What??

I was cleaning up after everyone ate lunch and I was wondering to myself, "why it was sooooo quiet?" Maddie was playing with toys and Ava and Lucy were busy making a bit of a mess.. Silly girls. Even though Lucy is not in the picture she is very much involved with this mess. :)

Soccer Lessons!

Maddie has soccer practice every Friday morning. She LOVES to play soccer. She also loves her coach. After the first day of practice she talked about her coach for 5 days straight! LOL They are just practicing ball control right now. I will post more pictures once they start playing games.

Swimming lessons

Madeline just finished swim lessons a little over 1 week ago. She learned how to dive in the water, bob up and down, float on her back, and swim underwater. Maddie was already working on some of these skills at home in our pool, and others she learned from her lessons. She was one of the best in her class, and she was also the youngest. The very last day they got to go down the water slide and Maddie did it all by herself, although she managed to slide in the water backwards!

The babies also got to enjoy the water. :)

Maddie turned 5!! 7-7-07

7-7-07

I just realized that if I want a post to show up on a certain day, I have to do it that day. I cannot come back later and post for a day that has already passed...

Anyway, Maddie turned 5 today! I still can't believe she is 5. Where did all the years go?? We had a small party for her here at the house. She got lots of presents and had so much fun with her friends Gavin, Faith, and her cousin Kaitlyn. Maddie is such a bright little girl. She amazes me more and more every day.

4th of July

7-04-07

It was a very hot 4th of July this year. I think it reached 108, or something like that. We usually go over to my mom's house on the 4th and have a big BBQ and fireworks celebration, but with the babies going to bed so early, we decided to stay home. Our next door neighbor organized a block party so we went to that and had a blast! The kids decorated their bikes and had a bike parade, then they had a balloon toss, followed by candy and Popsicle treats. We all got together again later in the evening when it was dark and watched fireworks. Maddie went to bed soooo late, she was exhausted! We had a really good time though and are looking forward to another fun event next year.

Family Day

Today was such a nice day. Chris came home from work and suggested that we go to the Placer county fair. It was so nice to get out and do something together as a family. These moments are few and far between with Lucy and Ava still being so young.

Anyway, we met Jeffrey, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey's girlfriend Chelsea there. First we saw a Tiger show, which was really neat!, then we went over to see the animals, won Maddie and Kaitlyn a stuffed animal, Maddie rode a pony and then Kaitlyn and Maddie rode a few rides. The girls has a lot of fun together as usual.

Lucy and Ava did surprisingly well! I don't think they cried one time. Lucy had so much fun she fell asleep in her stroller. :) Ava was so interested in what was going on around her that she was content the whole time. Just a funny side note, Ava was eating a banana for lunch and kept trying to put some in Kaitlyn's mouth so she could have a bite! LOL What a funny little girl.

Oh what a day!

Today was fun... OK, I am being sarcastic. Lucy and Ava decided to gang up on me today and not take naps. I shouldn't say that they did not take a nap at all, just VERY short naps. I put them down at 9:00 am and by 9:25 Lucy was awake, 10 minutes later Ava was awake. Of course they are not happy because they were still tired... Oh well. I put all my hope in there afternoon nap. They should be tired and sleep then, right? Wrong! I put both girls down to sleep at 2:00 and by 2:15 (no, that's not a typo) Lucy was awake screaming! 10 minutes later Ava was awake screaming! I am not sure what was going on today but it sure was a tuff day.

Maddie was good as usual. She helped me make some oatmeal chocolate cookies that turned out terrible. I am not sure if I am starting to become a horrible baker or if our oven is going out... I wanted to make chocolate chip cookies but we were out of vanilla AND chocolate chips.. hmmmmmmm

Maddie has this new thing where she is calling everyone by the first letter of their name and then doubling the letter. For example Papa is PP, Ava is AA, Lucy is LL, Maddie is MM and well, you get the point. Pretty cute huh? I am glad my name isn't papa! :)

This picture does not relate to anything about today. I just love flowers and they make me happy. :)

Promotion Ceremony

6-19-07

Chris is a great fire Captain! He is so dedicated to his job and helping other people. Chris has helped lots of people study for promotional tests and each of them have passed the test! This is a picture of the guys at he works with now at station 32. The two he helped study are both on the left, now Engineer Kevin and Captain Dave. They are all really great guys and I am sorry to see that are leaving the station. We all went to dinner at the Oasis in Sacramento after the ceremony. It was so nice to get out and have an adult conversation! Oh, check out how hot my hubby is!! He looks SOOOOO good in uniform!

Swimming!

These pictures were taken just a few weeks ago. It was the first time the babies went into the "big" pool. Needless to say these girls LOVE the water, all three of them! Maddie is such a good little swimmer. She can swim underwater a good 15 feet or so. She loves to jump in the pool from the side, do belly flops (ouch!) and somersaults under water. She definitely takes after her papa in the water! Lucy and Ava love to splash the water with their hands. I love the picture of Lucy lounging in the pool float.. Cute!

Our trip to Oregon

I absolutely love the last picture of the girls. We went on a little trip to Oregon and this picture was taken on our best day there. We went to visit Chris' aunt and uncle up in Brookings. We had a wonderful time at the ocean that day. Maddie had so much fun with her Aunt Gail. Maddie loves the ocean, and so do Chris and I. I can only hope that Lucy and Ava will too!

We also went to visit Ashland, which is just beautiful. We had a chance to do a lot of fishing. Maddie is quite the fisher girl. I think she caught more fish than her papa and me! Overall is was a great family trip but it is SO hard to travel with 3 kids, 2 of them only 9 months old! I don't think we will try it again soon!

Testing..

July 21, 2007

So, I decided to try out blogging. I have a friend that is doing this project where she is documenting one year of her life day to day. I have been inspired by her to at least blog some of my life. I know I won't be able to do this everyday, but it would be great to capture some of the memories that we seem to forget so quickly. So here is goes!