A Trip to the Denver Zoo

We had a great time last weekend (yes I am finally getting around to posting) at the Denver Zoo. It was a quick trip and the girls were exhausted by lunch but we saw so many fun things! And there were not too many people there so it was great. Morgan and Skylar got to see a bunch of animals! They loved watching the penguins dive into the water, the orangatans swing from their ropes and the gorilla came right up to the fence to say "hi" to us! Morgan really loved that! Here are a few shots from the fun day-

This is the latest with Morgan. You ask her to smile and she gives you the half-er! Just like her daddy! More and more every day!

Morgan was tickling Skylar to get her to smile-they are so funny!

Tutu and Morgan on board the Denver Zoo Railroad-All Aboard!

And here are a couple shots of some of the cool animals we saw-

Jammin'

Well, we have just been staying busy and having a great time! The girls are growing up so fast and doing so many new things.

Morgan is just sassy as ever and having fun bossing her sister around. She is discovering the "magic" making toys miraculously dissappear. She will take a toy away from Skylar and hide it in the couch and say, "It disappeared! It's magic!" And she now works out of our home. I think she is a little jealous that daddy's work is taking time away from playtime, so tonight when Bryan was getting ready to go back to the office she said, "I am going to my office, I'll be back later." It was so cute! There are so many more things, but those are the latest that I can remember right this second.

Do you remember Shera? She had gotten this sticker at the doctor and when she stuck it on her head it so reminded me of that show from the 80's!

Skylar is doing great too! She is like days away from wlaking I think. She is getting pretty brave and trying to let go of stuff to take independent steps. She is yakin' up a storm and we swear that she said "bear" the other day. She is into everything and especially loving me phone. She has now learned how to open it and "type" on the keyboard. Her and Morgan are great friends and enjoy each other's company...At least I think. Skylar is a little vulture-she will just follow Morgan around as she eats and as soon as Morgan let's something fall Skylar is off like a shot to pick it up and toss it in her mouth. Cheerios, raisins, you name it!

And they have also started practicing their duet

Now I know my ABC's

Morgan has conquered the ABC's-and actually has for a few months now, but I just took a picture in front of her Leap Frog alphabet so I thought I would share with you all. For a while she would skip a letter here and there and it was "j-k-l-monkey" which was really cute, but she knows them all and loves to sing the song.

Hope you all had a nice weekend! We had a great weekend beating North Dakota State at home (celebrating with some Bison burgers Saturday night for dinner) and now it is out to BYU to meet up with the cougars.

Here are a few more pictures I thought I would share as well. This one cracks me up with her tongue hangin' out.

This one was taken a couple of weeks ago when her eye was finally starting to look better. You can kind of tell it is still swollen and puffy, but only because I just told you.
"Look Mom, a leaf! And if you don't come over here and take it from me soon you are going to be doing another fingure swipe in the back of my throat when I try and eat this!" Yeah, she is famous for that. And Morgan NEVER put stuff in her mouth, so I never think about it. Thus we do a lot of fingure swipping. And also why there is a new rule that Morgan can no longer have snacks anywhere but the kitchen table. Skylar just snatches food from Morgan and then tries to eat it. Yesturday was yogurt raisins-perfect for lodging into the back of her throat-new rule just started yesturday!

Through the years...

Well, we are not in school yet, so we don't do the first day of school pictures, but we always have a new outfit for the first football game of the year so we do kickoff pictures! Here are pictures of the girls in their new outfits.

And can you believe that we haven't had a football game in over 9 months!?! Skylar was born the Tuesday after out first game and she just turned 9 months old on Wednesday so she will be participating in her first football game as a spectator too!

And here are a few pictures from the past. These are the last 2 years of Morgan's kickoff pictures! Can you believe how much she has changed? And yet she is still such a cutie pa-tootie!

Her very First Year Morgan was 4 months old-

And last year she was 16 months old-it was her first day of Twizzlers!

A Quickie

Just wanted to share a few pics of the kiddos. Morgan just loves her little "Skylar Bug!" It is so cute to see Morgan lovin' on her. Here is a picture from a week or so ago when she wanted to hold Skylar. Skylar, since going mobile, does not like to be held for too long, but she does love her sister too.

They have stated wrestinling too, which is quite comical! Morgan will go over and lay on top of Skylar and let her pull her hair while she tickles her and they just laugh at each other. Then I tell Morgan to lay next to Skylar and let her tackle her. Skylar will just climb all over Morgan and pull her hair and laugh! Morgan and Skylar both just love it!! It is so stinkin' cute!

We went to the second Cowboy Footabll scrimmage yesturday and it just plum tuckered Skylar out. She fell asleep in the car on the way home and she just didn't want to wake up so I laid her down in the family room to make Morgan dinner thinking she would wake up right away, but apparently it was pretty comfy there on the floor!

a "priceless" moment

As I sit here at my computer listening to my daughters laugh at each other from their respective beds I am reminded of a list I made a couple of days ago.

Well, the day was Thursday August 7th. I was 28 +1 and thought I was going to very well loose my mind the day before, so Thursday I attempted to take a different approach to life and I made a list of the things that made me crazy so that I could maybe get a chuckle instead of pulling my hair out. Now that I am 28 +1 I have to think about things such as these and I do not want to loose my hair-it's bad enough I may loose my mind!



The number of wet, stinky, smelly diapers changed: 12
The number of times Morgan went pee-pee on the big potty: 6
The number of times Mommy had to dance around the house as if on hallucinagens celebrating the successes of the potty: 6
The number of accidents Morgan had on the floor: 1
The number of times Morgan asked me, "Mommy, what are you doing?": 86
Being able to stay home to participate and document these funny occassions: priceless



Now, there are a few things to be said of each of these moments. Well, okay not really each one-we don't need to talk about all of the stinky wet nasty diapers I had to change. end of discussion there. But 6 times going pee pee on the potty-not bad! And that was in a matter of about 4 hours. Only one accident in 4 hours is pretty good, but the one accident-I think she was storing that one up just for me-she's like a camel that one. And Bryan made a comment the other day about this woman on T.V. making an absolute fool of herself just to make her kids laugh at her and here was his reply, "Oh, my God-can you imagine having to do that everyday?" Much to his suprise he got quite an earfull!!! Hello! McFly...what the heck do you think I do all day? I do not very well sit around in my diamond earrings and little black dress awaiting your arrival. I am pretty sure that as the words escaped from his mouth he took a deep breath in trying to get them back, but sounds travels faster than your brain can filter sometimes. Hallucinogens...maybe, but it is definately worth a good belly laugh from your babies to act like a fool sometimes!


And, oh, my we have not gotten to the "why" phase of toddler-hood, but what we are at right now is quite possibly just as annoying-if you will. "Mommy, what are you doing?" "Mommy, what are you doing?" Anyone else experience this? Whoa! You have to just laugh and hope they grow out of it fast!

And here is a cute picture we took the other day when Morgan wanted to hold Skylar. Skylar is really busy now and did not love the fact that her sister was restraining her, but we had to act fast and snap a picture-it was too cute.

Kiddo Update

Well, it's been a busy few weeks here, but just wanted to share some pictures and a few updates on what we've all been up to.

Skylar is just develping every single day! And amazing us all! She has started crawling and babbling and is pulling herself up to standing in her crib-all of which happened while mommy was at a Stampin' Up! convention in Salt Lake City. But glad that daddy got to see it first since he will be missing out on all the excitment for the next few months. Skylar is wanting to do everything that Morgan is doing, much to Morgan's dismay.

Morgan is just talking up a storm and doing so well. She is just a happy little toddler girl questioning everything we do and challenging us at every opportunity. She knows a lot of new songs- "abc's"-and doesn't miss any letters, "twinkle, twinkle", "take me out to the ballgame"-daddy's favorite, and many more... she loves to sing and dance and be outside in the nice warm weather.

Bryan has gone back to work and the Cowboys had their first official practice yesturday. He is so excited for the season this year and will be on the sidelines instead of in the box, so look for him on T.V.! They have 7 home games this year, so we would love to see you all up to visit! Take a look at the schedule!

I have been adjusting to life without Bryan around and playing with the girls. I just got back from Utah where I got to spend 3 1/2 days stamping at a Stampin' Up! convention with over 6,000 demonstrators!

Here are a few pics from the last few weeks:

Oh boy, are we in trouble!

Skylar is just a busy little bee! Into everything!

Another picture of Morgan

what a sweetheart!