LSU Baseball! And other fun stuff. :)

5/13: LSU beat Northwestern State 27-0!  Yes, that's a baseball score!  LSU won by the largest margin of victory in program history and tossed its first combined no-hitter.  And that's after only 6 innings, as the game was stopped early due to lightning!  Crazy!


5/13: Making silly faces while reading a book at bedtime:

 

 

5/14: We sure enjoyed the sun and warm weather today! I even set up our portable hammock but the girls took it over so I barely got to relax on it by myself.

 

 

5/15: This cute boy (my nephew, Wyatt) graduated from pre-school and will be headed to kindergarten in the fall!:

The girls and I went to Kiki's for dinner, then to the adorable graduation, then back to Kiki's house to play for a bit before heading home to bed [Jared had left on a trip on 5/13 and is still gone].  These were also taken at the graduation:

 

My niece, Carma

5/16: Movie Night in the basement! Including a (not so) healthy dinner on the couch. Little Avery ate two corndogs! Finally watched Frozen!! We'll have to finish it tomorrow--I finally turned it off to put them to bed at 9:00.

5/20: Holy goodness! I just made some peach sorbet using frozen peaches from our tree. It's just frozen peaches and condensed milk (I saw the recipe in Martha Stewart Living mag), although I had frozen the peaches in apple juice to keep them from browning.  The girls loved it!

5/20: Looking forward to Bunco tonight! AND Kiki is babysitting and keeping the twins overnight! Woohoo! Their cousin, Carma, has already planned a movie night (Tangled), complete with popcorn, and a sleepover in the basement. She's so cute! The sleepover was Kiki'd idea--she is so awesome and i love her!

The girls had so much fun at the sleep-over at Kiki's, although they wore Kiki out, ha ha!  I, on the other hand, had a blast playing Bunco with friends and enjoyed the house to myself that night and a quiet house for a few hours the next morning while I watched LSU win their first game of the SEC tournament.  I had fun hanging out at Kiki's for a couple of hours when I went to pick up the girls and they, of course, did not want to come home.  That Aunt Kiki sure is fun!  I'm pretty sure she was ready for them to leave, though, ha ha!  I guess I don't realize how much energy they take to care for and how much they talk and ask for stuff, the little divas, ha ha!  She said they are so funny, though, and they definitely are! 

5/22: Still laughing about something that happened last night: Avery was sitting on the potty and Makenna was sitting on the edge of the tub to keep her company while I was in the kitchen. All of the sudden, I heard a thud and, "Are you okay?" Makenna had fallen into the tub. Once I saw that she was okay, I couldn't stop laughing. But it was so sweet for Avery to ask her if she was okay.

5/22: I was craving some more of that peach sorbet but I didn't have any more condensed milk so I made some using powdered milk. The girls and I did not like it! It smells like cat pee and I imagine it tastes quite a bit like it, too. Bummer.

5/22: Self-portrait by Makenna. How cute is that??

5/23: Makenna just now: "I'm getting out of my chair 'cause I'm really frustrated!" 

Today: LSU = SEC Baseball Champs! I just barely finished watching the game because I had to record it while I was at church. I didn't get home until 2 hours after the game started, then I watched the entire game. Geaux Tigers! Bregman is phenomenal! It's amazing the plays he can get!!! My basement is a wreck because the twins played downstairs while I watched the game but it was worth it!


I watched quite a bit of LSU baseball this week (4 games) and will be watching more soon, as the Regionals start on 5/30, with LSU being one of the 16 Regionial hosts, hoping they make it to the College World Series.  I have high hopes since, in eight straight wins, LSU has outscored its opponents 87-8, including 31-4 in the SEC tournament.  Geaux Tigers!

Jared was gonna come home today and we had plans to go to Hoytsville for some Memorial Day activities tomorrow but he had to extend his trip, so now the girls and I have nothing to do tomorrow. :(  AND, Jared will be gone for his birthday on Tuesday.  Bummer!  Hoping we can do some fun stuff in the few days he's home next weekend!

Southern Belles (in Utah)

I just realized that I never posted some portraits of the twins that we had taken the same day as the Easter portraits because I wanted them to be a surprise for my mom for Mother's Day.  After we finished the Easter portraits, I also had the girls take portraits in this dress that I took portraits in when I was 4.  My 2 sisters and my 3 nieces have also taken photos in this dress.  I was absolutely thrilled to finally have my own daughters take photos in it; it's something I dreamed about for YEARS! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Girls Weekend, Planting the garden, Mother's Day, and such

4/28: My girls really want a trampoline now after jumping on Kiki's new trampoline yesterday evening! P.S. They are whispering everything right now because one of the baby dolls is sleeping. I got in trouble for making too much noise while cleaning off my scrapbook desk. 

4/28: One of the truest quotes EVER: “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing” (Phyllis Diller)
And trying to clean with them "helping" is dang near impossible! I was trying to organIze some of their stuff today and they kept picking up things that I had put aside and putting them back in places I had just taken them out of!
Oh and WHY does it never fail that, as soon as we sit down for dinner, Avery has to go pee (which means I have to get up and go help her)?
I love my kids! 

4/29: After testing my patience by doing puzzles with them both (MOMMY, WHERE DOES THIS GO? over and over and over), they are now working on Paint with Water masterpieces.

 

 Funny story: During dinner, Makenna tooted then Avery burped, which they thought was hilarious. I explained to them that it's not nice to toot or burp at the table. I told them not to do it when they go to Grandma's this weekend and don't do it at anyone else's house. Avery said, "OK, we'll just do it at your house!" Ha ha ha!

May 2: Girls Weekend with Kiki and our awesome friends, Amiee, Jamie, and Sarah (who flew in from VA) started!  We all stayed at my house the entire weekend and had SO MUCH FUN!  We started with lunch on Friday at The Wild Zucchini, then had ice cream at Farr's.  After chatting it up for a few hours at the house, we went and karaoked that night.  Since we last went to that place, they started closing down at 11pm, so that was a huge bummer and we barely got to sing anything.  But it was fun just to be together.  We stayed up until the wee hours of the morning hanging out.  Here are some pics of us before heading to karaoke:

 

 This one cracks me up!

 On Sat., we all headed to The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate Jamie's birthday.  After eating, we went and shopped in the mall for a while.  That night, we just ate snacks for dinner (Sarah's spinach and artichoke dip was super yummy!) and we stayed up really late again watching a movie, chatting, and playing Personalities.  It was SOOOOO FUN!

Sunday, we just lounged around and watched a movie and enjoyed each other's company.  It was the best weekend ever.  I love my BFFs!

P.S. The twins had fun with Daddy staying at Grandma's for the weekend and got to see Grandpa, too.  They had a really fun weekend, too! 

5/5: After we put the twins down for their nap, I couldn't find my cell phone anywhere and Jared tried calling it several times but we never heard it ring so I finally went and asked the girls (they weren't asleep yet) if they knew where it was. Makenna said, "It's in the shoe bag in the coat factory!" It took me a minute to figure it out but, sure enough, I found it in a grocery bag with their tennis shoes in the coat closet, ha ha! I had to wipe dirt off of it. Jared and I were laughing so hard!

5/6: I heard Makenna doing something in the bathroom so I went to check things out and found her using Jared's toothbrush to clean her squishy ball with soap, HA HA!!

Jared said he's glad he got a new toothbrush at his dentist appointment today.

 

5/9: While we were finishing breakfast, I started leaving the room and told the girls I needed to go potty. Makenna said, "Run! Before you leak your pants!" Ha ha ha!

 

We planted our garden on Friday, 5/9, even though it was a little chilly and even sprinkled on a bit--just barely and only for a few minutes, though.  The girls sure had fun helping.

After much coaxing, I even got them both to hold a worm:

And they were thrilled to see a rainbow!

They kept sneaking the hose from the tomato plants and watering their mud hole for digging:

Avery even got to help Daddy plant her cherry tomato plant because she loves cherry tomatoes so much:

Sadly, our red Betta fish died that day and we all went and got a new blue one on Sat.:

I also picked out my Mother's Day gift, some ear buds with a microphone and remote to use with my phone when I'm Voxing with my besties. :)

5/10: Fishing in the sink. :)

 

 
5/11: Mother's Day was spent getting ready for church, video chatting with Jason and a few others in the family, taking some pre-church photos with my girls, and having a grilled steak, baked potatoes, green beans, rolls, and various flavors of cheesecake with Grandma.  The girls had fun playing outside with Grandma while Daddy was grilling the steaks and I was inside cooking.  They also loved giving her a Mother's Day gift and birthday gift (photo books).

 

The twins sang with the Primary in sacrament meeting for the first time, as well. I waited so long to see kids of my own up there singing Mother's Day songs that I totally cried. I'm such a sap. P.S. They didn't really sing. And they almost didn't leave the stand--the bishop had to tell them to leave. When Makenna got back to our bench, she said, "I didn't sing!" Ha ha!  Jared took a video of it with his phone and I'll post it soon after he gets it to me. 

It was pretty chilly and windy all of last week and is still chilly today.  I really hope it warms up again this week so we can play outside more!