Birthday's

As most of you probably know, my girls are 1 year and 8 days apart, so this year they had a duel birthday party! It was so much fun! My mom and both of my sister's were able to come in from Colorado and Oklahoma, so that made it even more special and fun! The theme was stripes and hearts! I think it turned out pretty good, especially considering the fact that I have never really decorated ANYTHING or ever really been very creative, but I have really been working on it! Before the party started, we had been telling Riley that she was having a birthday party and all of her friends were going to come and she was so excited! She was walking around the house saying, "Today is my birthday party, it's so exciting!" She waited at the front window for everyone to get there! Her favorite part was playing with all her friends and opening gifts! Aydia's favorite part was the cake and snacks! We sang to them and then I gave each of them a HUGE piece of cake and Riley picked at it a little bit and then said she wanted to go play and Aydia shoved it in her mouth and ate every last bite! It was hilarious and it was the perfect description of how different my 2 girls are! We were all exhausted when it was over though! Here are some pics!

March...

We had a lot of fun activities in March! A couple weeks ago, Emily had a costume party. It was fun! Josh and I were Popeye and Olive Oil and the girls were Thing 1 and Thing 2. Then of course, Sunday was Easter. I was in the toddler class Sunday morning, so I got to see all the kids in their Easter outfits! The girls had a lot of fun hunting for Easter eggs. They actually got to do it twice...once at church and once at home! Then we colored eggs and they had fun with that!
Today is Riley's 2nd birthday. That is just crazy to me. I can't believe she is 2. For some reason, since she has just hit 2, I feel more like a mom. I know, it is weird, but it is true. Of course, today I am thinking a lot about 2 years ago today and how I was in labor with her and freaked out of my mind to be a mom and not knowing what I was doing and all that. It is just CRAZY! We are going to have a dinner tonight and let her open a few gifts. We are having a duel bday party for the girls next weekend (on Aydia's 1st bday) so Riley is going to do most of her celebrating and gift opening that day, but I wanted to do something on her actual bday for her! She has NO idea what a birthday is. We keep telling her it is her birthday today and that she is 2 years old and she just keeps saying, "No, it's not my birthday." So funny...she just has no idea...I am sure once we give her presents to open she will want it to be her bday everyday!
Riley is becoming more and more funny every day. Yesterday, she was banging on the bathroom door when Josh was in the shower and she said, "Open the door, I demand it!" I started cracking up and asked her where she heard that and she said from the princess movie (Cinderella...her favorite!). Today, I found her watching a movie holding her diaper in her hand that she had taken off...she was just bare bottomed standing there with her diaper in her hand...I just hope she doesn't do this when there is poop in it!
Aydia took her first steps on Saturday night. She only took a couple, but she won't do it again...she is such a cautious child. I am so ready for her to walk. She is so heavy and it is getting to be a pain to carry her everywhere! She seems to be learning faster than Riley was at this age. Aydia tries to repeat everything you say and is learning new words and stuff everyday. All of the sudden, she is becoming a child and not a baby. She understands simple instructions and tries to communicate things that she wants instead of screaming and hoping you can figure it out! My babies are growing up.
Well, here are some pictures of our month!

Locked in the bathroom, with the lights out, screaming...

So, I joined a gym last week and went to work out on Thursday morning for the first time. I had a good work out and Aydia surprisingly had an awesome time playing...if you know her, you know she is the baby that cries in the nursery at church the WHOLE time and on MANY occasions, they have had to come get me because she cries herself to throwing up! However, Riley did not have such a good time. When I went to pick the girls up, as I said, Aydia was fine, but they could not find Riley...I told them to look in the bathroom that is in the back. They opened the door and there is my sweet little girl, locked in, with the lights out, screaming. Nobody could hear her and the had NO idea she was in there. SCARY!!!! Anyways, she recovered very quickly and was totally fine, but man, that is scary as a mom. I tried to call and talk to the manager twice and she apparently is never there. I ended up just telling a desk worker what happened and asked them to tell the manager and that hopefully they can just take that as an eye opening experience and keep a better watch on the bathroom and it's activity. I brought the girls back with me today and Riley had no issues...I told the worker that she locked herself in the bathroom last time, so to watch her around the bathroom and she looked at me like, oh, you are the mom that complained about that...whatever, I just want my kids safe and not to play in toilet water! Aydia, on the other hand, screamed the whole time and they had to come get me because she threw up! It is a little frustrating to me, because I really want to work out and feel that the hour it takes me will make me a better mom and wife is so many ways. Please pray that Aydia will just play and have fun and that the workers will watch my kids!
This week is a pretty busy wee for us. Yesterday I went to Chuck E. Cheese with the girls for a kids bday party from church, then my friend Bre came over and we hung out while the kids took naps, then we went over to her and Paul's house for dinner...we made steaks! They were awesome! After dinner, we put the kids to bed over there and played Mad Gab until 11:30! It was SO much fun! Today is Emily's bday, so we are going to dinner at BJ's later tonight...LOVE BJ's! Tomorrow afternoon, I may take the girls to the reading at the library and then tomorrow night is our community group. Thursday and Friday is Josh's spring break and we are taking the girls to the Zoo in Fort Worth! I am so excited about this! I hope it doesn't rain. Friday we have Emily's bday party! It should be a fun, but busy week! There should be plenty of pictures from this week that I will put up next week.

Here are a couple pics of the girls from our Spring Photo Shoot!

Fun with the Potter's!

Last weekend, Josh and I met my parents, Re, and grandparents in Oklahoma to watch Ny in her Spring Sing show! It was a lot of fun! Ny's club won! They did awesome! After being there for a couple of days, we all came to Dallas (minus the grandparents). Sunday night, we went to Abuelo's for dinner, our friends Bre, Paul, and their little boy Jude met us there! Monday we went to the aquarium and the girls LOVED it! They both really love animals and just had so much fun! After the aquarium, we went to Outback for dinner...so good! Tuesday, we went to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch...of course, the girls had so much fun! Then for dinner, we went to Spring Creek! My mom loves that place! Before dinner, I took Re to the airport and my parents got to keep the girls for a couple of hours...I know they had so much fun! It was really good to have them here and we can't wait to see them again! Re and my mom and hopefully Zach are getting to come out for the girls bday party in about a month, so we did not have to say bye for too long! Well, here are some pictures of our weekend/early week!

Chuck E. Cheese

As I said in my previous post, we took the girls to Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday night. They had SO much fun! Aydia even ate her first pizza...she almost ate an entire piece! When we left, Riley said, "I like Chuck E. Cheese and I like pizza!" It was adorable! Here are some pics!

She LOVES this "princess cup" (as she calls it!). She uses it every day!


The girls and daddy playing!


She actually did like it...you just can't tell from this picture!


Riley sliding...one of the 50 times!


Riley was not too fond of any ride that actually moved...Aydia loved them though! I was surprised by this!

This weekend, we are going to see Ny up at OCU. Josh's parents are keeping the girls and then on Sunday, my parents, Re, and G & G Solberg are all coming up to Dallas to stay for a couple of days! It should be tons of fun!

Josh took his Rowlett written test for firefighting and passed! He got the #4 score out of 150 people! He will take a physical test on Friday and if he passes that, then he goes on for an interview! We are so excited! This would be an awesome city to work for...we appreciate all your prayers and please keep praying!

Pictures...finally!

Here are those pictures I promised! Not really anything to write about. We are taking the girls to Chuck E. Cheese tonight! They got gift cards for Valentines Day and I have been asking Josh if we could take them there for about a month now, and finally he said we could go tonight! I am super excited...they are going to love it!

Riley and Mommy


Aydia playing


The girls playing the piano


Check out Riley's sunglasses!


Sleepy baby!

Savin' money!!!

I know I promised pics in my last blog, but I have not uploaded them to the cpu yet...sorry.
Ok, so I signed up for this thing called The Grocery Game. A lot of women at my church do it and told me about it, so I tried it out. I am so excited about it! I signed up 3 weeks ago and have saved SO much money because of it. First off, The Grocery Game is a way for you to save lots of money on groceries and how it works is, you sign up (you can do a 1 month trial for $1) and you can pick up to 3 grocery stores in your area and they tell you where all the good deals are on groceries and what coupons to use where (you also need a Sunday paper for the coupons). I have gone twice to the grocery store with my grocery game stuff and saved $70 each time! I still have one more trip to make today! It is seriously awesome and you all need to sign up for it! After your 1 month trial for $1 it costs $8 for one store, $10 for 2 stores, and $15 for 3 stores every 8 weeks. I love it!
Anyways, in other news, this weekend we went to Arlington and stayed with the Whipple family! It was a lot of fun! They have 3 kids and Riley had so much fun playing with them! It was nice to see them!
I will try to post pics soon! Notice I said try!