in-law Holli and I made for our girls. We made them for a Target cousin photo shoot before we left! The girls all looked so cute in them! And the pictures turned out great!!

Sadie front, Sam Back

Be-Lated Birthday Post!!!

2008-03-21T06:42:00.000-07:00

Finally!!!

The 1 Year Birthday Bash(es)!!!

We were way too sad to think of Jake not being here for the chicks 1 Year Old Birthday Party! So we had a little one before he left for Paris and then another on their actual Birthday, which embarrassingly was clear back on February 10th!! Sorry we are so belated, but better late than never, right?!

Presents!!

Birthday Girls!! Sam left, Sadie Right

Poor Samantha had pink eye!!

A Great Big Thank You to my cute Mom who made these adorable little cakes for the girls!

I don't think the girls quite knew what to do with the cake! Sadie is not looking real thrilled!!

Sadie's Cake Face!

Samantha's Cake Face!!

We are so glad we were able to party with Jake! As you can see, he is the life of the party!!

These are the pics from the party on their actual Birthday! Thanks to Jake's parent's, they made a delicious dinner! Now this time it was Sadie who wasn't feeling too hot! Poor Girls!

Sadie Left, Samantha Right

The girls along with their cute cousin Hailey, playing a little Birthday Ditty!!

Sam thoroughly enjoying the Birthday cake this time!!

Sadie, definitely NOT!

Me and My Girls!! Samantha left, Sadie Right

I cannot believe how fast this first year of their lives has gone by!! It has been so much fun! I cannot believe how much I love these girls!! It overwhelms me just thinking about it! I definitely feel like I have learned a lot, but have SO much more to learn about patience and mothering skills!!! I also have to say how wonderful it has been being in this parenting-ship with Jake, he is such a fun Daddy, and an amazing example to me of patience and fun lovingness!! (He will love that I am using words from my own vocabulary)! I have to say, it honestly has not been as hard as I thought it would be............. until now!! I will admit, it has gotten a little harder and more overwhelming from time to time!! But, I still love it!! And would not trade this wonderful experience for anything!! Thanks to all of you, who have helped us out so very very much!! I would not have made it through this first year without you!!!

WE HAVE ARRIVED!!

2008-03-12T04:11:00.000-07:00

OKAY, I will start by apologizing for the HUGE delay in posting!! 2 Add'l Bags (pak 'n plays), 2 Overweight Bags and 2 Regular 50 lb bags, 2 Strollers, a carryon chuck full of baby food, Big Ziploc Baggies full of formula (I promise, it really is just formula, this is what I had to tell the security man as I got pulled over for this crazy amount of baby stuff!) It was crazy and exhausting, BUT WE MADE IT!!! And to report, the flight was not too bad! The girls did really well! Thanks to an amazing flight attendant, bulkhead seating and Benadryl! Sadie was amazing, she slept for most of it, Samantha had a little bit of a rough time, but it was so funny in the morning as everyone was hitting up the bathroom right by us, they all would pass by and say, "Your babies were amazing, I was worried when I saw you sitting there, but these must be the best babies I've ever flown with! Only a few little peeps!!" So I am very proud of them! Also Thanks to Melo and all of her assistance, too bad Melo and I didn't get any shut eye! We were definetly feeling Jet Lagged when we got here!! But it seems like we have finally adjusted!!

So the reunion with Jake was Fabulous!! It's hard to express how great it was to see him and have him see the girls and get us all reunited again!! I really don't know how military couples do it! The girls seemed maybe a little confused for a minute, but warmed right up!! We were quite the spectacle going through the airport with our mountain of luggage, we had some interesting experiences with the language right off the bat! As we were heading through the cattle herd of Immigration we were being summoned by airport workers but could not understand what they wanted us to do!! So we just stayed where we were feeling stupid, then another worker came up and atleast led us around to where he wanted us to go, it was the beginning of a rude awakening of just how awesome it would be to know French!!! I have got to get studying!

So here are some of the highlights so far!! The apartment itself is great, although there are a few things that are going to take a bit to get used to! I will actually take some pics to show you the funny things and to just show you around the place, I will save that for the next post!

So we got right out and saw some of the sites:

As you can see, it has been pretty cold here and rainy!! I can't imagine how much more fun it will be when it warms up! So far the girls don't seem to mind being bundled up, for the most part anyway!

The Eiffel Tower so far is my Favorite!! I love it so much when it does this glittery light thing!

It does it once every hour or 1/2 hour or so! It is so fun!

Notre Dame

We downloaded these cool podcasts to our IPOD's so it is like a self guided tour, it is good info and it helps you get more out of it!

That is Pont Neuf in the background, from where we are standing there is another awesome view of The Eiffel Tower!

Poor Sadie Janie!! So... since we have been here I think Sadie has got 3 goose eggs and then this one was a real Doozie!! It breaks my heart everytime I look at her! Our apt. has all hard wood floors, which is not ideal for the fact that the girls are learning to walk! This one was a run in with one of the rugs, CARPET BURN!!! This actually looks a lot better than it did at first! I swear I thought she broke her nose, it was so much more swollen and red!! It has been so sad, whenever we get on the metro you can see everyone staring at her racer striped nose and talking about it!! Thank Goodness she is a tough chick!!

This is Samantha already learning to love the Baguette's! Yummy!! I have to give a shout out to the croissants as well, they are my personal favorite!!

So hope that gives you an idea of what we are up to! I will hopefully be able to get some better pics once it warms up! I miss the sunshine!! We are having a great time, there have been some experiences that make me so grateful for the U.S.A.! I can tell it is going to be quite an adventure! That picture of Samantha and the baguette actually was our first and probably last time trying to eat out at a restaraunt!! Jake and I realized this as we looked across the table at each other fighting to keep the babies from falling underneath the table or taking everything on the table with them, or throwing little rocks at the neighboring tables!! You just take things for granted, like walking into a restaraunt and just expecting they would have highchairs, or atleast being able to communicate that we needed some! It might just be that we dont' know the right places to go, but so far it has not been quite as kid-friendly as I had hoped! The metro is awesome, except for all the stairs that we have to hoist the strollers up and down over and over!! It will be interesting to see how Jake and I figure out to get around by ourselves with the girls!! But that just makes it all the more adventurous, memorable and exciting, right?! Thanks to Melo and Eric and how much help they have been! We are so glad to have been able to see everything we have!! I am so glad Jake came first and got things all figured out! The little French he knows he can fake very well!

We miss you all!! And I promise to be on the ball and post often now that we are settled!!

AuRevoir, for now!!

ALL ABOUT "THE DOLL"

2008-02-13T21:34:00.000-08:00

I am finally owning up to a "Tag"!

What’s his name? Jacob Spencer Hunsaker aka: "The Doll" (This is a funny nickname that I somehow started calling Jake when we were dating, and all my friends, family and coworkers started to refer to him and call him this!)

How long have you been together? 3 Years 1 Month, 2 Weeks and 5 Days Exactly!

How long did you date? Almost 6 months, we decided we knew we wanted to get married after only dating about a month, we knew we were crazy for knowing that soon, so we tried to stick it out a little bit longer!!!

How old is he? 32! I always tease him about being an old dog, but I'm turning 30 this summer so I better zip it!

Who eats more? I will of course give this one to Jake!

Who said I love you first? Well Thanks to the journal entry I know it was on January 19, 2005 at "our park" a park across the street from my apartment and technically I did, but I could see it in his eyes that he was going to say it right then too! So I said "I love you"! And then he said "I love you too, and I seriously mean it!"

Who is taller? Jake, by like 2 maybe 3 inches!! He swears he is atleast 5'7"!! It has been a funny joke from time to time, because in tall shoes I will often feel that I might be a little taller, I have seen this in the mirror though, and Jake is right it is all in my head!!!

Who is smarter? I will gladly give this one to Jake, I have realized with him being gone how much I rely on him to figure things out with the computer etc... But I must say I have figured out a few things on my own recently! I probably need to give myself a little more credit!

Who does laundry? I will say I do, the majority of the time! Although, I can generally bribe Jake into folding it, as long as he can watch ESPN or some sort of sports event at the same time!!

Who does the dishes? I have to say probably 1/2 and 1/2?! I may be giving a little more credit than is due in this case! But I especially love it when we share the chore, Jake is great at washing them and I always volunteer to dry!!

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I guess I do, I tried sleeping on the left the first night in our new house and I couldn't take it, I feel way to vulnerable being closest to the door! Thank Goodness he is a doll and he traded me sides!!

Who pays the bills? I do. Jake tries to act interested when I inform him of our financial situations, I have threatened for him to take them over, because it stresses me out! But then he left the country, Go Figure!!!

Who mows the lawn? Well, luckily our HOA does that for us! If we did have to do it ourselves I would hope that Jake would! I have never been one that is much for yard work! My sister and I took over my brothers lawn mowing jobs while they were on their missions, it was the most helatious summer of my life!

Who cooks dinner? I would say mostly me! But Jake does make some awesome Sunday night popcorn!!

Who drives when you are together? Jake ALWAYS! Every time I do, I end up regretting it! He is convinced that every woman is a horrible driver! WHATEVER!!!

Who is more stubborn? Well, I know Jake would say me, But I would say I just really think I have the best ideas! Ha Ha! I always am the first to give in and apologize, I do win the prize for that one!

Who kissed who first? TOTALLY JAKE!! And on our first date even!!! He will say that I hugged him so tight and looked up at him like I was totally asking for it!! Whatever! I was totally impressed on our date, but after he kissed me, I thought Oh No! He's just like all his friends a Player!!!! Thank Goodness he proved me wrong, right away!!

Who asked out who first? He did! It is amazing that it ever worked out because things kept getting in the way, it was probably a couple months before it actually happened! He will try to tell you that I totally dogged him, but don't listen to him IT IS A LIE!!!

Who proposed? He did! And it was so Awesome! He cooked me dinner! That was the first big deal thing! And he was all dressed up, and on the table there was 100 Beautiful Red Roses! And the doll wrote out a list of 100 Reasons that he loved me!! It Was Perfect!!!!

Who has more siblings? I do. I have 3 He has 1

Who wears the pants in the family? Jake will definietly say I do! Thank Goodness he is so obedient! Just Kidding! I would like to think we both have a leg in!

This was so much fun to write about Jake and our relationship!! It is a perfect day for me to post this because we are apart for Valentine's Day.

So...........

JAKE THIS IS YOUR VALENTINE TRIBUTE!!

THANKS FOR MAKING MY LIFE SO WONDERFUL!!

I LOVE AND MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

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I now tag anyone who will do it! It is so fun to hear people's stories!

Whirlwind!!

2008-01-31T23:18:00.000-08:00

Well............. We made it to Utah! This last month has sure flown by and our life has felt like a whirlwind! It is so nice to finally feel settled here in Logan, where I am being spoiled rotten with all the help from the Grandparents!! We already miss Jake like crazy but we are so excited for him to be flying to Paris on Saturday morning!! YEA! The adventure begins!!!

So, here are just some cute pictures that I took during January that I thought I would share. The chicks are turning 1 on Feb 10th (CRAZY!), so..... cute birthday party pictures to come!

Sam Sadie

Samantha Sadie

It's so funny, in our new place the girls finally have all kinds of space to play, but decide their favorite spot is behind the chair! I love watching them play together, it is so fun when they get the gigles with each other, thank goodness there are the good times because their is a lot of this going on now too..........!!!!!

Mostly Sadie does the bullying!

We are definetly going to have to teach Samantha to hold her own!!!

Samantha Sadie

I love Sam's face in this picture! She is always making such fun noises!

They really are such happy babies!!

Can't believe they are almost a year old!!!

Sadie is getting so good at standing all by herself, she gets so excited and proud!! She definetly responds well to applause! She will stand up and then look around for everyone to cheer her on!

It's Pure Entertainment!!

And this is Samantha's newest expression, she makes the cutest "ooh, ooh" noise with it!

It is Adorable!!