24th celebrations and San Diego Here We Come!!!

So we are staying in Snowflake until Sunday, coming home for the night and packing right pack up and heading to San Diego! I am very excited. Not because we get to go play (although that's a HUGE plus), but because we get to have Adam with us for a Whopping 10 days!!! I LOVE having him that long. It hardly ever happens! We get to enjoy the WONDERFUL weather in Snowflake. Oh, I am so sick of this heat, but even more, my kids are!!! Every time we come back from running errands and we drive up in the garage they both freak out! They don't won't to be stuck inside! I sure don't blame them because I am going stir crazy! Anyways, in San Diego we get to go to the Beach, Sea World, and possibly the Zoo! Lots of pictures to come!

I Think I Sweep Way to Much!

This morning Coby spilled his cup full of cereal on the kitchen floor. I was in my room folding clothes when I heard him say, "Uh Oh"! Then I heard the hall closet open (he grabbed the broom). When I walked into the kitchen he was trying so dang hard to sweep it up! I was really impressed, and proud of him for trying to clean up after himself! He's such a good boy!

Happy 4th of July!!!

I love love the 4Th of July. These are just some pictures of them in their red, white, and blue!

Chloe's bow! My first try at this type and I think it turned out cute. BIG, but cute!

Next, Adam got some cute pictures of them admiring the rain last night! It poured and the twins LOVED it!

In fact, we had to pry them aways from the door. It's rare when it rains this much, and you'd think they never saw it before!

Blogger Blahs!!!!!

Well in the words of my friend Cheryl, "I have the blogger blahs"!! It's true! I have not been motivated to blog, and I am still NOT!! However, I need to in order to keep up with all the happenings going on! Between callings, playing with the kids, and summer activities I feel like my time blogging is spent else where! These pictures are in no particular order, and just a few things we have been up to.

We all got sick and seemed to pass it around for 2 weeks. Even though it's no fun being sick, I truly enjoy the rare moments of cuddling with my kids! Horrible picture I know, but we were both out cold!

Jade enjoyed a few days at the park with me. She is tons of fun!

Chloe at the park doing what she does best......being a monkey!

Going down the slide! Coby's fave! He wanted Jade to go with him every time!

Chloe usually falls asleep under her bed. Most nights when we go in to check on her, she'll be under the bed fast asleep.

At the YMCA where we go for swim lessons, they have a little splash pad. My kids LOVE it!

We finally got our new couch. I have added pictures to the wall since I took these pictures, but I am not quite finished and will post those pictures when I am done!

I love my new couch. We thought we would be done remodeling, but we have changed some of our plans and so things aren't progressing as fast as I liked them to go. Oh well! This month is PACKED full of things including our trip to San Diego, AND my twins turning two! Crazy, but so much fun!!

It Melts My Heart When........

I am sitting on the couch with the twins waiting (counting down the minutes) for bed time, and Coby climbs onto my lap, looks at me, takes his little hands and cups my face, and gives me a big fat slobbery kiss! THEN Chloe come over and looks at me and says, "MOMMA" and then gives me another slobbery kiss and hug! OH, the joys of being a mom! Just had to share!

Swim Lessons.......

finally! We put Coby and Chloe into swim lessons that started June 1st. They go for 4 weeks Mondays and Wednesdays for 30 minutes. It is a parent and child class, so my sister Roshea has been going with me to help out. Jade tags along too, and takes the pictures for me. I will warn you all now, I am in them, and they aren't pretty! The twins LOVE LOVE swimming and really enjoy this class. These are out of order and there are a lot!

They are learning how to climb out of the pool.

The instructor does this at the end of the class.

Here the teacher sings "7 little Monkey swinging in the Tree, teasing Mr. Alligator you can't catch me", and then she snatches them and teaches them how to go under the water, or swim back to mom.

While all the other kids are screaming during this part, mine are smiling and laughing. They love it!

They each get to choose a toy and then have to throw it as far as they can and kick to it! Coby picked the ball, of course!

Chloe is kicking to her toy. She kicks SO good. She doesn't have to have any help!

Today the water was freezing! Chloe's lips were chattering! Coby learning how to climb out!

They are also learning how to blow bubbles into the water. We have a lot of trouble getting them to do this.

We sing the "Hokey Poky" and at the end we throw them into the air. They ALWAYS look at each other and giggle!

You can tell he LOVES it!

More kicking.

And more kicking!

They are also learning how to float. We also have trouble getting them to do this, but hopefully they'll be able to by the end of the lessons!

Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures I have taken. We FINALLY got a working camera. I really miss taking pictures of my kids. They are growing way too fast, and even more so now that they have accomplished sleeping in big kids beds. All we have left is potty training, but that won't be happening too soon............unless they choose to do it, and at this rate who knows. They were ready to get rid of Binky's before me, and they were ready to move to big beds before me. We'll see!


Coby can reach the counter now. Tonight he got a hold of a water bottle. He loved it and actually drank more water from it than he does his sippy! And, yes he has a black eye. We don't if he got it from running into the counter or the door nob! It could be one of the two:)

Chloe is still too short to reach, but of course what brother has she has to have too! She also drank more water from that than her sippy!

My sisters are here for the summer visiting my dad. Coby and Chloe LOVE playing with them. They have learned how to play Ring Around The Rosy! They LOVE playing this game. Lucky for me I have Jade who is willing to play this for hours!

Here are their beds. As you can see we just took the front off of their cribs and added a railing. They are getting better each day.

Chloe loves getting into Coby's bed. Thanks to the Howards for letting us barrow the railings. They are a huge help!

Playing! It's wasn't nap time here, so the ball was ok for him to play with.

Chloe WILL NOT look at the camera! Stinker!

My new camera takes pictures in the sepia tone! I love it! Again, she WOULD NOT look at me!

Of course we still have swim lessons to update you all on. This is just SOME of what we have been up to!