Some pictures of Ally, Emy, and Devon...

To update you on the girls...Ally is continuing to get bigger and bigger! It seems like she changes weekly. She is really developing a personality now. She is very sweet and loves to be talked to. She is now sleeping ten to eleven hours at night. Yeah! She also loves to sit up in your lap and look around. She pretty much will do anything you want her to. She is getting very strong in her neck and legs. She can pretty much stand and hold our hands now, she really likes that. We call her bubbles because her favorite thing to do is make bubbles come out of her mouth. If she isn't doing that though, it's because her tongue is out. I think she is like a snake, all of her five senses are in her tongue! I've never seen a child with their tongue hanging out as much as she does! It's actually really cute! Emily is doing good too. She is very excited since Mike and I got a gym membership and she gets to go to "school" as she calls it, (it's their child care). She has a blast doing that and it's all she wants to do. They also have a pool and she is like a little fish. She hangs on to one of those noodles and swims around with no floaties or life jacket. She won't let anyone help her! The cute little boy in the picture is their cousin Devon, he is getting bigger too but Ally could still take him!! He is a very quiet baby and very sweet. He loves to be held. We got to watch him last night and that was a lot of fun. Poor little guy, he's surrounded by women! I hope you enjoy the pictures. You have to check out Ally's cute chuncky legs in the picture where she is sitting up, they are so cute! I love them. Emily was so skinny we never really got much of that with her.

What a way to wake up!

This morning Mike yells into our room that Emily had gotten into something and it was EVERYWHERE! I come running into the living room and found Em looking like this. She had gotten into the Nivea cream that we use on Ally and pretty much covered herself with thick layers of cream. And not only was she covered but Papa's new chair was covered and some spots on the carpet. I guess she got bored waiting for us to get out of bed and the cartoons weren't cutting it this morning. It was into the shower for Emily, much to her dismay and we had to run to the store for carpet cleaner.

Pictures...

The first set of pictures taken of our girls will be mailed out in the next few weeks. I took them to JC Penny's to have their pictures taken. They turned out really cute and they were worth the work that it took to get them! It felt like a circus. My plan had been to get them done Tuesday by myself but due to scheduling errors they had to reschedule. So I decided to go with Saturday so my mom or Mike could go with me. All I can say is that I'm pretty sure God looked ahead and saw what pictures would be like with two girls and took pitty on me, and made it so I had to reschedule when someone could be there to help me. Emily, who normally LOVES getting her picture taken and will do anything that the lady asks without hesitation, was all over the place. She would go limp, laugh like a mad woman, and do anything but sit and pose for a picture. Ally, who never cries, screamed almost the whole time. I was literally using my finger as a pacifer for Ally while my mom held Emily in place and the photographer would count to three and we would all let go and pray the picture turned out good. Thankfully we did get some cute ones. It's funny to see yet another contrast in my girls. Em has loved the camera from the get go and so far, Ally is not a happy camper in front of the camera! Anyway, we'll send them out as soon as I get them and I hope you enjoy them, it might be a while before the next batch!!

Green bay packer and paintball pro!

Joel and Leslie, some friends of ours, watched Em today while Mike and I had an appointment. While she was there she did many girly things like being dressed up in his Greenbay packers Jersey and scarf. I think she must be pretty special to get to wear it as Joel is a HUGE fan. Mike is okay that she is wearing Green bay and not Chicago Bears as long as he doesn't try to make her a dodger fan or something. That would be a no no! She also got to play paintball. She has decided that she likes paintball very much. I was told she did rather well too! She seems to be enjoying herself. So much for dolls and barbies! But then, we didn't expect too much on the girly side as the doll she does have sits and collects dust for the most part.

Ally's room, well, old room

Here is a picture of Ally's nursery for those of you who never did get to see it in person. It turned out really cute! That was the hardest room to pack up. But I will say that by the time I got to it I didn't mind it being packed up because I was tired of packing.
Mike and I both said we would recreate it at the other out. We were told my realitors that her room was the favorite out of any room in our house.

Babies babies babies....

Congratulations to the two new babies in our small circle! Isabella Corrine born 02/09/06 weighing 8lbs 0 oz. 20 inch. long and Josh and Kari's baby boy,(finally a nephew!), weighing a tiny 5lbs. 12oz. 19 inches long and born at a perfect 4:48 p.m.. It was great we got to hold him and then go to dinner!! And Kari was excited because she got to watch American Idol!!