July & August miscellany

Evie being naughty on the computer... she is always so proud of herself.


We did a gender reveal cake when we found out we were having a boy.  I made a pink and blue cake, and the girls helped make it.  Here is Evie's first time tasting the yummy batter


Addie loved to help (She is OBSESSED with pig tails right now)


Sharing


Did you notice the batter in Evie's hair in the first picture of her eating it... this is why:





At least they shared nice for a little.



Evie loves to put Addie pants/short on...





Addie and Evie's first time in the sprinkler!!!


Evie didn't like it... here she is trying to fill this bucket with water, from afar... I don't know why.


Addie kept her distance most of the time, but she at least tried!



Evie was done....



Silly crawling in the laundry basket... whenever she was in trouble, she would climb in.



Before bedtime... this was her hiding place to not have to go to bed:


Climbing on the doll to try to reach the door handle to get outside.


Daddy's boots






So proud :)


She was completely in this thing... but I wasn't fast enough


Testing out her new backpack for Disney... she loved it :)

"All I want for Christmas...

... is my two front teeth" Well, any teeth really.

Tonight we went to see Santa... We thought it would be best to go during the day so there wouldn't be a line, and I had to go to the doctor anyways, so we just went after that. We got there at 4:40, and see a sign "Gone to feed the reindeer 4:30-5:30" Great! So we ran to Michaels, I needed some stuff there. We go back to Santa, it is 5:36... and a line :( 40 minutes later, we get to Santa. Addie isn't a fan of lines, so she wasn't in the most stellar mood when she got to see him. At least she didn't cry though. She slept the whole way home too, poor baby!

Rivertown had a good Santa though, very authentic looking. And he was really nice, he talked to her and even held her longer than we expected, so that was nice, that he didn't try to shove her off right away.

Oh! And the girl at the Santa thing asked me what HIS name is! Honestly! She is wearing pink and red with flowers on it! AND pink shoes! Does she look like a boy? This summer whenever she had a stitch of blue on her, people asked if she was a boy! It is SO annoying, maybe I have my mommy glasses on or something, but I really don't think she looks like a boy! Vent over.

Tonight I also made Christmas cookies, a yearly tradition I almost skipped this year. I am glad I didn't, I can't wait to eat them! Although, I accidentally left the last batch in the oven for about an hour :( Yikes!!! So if anyone like extra crispy cookies, give me a call! Tonight I still have to frost them all, which is probably my least favorite part, but oh well, the frosting is the yummiest!

Last week we also did out Christmas picture for our Christmas card. Christmas is really creeping up on me this year! Tonight we went to Michaels and it had a countdown to Christmas... only 15 more days! I am not even half done with my shopping! I really need to get in gear!

As you can see, Addie liked the ornaments:

And Elsie liked the Santa hat... stinker!

Speaking of the date, Addie is 8 months old today!!! Yay!! She is such a big girl! She is really working on crawling, she kinda inch worms and rolls herself around, which would be way cuter if it didn't involve so many face plants... I think she will be crawling in no time! She is also becoming quite the climber. She can pull herself up pretty good, on us or low things, she hasn't done it in the crib or couch or anything yet.

Oh! And this past weekend, my sister, Jaki got married! I was co-matron of honor (I was first though!) It was a fun time, and everything went smoothly. I took 391 pictures!!! I would have take more buy my battery died, and I forgot the spare! Oh well, I got a lot of cute ones though, I think at least.

Here is the happy couple:

And another happy couple :)

Hmmm... we were smiling... must have been before we found out we had to stay late to clean up! Or at least I did, Joel had to go watch Addie.

Addie was the flower baby in the wedding. She was very crabby the whole day, so she isn't in a ton of pictures. Here is probably the only one where she smiled. I carried her down the aisle.


And here are me and my sisters:

Here you go Amy:

This is way longer than I planned on! I hope everyone has a great week!