Picnic Table

After a lot of searching on Craig's List, I finally found a picnic table that was hardly used for a great price! Now the girls can eat outside more often! Miriam has even taught herself how to sit at the table and get down! I love it and they do too!

Would you like to share some yogurt with me?

Disney With Auntie Steph

Momma and Auntie Steph have never been to Disney together, so we thought we would go and take the girls with us! It was a warm day, but we had a blast and even got to see cousin Katy too! Cecilia had so much fun at Mickey Mouse's house and Miriam enjoyed this trip a lot more too!

It's a small world!

Epcot Flower Show

Nemo Aquarium

Fish Momma!

There go some more!

Cecilia posing with her friend Nemo

And of course we couldn't forget Marlin and Dorie

Livin with the Land

Topiary everywhere!

Lady and the Tramp

Off Kilter

Take that Peter!

Stephanie is in love....something historical!

Good bye giant golf ball!

Miriam Therese Turns ONE!

It was Mimi's birthday today and we had many adventures! The first was getting Auntie Steph from the airport. We unfortunately didn't bring the camera to the airport, so we couldn't get any shots there, but here was the rest of our afternoon after naps!

Mimi at Target in the shopping cart. One of her favorite places to be!

Thank you, thank you very much.

Cheese!

Mimi's happy birthday (and first) ice cream cone!

Hmmm....

Cecilia and Miriam shared. Aren't sisters great?!

Presents!

Yay, another puzzle for our collection!

Welcome to the house, Baby Elizabeth!

Little People cake

Hmmm...there is something on my head.

And on my face.

And everywhere!

Straight into the tub.

Note to self, take off clothes before cake.

Sticky Mimi, but happy Mimi!

Mother's Day

I can't believe the last time Matt and Cecilia made me a Mother's Day breakfast I was HUGELY pregnant and about to have Miriam any day. How time flies right by! I was so excited that as I sat on the couch, drinking coffee and occasionally taking pictures, Matt and Cecilia were hard at work making eggs, sausage and chocolate chip pancakes. Yum! Thanks guys!

Tap tap tap, CRACK!

Mixing it all up!

After nap time, we decided to spend the afternoon at the beach. It was so much fun!

Papa self portrait. What?

Momma and Mimi

Cecilia beaching it up!

Here's an idea....let's bury our kids in sand.

Miriam: "I have sand in every crevice of my body."

Let's not leave Cecilia out.

Papa so proud of himself and his half-buried in sand kiddos.

Miriam really liked it.

As did Cecilia.

And after escaping, Miriam continued to dig. A fun time was had by all!

Cecilia

We went to a party at my friend Leslie's house and a friend of hers was taking pictures of the kiddos....she got this one of Cecilia. I absolutely love it! Just thought I would share....

Eating Dinner

Dinner time at the Hale house is never a dull moment....the girls are always chatting and if Miriam is getting attention, Cecilia tries even harder to get attention too. Here was dinner today.

Hot dog for Cecilia

Miriam having carrots and graham crackers.....all by herself!

Miriam feeding herself! Yay!

Signs

We have a HUGE roll of butcher block paper that Grammy bought us last summer and boy has it come in handy! It covers Cecilia's play table perfectly so I can tape a page down and let her have at it, we make signs for every occasion and even use the paper for wrapping gifts! What a smart Grammy we have...she was definitely a step ahead of Momma on that one! Here are a few examples of Cecilia and friends' artwork.

What a lucky Momma I am!

One for Mimi and I when we got back from Colorado.

And Happy Easter of course!

I just threw these in too....If you Give a Mouse a Cookie from Library time

and Papa's birthday card!