Back to the Girls...

My first time away from the girls was a success. It was nice to go 2 days without changing diapers, wiping bums, making meals, brushing little teeth, and getting little girls to take naps and go to bed. But I was beyond excited to see them again. I am very glad we changed our original New York/DC trip plans and decided on a little vacay. 

 I think the girls were happy to see us, but I am positive they were more excited to receive their Princess back packs. I guess this makes them all set for Disneyland.

 In other news, if the incentive is there this one can apparently climb to the top bunk all by herself.

And in more surprising news, it wasn't even candy that convinced her to climb; just a thousand dollar computer.

Anniversary: Take 6

It just so happened that our weekend get away also fell on our sixth wedding anniversary. It happened to be more of a coincidence than anything, but we were more than happy to add one more thing to equation to celebrate. We drove down to Costa Mesa Saturday afternoon, right after we got the girls down for their afternoon naps. Our first stop was checking into our hotel. Then we headed over to the huge mall to walk around. By huge mall I mean that we spent the better part of the weekend walking around this thing and we saw maybe half of what it had to offer. We shopped, walked, ate, and when I felt like my pregnant body was swelling up and ready to collapse we retired to the hotel to catch up on all of our television shows that we hadn't seen yet this year (mostly person of interest).

On our anniversary evening we skipped our usual melting pot destination because there was not one around and decided to hit up some japanese food. We trip advisored it and read all the rave reviews on a place that turned out to be a little more authentic than we were hoping. So we did a last minute switch and ended up here, still a little different than what we were expecting, but it was delicious, fun, and hilarious to me that Sam was the only white person in the whole place. Neither of us had any idea what we were doing so we spent a lot of the time spying on other tables so we wouldn't look like complete loonies. 

 Of course spying also makes your pictures turn out a little funny.

 We had no idea what we were ordering because everything was in japanese, but it tasted delicious. We just wont dwell on the fact that it was mystery meat.

Happy Anniversary Sam! It has been a crazy busy year and I am glad that I got to spend it with you. 

Love you forever.

Musical Baby

This one is obsessed with music. She can always be found singing and dancing, tapping on things to 'make music' and when we were in California playing the piano and the guitar.

Dana taught her to play twinkle twinkle little star on the piano and she loved to strum on Honey's ukulele and sing along to any song that happened to be in her head at the minute. I foresee a lot of recitals in our future.

Ipad City

With our arrival to Thousand Oaks I think it brought the total number of ipads in the house to 5. The girls were in heaven and jumped from one person to the next to commandeer the games, movies, and facetime that was taking place.   

 Poor David never had a fighting chance against the two of them. Good thing naps are almost as good an alternative.

 Goof ball. This is how Bails would help Rachel clean her room. She would watch a show while Rachel picked up. It took about a week, but it finally got clean. No one was more surprised than Bails when she walked in one day and said "oh Rachel, what happened to all of your clothes?"

I think these two have a serious addiction. We may have to put them on an electronic fast.

Bubbles

Sometimes you just have to dress up and blow bubbles...

The three best friends.

Monday...

 Monday started out with some more chores. Hazel helped Honey give Rex a bath.

 Both girls helped Papa mow the lawn, then sweep up all the grass clippings afterwards.

It was hard work, but somebody had to do it.

The day ended with Family Home Evening in the backyard. 

Someone needs to get her a sign that says...will do anything for a Root beer float.

Father's Day...

Since we were a thousand miles away from our Daddy on Father's Day we had to celebrate with him in spirit by doing all the things that he would want to do. 

They ate sugar cereal for breakfast (fruit loops)...

 They licked the whipped cream frosting off the beaters...

Hazel skipped out of church after sacrament meeting to make sure she got a nap in...

 Bailey ate a big piece of cake while she was dressed up like Cinderella...

And then she changed up her costume to Po, the big red teletubbie...

 While Hazel sported Tinkerbell...

His only true gift was the return of his wallet that he had lost in the airport in Italy like 7 years ago with everything completely in tact. Apparently this boy's mother found the wallet in Italy and brought it home with her with the intention of returning it to Sam. She got sick, forgot about it, and it sat in a drawer in their home for the past few years. The boy found it, tracked Sam down through facebook and then mailed it back to him. How crazy is that?

Happy Father's day to the best Daddy to our two little girls! We love you even though we were far apart.