Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day was so much fun this year! I have always LOVED the holidays but now that I have little ones to spoil and surprise on these special days I love them even more!
This Valentine's was also Madison's first school party.  We volunteered to bring sugar cookies for her class to decorate and had so much fun making them together.  She also picked out princess cards to make for her class!
We started our Valentine's morning with heart-shaped chocolate chip pancakes, headed to school for the big party, had a lunch date at Carl's Jr, and got some special surprises from daddy.
Steven and I headed off to one of our favorite restaurants, Northwoods, for dinner and went to see "The Vow." (and I forgot my camera...boo!)

Such a good helper...mixing the cookie dough!

 Daddy and Maddie eating the dough!

 Stuffing her Valentine's cards

 Putting on the stickers

Valentine's Breakfast

 Ready For Her Party

 Showing off her outfit!

 Baby B!

Maddie and her BFF, Lily!

 Lily, Amber, Maddie, and Gabby!

 Playing Valentine's Bingo!

 Sisters!

 Madison's Valentine's Box

 Enjoying Her Shake!

 Opening her Present from Mommy and Daddy

 New Princess Paint Book

 Lady and the Tramp

 Daddy Surprised The Girls With Balloons!

 ....Even Miley was Excited!

 Haha! My Card from Steven!

 ....and Beautiful Roses!

We had an awesome Valentine's Day and hope you did too!

And We Have A Crawler!!

Yeah! Brooklyn is officially a crawler! She started crawling on February 5, 2012- Super Bowl Sunday! We knew she was getting ready to, she had been getting up and rocking on all fours for days! And then it happened... she woke that Sunday morning and decided it was the day! Here are some videos of her first day crawling!

Park Days

One of our favorite things to do with our little family is head to the park.  One of the many awesome things about our community is that their are about 3 amazing parks within about a three minute walk from us.  We usually head off to the park for about an hour or so every day.

Madison loves meeting new friends, climbing, going down the slides, and having daddy push her "super high" on the swing.  Brooklyn also enjoys the swings (especially watching Maddie next to her) and climbing/crawling around.  And Miley loves following the girls (and ANY kid who will pay her attention)  around and occasionally goes down a slide or two.

Here are some pictures of our park days....

Pushing B on the Swing!

 "I don't know about this Maddie!"

 "What are you lookin at Mommy??"

 Cheese!

 Brooklyn Swinging!

 Sisters!

 Me and My B!

 Mommy and My Girls!

 Daddy and Maddie

Running Fast!

 Silly B!

 "Super High, Daddy!"

 B Laughing @ Maddie!

 Our Big Blue Eyed Girl!

 So Much Fun!

Maddie's First Mani/Pedi

I am a little behind on my blogging so here we go. A few weeks ago I was heading to the nail salon to get my nails done.  Something I LOVE doing.  Brooklyn was down for a nap and I could tell daddy could use a little quiet time so I decided it was time to bring Madison along for her first mani/pedi.  Madison is the ultimate girly girl.  She loves sitting in my sink and letting me fix her hair,shopping, picking out her outfits, and of course letting me paint her fingers and toes so I knew she would love it.
When I told her she was coming with me she was seriously so excited.  I think the entire way to the salon she talked to me about what color nail polishes they might have.  Haha! Well I was right, she LOVED it...and she picked hot pink nail polish for her pretty little fingers and toes (SO, my child). In fact, she asks me about once a week when we are going to go again.  I think daddy might be in a little trouble but I am so excited to have a little partner to head to the nail salon with!

Getting her nails painted

 Time for my toes!

 Lovin it!

 Sparkly Pink Piggies!

 ...And Hands!

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Big Bear Vacation

Last weekend we headed up to Big Bear for a little weekend away with my family. It was both of our girls first time going to the snow and Madison was especially excited. She had great plans of building snowmen and making snow angels, however, the weather didn't quite cooperate with us. The only snow we found was at the tubing park and Madison loved it! She is usually a little reserved so I was afraid she would be scared but she LOVED going down the steep hills and I got quite the workout carrying her plus our tube! We had a great time relaxing, snow tubing, eating, playing card games, and hanging out in the cabin. 

Watching Monsters in the Car Ride Up

 Ice Cream Treats

 Baby B Cruising Around the Cabin

 Cuddle Time!

 They Love Each Other

 Maddie Getting Ready for the Snow

 Roy and Maddie

 All Bundled Up and Ready to go Tubing!

 Brooklyn Jane

 Headed up the Mountain w/ Mommy

 My Bigger Girl

 Maddie and Auntie Jess

 Roy

 Maddie and Auntie Erin

 Group Shot of the Tubers (minus Nick) and 

Maddie was not cooperating

 Ice Cream Treats after a Long Day of Tubing

 Play Dough Fun

 Daddy and B

 Bath Time

 Kisses for my Sister

 Miss Maddie

 Baby B Hanging Out

 Collecting Pine Cones

 Brooklyn and Daddy

 <3 Our Family <3

 B, Erin, Jess & Roy

 Family Shot

We can't wait to go back again! 

The Year of Babies!

I am so excited! I am going to be an auntie times two this year!

My sister, Ashley and brother-in-law Nate are expecting their bundle of joy on August 19th. and Steven's brother, David and his wife Annie are expecting their's September 28th!

I  am so excited to watch our family grow over the upcoming years as our brothers and sisters have little ones. Some of my greatest memories growing up were with my cousins. I am so thankful I came from a tight-knit, large family and am so happy our girls are going to get the same experience.

Let the baby showers and nursery planning begin.  By the way, Madison insists that both Ashley and Annie are having girls....boys are not an option!  She has also decided that she is going to take the liberty of naming both new cousins.  Ashley and Nate's little one is going to be "Sophia" and David and Annie's "Chloe."  Too funny! I just can't wait to have more little ones to love on and spoil!

2012 is off to a great start!