Spring Pictures and Mother's Day

I held off on posting these pictures because we gave them out as Mother's Day gifts.  The girls had a great time posing for our friend ..

 

And because Bia always likes to goof around .. 

We tried to get a few pictures before church on Sunday ... as usual it was a time consuming task to get a good picture which resulted in us being a little behind schedule ...

Bia really didn't want to smile much ....

This was as good as we could get ...

Family Photos

The morning before the girls' birthday party we had some family photos taken.  As you can imagine it was quite an ordeal trying to get good pictures of a 3 and 6 year old who could only think about their upcoming party.  Luckily though we got a few good shots.  Below are some of the better ones ..

Bia was goofing around

This would be a good one except for Chatty's goofy smile

The Big Guy is Real ....

To preface this post I have to admit I am one of those mean moms who never takes my kid to have their picture taken with Santa. I don't have any pictures of either of my girls with the big guy. My excuse is the time and money. We are always so busy during this time of year and I can't stand waiting in line and paying lots of money for one picture. Honestly, since we have Snowball the Elf, L hasn't even asked to get a picture taken with Santa. Last Friday Boys and Girls Club hosted a breakfast with Santa. L was so excited to go to Boys and Girls Club that morning. Each child got to sit on Santa's lap and tell them what they wanted. When I picked her up from Boys and Girls Club that afternoon, they gave each of the parents pictures of their child with Santa. I had to scan the photo in (hence the bad quality) ... but alas we have a picture of one of my kids with the Big Guy (Click on the photo to enlarge it)! L told me "I know he is real now Mom!" Please ignore her fake smile in the picture .. not sure why she was doing it!

Pictures

I know the real reason most of you read this blog is to see pictures of the girls, so I figured I would fulfill your wish tonight - I am nice like that! Ha Ha! Below are some of the pictures we had taken the other week with the girls. I was totally amazed at how well S did ... she smiled on cue and looked so cute (yes I know I am biased)! BTW - I ordered their aprons from a site on ETSY. She did a fabulous job and they were very reasonably priced. I wanted to get pictures in them before we actually baked in them. We are looking forward to baking some Christmas cookies in them this weekend!

One other note - L scored another GOAL this weekend in soccer. The game was scoreless going into the third quarter and L faked out the goalie and kicked a goal in to start the scoring! She was thrilled - and so was I! So fun so see her do so well! Her team won!!! YEAH!!

This was our Christmas card picture - I love it! I love how happy they are in this picture. Absolutely makes my heart melt!

Sneak Peek

You can see a sneak peek of our Christmas photos on the header of the blog ... hope you like them. Our Christmas cards actually have a different picture, but I thought these turned out pretty cute. We are staying super busy getting ready for Christmas. Lots of activities at school, church and with the neighbors.

L had an interesting day at school today. She was stung by a bee! The nurse called me this morning and told me what had happened and that L was being so brave. I spoke to her on the phone for a few minutes and she told me it hurt but she was doing fine! I think it hurt more when she came home tonight and showed her Dad and I!

We're Still Alive

We are still alive - just busy getting ready for Grandma and Grandpa's visit. They arrive on Saturday and there are tons of things we need to get done beforehand. In addition my office is moving down the road (so I have been packing at work) and we just seem to always have so much craziness in our normal busy lives. I feel like we have been going nonstop lately ... we are looking forward a a few days off next week and of course time with Grandma and Grandpa. I promise I will try to take some pictures and post them later this week or early next week ... I have been slacking in the picture taking department! Sorry!