Playing Catch-Up!

Oh goodness, I am so far behind! So much has happened in the last 2 weeks, so I will attempt to briefly sum it all up!

On April 4th we all loaded up and headed to visit Halie in Gainesville, the girls had a great time playing in her neighborhood's pool.

The next day we went to Palm Sunday service at Deidra's church, took the girls to see the Easter bunny and then Halie, Maddi, Sadie and I headed to Palatka to spend a few days with Grandma Jean!

This is proof that Sadie can and will hold her bottle when she wants to, she just rarely wants to!

The next day Grandma Jean took us to the Alligator farm in St. Augustine! We all had a lot of fun checking out alligators and crocodiles up close. Maddi and Halie even got to touch a boa constricter!

In this next picture, Halie and Maddi were standing in front of an albino alligator. As we were taking the picture he started walking towards the glass! Maddi will tell you that he was trying to eat her!

After heading back to Jacksonville with Deidra on Wednesday, we decided to take the girls to the beach on Thursday. It was Sadie's 1st time being let loose to play in the sand! She had a great time, but she kept trying to eat the sand the whole time! YUCK!

On Good Friday we headed to the creek house. While all of the girls were playing with toys on the floor, Sadie pulled up onto her knees for the first time!!

Sunday was Easter. We all went over to Grandma Jean's house for a wonderful Easter feast and the girls had an egg hunt! Maddi found 45 eggs!

Sadie's 2nd tooth broke through!

On Tuesday the girls and I were supposed to fly back to Kansas, but that morning we were hit with a bad storm. We were under a tornado watch, we had strong winds with 60 MPH gusts, we saw hail come down for a few minutes, and we lost power! I took the bad weather as a sign that the girls and I should not be traveling that day, so we cancelled our flights and booked a new flight to come home on the 6th of May, because that is when my parents were going to go to KS to visit us, so now we can all just fly together.

On Wednesday Mom and I took Sadie to the mall and got her ears pierced. I have been putting it off and dreading it because it was very hard on me when I got it done to Maddi. So my mom stayed with Sadie while I took Maddi into a store, and needless to say, now my mom knows why I have been putting it off for so long! It's heartbreaking to see your baby cry SO hard because of something you are causing, but after a loud cry followed by a short nap, Sadie was feeling good and back to her normal, happy self! She looks so adorable in her new diamond earrings!!

Ok, I think I am finally all caught up!!

Life's a Beach!

Maddi had a great time playing at the beach today!

Sadie can REALLY crawl!!

Sadie began REALLY crawling today! Check out the video (Ignore Maddi and my loud mother in the background!):

In other news, her 1st tooth broke through on Tuesday! She made sure her daddy was able to be with her for the experience before jetting off to Florida the next day. It is her bottom-right tooth, pictures coming soon!!

Sisters by Chance, Friends by Choice!

I am so blessed that my little girls love each other so much!

Maddi is the best big sister that anyone could ever ask for, she is a big help with Sadie and is always finding new ways to make Sadie smile! Every time Maddi walks into the room Sadie's face lights up and she instantly starts to "Coo" at her.

The love that they have for each other melts my heart, and I am so grateful that God gave Matt and I 2 beautiful, amazingly sweet girls! I don't know what I ever did to deserve them!

Cleaning out the basement...

Or at least that's what we were supposed to be doing today! With tornado season quickly approaching my goal for today was to get the basement cleaned out, but instead of the rainy day that the weather man predicted it was a beautiful 72 degree day without a cloud in the sky, so we just HAD to spend it outside! We took the girls to the lake, fed the ducks and walked around, we all had a great time!

Sadie's 7 Month Birthday!

On Thursday Sadie turned 7 months old, I can't believe how fast time is passing! This day was a milestone for her for more than 1 reason, she also pushed herself into sitting position by herself today! She's been sitting up for a while now, but I always had to position her, and now she is doing it by herself! Yay for Sadie bug!

Later that night we went to Family Night at the local hockey game. Maddi had a blast and is already looking forward to going again!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We hope that everyone had a great St. Patrick's day, because we did! The weather was beautiful, not a cloud in the sky and temperatures nearing 80 degrees, and Matt took the day off to spend with us.

We started the day off by waking up and going to the "bed races" at 9am. The bed races are where a lot of crazy people build a bed on wheels, decorate it, then push it down the street competing for the fastest time. The Coast Guard was competing, but unfortunately they didn't qualify for the finals.

After the bed races we walked around downtown Topeka for a while. People were selling St.Patrick's Day hats, necklaces, ties, you name it! Around 11:00 we found a place to sit for the parade that started at noon. I have never seen so many people in Topeka as I did that day! Kids were everywhere (shouldn't they have been in school?)! At noon the parade started and dozens of cars and floats made their way down the road throwing candy and necklaces at the screaming children as they passed. Maddi had a lot of fun, but after an hour she was getting tired and was ready to go home.

After we ate a little lunch and rested for a few minutes at home we were off again, this time we all loaded up and went with Matt to play 9 holes of golf. Maddi loves running around with him while out there, and Sadie and I just enjoy being outside and soaking up some sun!

After Golf we headed back home, and since we were unable to find a babysitter we just stayed at home and grilled hotdogs. Some of our friends came over and we all just hung out and had a great time!

Needless to say we had a great day, and now I am trying to convince Maddi that there is NOT a parade downtown every day that she is missing out on!