This is normal, right?

I'm sure every mom has started to decorate the Christmas tree, walked into another room, and walked back in to find this.......

 

 

 

right???

 

Yes, they are trying to lick the candy ornaments that we made!

 

But, when it was all done, and they stopped licking the ornaments, it turned out like this....

 

Merry Christmas!!



Hunting again, this time for a Christmas tree!

So we set off to find a Christmas tree, and since we live in Maine, we just walked out our back door to go find a tree! It was also the end of hunting season, but we didn't want to take any chances so we all "oranged" it up!

 

It was pretty chilly this day, but the girls were good sports as always and had so much fun! They pointed to EVERY tree suggesting it be our Christmas tree!

Here we are trekking through the woods to check out some really good trees!

 

We spotted some good ones, but didn't cut any down this day. This trip was just a recon trip!

 

 

My budding photographer and model

Riley loves to get a hold of the camera on my phone. Typically I will find about 300 pictures on there afterwards of all kinds of random things around the house. However, the other day I found these. Riley had asked to borrow my camera, then pulled a chair over to the wall, went and got her little sister and began telling her how to pose for the pictures. It was pretty funny and here are the results of their photo shoot.

 

The silly pose...

 

 

The serious pose....

 

This next one might be my favorite...

 

The "I'm cute" pose....

 

The time out chair pose....

 

The "check out my muscles pose"

This makes me laugh, as it is proof that little siblings will do whatever their big siblings tell them to do!

 



 

I'm not sure if she's trying to use a little bit of sign language in this picture, for those of you who know what this might mean...... :)

 

The serious pose......

 

The "what did you say" pose....

 

The "I find myself very funny" pose.....

The "you talkin to me" pose...

 



 

Then the cats were added as a new prop.

 

And finally, this is all it how ended. I have no idea how it ended this way, and I don't want to know.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love them!!!

 

Gobble, Gobble!

We had an awesome Thanksgiving surrounded by family and friends! I love this picture above of my little turkey's! I took a lot of pictures, but then realized all of them included other family members, whom I did not ask for permission to post on this blog, so this is one of the only shots with just us in it!

 

Riley and Taylor had so much fun with all of their cousins. They don't get to see everyone very often, so it was really nice to have them all together. They also loved the family dogs that were running around, big surprise!

 

While we were in a "big city" we took advantage and spent a day at an aquarium. We all had a blast! Riley loved the penguins, but there were also lots of sharks, sting rays and one really cool hippo that was playing with us by the glass window!

 

It was a great trip, and the girls were sad to leave. Great memories were made though, and these were some tired turkey's when we arrived home! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Homemade crayons and Halloween

It's been awhile since I've written last! The other day we decided to make homemade crayons out of all of our broken crayons we have around the house. The girls loved it! They loved peeling the paper off of the old crayons and this kept them busy for a good hour, and quiet I might add! 

 

Riley made a snowman crayon.

 

And a heart.

 

Taylor made a Christmas tree, but we didn't get a picture as she broke it before we even started coloring!

 Riley also got a hold of my phone again, so I found some more of her lovely pictures....

 

Oh my goodness, is she funny or what? She cracks me up!

 

She also has been going to a children's church program on Sundays. They earn points and can redeem them for prizes, this is what she picked...

 

 

Taylor enjoyed them too!

And finally I'm getting around to posting their Halloween costume pictures. Riley is a cute little kitty cat and Taylor is a strawberry! They had a blast this year collecting all of their treats!



Pretty cute Halloweenies right there!

Feeling old!

I'll start by apologizing that there are no pictures of the kiddo's, or anything else for that matter, with this post.....just me ranting a little about my old eyes!

 

Today was a day spent "down river" as they call it up here! Since we are sooooooo far from EVERYTHING, but especially doctor's, anytime there is an appointment it becomes an all day event....Doctor appointment, lunch, stocking up at the grocery stores for the long haul back!

 

To clarify, we do have a hospital in town with TWO, yes count them, TWO doctors, and an emergency room. But, for anything out of the ordinary we have to travel.

 

Today the girls woke up very excited to be headed "down river" to go to

Walmart! Yep, another you might be a redneck moment.....

 

 

But, first we had to stop at the eye doctor because I haven't been in two years and my contacts seemed to blurry for some reason lately. And, no it didn't cross my mind that I am getting older and it might not be my contacts that are the problem, but the fact that my eyes got worse! So today I found out that I have an astigmatism in BOTH eyes! One is bad enough that contacts can't quite correct to 20/20 anymore. Ugh...makes me feel old! I did buy more contacts because I refuse to give up on being able to wear them, but that day is surely coming.

 

 

Of course, things are never quite uneventful for us. So, we leave the eye doctor and head off to do our shopping. I had my sunglasses on. But, while shopping my wonderful hubby looks at me and asks "what's wrong with your eyes." Apparently, the doctor sent me home with my new trial pair of contacts until my "specialized" lenses come in. And it just so happens that she must have given me tinted contacts, so I now have green eyes, mixed in with my typical brown ones! The sad thing is I'm so far from the doctor that there is no way I'm going back to exchange them, so until my new ones come in I'll have to wear these green ones. And, I also need to remember to contact them on Monday and make sure they didn't order me green contacts!

 

 

So, another fun filled, never boring day around here! Maybe I'll let the hubs take a picture of my new green eyes and post it later! Maybe....



Moose, in the driveway!!

When you live up here it's not abnormal to get a phone call from your "neighbor" saying there are moose in your driveway!

 

These pictures are not very good, but they were taken with my phone because my camera battery was dead, and because I had no idea how to get the screen off quitely enough to not scare them away!

 

 

The girls were so excited, but they did eventaully get spooked and took off through the yard, right past our swing set, which the girls thought was even funnier, and out to the woods!

 

 

Exciting times in Maine!!

 

And this is what happens when you leave your phone around and your 4 year old gets it! You find this...

 

 

Such a goofball! Love her lots!!





Pool time!

Since we woke up to snow the other day, yes I said the "s" word, and then to spring like temperatures today, which were a nice suprise, we decided to go and check out the pool! The girls loved it! First we stopped to buy them some goggles.

 

 

 

Love those mugs!!

 

 

Taylor really liked wearing her goggles!

 

After awhile we headed over to the hot tub, and Riley was very relaxed and enjoyed it very much, maybe she is a bit like her mother! Here she is relaxing in the hot tub.

 

 

Happy Monday everyone!