Summertime! (finally)

We have had the longest winter EVER!!  I'm so tired of clouds and of course here they come.  Well it has been awhile since I blogged.  Mercedes is soooo gorgeous!  She just started ballet today and is loving it.  It is a short class just two months but that is perfect for us.  I'm so excited for her.  Everything is about dance for her.  Ashley likes to dance as well but shows a passion for animals that I have never seen in any kid her age.  She is 16 months and quite a spitfire.  I've never seen so much energy in my life!! :) I love them though and they do keep me busy!  Hopefully Mercedes and Ashley can start swimming lessons as soon as this darn weather warms up a bit more. We are excited for summer!
Mike and I are doing great! Mike is working hard and trying to fit in a summer somewhere.  I am chasing children and fitting in hobbies where ever possible.  I still love to crochet, do photography and have taken up bow making.  Super fun stuff but hard to do with kiddies.
My mom and dad are redoing some stuff for our basement and I am super excited about that.  They are awesome!
Well I don't have any cool new recipes or crafts or anything because I'm not that creative but here are a few new pictures I've taken (well not that one I'm in of course) that I really like....until next time!

It's almost February...wow

I can't believe I have forgotten about our supercute blog.  Maybe it is because of Facebook.  Okay it is SOOO because of facebook.  Well since August we have been up to....well...holy crap I don't remember.  Sorry.  Okay well lately Mike is great.  A very wonderful person, I still wonder everyday if I'm dreaming when I wake up next to him.  Mike is my other half and the love of my life.   Mercedes is a complete joy.  She is so smart and makes me laugh on a daily basis with her super imagination.  How many 2 year olds do you know who talk to their toes?  Ashley is a handful.  I'll be the first to admit she may be the reason we only have two children.  But she is the sunshine in my life with that smile she melts my heart.  When she says "mama"  it is truely the most joyful song I've ever heard. 

Well here are a few updated pictures of Ashley and Mercedes.  Until next time....probably it will August.  Ha! kidding...(I think)....

August

Summer is almost over and I find myself wanting to go school shopping.  Sadly I have no one to school shop for yet.  Oh well.  Soon enough I suppose.  I will post updated pictures soon!

July already? wow..

My babies are 2 and almost six months.  WOW!!  Where has the time gone? Seriously?  I blinked and the convention was over and now my babies are growing and time just passes on and on...
Mercedes is so gorgeous and super smart.  She is now potty trained and although she does have an accident every now and then she is doing really really well.  She says more things every day that shock me and positively adores her sissy. 
Ashley is so sweet.  In fact I call her my sweet Ashley.  Except when she's fussy then I call her Samantha (LOL! Gotta love me Sam;)  She is rolling over to her side now and is eating baby food...::sniff sniff::...I can hardly believe it.  She is such a joy and is always smiling.  She loves watching her Mercedes and will just stare at her and stare.  It's super cute of course. 
Mike and I are doing great.  We are considering a vacation in September to Disneyland but nothing set yet.  Other then that it's daily life.  As long as everyone is safe, healthy and happy that is all that matters.  Here are some pictures of my definition of love....

Photography class

So I signed up for a digital photography workshop and have had a blast!  I had no idea what this fancy camera did that Mike bought me and I've had it for almost a year and a half.  So I've been taking a million pictures trying to work with the "manual" and apeture settings on my camera and have noticed a lot better pictures.  I even found out I can shoot in sepia which I've been trying to figure out for a long time and I have a timer on my camera so I can do our family pictures.  Which I'm going to try to accomplish today since we don't have a family picture with Ashley in it.  I've also been reading a lot more on photography and am beginning to realize how truely dumb I am!  Ha ha!  on the bright side...I have been doing a lot of things correct and not knowing it and applying a lot of rules I didn't know were "rules".  So all in all I have a LOT to learn but hey at least its a start.  I'll be posting to flickr more often now so go see my pics and see what you like and don't like.  Here are some pictures of my babies!

Super exhaustion!

Well April is zooming by like the last two months.  Good grief!  It seems like my days are like this: change diapers, get a sippy cup with milk for Mercedes, feed Ashley, watch cartoons and drink coffee, make breakfast, clean house and do laundry, shower, bathe Mercedes, bathe Ashley, do makeup and hair, sit down and do bills or time for lunch!, clean up lunch, try to get Mercedes to take a nap (which is rare), time to get dinner ready for Mike, eat dinner, clean up, time to play with Mercedes then fight with her because she hates bedtime, bounce Ashley, rock Ashley, bounce Ashley, rock Ashley, (hopefully during this time Mercedes finally goes to sleep) and finally 11:00 pm when everyone is asleep I get to exercise (yeah right) take a bubble bath and go to sleep....whew....tomorrow I get to do it all over again!  :)   funny thing is...I wouldn't change it for anything.

Ashley Samantha

My sweet Ashley is two months old.  I cannot believe how time flies by!  We have been enjoying our new little angel and often wonder what we did without her.  Mercedes is still great with her and loves her so much.  She says "mom where baby?" whenever we are away from home and Ashley is not in my arms.  She's such a good baby.  She falls asleep around 10:30 or 11:00 and wakes up around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning to eat, then sleeps until about 9:30 or 10:00.  She is a lot more fussy then Mercedes was but I don't mind at all.  She is just as sweet and beautiful.