this week details

Bike rides before it gets too cold!

Home decor (our house is slowly getting decorated)

Serious bedhead!

Practicing french braids and as Sammy calls it "pretty hair"

Maddie eating black beans for the first time and loving them like her sister

(I call it the famous poo face)

Family Pics

My friend Casey Jensen took our pictures last week and I love them. We haven't had an updated family picture since Sammy was ten months old! I wanted some while Maddie was still little too.

Preschool?

I don't know what this pose was for!

The girls were fascinated by the yellow stick and I couldn't get Maddie to put it down!

Yes, Sammy is going to preschool now. Well it isn't official preschool but it is to her! Some of her friends and my friends decided to have a little preschool for the kids this fall. It is on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we rotate so we have everyone twice a month. Sammy loves going and since this is her first real week (she said) since it was at Ashlyn's house, she said she needed her backpack and jacket! Doesn't she look old!

Maddie almost 10 months old!

In her little baby gate

I can't believe she is almost ten months old! She has been crawling and pulling herself up for about a month and a half now. She may even start to walk soon as sometimes she can balance herself for about ten seconds at a time. Maddie May is such a good baby. She sleeps and eats wonderfully. She still takes two naps a day (which Sammy was down to one at this age) and sleeps 12 hours straight at night. She loves to eat everything and anything and can outeat Sammy at any given time. She loves to play with toys and is easily entertained!

I SURVIVED

the half marathon in Park City on Sat, Aug. 22nd at 6:45 a.m. to approximately 9:00 a.m. My friend Karon and I had been training for it since the end of April. It was also fun because my awesome uncle Rob ran it too and so we got to run with him for a bit! We even got an a medal! Our time was pretty good and I was proud of us! Yay and now we get a break!

the super cheese

Newest addition to the clan

isn't he cute? We got him a few days ago and the girls just love him. He is amazingly tolerable of them and being drug around everywhere. His name is Zorro!