Preschool with the share bag

The infamous Share bag!! Maren has been telling me every time I pick her up from school that she didn't get the share bag. I have been trying to figure out what the share bag is for weeks now and she finally got it! She ran up to me and gave me a hug and said "Mom I got the share bag!!" She ran home and filled up her share bag to get ready for the next time she went to preschool. So when it was time for preschool again we woke up early and she insisted on getting a picture of her holding her share bag. It was the best day of preschool ever!
Every time Maren goes to preschool Taylor gets to play with her friend Grace while their siblings are gone to school. They are best friends and they play so good together. Every time they come over Taylor has to eat her breakfast for an HOUR I swear. So they both wanted to eat cereal and they sat on the couch like this for a good half an hour talking to each other and eating their cereal! Who says 2 year olds don't have an attention span :)

Bowling fun with soccer jerseys

 We went bowling with my neighbors and their kids the other day and the girls had SO much fun. I couldn't get a picture of Taylor bowling because she needed my help to throw the ball, but she is actually pretty good at it. Maren would roll the ball as slow as possible and it would take forever to make it down the lane, but she had such a good time. 

I signed them up for soccer the other day and they are going to be on the same team together and I will be their coach!!! I am so excited about it I can't hardly wait. Anyways they got their soccer jerseys and they wouldn't take them off for anything, they think they are pretty cool walking around with their jerseys on. Maren wanted #9 so bad and Taylor got #2... It's pretty fun. They are pretty cute in their little red and white uniforms :)

Princess and the Potty

My potty trained princess/super hero Tay Tay (She calls herself Super Hero Tay Tay)!!! I'm so proud of her, she is officially potty trained. It's the greatest feeling to have 2 out of 3 of my kids out of diapers, and it's awesome on the pocket book :) She is even potty trained at night...so far no accidents!!! Taylor has so much personality, she is so fun to watch grow up! Love you Taylor Jean xxoo

I can't believe she is almost 5

I remember when I got my first CTR ring and I was SHOCKED when my Maren came home with one last week. I know this growing up stuff happens fast, but I was kind of sad when she showed me. She turns 5 in March and I just had my 3rd baby a couple months ago....I just dont feel like I can possibly have a 5 year old because I just graduated from high school right? Nope 10 years now have gone and I am going on 8 years of marriage!!!! 8 YEARS!!! I guess that's why I have started taking so many pictures...I just don't want to miss a beat!

"He said it was magic"

You know those moments when your kids say something so great and it means so much to you that you can't stop thinking about it for days? This was one of those for me :)
I put Maren to bed last night and her Daddy's hat was in bed with her. She saw it and had a huge smile on her face and I said, "Is that Daddy's hat?" and she put it on her head and laid down and closed her eyes. So I climbed down the ladder and turned around and she poked her cute little head up with this great big hat on her head and she looked at me and said, "He said it was magic, He said it will give me good dreams." and she laid back down and went to sleep.
She has been having really bad dreams lately and has been really scared of everything so Jon has been coming up with knew ideas to help her feel better so she will sleep. He whispers good dreams into her pillow and tells her pillow to give her good dreams and then this hat idea....I love you Jon. Dad's come up with the best ideas sometimes, I don't know how you do it!

These are the days

You smiled at me for the first time the other day..........Thank you.

Hot Chocolate and Shrinky Dinks

I remember playing with shrinky dinks when I was young up at my dad's restaurant. This was one of my favorite things to do so of course I was excited when Maren got shrinky dinks from her aunt for Christmas. We decided to pull them out yesterday and have some fun with a friend of hers from our neighborhood.