Piper turned 2

Piper is 2 now! She had a fun birthday, who wouldn't with a pink car. She and Anna are officially the world's worst drivers, but it is funny to watch them. Piper has fallen out once due to Anna's driving and a lot of the time they are stuck, but they have a blast.
Piper loves pizza and donuts, so naturally she needed a pepperoni pizza for her cake.

that's right she got a cupcake for breakfast, it's her birthday nutrition is out the door. Majority of the time she wakes up goes to the pantry and eats chips until she needs me to get her a drink or she is out of chips. (chips are anything that crunches, fish crackers, apples, ect. ect.)
A birthday dress Grandma made her, her favorite color is yellow.

She likes to dress herself, most of the time her cloths are on backwards, inside out or both. Although most of the time she picks cloths that match.She is our free spirit, which is great because not many things bother her or upset her. This is also bad, like when she is getting in trouble. I have yet to find a disciple for her that is effective.
She puts herself in time-out, she thinks it is a game. When she gets in trouble, she says "game mommy" then laughs. I had a friend suggest good-old-fashion soap. She got it once and it seemed to work. Although last night she was being extra naughty. I told her to pick soap or a spanking, she chose soap. After I had a firm talk with her I told her it was time for bed and that I didn't want to hear another noise. As I am closing her door this conversation happened.

Piper - "mommy, mommy, wait"

Me - "what do you need Piper"

Piper - "Uh, more soap please"

me - " no more soap tonight, goodnight Piper"

She is always making us laugh, hopefully she raises herself right because I'm not sure how much influence I have over her. We love her.

Sweet Zoey

Our little Zoey is so sweet, just look at that face. She is four months now and adorable. She rolls over, loves carrots, hates peaches, can put herself to sleep and has the cutest giggle. She is a good sport about Anna and Piper using her as a doll, I reminded them often she is not a doll. Here are a few pictures due to the lack of pictures in the last couple of months.

Happy Father's Day

We love our Daddy! He teaches us the value of ... Work
Play
and Rest
He gives us more love than we can comprehend. We love you Dad!!!
Happy Father's Day to you!

Anna's second surgery

Anna had to have her tonsils and adenoids out (this happened before Zoey was born).She had the surgery at Children's hospital in New Orleans, they treated her great, she got her own room and doctor stuff, plus she had a great support team...
Who doesn't want to wake up to this hot thing?
I guess if they love you enough to insist on laying with you until surgery you can over look really bad bed-head.
Anna recovered great, anytime she gets to watch movies all day is a perfect day for her.
When we went back for her check-up she got really upset because she wanted another surgery so she could stay at the hotel and watch movies all day. This was her second surgery in 5 months and apparently she is addicted.

Zoey Mikelle

Zoey Mikelle born May 11 @ 2:47 pm. 6 lbs 13 oz 19.5 in long. And adorable!I may be crazy Anna is 3, Piper is 20 months and an infant, but look how cute they are.
She was much smaller then we thought she would be, her take home outfit is way too big.
I read a statistic that only 5% of babies are born on their due date, I have two Piper and Zoey.

Josh and Zoey are really asleep.

WARNING! Sensitive material

The girls love to help. One of their favorite things to do is wash the car. It works out, because it is so hot that they are in their swimsuits majority of the time. However....Piper sucks her left thumb and her right thumb has to be in her belly button (she calls it her beeper), she managed this look on her own. Not wanting to expose her cute booty to the neighborhood I brought her inside.
She settled for reading a book while I started dinner. While dinner was cooking we went outside to check on Anna, and found...
Her still washing the car!
Car wash anyone?

The trampoline

Anna got her trampoline! She has been wanting one for about a year now. She worked hard for it. (As you will see in the post below). I also love the trampoline, it entertains for hours.

Anna turned 3! (back in February)

The pictures are somewhat out of order. I guess if I updated our blog more I could remember how to post in order. In Josh and Anna's work on clearing the land, a small fire was started.You may not know this, but here in the South turning 3 qualifies a person to be a firefighter. Anna stood out there and filled buckets for Josh, while I kept Piper away.

We had some more help show up, the neighbors and fire trucks came to help contain the fire. I will say it was a very quick way to clear all the brush.


Josh put together Anna's present, it was suppose to be together before she woke up from her nap. About 20 min. later Piper woke up, so Josh had more help then he knew what to do with.

The finished Kitchen was worth all the work.

Moving to Mississippi

We packed up all our stuff, for the second time in six months, and move to Mississippi. This time we had extra room, Josh was a trooper and agreed to stop at TWO different outlets. And he didn't complain when I found some furniture and he had to rearrange the truck.The girls always wanted to ride in the big truck. I loved it, listening to music I like, and getting snacks for myself. It was almost like a vacation :)
Anna loves to help!

Piper unpacked boxes, before they were ready to be unpacked.
This is our backyard. Josh and Anna (she is earning a trampoline) have a lot of work to do.
This is our cute house. I love it, we have two big oak trees in the front and our first two car garage!

Where has the time gone?

I have A LOT of updating to do. These last couple of months have been crazy for us. Hope you enjoy catching up with us. (I forgot my computer post pictures backwards and I am too lazy to fix it.)Anna wanted to open a present, but we were going to a Christmas Eve party, so I told her no. She stopped being upset just long enough to look up and say, "I'm being the Grinch." The good parents we are, we just laughed.
She got over it Christmas morning.
All I can say is that Piper is adorable!
Anyone notice my pregnancy glow! We found out the day after Christmas, that we are having a third little girl!
Christmas Eve. Our tree was the ugliest tree. Josh was gone, so a friend helped us get it. A few high lights: there is an orange extension cord running up the back; the top and bottom half of the tree blink (not the middle); ornaments continued to be moved higher; it needed water every 5 or 6 days (which tells me the thing was not very fresh). Here's to next year!
In december I turned 30!

My sister, Jill, made these adorable skirts for my girls. I wanted to get a picture before Piper out grew hers. It was one of those mornings when Josh and I were trying to get everyone and everything together so we could get out the door.We drove for an hour to go shopping. First stop REI. We got out and let the girls play on the bikes, and run around a little. While Josh checked out, Anna and Piper were playing in a display tent. While I watched them, I noticed something strange. I immediately pulled Anna out of the tent only to discover I was right. Neither Josh nor I put underwear on our two year old. After laughing for awhile, we talked to Anna about if Mommy or Daddy forget to put underwear on, brush your teeth or other daily things you need to tell us.

The girls and I went to Boise for Thanksgiving. Josh had to work :(

But we had a blast! Everyone in my family, but Jill could make it. We eat food all weekend, went to Rafiki and celebrated Christmas. The time spent with family and friends was great, however I don't know if I will travel cross country by myself with my kids again. That story is for another time.