a little bit monster, a little bit white trash, and a little performer.

a little bit monster

All who know Eliana, know that she is indeed a very busy girl. Yesterday morning, while I was getting ready for church and still needed to get the girls ready, Elli decided to lock herself into the spare/guest/someday baby room.

This would be no big deal since all of the doorknobs in my house are easily opened by a hard turn even if locked... all but this door that is. Cutting corners when building our house, the contractor must have run out of the "can be opened even when locked!" knobs, because this door has a knob that is more along the lines of "cheap as you can go, but will stay locked, for outside doors!" This must have been a random left over because it does not match the keys that go to any other door in our home..

Anyways, after about 10 minutes of trying to instruct/coax/plead with Elli to unlock the door with no luck, I knew it was time to test my break in skills. I was feeling pretty relieved because I had just closed that window a short time before and knew I didn't lock the window. So, screwdriver and Dora bathroom stool in hand I went outside to break my sweet little monster out of her predicament. A bent screen and few scratches later, I was able to climb in the window and rescue my little angel. Since she already mastered locking, I showed her how to unlock the door if something like this ever happens again-- which hopefully it doesn't.


a little bit white trash

Trinity's favorite dress up lately is a little bit ris-kay. One of her friends has a "showing tummy" dress up and since Trin didn't, she created her own.
The past month or so, Trinity has turned into a wild little thing. She used to be so shy and only sort of calm silly that it's such a surprise to me sometimes how crazy she gets. Somedays I wonder what happened to my normal little child, but it is fun to watch her grow and change. This video is mostly for Kalli, so she can see what a weirdo her niece is. But this video doesn't do her dance moves justice, cuz she sure can shake her hips!



a little bit performer

Although this performance is a little less soothing to the ears than her debut(see "natural born performer" from Jan 09, I couldn't get it to link!), is still shows how this girl loves to entertain.
We have this wonderful keyboard that plays songs all on it's own-- some days I can't decide whether it was inspired by God or by the Devil. This entertainment lasted around 30 minutes, and then Alex and I had to end it because the singing at the top of her lungs and "Jingle Bells" and "When the Saints go Marching In" for that long was starting to make my head pound.

A perfect rose

Trin and rose strike a pose!


Elli smells rose..




big brown eyes..


more big brown eyes..


Trin wanted to take a couple pictures too..



This rose is now enjoying it's happy new home in a vase on the middle of my kitchen table-- and I'm enjoying it too!

Eliana turned 2!!

August 27, 2009. My baby turned 2!! Crazy, it seems like just the other day that my Eliana came into this world. What fun the last 2 years have been. It has been so wonderful to watch this little baby, that is just bursting with life, grow up into a beautiful little girl.
We had a nice quiet birthday morning. Well, at least it was sort of quiet until the girls each had a bowl full of lucky charms for breakfast (I don't usually let my girls have sugar cereal for breakfast, but as tradition from my family, we get to pick what our breakfast is on birthdays). After being overloaded with sugar(at least General Mills has whole grain cereal, so it can't be that bad, right...), I decided to let the girls burn off the birthday treat.
I love having our own little park in the back yard.

 

Elli had lots of fun opening all of her presents, and got all kinds of fun stuff!

 

As soon as Elli saw her new clothes, she started stripping down so she could try on all her new threads. She changes at least 5 or more times a day. *sigh*

 

Watch how fast she blows out the candles. It was hillarious to watch, and she needed no prompting what-so-ever. Pretty amazing for a 2 year old. But then again, she is a pretty amazing girl! Grandma made fresh carrot cake cupcakes(with carrots from my garden!) and it was YUMMY!



Our happy little family :)

Subliminal messages in Disney Movies?

Well maybe not. But in a way, Disney movies can be blamed for both of my daughter’s swearing recently.

The first example of bad language is Eliana. She loves Tinker Bell. But the way she says it is, “Binka Hell.” Almost sounds like Brink of Hell.

Then, yesterday, Trinity came walking down the stairs at my mom’s house holding a little white dog with black spots, and enthusiastically said to Kalli,

“Look Kalli, its 101 Damnation's!”

Gave us a good laugh. Even after we corrected her she still didn't get it right. (have my mom say Massachusetts for you, mis-enunciation must be hereditary)

Subliminal messages or not, I feel I've been warned.

sweet words

While jumping and being silly together on the trampoline this afternoon, Trinity turned to me and with the sweetest look on her face said:

"You are the best Mommy EVER!"

She also told me that when I was tucking her into bed.

She made my day. She makes my life.

This girl also makes my life :)

love Love LOVE her curls.

Come & celebrate Pioneer days with us!!

8am till whenever; Saturday, July 18, El Matador will be serving Alex's famous Carne Asada and other yummy things!
We will be at the Heritage Park. It is the courtyard area at Heritage Antiques, across the street from Ed's in Snowflake.


For those of you that don't know, Alex has been modifying a camp trailer into a mobile kitchen to cook Mexican food at big events. We are ready to go and this is our first time cooking at an event! We're are very excited and so are all the people that have had Alex's carne asada!
Hope you can come check us, and our tasty food, out this weekend!

Happy Pioneer days!!

the girls found a prince

if a kiss only worked...

;)