Birthday Times Two

Another successful year of the double birthday's. Ty turned 4 and Lily 2. They are such a joy in our life and we are so grateful for them. We had a really fun day. You know how sometimes you have one of those days, peaceful, happy, everything goes great. That was their birthday this year. One of my favorites days with them yet.
Princess shoes!! She loves them.

Thundercats, HO!

Captain America!

Going to Chuck-e-Cheese

In the morning I took Ty and Lily to Krispy Kreme for doughnuts. Ty is so my kid and doughnuts are his favorite treat. Lily just likes to eat :)!

Watching them make the doughnuts. They loved this. They spent at least 35 minutes watching the doughnuts. What a hit! Mom was looking pretty awesome for this fun outing. What's even better...Krispy Kreme gives kids a free doughnut and drink for their birthday. How awesome?!

I never realized how much they look alike until I saw these pictures. You can totally tell they are brother and sister. Its funny, the older Lily gets the more they look really close in age. She is catching up to him in height too...

Buddies :)

Lily always says, "Its so yummy!" when she is eating. I love it!

Lily's Tangled Birthday cake. Super easy and she loved it!

Ty loves Ninja Turtles so I made these cupcakes for him. He thought they were pretty cool. He mostly was looking forward to his angry birds party the next day.

May and June

Just a few random pictures from the last two months.
My boys love to play dress up. They are always pretending to be someone or something else. Then they usually act it out or put on a pretty elaborate play for us. They are such hams! Luke of course is always the ring leader. Here they are dressed as red batman and black batman.

"OHHH! A baby Jack Jack!" says Lily in a super high pitched voice! Lily and Ty love Incredibles the movie. For about 3 weeks we had to watch it every day. They can all quote it. Even Lily, which is pretty funny.

Playing Rock band with Daddy.

Batgirl!

Big Girl

Taking her babies to bed.

Here she is! Our big girl in her big girl bed!! No more crib! A little sad for Mom. But she was ready and she loves it!

I can't believe she is almost two! She wants so much to be big like her brothers. She is always talking up a storm and learning new words all the time. She insists on doing most everything without any help. Ugh. Bye bye baby Lily, hello little girl.

Hippity Hoppity, Easter Treasures are Here!

My handsome guys ready for church. Lily stayed home, so no pic of her in her Easter dress.

Poor lily was sick, but she was excited about her baby doll.

Ty got Batman stuff. Luke got a catching mit and ball, legos and glow in the dark bugs. They all loved it! Spoiled kids :)

Shoe Diva

Lily is obsessed with shoes! She loves her red shiny or white church shoes--these have now become every day shoes for her. ALL DAY LONG! From the time she wakes up until she goes to bed she has to wear them. She cries at night when we take them off. She can now put them on herself due to shear will power. She raids all of our closets for our shoes as well. It is pretty funny. So here are some random pictures of her shoe obsession. Enjoy!

Here are the red shoes. Here we are trying to get ready for bed, hence the naked baby. I took them off to put on pajamas. Went in the other room to get said pajamas and they were right back on her feet. Had to laugh...and snap a few photos.

Wearing big brother Luke's shoes.

Random February Pictures

Luke and all his "guys".
Jedi Mickey, Murray the eel, Mr. Kunkel, Darth Vadar, Spacestar the tiger, R.J. the raccoon, and not pictured, Koopa Troopa. He puts them on his bed every day. He is pretty meticulous about it...hmmm, wonder where he gets that from? :)

Having a pretend sleepover in the living room. Lily was loving it as you can tell.

Playing dress up with friends and cousins. Luke wanted to be a mummy. I found him in the bathroom trying to wrap the toilet paper, so I helped. He is so elaborate in his playing. We have a little actor/performer in the making here.

What can you say about this? Simply adorable. My favorite valentine!!!

What you talkin' bout?

Lily turned 16 months on January 2nd. I spent the next few days writing down all the words she can say. Since then she has added new ones almost every day or two. But the original list at the beginning of the month was:
up
down
uh-oh
Dad
Luke
Ty
Mom
pretty
no
belly button
shoes
socks
bye
night-night
amen
cheese
snack
more
yes
baby
book
hello
banana
dog
woof
meow
soft

Random pics from December and January

Trying to show off the "piggies". So excited that I can actually do something with her hair. It makes it look like less of a mullet. She didn't really want me to take her picture here, can you tell?

Riding her car and wearing her "pretty".

Oops, she saw the camera. Now there is no hope of any more pictures that aren't of half her face or her hand reaching out to grab the camera. Kids always look so cute when they are playing without noticing you are watching. But they get distracted so easily, it is hard to capture the essence on camera.

Lily and Ty chillin' in the playroom. So cute. They are getting to be good buddies. Lily loves her big brothers.

Look alikes

Luke at 13 months.

I couldn't find the picture that totally captures it because it is one my mom took. But the older she gets the more she looks exactly like her brother. Different eye color, and hers are more deepset...but pretty dang close.

Luke at age 15 months. How sad is it that he has more hair than her :(