Easter Week

The girls have had a fun week.  This is the first year we dyed eggs with the girls.  Noelle loved it (knew she would).

I also found out that despite hating many forms of eggs (scrambled, egg salad, fried, etc) Noelle loves boiled eggs.  She's been eating them whole.  She's also had lots of fun peeling them herself.

We had fun trying different things on our eggs.

On Tuesday we had a little Easter egg hunt at the park.  Noelle loved it.

She ate candy as she went.

After all the eggs were found all the kids just sat down where they were and ate all their candy.  Ivy ate gram crackers.

Not related, but Noelle is getting better at drawing.  Here's a smiley face.

I sceam, We scream

This is a month or so old now.  I'm getting behind!

One of their favorite things to do together is scream.  The audio doesn't really capture quite the reach their screams did in person.  It was ear numbing.

Favorite Pictures

Here are two of my favorite pictures.  Ivy's is from November, Noelle's is from this morning.  She was so excited to have braids like Jessie (the cowgirl from Toy Story).  I have the cutest girls!

Photo dump!

I have been having a hard time keeping up blogging lately.  I'm so busy with the girls it's hard to peel away!  So in honor of my absence here is a large photo dump.  The first few are a day at the park (in January...we suffer a hard winter here!) a few weeks ago.

And here we brought out the jump house again.  It was Ivy's first real time (she has been on it once before, but couldn't do much).  She had a blast.  There's a movie at the bottom of her squealing.  I didn't edit any of the movies, so sorry if they are super long.

Also, the other day Noelle was making Ivy laugh.  I mean LAUGH.  Near a guffaw.  It was pretty funny.  Why they thought that was funny we'll never know.

 

Here's the jump house video:

 

Home Tour: Our Bedroom

I've finally taken the time to organize my room.  The girls have been keeping me busy!

I just repainted my jewelry box and love it.  So cheery.  The zebra toy was originally Noelle's--but she was a little harsh with it and after gluing him back together I took him.

What you are all wondering is what is on your walls?  Just kidding, but here they are anyway.

I've stacked a number of Corey's books on the floor to try to get it high enough to see myself in.  I still can't see my head, so I'll probably swipe a few more books :)  Some day I'll get it hung on the wall.

We have a few random nails in our walls from the home owners.  One day I stuck this picture up on a spare nail and later that night Corey had put up a self portrait next to it on the other nail.  It was so funny.  I'm going to frame it I think.  Makes me smile.

House Tour: Living Room + Christmas

Continuing on with my very slow tour, here is our living room.  The curtain rod branch is from our yard--it was needing to come down and I needed a curtain rod.  Perfect.  Next to the tree is our TV.  I forgot to take a picture of that.  

It was fun pulling out the Christmas decorations.  Two of my favorite things are these kind of scrunchy looking Christmas mice.

I tried my hand at chalkboard lettering that's so hipster this year.  I need more practicing.  Funny story this is one of my favorite Christmas songs...and one of Corey's least favorite.

The girls love looking at the tree lit up at night.  

Noelle can't help but touch all the ornaments, and loves to play "i-spy" saying the different ornaments she finds.

I updated my tree skirt (aka, hacked up the old one and refreshed it).  I love it.  Pom-poms make anything more cheery.

It's fun to hide little things around the house (he's in our cupboard).

Here's what's on my walls.  Count on me to be a little off the wall with my decorations (that is an old mailbox  if you were wondering).

And here is the other wall.  Corey and I have jokes about me needing more picture frames.  I say frames add character and life to your house.  And they are cute.

Oh, Hello

Is anyone still reading this?  Teasing.  I know you are.  It's me that's slow.

We're still here.  If that's what you wanted to know.

Noelle the past few weeks has really started playing more--what I mean is she's using her imagination to play different things.  Many things she does are from movies (like being Fairy Godmother, or swimming like a fish), or she loves to play cooking in the dirt (she makes me cookies).  It's super cute and fun to see what she comes up with.  She has also decided quite suddenly that she must wear a dress all the time.  I'm trying to still be the boss, so she usually has play clothes underneath.   And the dresses stay inside unless we're going to church or somewhere nice.  Also she has decided not to look at the camera anymore.  What a goose.

Ivy is such a cutie pie.  Everywhere we go people want to pinch those cheeks (luckily most often they don't).  Her two bottom teeth are visible now.  She finally said my name!!  She can say "mama" or "mom", the later I think she learned from her sister saying it 500 times a day :)  She loves sitting up, and is dying to move forward.  She can sometimes inch a little bit forward on her tummy if she really wants something.  Ivy loves to give big smiles when mom or dad look at her from across the room.

Corey is in his second to last finals week!  One more week to go.  Also, his graduation moved up 1 day so that's almost interesting news. :)

Anyway, my precious free time is over as Ivy has woken up from her nap.  Until next time...