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Look what was right outside of our house yesterday morning...

One More

There was a photo booth set up at the dance. I just love how happy they both look :)

Daddy Daughter Date

Jeff and Khloe went to a daddy daughter date at the church yesterday. Khloe was very excited! We got her a new dress (she needed one for church anyway) and did her hair. She felt like a princess!  Jeff said she had some sweet dance moves that he had never seen before :) It sounded like they both had a great time.

I tried curling her hair with my straight iron, but I could tell it would not stay, so we had to go to plan B

Valentine's Day

Khloe is at such a fun age because she gets very excited about the littlest things. I don't decorate my house for Valentine's day, but I knew that Khloe would love it, so last night after she went to bed I put up some heart garland. She was so excited to wake up this morning and see all of the hearts! She said " I super like it!" "It is really cute...cute, cute!" "I love it!" Seeing her excitement made it totally worth it :)

 I had planned to make Khloe heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, but she insisted on cereal. So we had pancakes for lunch. Instead of using a cookie cutter to cut a big heart that I would then cut into smaller pieces, I used a little one so that they were bite sized hearts. Again, Khloe loved it!

 I have a new obsession with pintrest, and saw a little girls hairstyle that I wanted to try on Khloe today. It actually worked! Khloe had hearts in her hair all day, she looked so cute. I couldn't believe that I managed to do it first try.

Growing up my mom always made a Valentine's day dinner for us. It usually consisted of pink and red foods. I loved it, so I want to do the same thing for my girls. Our good friends Marnie and Charlotte came over and joined us for dinner because her husband was working too. This year we had little individual pizzas with heart shaped pepperoni, strawberry slices cut into the shape of hearts, raspberry jello jigglers, and a big rice crispy treat heart for dessert. I had to take pictures for memories sake. After dinner we did some finger painting then went to bed. Overall it was a great day! I hope you all (and by all I mean the 3 people who read my blog)had an awesome Valentine's day too!!!

On the move

Little Miss Marley has decided to become mobile. It is great and exciting that she has reached that milestone, but now she thinks she is so big and likes to get into everything. Her favorite thing to do is pull herself up and press all of the buttons on the DVD player. I knew once she became mobile I was in trouble, and I am pretty sure I am right. I caught her first crawl on video. (I apologize for those who have seen this already, apparently I have a sister who likes to post these things on her facebook page with out telling me)

What the?

So ever since I decided to have a blog, my husband constantly makes fun of it. No suprise there. I am okay with the fact that Jeff is anti social media. So you can imagine my suprise when Jeff came downstairs today and told me that he had something to tell me. He had this tone in his voice like 'I know you will make fun of me for this' What is this life altering news he had to tell me you ask? Jeff has a facebook page?!?! So, just for fun I told him I was going to blog about it. :) Oh revenge is sweet! All of his ridicule about my blog = I am so making fun of him for having facebook!

Halloween 2012

Let me start by by giving you a disclaimer... There are A LOT of pictures on this post.

We went to 2 different pumpkin patches this year. We went to Sauvie Island and Roloff Farms. Yes, the same Roloff Farms that was featured on Little People Big World :) As for decorating, My mom and I found these sets at Target and let me tell you it is the way to go. Don't get me wrong. I love carving pumpkins, but once you finish one, you don't want to have to carve more for your kids. This worked out perfectly.

Fun with Aunt Melinda

Hay ride out to the pumpkins

 

Don't mind the massive amounts of drool 

This year I decided to make the girls' Halloween costumes. This sounds so much more crafty than it actually was. There was the cutest (in my opinion) little girl costume on etsy, but they wanted $44.50! I don't know about you, but I am not willing to spend that much on a costume you are just going to wear for 1 night. Upon further looking, I thought maybe just maybe I can duplicate it. So I did :) Well, my version of the same costume. I made Marley's skirt, and bought Khloe's at a garage sale. Added faces to the tops and embellished with bows. No sewing required. Pretty easy.

This was the original costume I saw online


This is my version, may not be as cute, but I am happy with how they turned out



We started the day off with Halloween pancakes. I just made regular pancakes and used cookie cutters to make them more festive. Khloe was beyond happy that I gave her chocolate chips with her breakfast



Late that afternoon, Jeff and headed to my friend Marnie's house for a Halloween dinner and trick or treating with Charlotte. We had yummy mummy dogs and mac and cheese. It was very festive, and I am so sad I didn't take a picture of the cute mummy dogs.

Then we went trick or treating. Khloe did not fully catch on right away. First when people would open their doors, Khloe would try to walk inside their homes. Then when people would take a piece of candy to give to her, she would just try to grab it out of their hands. However by the end she learned that you had to say "trick-or-treat" then you would get the goods. It was kind of funny. Now I don't know about you, but as a child the ultimate score on Halloween was a full sized candy bar. Growing up I never did luck out enough to get one, but on Marnie's cul-de-sac, Khloe scored not one, not two, but THREE full sized candy bars! We proceeded around the neighborhood and Khloe got more candy than any 2 year old needs.

Happy Halloween!