Baby Steps......

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!

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!!!

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!!

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

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!