Happy Birthday Megan!

Megan turned 2 this month!!  We had our fun next door neighbors over for cake and ice cream to celebrate.

Megan was afraid of the candles once they were lit, so dada helped her blow them out.

She sure liked eating the cake though!!

I can't believe my baby is two years old!  She is talking so much more and starting to act like a little girl instead of a baby.  This is a really fun age but it makes her mom sad that she's growing up so fast!

I found this rainbow cake online and copied it, it turned out super cute. She loved the skittles on top the best.  It was fun to cut into it and see all the bright colors.

Family Vacation

We went on our first family vacation in years and it was so much fun!  We took a trip down to Southern California and packed in the fun. 

Our first stop: THE BEACH!

We've been reading this Arthur book (over and over again) about Arthur's family vacation and at the end of the book they go to the beach, so Marisa couldn't wait to go there herself. 

 They were not dissapointed!

We played in the sand...

and in the waves...

They loved the beach!

Our next stop: Disneyland!  I grew up in Long Beach, so my family went to Disneyland a lot.  This vacation was probably more for me than anyone else!  I had so much fun showing my girls all the rides I loved when I was a little girl, it was a blast! 

The teacups

The rockets - Marisa's favorite ride although it doesn't look like it from the picture.  We rode these 4 times she loved it so much!

Dumbo

Marisa and Megan love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, so of course we had to meet all the characters.  It was so fun to see how excited they were to see Mickey and Pluto (Megan's favorite) in person!  We warned them ahead of time that Mickey is really tall in real life so they wouldn't be too afraid and it worked!

Tiana

Ariel - Marisa LOVED Ariel.  She gave her a big hug and asked her a bunch of questions and Marisa just beamed through the whole thing!

Cinderella

Giving Donald a hug

Chip and Dale

Megan LOVED Pluto

and of course Mickey Mouse!

I love Disneyland!

We also went to the San Diego Zoo...

Megan loved the monkeys, I'm not surprised because she is our little monkey climbing around the house all the time!

Of course we had to hit a baseball game.  The Detroit Tigers have been Gary's favorite team since he was a kid (passed down from his Dad) and they just happened to be in town playing the Angel's that week.  The girls loved seeing a baseball game in person, they are so used to seeing it on the TV all the time :)  and the Tiger's won so that just topped it all off!

Overall it was a great vacation.  The girls had so much fun and so did we!  We were all totally exhausted when we got back though and really needed a vaction after our vacation. 

(notice the Arthur book)

I think the best part was spending the WHOLE week with Gary and the girls.  They are such good friends already and I love them so much! 

I can't wait to go again next year!  Ha ha just kidding Gary ;)

Pedicures with my girls

One of the things I love about having daughters is that they love to do girly things with me.  Growing up with three brothers the only thing nail polish was used for was painting "blood" on my Barbies from the injuries their GI Joes inflicted.  My girls love to have me trim their nails and they sit very still while I paint them.  This time we posed for pictures in our matching toes.

I can't believe I just put a picture of my hooves on the internet...

Go Tigers!!!

So those of you who know me know I'm very not crafty, but I like to try. 2 years ago we took Marisa to her first Tiger's game so of course I had to make a mini Tigers shirt. So I printed off their logo, traced it on the shirt with a pen and puffy painted over it. Here was the finished result:

I know, not pretty right? But we had fun anyway and I was still pretty proud of myself.

We next week we are taking the girls to a Tiger's game when we are in So Cal so I thought to myself, self, you can do better. So I turned to my SUPER creative genious sister in law Mandi, and of course she had the perfect solution. Freezer paper!

I had never heard of this before, but you can easily make iron on stencils out of Reynolds freezer paper!  So I got my Cricut out, cut the fancy D which is the Detroit Tigers logo on the freezer paper...

Ironed it on the shirts, and I was supposed to use fabric paint but I was too impatient to wait until Hobby Lobby was open, so I used good old fashioned puffy paint...

Painted over the stencil...

and TA DA! A gazillion times better!

I was so dang proud of myself I have to say. For me, this was quite an achievement :)

Add some bows of course, and my girls are ready! GO TIGERS!!!

Marisa's New Favorite Song

Happy Easter!

We had such a fun Easter this year!

Easter crafts...

Egg critters

Fun at Grandma's house...

Reading books with Uncle Devin...

Great-Grandma and Marisa...

Mommy and Megan...

Treats from the Easter Bunny...

For future reference, it may sound really cute if the Easter Bunny wants to sneak in the kids rooms at night and leave their basket next to their bed, but tell him that it will scare certain little girls and they will end up sleeping in Mom and Dad's bed the next night!  The thought of anyone sneaking in Marisa's room while she is sleeping was too much for her :)

Playdough from Grandma Moss...

Way too much fun!

Happy Easter!!!