just skip

when it has been one of those days. try skipping! it works.
sitting here relaxing. b.c it has been one of "those" weeks. i need to get outside and SKIP!
terrible two's have hit our house! and i keep hearing the 3's are worse! i can hardly wait.
or waddle. i was chatting with one of my best girlfriends today about our weeks. she is also a stay @ home mom and i was telling her about skipping and she was talking about waddling. her son was waddling to his room and he wanted her too--so she did and they just laughed! those are the best moments. the moments you never want to skip.
so if you are having a bad day. skip or waddle!
how can you resist laughing......
i cant.

we are working on sitting up!
it is amazing how we go from being the content little girl laying on the floor watching.
then rolling. we do not do that much anymore. and now we are working on sitting up.
she is doing so well. ((sometimes))
so fun to see how much she has changed!!!

this week has flown by. ((i only say that now b.c i am looking back)) each and every day i did not think that. we have gotten out and done fun things out of the house each day! the weather here is so nice! i saw 48 this week. we can not get used to it ..b.c here comes the snow!

dillon's new favorite thing is puzzles.
i am just amazed @ how easy they are for him now


i have been taking any time i have to work on pLum stuff. i have a booth @ a "girls night out" coming up in 2 weeks. and need some new things in b. salon
and i have so many ideas in my head for spring.
i had been thinking of making felt flowers for a long time and this week finally did it.
i like how they turned out! perfect for spring/summer. they can be so many fun colors!!!
need to go shopping!

had a perfect morning today.
errands.
library.
and to lunch with some friends!
and home for nap. the perfect day as far as i can tell.
this afternoon dillon showed me how he "stunt rides"!!?!?!? really where did he learn this?
well i taught him the word stunt after he showed me his moves.....
but where did he learn the moves?
but being the kind of mother and person i am. i encourage all craziness. ((to a point)) i love it.... and make him do it over and over again. he puts his glasses on and stands on the seat of his 3-wheeler and bends over to hold the handles and makes motor cycle noises.. but the best part is then he puts one leg out @ a time and does his stunts!!!
then he makes me do it. i just love it!
and tonight
out for drinks with one of my dearest friends!
happy birthday to you miss megan! love you!

we never got our valentines done and delivered. i of course bought the stuff and had great intentions....but then never finished them. so maybe i will have to try again next year!!! i can always hope!

we were a part of the fishing tournament here in DL last weekend. my brother in law came and we had so much fun! we did not even get a nibble but we had a good time!. need to upload those pics soon! we had a breakfast party in our garage in the am. so much fun! we are excited for next year already!!!

yesterday we had MOPS. and we made it through w.dillon in the daycare. he had a hard first 40 minutes but they kept trying and then moved him to the same room with pres and then he was ok. so i am just hoping that when we go back we can again make it through. so nice to be with all the other moms. and meet new people.
tomorrow i am off to mnpls for my sister in law's bachelorette party! i am so EXCITED to help her celebrate. i love her so much and am so excited for the upcoming wedding!!!
and of course i am in mnpls i of course need to see my sister and her family too! i am so excited to see all of them! wish we lived closer.


these are some of my favorite pics. i just love the real laughter--the fun they are having!
last week we had a friend over. it is so funny--these two had so much fun in the toy room filling the house with the balloons and playing in them. taking them out and putting them back in. i have never heard either of them laugh so hard and have so much fun playing together!

enough rambling.
good night
xoxoxooxox

feel like i am camping

our fridge.freezer went out sat.

noticed sunday am. bought a fridge. that is another story.
did not have many choices. cupboards too low for what we wanted.
thank god that we have one of each in the garage. but not in the attached garage---i get to run across the driveway when i need anything. milk. one egg. and what is happening is that i bring something in and forgot something almost every time. (((loving it that is -12 out too!)))

dillon, breck and audrey's birthday party was so fun.
saturday we had a pool party.
thank you so much to everyone for coming to help celebrate.
the kids had a great time. could barely pull d out of the pool.
after alomost 4 hours in and out of the pool we went home for quick bath and bed!


we had such a great time celebrating dillons birthday on thursday too.

it started out with the yummiest pancake "cake" in the am. complete with candles. and presents.
a day @ home w. mommy and pres. playing together all day. and more presents.
ZORBAZ for dinner.
grandma, grandpa and auntie jj came with us. then back to our house for presents and cake.
and one happy little boy. and tired too! it is hard being 2.

one important fact dillon informed me of.
"elmo no diapers". is pointed that out to me this morning as we watched sesame street.

superbowl weekend. went to jj and mikes to watch the game! thanks for having us over.

during the game preslee was so
EXCITED she ROLLED OVER!!!! (finally)
she also
had her 6 month check up.
17lbs. 10oz. 79% in weight & 39% in height
growing so much!

kids in bed. drew in GF for his sig ep meeting.
me. i should be sewing.
so here i go.
hugs

being 2

our baby boy is 2. HERE he is the day he was born.
i can hardly believe it. no. actually i can not believe it. he is such a great little boy. yes. very spirited. lets be honest. sometimes down right naughty. but could i love him more?!?!? there is no way.

he loves......
and what we love about you.
thomas the train or as he so lovingly calls him "tommy"
eat "iiicccee"
to get his own water
to read books. or be read too
always have something in his mouth.
talks our ears off non stop.
a master @ puzzles.
loves elmo.
still loves to snuggle.
oh how i will miss that someday when he is too big.
love when he gets up he yells mommy. and when i walk in he says "i waked up mommy"
how much he loves his little sister and is such a great big brother.
loves to wrestle.
loves bobcats and can not wait to ride again with papa.
talks non stop about john deere tractors. grandpa's tractor is his favorite.
does not go anywhere w.o his "b"
still loves his "mimi" ((but we only get it @ sleep time now))
loves to dance!!! dance party here everyday!
loves to play "tickle monster"
told me yesterday "missed you" when i came in the door.

on his official birthday and his 1 year birthday!

ready to have a great birthday with our two year old!
started off great with some presents and a yummie breakfast of a
blueberry pancake cake and candles!!!!
we love you dillon lewis xoxoxoxoxox
happy birthday

my baby girl

you turned 6 months old! (yesterday)
happy half birthday to miss preslee jae!
we love you so much and could not imagine our family without you as a part of it!
you are such a happy little girl.
you have the cutest chubby legs.
i love to cuddle with you
you sleep like an angel. ((sometimes all day and night))
you smile with those big dimples and make us all smile.
you even smile in the middle of the night if you wake up. all you want is to give us a quick smile and your "mimi" and you are back to sleep.
you love to play hide and seek.
be tickled and show us your adorable laugh/giggle.
you are a fashionista. with a closet full of clothes! (your love)
you are not rolling over. you get so so so close and roll back to your back. you are just not ready and love to have everything done for you. you love to tease us.
your bother loves to help you roll over. even when you do not want to.
you love to sing and play.
and we can not wait to see how you change over the next months and to watch you grow!
it is amazing that 6 months ago that THIS was you.
it goes by way to fast.
i love you my darling!
xoxoxoxo mom

we had a fun day @ home.

a girlfriends little girl came over for a little while in the am. now i know

how it would be with a almost 2 year old and twin 5 month olds.

most of the day was spent driving trains, trying to get pres to roll over, racing cars, chasing the cats and listening to dillon talk talk talk. it is so funny how much each and every day he learns so much and talks so much more. i need to start writing everything down.
he makes me laugh all day.
preslee must be growing. she wants to sleep all day long. but is so happy when she wakes up. eats and plays for a a little bit and then wants to go back in her crib.
we tried oatmeal tonight. since she could not do the rice i thought we would try oatmeal.
we will see how she sleeps.

So EXCITED it is only a couple of months away from the memory makers "the big book of scrapbook pages" to come out in print! i am so excited to see my work in this book.
there is already pre-order online.
the second page in the pile is mine!!!! oh how i wish it was on top!

today when drew went on the daytona website and saw our picture on the top.
this picture has been used in advertising for years! it is so fun to see our picture in books and online! here is the book it was in!

tonight.
mamma "race car" that is what i heard as i was laying dillon down for bed.
we had read books,
got his sip
snuggled
his "b"
his other "b"
and his bear--
i thought it was all ready for him.
he kept saying race car.
so to make it easy i thought i would go grab one. hand it over and everything would be good. trying to be super mom i brought in "tommy", a car and a other little truck. he took them all looked @ them and looked back @ me and told me "race car".
i tried again with a actual "race car" he still was not satisfied..but then he looked @ me and said "water race car".
now why did he not say that right away. all he wanted was his race car cup. as i walked out i heard him throwing out all of the other toys. he is now sound asleep with his race car cup!
***
trying to get orders done for pLum while watching criminal minds.
they are in NORTH DAKOTA tonight. so fun to hear them talk about all the towns i know!
***
we had such a great weekend @ our girls weekend. and got so much done. even made a dance video. yes--really. we ate well, laughed hard and had so much fun! thanks girls!

better get back to work!



love this picture of dillon. he is checking out the tractor birthday supplies. he carried it around all day last week!!!

today

it has been one rough week.
so cold. so we did a lot of the same thing over and over..... a big house crazy right now. all of us!

could not stay @ MOPS. dillon had a bit of a breakdown. so it did not work out so well.
we need to work on this "being with mommy" all of the time stuff. a bit attached.

we had a great weekend.
family was here to help celebrate preslee's baptism. we had a great time with great company and food. thanks to everyone for coming.
it was fun to have her in the baptismal outfit that i also wore.
even better most of the pictures i have seen of me on that day i am screaming just like her in some of the these.... like mother like daughter!!!



it has been so cold this week we have not been out much.
-17 below this morning. and that is w.o wind chill. YIKES!
playroom is a disaster. but has some fun new toys for mr. dillon. he got a new desk and bench from nana and papa for his birthday and some hockey gear from ana and family.
now i need to pick a color to paint his new desk. i think orange is the way we are going to go.
i love how bright and playful our playroom is. so much color-such a fun place for us to be!
the only thing it isn't (besides clean) is big enough. it is so full. i did get rid of some things. but most i do not want to b.c i know preslee will love it. so i am keeping it around.
but when she is done with the toys---we will be having a major overhaul of the room. but then it will just be full of bigger kid toys!!!

got our whole deck shoveled off sunday night and monday morning. with the help of my parents. what a job! our deck is high off the ground and long so all of this snow is not so good for it! so all winter i say i am going to go out there and shovel it. but do i ever do it? no. so with some willing helpers we got it done in no time. a great workout too!



we are having a 2nd birthday for dillon with two of his friends this year! it will be so fun to get all of his little friends together. and the parents too! for a fun pool party!
this week i have been making hats and thinking of ideas. but how much of all of the ideas will i actually get done?!?!! probably not much! but i am having fun thinking of everything we could do. all that matters is that the kids have fun. i do not think they are going to care about the things that i am stressing over a bit.
time to relax. i am off to a girls weekend in the am. i am oh so ready for a couple of days away from everything. girl time. relaxation. sleeping in. scrapbooking and
just being with a house full of girls!!!
so off i go to pack! packing less and less every year i go. lets see if i can keep that up!

have a great weekend everyone!
hugs

mb

b.f i was a mom

i was a different person. it was drew and i against the world. it was about us.

but things have changed.
i am so happy it has changed.
it is not about us. (ok sometimes..but rarely) it is about them.
being a mom has changed me. they depend on me. every minute of every day.
but not only that I DEPEND ON THEM. they do not make me who i am...but they make who i am a better person. they change the way i think and the way i do things.
b.f i was a mom
i always brushed my hair ((some people might argue with that))
i did not understand why moms would wipe their kids noses and wipe it on their shirt.
i am now the QUEEN of this.
how kisses stopped a hurt toe, finger or knee.
i slept in late. or took a nap
and i said i would NEVER EVER let me kids wear "cartoon" figure clothing.

boy how things have changed.

here is dillon wearing his "tommy" pj's. and he has now claimed a record in this house and has been wearing the top going on 60 hours. yes. you read that correctly 60 hours. i tried taking it off this morning but he wanted none of that.
so i told him tonite we had to take it off in the morning.
the pants had to come off yesterday morning b.c as he stated "tommy wet" so they are clean and ready to be put back on. this is for sure something i never thought would be in my childs wardrobe. but oh how i loved it as we were walking through the store and he saw it on the shelf and he yelled "TOMMY" how can you say no? you really just cant!


we had friends over this week. Miss R is just 3 days younger than preslee.
so fun to watch the girls grow up together. wow how they have changed. click HERE to see the girls in the hospital.



life @ home.
his week has been so fun. full of playdates
(one @ a friends house who has a daycare. how she does it....i do not know? so fun to play there!)
dillon has a new found LOVE (obsession) of thomas the train. elmo took a back seat.
preslee is getting to close to rolling over. i think she can...but wont
planning a party for dillons 2nd bday with two other friends.
this weekend we have preslee jae's baptism.
trying some DIY projects. not getting too far on them.
all clothes washed and put away. now that is a miracle!!!!
i got bangs. randomly. got my hair done sat. and told my stylist/girlfriend that i wanted bangs. but that i was too nervous to do it then. but this morning the kids and i all in our pj's drove to her salon and i got them cut. i guess it was just one of those days. i love them. not too dramatic.
just a nice change! i needed it!
excited that tomorrow is FRIDAY.

off to bed.

twenty eleven

crazy. twenty eleven is here! 2010 went by oh so fast!

our lives have changed so much. we went from 3 to 4.
maybe 2011 we can be 5? j/k. drew says no way!
i am a sweet talker though....so who knows?!?!?!?

this is my attempt @ taking one picture of the two in SANTA hats.
did not work out so well.
out takes are sometimes my favorite! xoxoxoxo

we have had so much fun these last two weeks
i was for sure not ready for drew to go back to work on monday. having him home for almost 2 weeks was what we all needed!
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we had fun @ the pool.
had friends over this weekend for supper and games!
((used my favorite self timer for a lovely picture))
celebrated the new year with friends. but by 9pm we were home. me sleeping on the couch by 9:30. and all sleeping by 11:30. my kind of night.
went snowmobiling with jenn and mike. on the coldest, windiest, snowiest day ever. i had not made it more than .1 miles away from our house and was stuck. so stuck.
everyone else got stuck too in due time.
drew went out the next day too with friends. he was loving it! they put on 110miles that day.
drew got to ice fish too. they even brought some home!

((love my new bookshelf dad-i painted this one yellow))

so we are back to the daily grind.
MOPS today.
yesterday a fun day in fargo with b & hayden.
thanks for being such great friends and meeting us! we love you all.
in less than three weeks i am off to a girls weekend.
in 10 days drew is off to the Canadian border to ice fish.
we are both so ((EXCITED))

drew is @ curling. me relaxing on the couch watching my tivo SVU.
goodnight xoxoxoxoxo