St. Patty's Day

This was the leprechaun trap we made, the bait was Lucky Charms and when we woke up in the morning the cloud cup had fallen and there was a bunch of gold under it (chocolate gold, the best kind ;)) Ava loved it.

Lydia was wearing the leprechaun hat that Ava made at preschool.

This is my friend Dez, Ava, and I all wearing our St. Patrick's Day shirts. Can you tell we went shopping together?

This was our cool St. Patty's Day lunch. You can't tell, but the pudding is rainbow.

My cool rainbow fruit platter.

Look- I got Lydia's hair in a pony tail, well kind of, it didn't stay in very long.

Well, we had a great St. Patrick's Day. We had a special lunch and made leprechaun traps and played with some friends. We also went to a parade down in Old Sac, it was a lot of fun. Sorry, the pictures aren't in order, I just don't like to sit and figure out how to switch them and all that good stuff. Things here are going great. I'm mad because we totally forgot to bring a camera to the parade. There was this totally obnoxious lady who kept yelling everything that popped in her annoying head, she was driving me NUTS!!!

The girls are cracking me up lately (along with driving me nuts, haha). The other day I asked Ava if she wanted me to bring some fruit to the mall with us for a snack and she said, "I don't care mom, you can do whatever you want to". She just sounds so adult sometimes, it's a little scary. Lydia's finally starting to talk more, which is funny, she's just a little sassy pants. She hasn't learned the word "yes" yet, she's got "no" down, but when you ask her something and the answer is "yes" she just stays silent and sometimes smiles.

Whatevs, I Suck

So, ignore the fact that I have no flipping idea how to fix the top picture to make it centered and it's kinda driving me nuts, unfortunately I am REALLY sick of trying to mess around with it. Sorry, I am so dumb with computers.

So we've moved back down to Cali, and I'm not going to lie, I love it!!! The weather sucked today, but for the most part it's been PERFECT!!! Ava's loving playing with her friends

and I'm loving getting out of my darn house (by house, I mean apartment, for now anyway) almost every day. It's pretty dang awesome. I wish I would get some visitors up in here though! I've also been reading a TON, and loving that. Thanks to Amy, I've had some great recommendations, and I have a lot on my list to read. Blayne and I have also been watching a lot of Supernatural- hello, hot guys fighting demons, awesome. Anyway, that's what's going on here.

One last thing, here's a picture to prove that I don't always look like a homeless person, occasionally I actually do my hair and get ready. Not that you can really tell since most of my hair's covered, but WHATEVER!

Lydia's Birthday Cake

Check out those blue eyes!!!

That's a mischievous look- hahaha.

She went for it pretty good!

Yummy!

Want some?

So we have more pictures from her birthday, I'll post them once I get them on the computer. Thanks Denise for being our camera girl- you're AWESOME!!!

We had a fun low key get together. Everybody came over and we had some pulled pork and hung out. I'm not the most creative birthday planner, but I thought it was fun and relaxed(well until the older girls were a little naughty and colored all over themselves upstairs-haha).

I know, I SUCK at updating!

So, I made this (with help from my mother-in-law) for my mom for her birthday. The olive green and beige are from a shirt of my dad's, the zigzag is from my dad's tie, and the blue flowers are from my mom's shirt.

Lydia playing with the trains.

Poor Lydia got bronchiolitis and had to have breathing treatments. It was so sad, but she did really good.

Just my girls being sweet.

Ava started soccer, her dad's dream come true- hahahaha. It's been fun, but during the second half of practice it's time for a meltdown. She also loves getting attention from the coach and has to sit or stand by him whenever she has a chance. She's a bit of a coaches pet, I have no idea where she would have gotten that- hahaha.

She LOVES helping grandpa with the garden!

Ava dancing and singing inside our dresser when we were getting ready to move here.

A couple days before we left my friends took me to San Francisco, I wish I had more pictures, but it was really fun. I really want to go back. I can't believe that was the only time we went when we lived SO close for a year and a half!!

Me, Whitney, Tara, and then the kids. That's Ava and Zeke- her bff. They are so funny together. We miss them a LOT!

Whitney, Dez, and Tara.

I know, sick picture of me, but I thought Lydia looked so funny in those glasses. Hahaha.

Ava looked pretty goofy too.

So things have been pretty crazy. We've been trying to get our house ready to move in, but it's taking a long time. Blayne's parents are doing almost all the work themselves- they're troopers. I can't believe how hard they have been working. All these things that we didn't even think about, it's crazy. The girls have been sick off and on, so we haven't been able to get out much, other than for running errands, which aren't very fun. My poor bored kids! At least Denise lives here and has girls about the same age, Ava loves playing with Alia. Well, that's pretty much all that's going on with us. Oh, and Blayne's in his LAST week of busy season- YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for it to be over, although his hours weren't nearly as crazy as when we lived in Sacramento.

Been Awhile...

Here are the girls in there Christmas dresses right before church. Sexy faces, huh?

Well, that looks comfy, what a dork, hahaha.

Christmas morning in her little hat and booties that Uncle Brad had made for her, SO cute!

Ava played with that house for like 3 straight hours, it was incredible, she's never played with a toy for that long!

Apparently Lydia thought she was supposed to eat the presents, oh well, what are ya gonna do.

Christmas Eve in their Christmas jammies. Too bad Lydia only got to wear hers like twice. I got them in 12 months, and she was only 6 months at the time, I thought they'd be way too big, but my girls are chubbers!

I thought she looked so stylish that day, but she wouldn't just smile for the picture, I don't know where she gets that from, hahaha!

My BEAUTIFUL flowers that Blayne got me for our anniversary.

Right before we went out for dinner, I had to stop and smell the roses, hahaha.

It's only a little late to post about Christmas, right?? Sorry, life's been crazy! In the last 2 months we moved back to Oregon, Blayne started a new job, and we're in the process of buying our first home- YAY!!!!!! Oh, and we've all been sick, it seems like for FOREVER!!!!!!

Lots of Random Pics!

Well, Ava's pretty dang good at sharing, and luckily miss Lydia is mellow

enough to put up with it.
A little relaxing time.

Ava really likes to help us, sometimes she asks for chores. One thing she loves to help with is putting away the groceries, she also likes to help with laundry, then she'll ask for moneys for her piggy bank, smart girl.

We got her an easel for her birthday, we have a lot of fun with it. Whenever I erase it she yells "Hey- you erase my color!!"

One morning Blayne got up with Ava (such a nice hubby), anyway, I woke up and

came out to this.

Side note: Blayne bought me this bear for my birthday when we were first dating- like 6 years ago- what a sweetie.

There's a lot of sisterly love around here. Ava is SO sweet with Lydia, and Lydia LOVES her big sister. She just has to look at her and she'll smile so big, it's pretty adorable.

A little photo shoot before church.

Check out Lydia's hair- hahaha!

She's such a happy smiley little girl- I LOVE HER!!

This is Ava and her very BEST friend Zeke. They love each other SOOOO much!!! They even have little inside jokes and get so excited to see each other, it's pretty precious.