Saturday, April 9, 2011

Still catching up...January through Valentines day 2011

 My Stephen in his lab coat.  I still need to post a picture of him in his daily attire of scrubs.
 Katie enjoying some painting fun!


 Precious baby
 Matching dresses! I promise I hardly every dress them alike...but it is so fun to have two girls! Sometimes I can't resist.


 Annie started taking baths in the big bath tub
 Katie really does try to be a good big sister :)
Look at those eyes!
 Annie's last bath in the duck
 Happy Valentines day! Annie got the hippo and Katie got the balloon and candy heart.  The Kiss was for Stephen!

 Annie's adorable Valentines day outfit


I am such a lucky mommy to have such beautiful girls! Annie is growing so fast! I am going to write quickly about both girls as if I were back in February.... Annie is getting super close to crawling she army craws everywhere but she is getting up on all fours and crawling a little bit and then falling down and army crawling the rest of the way.  She still loves Katie more than anyone else in our house and she is such an easy going happy baby.  Katie is exhausting! I love her to death but she is EXHAUSTING! She is so smart and her mind is going so fast that she doesn't stop.  She constantly is begging for attention. It is very trying to be her mom sometimes because I never seem to have even a minute to myself or even Annie.  I pray for patience with her on a daily basis.  Okay I am done venting.  I love her so much.  I just wish I could be a better mom to this special little girl.  I wish I had more patience and more time and I wish I was less selfish.  I wish I knew how to better serve her needs and give both my girls all of the time and attention that they need and deserve! I am very blessed and very thankful for these girls and  for their unconditional love for me even when I don't deserve it!

Friday, April 8, 2011

My girls in January


 Annie fell asleep in the middle of everything

 Katie's first day as a sunbeam. 
Annie that same Sunday
 Katie decided to collect and only play with her pink things.
 Annie playing
 Because we only have a two bedroom apartment it is very rare that Annie gets to sleep in her crib she usually sleeps in the pack n play in our room so this was a lucky shot! :)
 Awww she is so precious!
 Little Sister and Big Sister

 I sure do love these girls!
Messy
 Playing dress up
The finished product!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Christmas in Louisiana...finally! Part 1

Christmas in Louisiana! We had a marvelous time with Grammy and Grandpa Smith and of course Aunt Dara too!  It was so much fun to get to spend about two weeks with everyone and especially to share Christmas with them.  Even though Stephen is one of nine kids in his family we were the only one who made it to Christmas this year with kids so our kids got a ton of attention and got super spoiled!  I loved that Katie and Annie got time with Grammy and Grandpa it was a great and memorable Christmas! I guess I will let the pictures speak for themselves (there are a ton)! This post will cover up to Christmas Eve. By the time Christmas rolled around there were a lot more of us: Grammy and Grandpa, Amy and Landon, Kim and Landon, Trisha, Dara and obviously Stephen, me, Katie and Annie!  We had a blast! The pictures uploaded funny so they are out of order but oh well here they are anyway.

Katie trying on Great Grandpa's Hat and boots!

Stuff from Santa to everyone

Christmas Eve the whole room

Katie leaving milk and cookies for Santa

Katie and Annie Christmas eve Matching P.J.s

 Grammy surprised Katie with a "sing-a-ma-jig" and Katie LOVED it!
Telling Grammy thank you

We all had to close our eyes while everyone gave each other our Christmas eve stocking gifts...Katie is helping Aunt Kim!

Beautiful Aunt Trisha with Annie

Katie's turn for family Christmas eve stocking gifts!

Uncle Landon and Aunt Amy brought home a fan from China for us

Annie's turn for Christmas eve stocking gifts (Katie was helping)

Matching P.J.s!

Christmas eve 2010

Cute newlyweds!

Annie and her chunky cheeks!

Katie and Amy taking a peek at presents

Annnie

Grandpa feeding Annie. I love this picture!

Bath time

Coolest park EVER!

Grammy and Annie!

Grammy with the girls.  They are lucky to have such great grandparents!

Backyard woods BBQ

Yummy

Katie in the woods

Annie in the woods

Making Christmas cookies

little helper



Cowgirls!

Aunt Dara and Annie