Embrace the camera Thursday

What's more silly, the camera on mommy's head of the fact my daughter loves toast so much (and putting her toasty hands on my shirt).

Why I can't make mom friends

Sometimes it's hard to put yourself out there...but hey...this is me, these are my thoughts.

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At least it was yellow

I was busy packing bags for tomorrow's trip when I noticed silence in the house.

Fevers have broken (one of those 24 hr virus friends) and mischief is on tap.

Tylenol for the masses

First week of school. Fevers abound.

Embrace the camera Thursday

It's been 3 hours! Nap time is over babies!

Yes I did.

The voices in my head

Lily, I'm kinda scared about all this tornado talk, what's a tornado?

They're rotating columns of air that generate from supercells, stop bothering me and watch Fresh Beat Band or something.

ok, I see, I just get scared when all....hey wait, is that yogurt? Can I have some?

No.

Dangit.

ya.

Embrace the camera Thursday

Lily says good morning, along with mommy's greasy unshowered face

Zane and I stare like zombies into the television set, rotting our brains as we see fit

TIME TO PAINT!

Pointillism with Pizzazz

Sorry we haven't been around much this week. It's amazing how hard it is to get caught up from a trip. Not necessarily the kids, but ME. So much laundry, restocking the fridge/pantry, a dirty house, catching up on emails and phone calls!

How do I even catch up?

We're back from Paris. What a wonderful trip and I'm so glad I got to share it with Mr. Jason. The first few days were a bit wet and we feared it would rain all week, but then the skies cleared and we had the most beautiful weather you could ask for. Above are some pictures from the trip, however I must let you know that Picasa has shrunk all the image sizes down to just barely 1mb each. They are fuzzy and grainy. I'm trying to fix the problem.

The day/night we returned from our 11 hour plane flight we swanked it up at Neenee's birthday party! We fought our jet lag the best way we knew how, to party all night. We had so much fun and were so glad we could make it to such a fun affair. (yes that's me, the band started playing Freebird, what else was I supposed to do but interpretive dance?)

After dropping Mr. Jason off at the airport Sunday, I headed into downtown Houston to stay and play with little Miss Riley. I'm so thankful Kristin let me get my newborn fix and allowed me to take care of her little one for a few days. She is an adorable little girl with a happy mama.

(Zane is in his standard pose for group photos)

The kids have told me over and over how exciting Pop & Neenee's and Nana and Pawpaws house were. In fact, they keep telling me they don't want to be here at our house but would rather go back. The central driving force seems to be "ice keem!" Apparently, this is readily available in Richmond, Texas and the twins want more now. We are so thankful for everyone watching Lily & Zane while mommy and daddy got to take a fabulous vacation. Even through the jet lag, we came home rested and little bit more mentally stable. :)

Since returning from the trip, we have jumped back into the swing of everyday life here in Dallas. This week we went to the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden's. The weather has been so much cooler than before we left and we are taking full advantage of it. The date on the time stamp is obviously wrong, apparently mommy and Pawpaw accidently switched mini-cameras and I don't know how to work his. oops.

and....this guy was on our porch tonight. How cool is he!

Pandorus Sphinx (Eumorpha pandorus)

On Hiatus: Paris!

Jason and I will be traveling to Paris and the blog won't be up and running until I get back to Dallas sometime before September. Everyone be well!

(Don't you...duh-dun duh dun-duh...forget about me...DAH! don't don't don't don't)

Our clones

This is kinda what Jason looks like in the morning

and this is pretty much how I look.

New Floors!

Much better...good bye Aqua carpet, hello beautiful stone floors

This carpet is called Barrier Reef, I was disappointed it came with no fishies.

PS there is more to our guest room than a table and a mattress, it's just all living in the parlor right now until we piece it all back together. Today the kids enjoyed jumping on the mattress like monkeys on a bed.

Saturday morning, we leave for Houston to drop of the little guys and then Jason and I are off to PARIS! I'm a tad bit excited. But you know who is NOT excited...

(you know I'm going to crap on your pillow as soon as you leave right?)

More important than anything, I get to share this experience with someone I hold dear to my heart, and that you can never replace. He came in the mail today...

Hello Lover.

Reveal coming soon!

Good bye awful terrible greenish blue carpets. The new stuff is going down tomorrow, pictures to come soon.

Just in case you didn't know

My kids are pretty stinkin' cute...

Excuse the mess of the living room floor. The temp today was 102 and felt like 110, we're kind of stuck in the house all day.

For some reason YouTube is not allowing me to add words into this video so...

"Do the Monkey...

Do the Elephant

JUMP to the front and back

Do the Tiger

Jump to the front and back

Do the Monkey, Do the Elephant..."

The Romans have nothing on her

Zane wasn't much into playing this morning. He preferred to stare longingly at the television inside...that wasn't even on.

Lily worked up some complex system of water transportation. You would have thought she was making her own aqueduct contraption. She was very serious about it all.

How to fold a Peapod

I was hesitant to get these Peapods because I read review after review about how HARD it was to fold these guys after you open them. Some people would rate a 1 star out of 5 simply because it was "impossible to fold!". One review I read said, 4 adults and 2 teenagers were not able to figure out how to fold these things up so we ended up throwing them away because they took up too much space.

Really?

It's not that difficult. In case anyone puts a search into google for "How to fold a peapod" I made a video on the really simple tactic.

I planned on taking pictures of what we did this weekend but essentially, it was us just laying around the house, groaning from the heat. UGHHHHHH

The Peapods are here!

I've wanted a peapod before I even knew there were peas in my pod. Probably because I love the idea of camping, just not the idea of being outside. Peapods are indoor/outdoor tents for kids. A replacement for Pack and Plays in which the kids barely fit in them anymore. Darn those height genes.

To gear up for the twins upcoming adventure in Houston (while mom and daddy disappear off to PARIS!), I'm trying to get them used to these new contraptions so that maybe, just maybe, they will sleep and nap in them while we're away. Crossing fingers and toes.

Lily loves hers. She took to it right away, but that is probably because she is a nester like mommy. I have to build a fort of pillows and blankets around me at night to feel like I'm enclosed in my own personal cocoon.

Zane wanted to just bug Lily in hers. He didn't stay in his that much but kept running full force into Lily's to tickle her and steal her stuffed animals.

We didn't attempt to sleep in them today. Just tried to give them the whole idea that this is a place to go "nigh-night". I put their crib animals, their blankets and their pacifiers in them to give the hint.

Tomorrow we may attempt naps in them, depending on their attitudes mid morning. And tomorrow night we'll try a camp out. We'll have the weekend to recover if all systems fail.

Embrace the Camera Thursday: We wake up slow.

Just out of bed, milk, coffee and water in hand. Cereal to crunch and bars to munch.

Swiper no swiping!

Daddys make good trampolines

Come on corner bounce!

Zane loves TV so much he'll sit and watch the screen saver bounce around...