Thursday, April 7, 2011

We've had a busy week this week. Our Elise turned 2 last Friday and it was an interesting weekend. Matthew got sick on Thursday, Viv got sick on Friday, and Elise got sick on Sunday. Stomach bugs are no fun. At least Elise didn't get sick until after her party.

Gilbert was mopping the kitchen when this was taken. He set the chairs in the living room and Elise kept trying to squeeze through them and kept getting her head stuck. silly girl.

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My college roommate Amber (one of my favorite people in the whole world) had her first baby last month. As soon as I found out she had had a boy I set out to make him some gifts.

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There's a bit of a funny story behind Gilbert's flying V and deciding on our Viv's name. We finally got a picture of them together =)

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The grandmas came to visit!

Grammy drawing a pirate ship on the sidewalk for Matthew.

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Mana and her girls. I think Elise had just hurt her finger.

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Gilbert and Matthew's guitars

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My 2 year old enjoying her birthday donut =)

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Gilbert's mom turned out kitchen into Pixie Hollow for Elise's birthday. Elise loved it and she had so much fun at her party. I still can't get over how excited she was about her party and all of her amazing gifts.

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The birthday girl with her birthday pizza

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Grammy and Viv

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Viv and her beautiful friend Amelia

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My mom bought this doll bed for Elise's birthday. I painted it to match her room and then I made the bedding. Elise is enjoying it.

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She likes it so much she tried to take a nap in it.

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She also got Tinkerbell sunglasses and and she loves them.

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A little bit of playtime outside

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Enjoying their last afternoon with their Mana

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Elise enjoying two completely unrelated birthday gifts at the same time. She's fun.

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I can see how much they miss their grandmas right now. It's already been a long morning. I'm going to try to sneak in a nap at some point because my body aches and I'm tired. I hope we're not about to have another round of illness in this house.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Viv and her daddy's guitar

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Elise showing off her "so pretty" top

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Enjoying the VeggieTales theme song

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Elise and Matthew both ran fevers for a couple of days a couple of weeks ago. Elise's fever broke before Matthew started warming up so he spent some time trying to entertain "The Lise" while she wasn't feeling too well.

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Once Elise's fever started to come down and she started to perk up we started playing music for her to dance to. She loves Kiss' "Shout It Out Loud". Yes, it looks like I'm about to drop the camera because I thought she was about to roll off of the bed.

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Viviana being cute

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and more cuteness...

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I was all set to make Elise an adorable penguin backpack a few weeks ago. I have the pattern. I was picking out the fabrics. Then I had to go buy something at Walmart and a wrench was thrown into my plans. I found this for $6 and couldn't pass up the deal. After all, the girl loves her Tinkerbell.

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Matthew's silly faces

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My frog =)

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Matthew has been taking a lot of naps in the living room lately...

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We took the kids to the rodeo last weekend. We were too cheap to pay for admittance to the actual rodeo so we opted to go to the section that was a lot like the L.A. county fair. The kids got to look at all of the animals. We got to eat cobbler. It was a good time.

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Gilbert tells me that this cow was asking me not to eat it.

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An afternoon spent in the car seat

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Big cow

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I love capturing sweet moments with these two

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Viviana is trying pretty hard to figure out how to crawl. (You can see Matthew napping on the couch... again...)

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We've had a fairly busy weekend. We've run a lot of errands and I'm trying to squeeze in some sewing so I can send a package out to a very special newborn in San Clemente =). I have managed to catch a bug. Bummer. I woke up this morning with a sore throat and I've just been feeling worse as the day progresses. Ugh. Hopefully I'll kick this soon. In the mean time, I'm going to sit here and watch my monkeys act silly together and think about how dangerously close my girl's 2nd birthday is.