In My Room, In my Room

Anyone remember that Beach Boys song? The girls now officially have their own bedrooms. I let them pick out their own bedding and we added bead board and a stencil border at the ceiling. I love the way they turned out. The girls love them also. They even made their bed the first day.

We are just happy Cadence isn't sleeping in the piano room on a too small toddler bed anymore. I'm so happy that they each have their own dresser too. It was getting hard to fit their clothes into 1 room.

Halloween

The girls had 2 Halloween costumes this year. It wasn't planned that way, it just kinda happened. So they wore 1 to preschool, and 1 on Halloween night. I actually dressed up too. We went to Steve's work, and he didn't even know who I was. He totally ignored me until I spoke to him. I thought it was funny.

First Day of Preschool

Oh, my girls are growing up! I can't believe they started preschool. It wasn't a big deal to them, they were excited to go learn and play. They walked right it in, sat right down and played with playdoh. I decided I better leave before I lost it. I then realized that walking was a mistake as I cried most of they way home passing all my neighbors coming back from the bus stop. The crying got worse once I got inside my eerily quiet home; so I cried for another half hour as I cleaned my house. I did get quite a lot accomplished in a very short amount of time though. It's amazing how quickly things get done when there's nobody to undo it. Here's some pictures of our cute, grown-up preschoolers.

Birthday Girls

We had a birthday party at the Bees game for the girls. They even announced it on the sign. Here are some pictures.

Submarine ride and Luau

Ugh, we are so tired of holding this life preserver. I can't believe the adults are making us do it.

We're not sure why the girls look so grumpy in this picture, because they were actually happy. This was taken right before we went on a submarine ride. It was so cool! We went down 128 feet and got to see lots of fish and a ship wreck. The interesting thing is that our pink shirts turned blue because the colors disappear as you go deeper into the ocean.


Here is a before shot of the girls pink shirts.


It's hard to see Kaitlin's shirt but the little area you can see is blue. Cool huh!


We went to a luau one night, and obviously it was a little windy, which was typical for a Maui afternoon. Then the wind would die down around 6 or 7 pm. The girls got a kick out of the men twirling and "sitting" on their fire sticks. It was fun to watch.

Kaitlin got a turtle tattoo

Cadence got a flower tattoo.

I hope that's not a sign of things to come!

Easter In Maui

We want to live at the beach (with maid service of course) The date on all these pictures is wrong which is annoying, but we were lucky the camera was working at all. It has some issues.

The girls loved the sand so much I even considered putting a sandbox in the backyard. It occupied them for hours.



I had to take a picture of the girls with the twin trees.


The girls got their hair braided. We were able to leave it in for a week! It was so nice not to have to do their hair everyday.
Cadence getting her hair braided.

The final result

Kaitlin getting her hair braided.

The final result

We drove the Hanna Highway and I was so car sick I had to get out, but then it started to pour. It was better to get rained on than throw up though.

We stopped at a ranch that was so beautiful until.....



we found a dead rat!

The girls were so scared of these birds and we kept saying "they won't hurt you" until one bit my leg! It didn't hurt but it really surprised me.

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma's

The girls wanted to wear skirts, so I decided to curl their hair too. They were so good to let me do it. Usually they aren't willing to sit still long enough for even a ponytail.

My Easter Bunnies getting ready to hunt.

Both girls collected a lot of hard boiled eggs. We're gonna have to have a talk next year about collecting more chocolate.



We are a happy family!