The Week and Mother's Day!

Forgive the backwards order of the pictures! Colleen was trying to cheer Brighit up while she was eating, and Colleen took this picture of Brighit.
We've all been since in one form or another for the past 4 days, and here is Colleen trying to help make Brighit feel better. Both girls have a small case of the croup and Brighit isn't tolerating it as well as Colleen. Those are Colleen's new giraffe jammies she got a couple of days ago.
This is the after shot of the next picture. The girls were feeling really lousy, and this is the afternoon of the 6th...
and this is the morning of the 6th..Big difference!
Here are some awesome pictures of the girls at the park. You can totally see Brighit smiling as she swings, and yes Colleen did pick out her outfit that day!




Too cute!

We are also doing The Ryan's PKU Walk in a couple of weeks. This is close to our heart as Brighit has PKU and any precious dollars that can be raised can help with research so that she might have a more varied diet in the future. If you would like to help and donate, just contact me and I'll let you know how to do it!

VIdeo's of the girls!

Here is some video of Colleen playing basketball. We got this little hoop last summer so she would have something active to do inside. When we first got it she had to have it all the way down so the hoop was level with the red ring on the neck of the hoop. Now she has is on the 4th level up, which is a good 12 inches above where she started out! She had made 4-5 shots in a row before I ran to get the camera, so she's getting tired!

Here are the girls sitting on Colleen's Princess couch.

This is the best picture we have gotten of the girls lately...soo cute in their jammies after bath and before dinner! Sisters!

Chalk and Markers oh MY!

Everyone seemed to get up extra early this morning so since it was a Saturday I decided that we should go yardsaleing. A friend had told me that her whole neighborhood was having one, and then Dan drove by one on his way to work that he told me about. We went to that one first and found the only deal of the day. It is a children's easel with a chalkboard on one side and a dry erase board on the other!! It originally said it was $22 but I talked the lady down to $15. Colleen LOVES to draw with chalk outside so this is the next best thing and we don't have to be out in the heat to do it! She of course got covered in chalk, but not too much in Marker. Check out her masterpieces...

I think I took some more pictures, or if not I know that I will take more of the artist at work. Tomorrow I'll post a little video of Brighit that I took today. She's grasping a toy of her bouncy seat that she hadn't been able to grasp yet....too cute and we are soo proud of her!

Brighit Giggled!

The girls get a bath every night. If I'm by myself it's done seperately, if Dan's home we do them at the same time. As I was washing Brighit's tummy last night she giggled and was smiling so big! This is the first giggle that she has done and it was so awesome! Colleen had been putting bubbles on her tummy, so this might have been part of it. Brighit loves to watch Colleen and always smiles when she does! This pictures is from a previous bath, not from last night. 

The three girls outside!

Colleen loves to build with her blocks and she does a great job! I promise that I had nothing to do with this tower that she built! She does a really good job at balancing the blocks. 

Collen climbing all over her daddy while he snuggles with Brighit. This is a really old picture, but I cute one. She was 3 weeks old in this picture and she's 3 months old now! Time sure does fly!

Hello everyone!

For one of my Graduate classes an assignment is to create a blog. It doesn't matter what the subject, just a blog. So I thought that since so many of our family members live all over the country that I would make a blog with the goings on of Colleen and Brighit. I'll post some pictures and some awesome milestones and other things the girls are doing. Naptime is apparently over so I will be back later with more!