Some things I have to share

I saw an advertisement for the cutest line of clothes, especially the kids and baby clothes. I love it. I had to share with all of you. Here is the link. I would love to buy me some of these socks, Girls' and Women's Neon Multi No-Show Socks LittleMissMatched They are so cute! Check out the site. I bet you find something you want to buy.



Something else I want to share is the latest recipe that I love. I am not the best improve cook. I need a recipe or else I probably wont make it. I have recently gotten brave and tried a made-up marinade that I tried along time ago. I loved it!! It turned out so yummy. I didn't measure anything and it still tasted great. Matt doesn't like plain chicken very much, but he thought it tasted good. It is so simple too. 3 ingredients, how can you beat that? You buy Lawry's Lemon Pepper Marinade (I found my bottle where they keep the BBQ and Chinese sauces) and OJ and chicken breasts. Put the chicken in a Ziploc bag and add in the marinade and the OJ until the chicken is mostly covered by the sauces. I add more marinade than OJ, maybe about 2/3 or 3/4 part marinade to 1/3 to 1/4 part OJ (I'll try to measure it out next time). Then you let it sit in the fridge for about a day and a half to two days. After that, cook the chicken and devour. Let me know if you try it and how it turns out. I am having some tonight and I am so excited.

Silliness

So April was a silly month. Not only was the weather totally unpredictable, but so were the kids. Here are some pictures to prove my point:

Anabelle is going through a nudist phase right now. At any point in the day, she will take off her pants, sometimes her diaper as well. Thank goodness she does not know how to take off her shirts.




Going back to the weather, the kids and I built our only snowman for the season this past month. They had a ball, thanks to my sisters who taught them how to throw snowballs. As you can tell from the picture, we did not build the snowman at our home. We made him at my parent's house. Beckett was pretty sad to leave him, and the next time we visited, he was looking for him as soon as we entered the driveway. Unfortunately, he was just a stick of snow and a hat and scarf by then.

We also had several days of crazy hair.

One night, Belle decided that footie pajamas was not enough to wear to bed. She picked out this jumper to go with her pjs:

And finally, I have saved the best for last. I am tempted to ask you all to guess what is in all of these grocery sacks, but my sister-in-law just did that on her blog, so I wont copy her. Besides, none of you would be able to guess anyway. Each sack contains exactly one diaper and one wipe. Anabelle's baby must have had some major stomach problems one day, because Belle had to change that many diapers in the space of an hour or less. But she is such a good mommy to take care of her little one's messy diapers like that, and then be considerate enough to put them in grocery sacks, ready to be thrown away, just like her mommy.

Bibs are so in

Last year, Anabelle wouldn't be caught dead wearing a bib, but this year, they are all the rage. Check out the fashion show:

Isn't she just so fab? She is always on the cutting edge of fashion.

Belle's Birthday

Okay, so nearly a month after it happened, here is the pictures from Anabelle's birthday. We spent the day at my parent's house. That evening, my mom, sister, and Belle and I went to my cousin Carrie's baby shower. Belle loved it. She spent the hole time being a "big girl" playing with my brother's girls that are 11 and 9. She had a ball. Then, the girls rode home with us and we all sang loudly in the car, the whole way home. My poor mom probably got a huge headache. After we got home, we ate Taco soup, one Anabelle's favorite meals. Then we had cupcakes.

The first present Belle opened was from my brother's family. It was a beautiful Easter dress. As soon as Belle saw it, she literally grabbed it and started squealing and dancing around. She ran around the kitchen hugging it. I have never seen her act like that. It was so cute.

Next she opened a little baby that is perfect to take to church. She loved that she could take the dress off. She just needed help putting it back on. Here is her cousin, Brooke, helping her get the doll out of the box.

The last present she opened was a big baby doll (that is not shown in the picture) that cries, says mamma, giggles, babbles, drinks from a bottle, then burbs, and finally snores. The eyes move and it is a little creepy, but Anabelle loves it. She carried that baby around everywhere she went all that night and for several weeks afterwords. It was really cute. She is going to be such a sweet mom someday.

My gift to Anabelle is some blankets that I am making for her babies, and a bed as well. I will post pictures of them when I finish them. I am super excited to see the blankets all finished. As soon as I get my house all cleaned up, I will finish the blankets. I just need to put the backs on and sew a few more things on them. Unfortunately, the bed is far from being done.

Belle personally celebrated all week long by not taking any of her naps. I was very concerned that she had already outgrown her naps, which I was not ready to let go of. Thankfully, the next week she got right back to her old schedule and I was able to keep my sanity, sort of.

Banister, as in sliding down the

Who knew there was such a fun little playground at the mall. I totally forgot it was there. I could have been going here all winter. Thank you Analisa for reminding me about this fun little play area at the mall. The kids had so much fun. We went a few times in March. Here are pictures of the kids sliding down the slide.

P.S. there were no banisters involved in the making of this blog. I just stole the quote from one of my favorite movies, What's up Doc.

Trains, trains, trains

Okay, I am going to play catch-up on here over the next few days. A few things happened in March and rather than do one huge update, I'm going to drag it out over a few days. Here is first event that happened in March. We went to the model train show at the Union Station with my dad and nephew. Beckett had a ball. It was pretty cool. I can totally see how this can be a hobby for some people. There are so many little pieces and parts and you can create all kinds of scenes and have the train do all kinds of things. It was amazing.

Anabelle had a wonderful time too. She got to be with her favorite person, Grandpa.

They have big trains that you can climb up into outside of the Union Station too, so Matt and Beckett climbed in and Beckett got to be a conductor for a little bit. He loved it!

Looking at trains from a safe distance, you don't realize how massive they really are. Look how huge just the wheeles are!

Confession

So, yesterday I was watching one of the only 3 TV shows I watch, Chuck, and at the end of the episode, Chuck and his love interest kiss. It was a very intimate moment and I found myself embarrassed to watch them kissing. Not because that is gross (Oooo, their kissing), but because I wanted to give them privacy in "their moment". Isn't that weird that even fictional PDA makes me feel awkward?