Green Beans

So the other night I made green beans. Like REAL green beans =fresh not from a can. I didn't think the girls would like them as much because well I didn't why I was a kid BUT they loved them. Hooray! Well that's what I thought... (keep in mind green beans have been Bailey's favorite veggie for all time) but then...Bailey discovered something... Green beans actually have little beans inside of them?? I decided that since the green beans were such a success I would make them again. Well this time Bailey decided she would examine the bean and guess what she found... Yup that little bean thing inside her green bean. And guess what...She did NOT like it! She proceeded to examine EACH and every green bean to see if there was in fact a little bean thingy in each and of course there was and that of course ment that NONE of her green beans were edible. Guess we'll have to see if she ever eats green beans again.

Preschool

For Piper's "preschool" we took a little field trip to the Blue Bonnet fields. It was actually really fun and we got a couple cute pictures in the pretty "flowers" (or are they weeds?) I kindda wondered what could possibly entertain us for very long sitting in a bunch of flowers but the kids actually loved it! We took pictures (that they did not like) then had a little lesson on Texas (did you know these are the Texas state flower?) and then the kids entertained themselves with fireants and spiders for the rest of our outing. Pretty fun!

It's a girl!

I asked Piper this morning if she wanted a baby brother or sister. She said she wanted a baby sister because ... "I don't like boys, I only like daddy boys." Well, she got her wish - we are having another GIRL! Hooray for girls!

Third Bundle

Haha! You caught that! I thought you would see it first Carole! Or at least comment on it first. Yup we are having another :) Sometime in August. My doctor thinks around the 13th but I think around the 21st - we have differing opinions :) I am huge however so maybe she's right :) We were supposed to find out on Friday (what we are having) - which was when I planned to blog about it but I had to cancel :( So now my appointment is for Monday but I might have to cancel that one too - we'll see. I know I know WHO cancels their ultra sound appointment right! Make it work- haha! But we get to have company this weekend (Piper is SOOOOOO excited) and I want this baby to get all the attentions the others got for it's ultra sound so I'll wait (maybe;). Actually, I just need to see if anyone would be willing to babysit. Anyway, we're excited. I would love another girl! (or boy but I LOVE girly stuff) plus I have tons of girl names I'm DYING to use! Curtis, of course, wants a boy to prove his manlyness;) Just Kidding! He really wants a boy to take on scout campouts and fourwheeling/motorcycling stuff. Piper has made it clear that she will not accept a boy only a little sister. Bailey just wants ALL my attention ALWAYS - other than that she doesn't care. Guess we'll see what happens!

Camping

So after our last camping experience I swore never to camp again. I was seven or eight months pregnant, we had a TINY tent, and I had to walk, in my opinion, WAY too far to go to the bathroom at 10pm, 1am, 4am, and 6am! Then it rained, aLOT! So I was not impressed. But a few weeks ago some friends in the ward said they were getting a group together to go camping up somewhere north of Houston and asked if we wanted to go... I really wanted to go to be social but wasn't so sure about the camping part of it since I am yet again pregnant. Anyway, we decided to go and had SOOOOO much fun! We borrowed Donald and Julie's MASSIVE tent (thanks!), camped RIGHT next to the bathroom (well not so close that it smelled- haha), and brought a lot of GOOD food! It was so much fun!

We got there late on Friday and just had a quick dinner and then in the morning everyone got together for breakfast. I LOVE this picture of Bailey's mouth WIDE open!

We went for a fun bike ride and hiked and then went over to the lake to do a little fishing! Piper got a new fishing pole and was SOOOOOO excited to fish - I'm not sure why. We've never really talked about fishing but about a month ago she said she wanted to go fishing - talk about random! So here was her chance. She didn't catch anything but had a blast just holding the pole. She was beaming the whole time!!
Bailey, on the other hand, found other things to amuse herself! haha - leaves and sticks! It's so funny...I was thinking, better yet worrying, about how I would keep them entertained with no toys or what nots but they were thoroughly engaged/entranced/preoccupied by EVERYTHING from sticks to dogs to water to trees to turtle to ALLIGATORS - you name it, they found some way to make it so much fun!

Lastly, we decided to take advantage of the canoe our friends brought and went for a little ride. As you can see Piper is STILL obsessed with her fishing pole!

And Bailey was NOT impressed AT ALL with the canoe. She screamed the WHOLE time!

So that was our fun February camping trip! I may even concider doing it again sometime :)

Super Bowl Sunday

It's been so long since i've posted! I used to blog so faithfully but have just really been slacking lately! Playing catch up is to daunting so I'm just going to start from now and just be better - K! So we had a little Super Bowl shin dig with the girls for the Super Bowl. Really it was just my excuse to eat junk! The girls really got into it though - actually I think they were mostly just into the food too but we had a lot of fun. As I was getting the food ready I looded over to see Bailey just entranced by the game and thought it was the CUTEST thing ever! She's the closest thing Curtis is going to get to a boy I think. Our little tom boy. A friend asked me to post some pictures of her and as I was looking through my most recent pictures I realized she looks so sloppy and dishevled in ALL of them! Her hair's always in her face and she just looks like a football player despite her small frame. She just continues to crack us up!

Anyway, we had a blast eating, pretending to care who won (go packers?? the bears should have gone right!), and just being silly!

Halloween 2010!

Here are our Halloween 2010 pictures! We celebrated the whole month and had such a blast getting ready for the big day! To kick off the creepy festivities we started the month with a party with Piper's cousins. Piper had such a blast getting to hang out with ALL of them!! We had fun treats, did a craft, had a scavenger hunt around the apartment property, did the mummy wrap game and even watched a Halloween movie. Piper was in HEAVEN!

On Hallween, we went trick-or-treating with the kids in Donald and Julie's neighborhood and made bank with the candy!

Piper was a princess for halloween and Donald was her prince - giving her the royal treatment by carrying her! Bailey was the CUTEST bumble bee ever and cas content to hitch a ride in Julie's wagon and eat the pretzles she scored at the first house.

As we were leaving Donald and Julie's for the night, i snatched a chocolate dipped pretzle for ME to eat on the way home - obviously that didn't happen. Bailey caught sight of it and that's the end of that story.

Piper with her stash! Between that, the trunk-or-treat candy and the candy from school, I think she's set!