We're Expecting More

A complete suprise today. I went in to the dr to have my first ultrasound and he found TWO BABIES. I am still in shock. There is no history of twins in my family, I guess there is a first for everything. From what the doctor could see, the babies look to be fraternal. We are going to have another ultrasound in two weeks to make sure everything looks good. I'll keep everyone posted!

We're Expecting!

I think most everyone knows already, but for those of you who don't, we're expecting baby #3! I put a little widget on the blog so everyone can see how things are going. I haven'e had my first appointment yet, but I will post the ultrasound pictures when I get them. We are super excited to add another beautiful baby to our family.

Lucy's First Birthday

 My tiny baby is getting so big! Lucy turned one on November 20th and we had a big party with all of our friends. She had a lot of fun just watching all of the other kids running around. She is so wonderful.

Lucy went crazy for her cake. Not crazy like throwing it everywhere, but crazy like she had never eaten before. She was really controlled and just kept shovelling through it. I think she would have kept on going all night if we had let her.

We took the cake away after a little while. This is what's left of a two-layer chocolate cake after we finally took it away from Lucy.

Catching Up

I really don't have much in the way of excuses for not posting in a while. I suppose I was busy, and it was the holiday season, and I was out-of-town, but none of those reasons are very good. So I am going to do some catching up on my blogging starting with Lucy's first birthday.
It may take a couple of days for me to get all caught up, but just be a little patient and I will reward you with some awesome pictures of my beautiful daughters.

Halloween

I found my camera just in time for Halloween (thank goodness) so I got some pictures of our costumes. I took Cloe and Lucy on Friday to a couple of businesses during the day to do some trick-or-treating. Cloe dressed as a fairy princess with no wings. She was pretty adamant about it. I tried to explan to her that fairies have to have wings or they wouldn't be fairies, but she wouldn't have any of it. Oh well. I just put a bear snowsuit on lucy which is the same one that I put on Cloe at that age. They look so much alike!!

                                                                 Cloe 13 1/2 months

                                                                 Lucy 11 1/2 months

We went to our ward party/trunk-or-treat as a family that night. We went as Blue Man Group. I thought it was a clever idea, but I was surprised to have so many people as us what we were and then not know who Blue Man Group is when we told them. Weird Alaskans.

Me and the Girls

The Family.

(Ok, I promise my double chin isn't that bad. The liquid latex paint we used made my neck stick together and I couldn't move it.)

Of course Blue Men have blue feet!

First Day of "School"

Cloe kind of started preschool today. She is in a neighborhood preschool (kind of like Joy School.) There is only one other little boy in it, but I think it will be good for her to do different things. She REALLY didn't want to go, but we just took our time and about 20 minutes later she was running to the car so that she could go.
I have mixed feelings about her going. It's not really preschool, more like a structured playdate. It's still so weird that my Tiny O is at school. I can't believe how big she is!

Wearing her new clothes from her birthday

Her ladybug backpack (she put a couple of her new toys in there)

New Hairstyles

I have been looking for new hairstyles to try on Cloe, but haven't been very successful. But, I was talking to my sister, Callie, the other day and she was having the same problem. She found a website with AWESOME style, some of the styles are a little too awesome (weird) for me, but there are some cool ones. I've tried a couple lately. What do you think?

Here is the first one I tried. It's a picture from the back. It took me about 20 minutes to do.

Here's a shot of the same one from the front. The messy side-bun looked SO cute with a flower. As you can see, Cloe couldn't take her eyes off the T.V.

Here is a shot of the one I did yesterday. I did the little twisty things all over her hair and then ended in what the website calls a "flower bun" Ben said that she looked like she was ready  to go to the prom... It does look a little formal, but I had to try it to see what it would look like. Haha, we didn't even end up going anywhere yesterday.

Here is a back shot of the "flower bun". Her hair really is too thin for this kind of style, but you never know until you try.