I thought Braeden looked like me!

Here is a photo my dad posted on Facebook today of him.  Liam walked up and said “It’s Braeden!”.

 

Way back when…..I was the mother of one

Only by a week though, this is the week before I went into labor with the twins…can’t say I don’t know why looking back…

Field trip to Hungry Howies

Field Trip to the bowling alley.  The funny thing is looking at this photo now it that the two little twin girls behind Braeden we didn’t know back then.  When I was looking at this picture last year I realized it was Anna and Megan, a friend from my Multiples group’s girls.

Another field trip to Krispy Creme, he is with his cousin Matthew, Krispy Kreme no longer exists here anymore.

And to end the week a Valentine’s Party.

And a scary photo of me the week before I had Liam and Brenna, now that is a HUGE BELLY!

First Trip to Disney

I’m sure most everyone knows how much I love Disney.  My dad sent these pics to me today.  My first trip to Disney, 1978, I was 6 yrs old.  I have a few memories of this trip.  I remember seeing the castle and how cool it was.  I remember the tea cups.  Most of all I remember it was Christmas and I was afraid Santa would not find us at Disney.  He did find us, he left the presents in my grandparents van and I got me favorite Whoopsie Doll.

My sister will die when she sees these photos….yes that is my sister and me with Donald, NOT my brother.  It was the Dorothy Hamill haircut. 

Okay….I made it outside for a few minutes

I think I made it about fifteen minutes and then quickly ran inside to make hot cocoa.  They played until they were all crying….Braeden got hit with a snowball, Liam had an “accident”, and Brenna was crying because they had to come in because of Liam’s accident.  (they had been out there long enough anyway)

My first race

I opened my email this morning and my dad emailed this photo to me.  It was the  first race I ever race, we think it was probably a 5K, I was 5 years old.  Dad is scanning all the old photos right now, so I look forward to some more pictures from him soon. 

It’s mid January, but the Christmas Story is still alive here

Liam telling me is Joseph and Snoopy is his sheep. 

Braeden playing along, he says he is Joseph….resulting in dueling Josephs.  They are on their camel.  I’m happy nobody else wanted to be Mary.

Liam has taken over the camel, Braeden was about ready to give camel rides.

Wanted: Mom who likes to play outdoors

It is freezing here and the snow keeps coming.   The kids would love to go outside and play in it, but need a mother who can tolerate freezing temps for more than 5-10 minutes. 

Time to gather up the snow pants, gloves, hats, coats: 10 mi

Time to get it all on two toddlers: 15 minutes

Time to take it all back off when I realize I forgot the crucial potty break BEFORE clothes: 10 minutes

Total time before walking out the door: 35-45 minutes

Time outdoors 5-10 minutes……just not worth it when Daddy can tolerate much longer periods outdoors.  I am happy to make the hot cocoa for when everyone comes back inside.

This is MY idea of playing in the snow…..

BTW…Brenna swiped Liam’s bowl, he isn’t very happy.

What happened to Uno?

I don’t like it, what happened to “WILD”, “SKIP”, “REVERSE”, “DRAW TWO”, and “DRAW FOUR”…..I’m having a hard time adjusting to change I guess!

Decisions, decisions

photo taken from….. http://disneyworldsports.disney.go.com/dwws/en_US/events/eventDetail/detail?name=PrincessHalfMarathonDetailPage&pid=pip-0-3

Too lazy to see if there is a proper way to give credit to a photo I didn’t take on a blog.

I mentioned a while back that my mother and I are going to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon.  It is 56 days, 11 hours, 39 minutes, and 14 seconds away.  I am a bit (okay more than a bit) nervous about this, I have never run this far before.

I am not really nervous that I can’t do it.  It’s a matter of not getting kicked out of it.  There is a time requirement you have to make…16 minute miles.  I did a 10 mile last fall and had a 12:20 pace, so we should be fine.  But, there is fun entertainment and the photo stops, the characters are on the sidelines for photos, etc.  So if we want to play we need to watch our time.

We finally have our resort booked, trying something new,  Port Orleans Riverside. Mainly because it’s the cheapest room we can get that has a hot tub at the resort so we can go soak ourselves after the race, and there is boat transportation from the hotel to Downtown Disney, a girl has to shop on a girl’s weekend.

We signed up for the Disney Give a Day Get a Day promo and we are volunteering this weekend.  Love the promotion, great idea….just wish they would let you park hop with it.  It is a one day, one park and because we are there for such a short time we really don’t want to spend $75 for a second day when we would only get a half day in the parks.

Sooo…..my big decision is, if you had to pick one park, for two adults (no kiddos) which park would you choose?  If it makes any difference I will add that Epcot is having the International Flower show….photo below. 

We do get to run through Magic Kingdom, the castle, etc.  I just feel like a trip to Disneyworld isn’t complete without a visit to the Magic Kingdom, but I can only count an handful of things I really would do there without the kids, probably only doing Small World In Fantasyland and skipping Toontown altogether. Something about the magical feeling with the castle, Main Street, etc.

I have just told my mother to pick, I was just there in Nov, but she wants me to pick, ugh!

Another photo I didn’t take, found it here with tons of other cool photos.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS315US206&q=Epcot+international+flower+and+garden+festival+photos&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=Rx1GS6mAJYToM6SsvIQD&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQsAQwAA

So, anyone want to help me make a decision?  Also, we are going to do a pasta dinner the night before the race, would you do it with the Princesses or Mickey and the gang?

Wordless Wednesday

Our baggie books

Every year after Christmas we take the photo cards we receive and cut the photos down and make a book.  The kids have fun looking at family and friends, its also nice to help them learn the names of family that we don’t see very often.

I have a few friends that are doing the 365 project, a post or photo each day of the year….I already missed a few days.  I might need to change it to a weekly project, 52 posts, lol!  I’m still going to try.  Plus if I do it more frequently, I will have fewer huge catch up posts.

First Movie

This week we were able to take Liam and Brenna to their first movie.  The plan originally was for Ed to take Liam to see Curious George last Saturday and then I would take Brenna to see Princess and the Frog through the week.

The morning of the movie I told Liam that Daddy was going totake him to see Curious George.  I told him he got to go by himself….you know some one on one time.  He wanted Brenna to go, so I told him that I was going to take Brenna to see the Princess movie.  He said he wanted to see the “Tiana Frog” movie. 

So we changed the plans and were going to take them both to see Princess and the Frog during the week.  We lined up Bumpa to hang out with Braeden so he would be spared the Princess movie.  He went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks with Bumpa the week before.

So the morning we are ready to go and Liam is crying that he wants to see Curious George.  Brenna yelled….”I no want Tiana, I want Cinderella”.  I almost just cancelled it all, but decided to go through with it.

Glad I didn’t cancel, the kids both really like the movie and sat through it really well, especially with it being their first movie.  It definitely wasn’t all princessy and girly, lots of fun frogs and crocodiles, etc.

Here is a photo of the two engrossed in the movie.

As an added note, here is a photo of Braeden at his first movie, The Heffalump movie when he was about the same age.

Happy New Year!

I have really been slacking here the past few months.  Went from Braeden’s b-day, to mine, to Halloween, to Disney, then my ornament making, Thanksgiving, Christmas preparations to New Years.  I have been slacking on my Wii Fit and blogging time, both things I like to do. 

My goal this year is instead of spending all of naptime doing things I need to do, to give myself the first 30-45 minutes to do the things I want to do.  We will see how it goes.

Fingers Crossed!