Love my girls

Here are just some random photos/stories about the girls lately. Let me just put in a little note here that most of these gems are courtesy of Lisa, the most wonderful person ever. So, grandparents, soak them up now. Cause when Lisa leaves in December there will be a huge decline in adorable random photos.

Starts out with a tipped over box of toys. (Charlotte and Abigail).

Gradually turns into Charlotte squeezing into the box.

Finally ends up being a Charli-in-the-box. This girl gets herself in the funniest predicaments.

I wish I had a camera in the girls' room. Seriously. I put Mia down for a nap and when I get her up she has these human bite marks on her arm. Either her or her sister is biting her like crazy. Also, twice I had to run in there because Abbi was just screaming. Turns out she was climbing on her bumper pad and banged her lip on the railing of the crib. Got a pretty good bloody fat lip from it. So I took her pads out of there. Everything's been good since. But I sure wish I could see whats going on in there half the time.

I so LOVE this face Abigail makes. I call it her bulldog face. So funny. (Shes the one in blue by the way)

Mia was actually "talking" to Uncle Chris on the phone. We had to snap a picture of it. So funny. Guess in a few years they will be asking for a cell phone for Christmas huh...

We went to Sams last week and I just thought they looked so grown up with their shoes on and everything. I can't believe how adorable they look. And how very grown up they look too. This is Mia.

Mia and Abbi checking out their shoes... what the heck are these things?

Ready to eat?!

The girls get so excited when its time to eat. They come running and start grunting. Its hilarious. I tried to video it a couple of times and had to share it. Love these girls, and they love their food!

Happy Halloween!!

Cutest fairies on the block! Yep the girls were fairies for Halloween this year. You may recognize these costumes from the 9 month photos they took. We decided to recycle them for Halloween. I got to say I was a little bummed this year. I felt like Halloween should have been more fun now that I have kiddos to share in the excitement. But they are still so little, they dont get whats going on yet. I want to carve pumpkins and make candied apples and take them trick or treating, ect... But when you go to bed at 7 pm and the daddy doesnt get home until late, it makes it hard to do any of the fun stuff. So I almost nixed the entire holiday. We had to skip the ward trunk or treat on Saturday. The girls were so cranky, Jared had been out of town for 4 days! and they didn't take a 2nd nap that day so I was NOT about to take them out that close to their bed time with just me and Lisa... no way. It wasn't until the actual Halloween day that I decided, ya know what?! We are dressing up and at least taking pictures. And maybe visit a house or two. And Im honestly glad we did. The girls got to dress up for Halloween, got a change of routine and even got to go to bed 30 minutes later than normal! haha (I know, we live dangerously). So anyway, all in all a good Halloween. Next year I will be better though. I will be more in the spirit of the holiday and help the girls enjoy it more and get creative. Plus they will be older and more excited about it too. The grown ups even stayed up a little later than normal watching Ghost Adventures. BAHA we love that show. Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!

Here are so goodies from last night!

Getting ready!

My three fairies

Mia (green) Charlotte (pink)

Abbi (blue) and Charli

Mama Mia is ready!

Charlotte says "I look so pretty!"

Umm mom... we're not really dressed for a walk...

Family Photo!

We stopped by Kent and Karlee's house and they took our photo. Thanks guys!

Trick-or-treating our relief society president

Walking up to the door

Trick or Treat!!

Let's go get some more loot! (AKA candy)

That was fun! Lets do it again tomorrow....

Bahaha this one is a goody! Mia's hair after trick or treating and before baths.

Our weekend...

Just a quick recap of our weekend. Im exhausted. We took family photos yesterday (saturday) and this really great national forest. It had this cool old barn and just great places for cool shots. But oh my heck. This has been the most difficult photo shoot we've done. The girls did NOT want to sit still for 2 seconds and certainly wouldn't all at least look at the camera at the same time. Oh me... we were chasing babies left and right and front and back for about an hour and a half. They loved every second of it though. If I wasnt so stressed trying to make the most of each pose, ect.... I could have enjoyed it. But I stress... its my nature... haha Anyway, hopefully we got some good shots. I should be able to look at them tomorrow (Monday). Thanks mom for the photos! Youre the best!

Also, I just want to add that church today was a total craze fest. I would say one of the top 3 worst behaving in sacrament meetings ever! We had the primary (young children) put on a program for us and I think the extra energy and excitement made my girls nuts! Charlotte would just scream as loud as she could, not cry just scream like she was trying to sing with the choir kids. And they were all so wiggly. My goodness we were ready to get out of there and put them girls to sleep for nap time. A couple two rows behind us even took Charlotte for a few minutes so we could have somewhat of a break, so sweet. Whew.... I know they are learning. They are learning sacrament is for being reverent and still. But Im afraid we have a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way to go....

Splash pad

We were able to go to the splash pad last Saturday with Jared and the girls once again LOVED it! They are so cute in their swim suits and just tottering around. I love these girls and i love to see them having so much fun.

Mia's running for her daddy!

Brave Charlotte. She loves going through the "scariest" looking fountains.

All aboard!

Charlotte, my little engineer.

Hold it! I wasn't ready!

All my ducks in a row. Abbi in lead, then Mia, and then Charli.

Mother Hen gathering her chicks. (thats how I feel all day seriously)

Whoa! That was close!

Family photo!

Under the sprinkler with daddy

When in doubt call for daddy! (Abbi is doing the "sign" for daddy)

Every man (woman/baby) is an island.

Abbi getting her nerve. haha

PLAY TIME

I love this picture. It tells the story of my life really. You have Charlotte playing and entertaining herself with her Pop-up-Monkey. You have Mia climbing all over me trying to get my attention. And then you have me looking at Abbi very seriously, telling her we shouldnt get angry when we don't get our way. And she's looking back at me very intently, either understanding and agreeing or plotting her revenge... not sure. BAHAHA! LOVE IT either way!

Charlotte loves reading books. Her favorite "sign" is Story.

Charli in a box... teheh

Charli getting book time

How's that pretty girl in the mirror? CHARLI!

Play time with mommy!

Helping out the Boss

Sharing our toys

Abbi contemplating stealing that purple ring back.

Me in the back giving Hudson a puppet show. I think he enjoyed it! TEHEHE

Hudson LOVED this leapster toy. Christmas present idea Karlee!

Oh Dear! He found Charlotte's fort!

Sweet little guy.

So Jared's boss happens to live just three doors down from us, which is quite convenient (hopefully for both of us) in case I need random things and vise versa. Karlee, boss' wife, went out of town for a week and left Kent, boss man, alone with 2 kiddos. Brave girl. Anyway, we had the pleasure of watching little Hudson for a couple of hours so Kent could do some work stuff. The girls actually handled everything pretty well. Abbi was a little jealous when he would play with her toys but mostly just curious. We got some great photos of the sweet guy enjoying himself with all the ladies. tehehehe (future arranged marriage?.... possibly!)

Goodies

This is my new favorite of all three of my girls. Chillin at the splash pad.

This is my new favorite of Charlotte. Doesn't she resemble Dori from Finding Nemo just a little bit?! HA!

And this is my new favorite picture of Abbi. Maybe of anyone. BAHAHA I still laugh when I look at this picture!

A video of Charlotte. Pretty darn cute.

I still have lots of pictures to post but for now, I need to shower while the girls' are taking a nap. Until then.