Auntie Vivian

Huntley has a favorite auntie, "auntie Bibian." She carries on imaginary conversations with her all the time that are pretty entertaining. All of these conversations revolve around Tuillie, Vivian's dog and we all know the way to Huntley's heart is by letting her play, aka torture, your dog. Over the past week we've gotten two boxes in the mail from Auntie Vivian. It made the girls day and now we have our own little Tuillie at our house. Luckily this one isn't real. I'm really over real dogs. The real dogs ate seven spagetti squash and a pumpkin today. Fake is definitely the way to go.

Paisley Irene {1}

I've gotten to this day with both my girls and thought, really it's already been a year, how did that happen. I have loved celebrating Huntley's birthday the past week and watching her excitement but there is something about that first birthday that is just different and special. All day long I've been able to reflect on a year ago last year and everything that happened that day. It still feels like yesterday and I hope I never forget all the feelings, emotions, and experiences of that day. Our family took on a completely new dynamic and it was definitely a good change for us.

Paisley is our happy go lucky sweet child but the past few days she has developed a little bit of an attitude. She discovered her voice and has been squawking at me constantly. Luckily today she woke up with a big smile and was her normal little self all day long. We had waffles with whip cream for breakfast, lunch with Ma, lots of visitors to give her wishes, a hike with the dogs to pick sunflowers, and a surprise cake and balloons. You can bet after the past week and a half she knows what cake is and exactly what to do with it. I think both my girls will be disappointed tomorrow after dinner when there isn't any cake, candles, and songs.

Happy Birthday Paisley!

Play Dates

I had a knock on my door today. It was one of Huntley's friends wanting her to come play. I was all for having some free time so of course I said yes and off she went. Cutest thing ever.

Birthday Weekend

Chris's last two day tour ended this weekend. Perfectly in between two girls birthdays. We partied hard all weekend. It was fun and I'm still recovering from all of it. Plus having to recover from a day readjusting back to life without him. I hate those days. Therefore I'm going to let the pictures speak for themselves and hit the sack.

The Wheels on the Bus

Today was Huntley's very first field trip! We got to ride the school bus and both girls thought this was the coolest thing ever. We rode to the school and then the bus depot where all the buses sleep. Last but not least we got to ride in the bus through the giant car wash. It was awesome, seriously.

Huntley loved it and has been talking about it nonstop. Although now that I'm looking at the pictures her face sure tells another story.

Huntley Madison {4}

Huntley had a birthday and we shouted hooray!

Actually we didn't do much since Chris is gone but just singing to her over and over made her day. We also did her yearly birthday questions and for the most part I was dead on with her answers of her favorites being pink, cereal, and watering flowers. She did surprise me be saying her favorite animal was a horse but other than that she is pretty predictable.

Happy Birthday Huntley!

Dinner Time

One of the benefits of having Chris gone is I have all of the power. I get to decide what we do, what we wear, what we eat, etc. etc. etc. I can make whatever I please for dinner, when I have the desire to make dinner. I don't actually make real food very often because I can serve waffles for dinner three nights in a row and be rewarded with cheers from Huntley every night.

Tonight I decided I was going to make one of my favs, tatertot casserole. Hunt was really in to helping me make it and sat at the oven the whole time watching it cook. She was bouncing with excitement at the table waiting for her plate and I was excited too because if it's two against one than I can actually make it during the winter when I'm in the mood for casseroles. I really don't like them in the summer and would much rather eat them on a cold day.

Anyways the time finally came for us to eat and I happily dished Huntley some food. She took one look at it and yelled out quite enthusiastically "yuck!!!".

Yep, I'll now be serving waffles three days a week again.