Wednesday, October 22, 2008

A GOODNIGHT KISS...

I'm sure all you mommies out there have had some similar experiences like this so I thought I'd share the latest injury.
The other night I was putting Ayva to bed and the light was off. I went down to give her a kiss and she shot her head at the perfect moment. As you can tell I have a souvenir from that kiss!
That is not make-up, none whatsoever, ok except eyeliner and mascarra. 
Yeah, I've got wrinkles. I'm so old!
Anyone else have some of these kind of experiences? Please feel free to share.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Rice anyone???

Ok, it's about 10:30am and Ayva was wanting a snack. So I gave her some fruit snacks. When she was done with them she asked for some rice. Rice, really, what kid asks for some rice for a snack? So we went into the kitchen and she was all excited to make the rice. When we got in there she turned around to me and said, "We gonna make some rice, be careful it's bery bery hot." Sometimes she says things that shock me and make me laugh.  

There's no cartoons, mama!

Sorry, another long post.

Well, we had a pretty busy weekend. 
Friday night we went to Georgetown to fish the lake there. It's that cute little town off I-70 just west of Denver in the mountains. Actually it's about 30 to 45 minutes west. 
This is Ayva playing with her animals. She loves elephants just like her cousin Brampton.
This is a view of Georgetown and I-70 on the right edge of the photo in the middle. We've driven by there so many times and Josh has always wanted to fish it.
Josh and Ayva got us all set up and there is Ayva shaking her bon bon, or something.
As always, there's Cheyenne watching everything from her stroller.
Ayva trying to fish.
It started to get chilly pretty fast so Ayva decided to eat her treat and relax for a bit.
And this is Ayva when she looked up at me and said, "There's no cartoons, mama!" And then daddy said, "That's the point."
Josh ended up catching 4 fish. Yes, my freezer is full of fish!

SATURDAY
Saturday wasn't anything too bad. Josh doing the typical waking up at 5:30am to go fishing. Crazy, I know. He took his kayak this time to fish Cherry Creek Reservoir. He said it was pretty full of boats and fishermen. 
The afternoon was filled with us driving around Denver. We are moving, yet again, in December so we decided to go look around some areas that we would like to live. We were driving and driving and driving. The poor girls had been in the car all afternoon so we decided to stop by a park to let them play. And wouldn't you know it, there was a lake right by the park. So the girls got to play and Josh did some more fishing. He didn't catch anything this time.
Sorry no pictures for Saturday.

SUNDAY
We went to church, of course, and then after that we went for a little drive. We headed down south to Colorado Springs to scout the area and drive by a few places I found online. 
Again, we were driving and driving and driving all over the place.
On our way home Ayva started to get a little attitude. We were talking to her and singing with her, she loves singing The Wheels On The Bus. All of a sudden she said really loud, "I'm not talking ta you!!!" She said it a few times and it was funny but I decided I don't want to hear that from her for the next few months so I stopped it. I told her that isn't a nice thing to say and she said, "That's not nice?" I said, "yes, that's not nice." And it was pretty much over, she was her old sweet self again.
Ayva started playing with Cheyenne trying to make her laugh, making funny faces and making strange sounds and of course Cheyenne was just cracking up. Then Ayva started screaming, that ear piercing type scream. She's got some lungs on her. Cheyenne must have thought it seemed like fun so she tried to do it. So Ayva would scream and then Cheyenne then Ayva then Cheyenne. It was so funny. Cheyenne's scream didn't come close to Ayva's scream but it was just so funny to hear Cheyenne try to do it. She sure has made a place for herself in our little family. 

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Random pics of the girls






Thursday, October 9, 2008

10 month pics, yeah I'm a procrastinator!!!

Not my best work and my model wasn't working well for me but just thought I'd share anyways. I also feel like I'm going through a photographers version of writers block, it's driving me crazy!










Saturday, October 4, 2008

EE-OW's song

For those of you who didn't catch the second session today, they opened with a children's choir singing "I am a child of God."

As soon as they started the song Ayva said, "That's EE-OW song!"
I realize she doesn't understand the words and meaning but it sure touched my heart.
I found out later that they sing it in nursery. It still amazes me how these small people remember and learn things. She certainly acquired her father's genes and I'm so grateful for that.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Just so y'all know...

...the previous post was all Josh. I didn't write it. I was actually quite surprised that he posted on here. I was also surprised that some of you thought that I actually wrote that. That made me laugh!