Our Daily Life - Volume 45

More cell phone pics from our day to day life:

 

Juliana and Daddy walking Morgan

 Practicing pedaling:

 My two Steelers fans:

 The girls found a woolly worm.  We kept it inside as a pet for about 24 hours.

 Hope loves to go to the hair salon.

 We went bed shopping for Juliana.  The girls really liked this one.

 Hope wanted to show me she could sleep in the castle bed.

 But we went for a more traditional sleigh bed instead - sort of like this one:

  Touchdown!! 

 Morgie and Me:

 Juliana sorts the dixie cups.  When we have a box with four designs, it isn't such a big deal.  Then, sometimes, we have a box with closer to 20 different animal designs.  She likes to sort those too.

 Sketti night:

 Samples of Hope's handwriting at 3 1/2 years old:

 When I got new chairs for the girls, this isn't exactly what I had in mind:

Our Daily Life - Volume 44

More cell phone pics from our day-to-day life:

 

 Leah dressed up as a werewolf for Halloween - didn't it go well with Princess Belle? 

 Nothing like a good trip back home to remind me how much I have aged.  These kids are either nieces / nephew, or the kids of friends that I grew up with.  When I was a little girl I came to the same Halloween party, and those friends were typically there.  Now they still are, but only to bring their little ones. 

 My beautiful Minnie, Juliana:

 Hope wanted to spend the entire evening with her Beast.  She was upset when Leah ate pizza with her friends instead of her - after all, in the movie the Beast ate with Belle, and that is the way it is supposed to be.

 My worn out Minnie

 Early morning tea party at Grandma's house

 We visited with Renee, a friend from my childhood.  She showed the girls the fun of playing with fire.

 My beautiful ballerina, Hope:

 Juliana likes to drink water while Hope is in dance class.

 Juliana is Hope's puppy.  Her hair is her leash.

 The girls wanted to sleep on the floor one night.  They did for two or three hours.

 Morgan spent her last visit with us.  She bit Hope on her face, again.  This time we weren't naive, just stupid.

 When I was little, I loved big piles of fluffiness too.....

 Steelers / Ravens party at daycare.  I supplied the fruit.  Here are the bananas and the tray that I made for the rest of the fruit.

Our Daily Life - Volume 43

More blurry cell phone pics from our day to day life:

 

Hope started dance lessons at the beginning of October.  Here she is before her first class:

 

Hope's first pair of tap shoes and her first pair of ballet slippers:

The girls hosted a Steelers party at daycare - we made chocolate chip cookies with black and gold M&Ms. 

 

Hope took swimming lessons for 12 weeks at the end of summer / beginning of fall.  She likes to wear goggles.

Steelers party

My naturally beautiful Juliana

Painting with water colors

Hope's painting - you can see the sky, sun, grass, tree, trampoline (left in gray/red) and our house (beside the trampoline - with a roof).

Hope helps me clean

Deciding which outfit to wear:

Cousin Oliver's 1st birthday party:

Juliana and Hope with their cousins Kara and Emma

Here we go again:

Hope's self portrait:

This is either me or Juliana, I can't remember which:

Juliana took a couple weeks of swimming lessons too - here she is hanging out in her locker:

Me and Bailee:

Halloween Catch-up

Here I am catching up again.

 

I took the girls to a Halloween party with their cousin Bailee in October.  Juliana dressed up as Minnie Mouse.  Hope was Princess Belle.  Bailee was Princess Sophia.

 

 

They lined up for the costume contest:

 I have no idea what they were up to here:

 Pumpkin decorating:

Day 30 of Thankfulness

I thankful for making memories with Hope and Juliana.

Princess Hope posing with Jingles:


Juliana decided she wanted some cheese puffs:


Decorating the Christmas tree:


Decorating Hope's princess bedroom:


Decorating a gingerbread house:


The girls sleeping in Juliana's new bed. Hope decided it was comfortable enough to sleep in, even though she was originally opposed to sleeping in a room that was decorated for a boy.


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