Randomness

For those of you who saw my last post and noticed that the videos were not working I have resolved the issue. I guess I marked them as private on youtube and then when I uploaded them to my blog no one could see them but me :) However, like I said I fixed it and they are really cute videos so I encourage you to my previous post and check them out. 

This post is a bit of randomness. I have all these pictures and I can actually remember what is going on in them, but I can't remember exactly what order they all happened in so I might bounce around in this post a lot. The brain of a sleep deprived exhausted mom is not the most reliable.

Back to playing catch up. Not blogging for 5 months was a bad idea. I have lots of things I want to share so I guess we'll continue on.

When we got back from Utah the weather was so nice! We went from snowy bitter cold below freezing weather in Salt Lake to a nice sunny warm 50ish degrees in Vegas. It was so lovely. For those of you in the colder climate don't feel like I am rubbing it in, I just had to enjoy the warm weather while I could because I wouldn't call the current weather warm, its more of a burning hot oven and break out in sweat the second you walk out the door kind of weather now and it's only April. By July it'll be a blistering burning ball of fire, but I wont be here to deal with it then so bring on the warm weather! 

The girls loved the warm weather because I took them to the park all the time. There was a time when the weather was perfect (about 70) and I took the girls to the park every day for a week straight and about every other day for the next two weeks. It was wonderful! The girls love to swing.

 Adelyn: She loves to swing! These pictures are from the first time I put her in a swing. It was an intant love.

Smiling so big her mouth couldn't get bigger

 Emma: She was a lot harder to get a smile out of. She didn't protest the swing, but she seemed to be indifferent. She got really relaxed and chill when swinging. I did make enough funny faces that I finally got a small smile from her.

Making friends. Emma and Addie love making friends at the park.

The girls also love going for stroller rides. Can you believe that the exact day I took this picture in their pink car seats I got the usual questions.

1: Are they twins? and

2: Two boys or a boy and girl

As if two girls couldn't possibly be the correct option. Matching pink carseats = girls! haha I get it all the time. As Andrew would say, 'Some peoples kids'...

Addie in back & Emma in front having a party of her own. 

Look at that sweet little face!

Speaking of strollers, funny story. As I have mentioned a lot I don't have the best memory and I tend to be a bit skatter brained some days when I am running on little sleep. I've learned how to function with twins, but my brains not always with it some days. One day after I got done running errands with the girls we had some extra time before Andrew got home so I took the girls to the park to swings. I pushed them around in their stroller and then they had some fun in the swings. Simple enough, right? The girls got tired so I loaded them back in their stroller and we walked back to the car. The street I had parked on had gotten very busy due to rush hour so I hurried and buckled the girls in the car and drove home. Hunky dory, right? If only my brain had made the connection when I drove off... Well, the next day I had to run to the store so, I loaded the girls in their carseats buckled them in the car and off we went. When I got there I opened the trunk to get the stroller out and the trunk was empty! For a second I thought I've been robbed! and then I thought I must have left it home but then I thought, 'no the last time I used it was at the park yesterday so it can't be at home'... hmm... ...  and then it hit me, I left the stroller at the park. Needless to say I hurried to the park to see if it was there and it wasn't. I talked to the elementary school next to the park to see if they had seen it and they hadn't. I drove around the neighborhood hoping to see it, but I didn't. I checked the local pawn shops but it wasn't there. I even called the city parks department and tried to get in touch with the park manager, but it was a lost cause. I eventually accepted that it was gone. I had a good cry that day. Having a stroller is my life line. With two little ones who don't walk a stroller is mandatory for basic life functioning. So, I cried to my mom and then I cried to my sister and then I broke the bad news to Andrew. Our stroller was one of our favorite baby items. It was such a nice stroller and Andrew and I often commented on how much we loved the stoller and how smoothly it glided around. When I told Andrew he was actually ok with it and told me to just order another stroller, which is what I ended up doing. Anyways, I just made that short story long, but it had a big impact on me! I don't know why I was so crushed by the loss of my stroller, but at the time I was.

In January our sister in law Audra come to town with her son for a soccer tournament so we walked down the strip with them and hung out at some of their soccer games.

Checking out the M&M factory

It was COLD that weekend so we got to pull out all of the girls' cute winter stuff one more time.

Ok, we are almost done with the randomness. Here are some cute pictures of Adelyn and her pacifier. Remember when her pacifier used to be as big as her head? Check out this cute picture and then the picture below it. She has the exact same pacifier in both pictures. 

Adelyn a few days old

When did my little girl get so big! That pacifier used to take over her face and now, well, it doesn't. She is starting to outgrow her pacifier and She learned how to put it in her mouth herself but most times it goes in side ways or upside down like in this picture and when it goes in upside down her bottom lip puckers out. I think its pretty cute.

This girl has a big pucker lip

Adelyn played herself to sleep but Emma is still partying it up, this is how it goes most days.

My sweet little Emma. She's my little doll. What else do you say about her. She is so sweet and seriously such an easy going baby now days.

Happy Adelyn after she woke up from a good nap. I didn't think the day would come when she'd wake up happy from a nice long nap, but eventually she did. 

And of course, we took a trip up to St. George again after a few weeks of getting back into routine.

My mom taking the grandkids for a walk around the block.