Loosing Weslie

I am writing this story down so I don't forget it.

A couple weeks ago I had my fall candle going in my house and started the day off in a really great mood. It was a cooler day so I decided to get the girls dressed in some fall clothes. I then realized that I didn't have a spare sheet for Weslie's big girl bed and that I should probably get one before I leave town for my surgery. Since we were all dressed I decided that day was a Target day.

Not long after we arrived at Target Weslie ran ahead of me a little bit. "You have to stay by me." I warned. She looked back and smiled as if to say, "I can do whatever I want." Then she ran off. I watched her from a distance, as I was not going to run after her with the limo I drive (the girls huge stroller). I lost her in my line of sight for half a second and she was gone. I walked the neighboring aisles calling for her and asked a few people if they had seen a little girl. After a few minutes I decided to go to the front of the store.

There was a long line for customer service. I cut everyone and approached a large grouchy lady. "Hello." I smiled. "Hi" the lady mumbled, clearly irritated. "I've lost my child." I stated. She quickly perked up and before I knew it she was saying "We have a code yellow." Over the radio. She asked what she was wearing etc. and I had to tell her that she's almost 3 but looks like she's 5. She was lost for about 10 minutes. I was panicked but kept my cool. I was most afraid that she wasn't in the store and that she had gone right out the front door. I was about to loose it and go out and check the parking lot when the lady told me that they'd found her. Secretly I was hoping that they found her scared and crying in a corner somewhere (So that she would never do it again!!).

That was not the case. They found her in the furniture section lounging on a little mini pink chair meant just for a little girl like her with a dream light toy she had picked up on the way. She was excited to see me. I got down on her level and tried to explain how scared I was because she was lost but she was too busy and excited trying to tell me about the dream light toy she had found.

That girl has no fear of loosing me.

August

Life has been pretty routine around here the last few months- other than going to Utah. But I do try to get out of the house and do things with the girls as much as we can. Sometimes I feel like I can get out of the house no problem with the twins and other times I feel completely trapped at home. This month I felt trapped. The girls are learning how to self feed with more solid foods (not attempting utensils just yet!) and so it takes a long time for them to eat. I feel like they wake up and eat- then they play while I clean up all of the food that ended up on the floor so they don't get into it and then they are almost ready to go down for a nap. And repeat. They take 2 naps usually 3hrs and then 2hrs. It's awesome that they nap a lot but I feel like we can never do anything on this schedule! And no, they don't sleep anywhere but their bed. They mastered crawling shortly after getting back from Utah and love moving around and looking at everything. They also love following me. They haven't found the stairs yet so that's good! They love practicing standing and walking- even though I don't have the most coordinated children. I love watching them play-especially when Wes includes them.

The ice cream bowl started off in front of Grandpa... 

I love this guy. 

My parents got moved into their new house so that has been fun. I also shoot another wedding. I decided I don't really want to pursue anything video related right now. It's just so stressful and I have enough going on. If something falls into my lap I will do it-it's such a fun hobby but not something I can really commit to right now.

The best thing about August was getting Weslie a big girl bed. When she walked into the surprise she said, "It's perfect." haha too cute! Happy super early Birthday Wes :)

July-Utah Trip 2014

We are seriously the luckiest parents in the world when we travel. We have yet to have a bad flight with our girls! We flew into Utah getting there at 2AM Texas time and had to leave the house for our departure flight at 4AM and they were AWESOME!

We got to see lots of our best friends and our family out there. There was lots of down time to relax and visit with everyone and I got to eat lots of Cafe rio and my other Utah favorites :) That made me one happy mom. The girls loved having so many people to watch and new places to see. They did great and Wes didn't get homesick for her bed at all this trip!

We got to spend a fun day at the zoo with aunt Bal and Weslie even touched a snake! Yikes.

What's better than lounging with Socks and enjoying chicken nuggets while watching TV in Bal's bed after a long day at the zoo? When I checked on her she whispered, "Mommy he's so warm." I love her and she loves her cats. :) What a tender girl. 

We got to see lots of our best friends while we visited. Lots of swimming, play and laughing! Weslie even discovered snaps while she was there. She and Tenley had fun popping them :) 

Pretty good group picture for 5 kids under 3!

We sure love the Searle's! Please move to Texas!

Weslie loved playing at Bridal Veil falls. Throwing rocks and splashing in freezing water is always a fun time. 

We had some free time one afternoon so we decided to take the girls to temple square. We had to snap a few photos since it was Soph and Rem's first visit. 

Kevin and my dad also snuck away to St. George for a few days and did an awesome repelling trip with some of the Ricks guys! I'm thinking that next time I want to go! 

It was such a fun break from our normal life. My only regret is that we didn't get more pictures with our family members!! 

June-July

Time to play catch up! Over the last year I have had to let a few things slack in order to keep my sanity and sadly the blog was one of those things.

The big event for June was Kevin turing 30!! It was a pretty laid back Birthday but he got some sweet new clubs to hit the course with. I made him a coordinating cake thanks to Pintrest haha. Honestly, I think this year has been harder on me as far as age is concerned than it has been for Kevin. He is such a great dad, husband and provider. Thirty never looked so good!

4th of July

This year we went to the Allen fireworks show again and it was awesome as usual! Weslie actually stayed awake for the show this year and we left the babies at home with Grammy. It's always refreshing to take her out to do fun things as just the 3 of us. I know she loves the extra attention whenever she can get it! Pentatonix did a show and there were lots of things to see and do. We had a picnic with some of our friends on the lawn before the show and the kids had lots of time to play. Weslie's boyfriend even brought glow sticks to share. As much as I hate crowds, I always end up enjoying these events.

We kept the actual 4th pretty casual and just had some friends over to swim and BBQ. We love having extra play time with dad home. We were kinda lame and didn't even do sparklers, but the swimming was perfect and wore the girls right out. I think Kevin and I were in our bed watching Netflix by 8 that night. It was pretty perfect if you ask me :) 

Other interesting things that happened in July.....

Weslie LOVES eggs...I don't know what's so fascinating about them but she loves them. On July 11th she decided to egg my couch. 

We also participated in our first national cow day...or whatever the Chick Fil A day is called. Stealing dad for a free lunch is always a good idea.

I also took this girl on a date night to see Grandpa's old man band play :) She thought it was pretty cool to see grandpa singing at the loud party!

Oh and Weslie also loved seeing the kittens when Madi's cat had them. I don't know what we are going to do with this crazy cat lady of ours.