Can I do Easter over??

I lost my camera battery charger and I wasn't able to get a new one until after Easter. I was so sad to miss documenting the festivities. Today I put the girls Easter dresses on to have a "do over".

Aren't they beautiful?

Cookies anyone??

One of my New Year Resolutions this year was to get back to eating and living better. Ever since having my girls, eating and living better have taken WAY too much time. I decided that I have had enough and I need to live the way that I teach other people to live.

I am proud to say that I have not had any sugar or Gluten for 4 months. It hasn't been easy but I feel so great!!

The down side to eating well is finding fun things to eat. Today I was really craving cookies, so I pulled out my Xylitol and rice flour and tried to make up my own recipe. This is the result.

I obviously shouldn't be making up recipes. Looks like I will be buying a sugar and gluten free cookbook soon. They don't look good, but they sure tasted good! Geoff even ate them.

Venice Beach

The only nice thing about Geoff traveling so much is that he gets to stay in awesome hotels. After our Disneyland adventure on Saturday, we headed to the beach on Sunday. We didn't swim but the girls had a wonderful time playing in the sand and waves.

All Aria wanted to do was to build a sand castle. Here is the beginning.

Laila is trying to help with the sand castle

I am trying to get Laila in the water, she was scared.

Aria found a sea shell

Laila found the sand.

Oh boy! She LOVED the sand. She ate that sand like she was starving. She must have low minerals or something. I wish I had taken a picture of her poop the next day. It was just sand, nothing else.

It was a glorious weekend. It was so fun to see our dad and to go to Disneyland and the beach. I feel so blessed to be able to do fun things like this.

DISNEYLAND!

Geoff has been working in California for the last month and we have missed him. If he travels enough his company will pay for a weekend hotel stay in between travel weeks. Geoff and I decided to capitalize on this and take the girls to DISNEYLAND!!!

The girls were excited and Geoff loves Disneyland so much that I think he was the MOST excited.

Geoff and the girls in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Buzz light year was the favorite ride. We went 3 times.

The Marry-go-round was the second favorite.

Mostly because there wasn't much of a line.

We of course had to see Mickey. It went much better this time around. The girls were not scared. Laila was a little leery.

This time we even got to see Minnie. Aria was very happy.

Laila's favorite ride was "Small World" . She danced and clapped, it was so cute!

Dumbo was another favorite with the girls.

For dinner we got chicken strips and mozzarella sticks. Laila used the mozzarella stick as a way to eat the ranch. She ate and entire thing of ranch, it was disgusting. Everyone around us was watching her, only one lady thought it was cute.

Aria is so so happy to be at Disneyland.

Geoff and I have different philosophies on vacations. Mine is, go and have fun but don't spend money on anything unless it is absolutely necessary. Geoff's philosophy is to go and have fun and don't think about the money you are spending because it is all part of the experience and chalk it up to a memory made. I am trying to meet him somewhere in the middle, but Geoff totally go his way when he bought the girls these way too expensive toys that they totally don't need. Geoff's excuse is that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth and toys would make the girls so happy. What do ya do??


It was so fun! I feel very lucky that Disneyland is relatively close. I feel bad for our children yet to come. I can guarantee that this behavior of ours will not last long when we start having to pay for more then one kid. Maybe we can photoshop them in...

Work it girl!

I want to share with all of you the creative dance stylings of my sweet baby girl. Please don't forget that this is a "creative" dance class.

You might not be able to make out the intended dance motions due to her age, so I will highlight a few. Hopefully you will be able to pick them out.

• body roll
• shimmy
• chest pump
• bootie shake (or tickle if you are Aria)

The best part is at the end...

Look out!

Laila is 18 months old, you know what that means....Don't ever leave her alone.

It is house cleaning day and this is what happened everytime I turned around.
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Don't turn around because when cleaning up everything else Laila unfolded all the laundry.

Yup, Laila's 18 months... she's lucky she's cute.

Who needs a house?

This is what our house has looked like for the last 4 days. Our townhome complex has some problems with the plumbing needing repairs. We had about 50 holes all around our house. So we had the plumbers, then the drywall repair men, then the painters. It was very interesting. We are so glad to have a home that is fixed but mostly we are so thankful to have a home. We are so thankful to friends and family for letting crash for all this time.

SAN DIEGO

Hi. So our little family made an impromptu trip to San Diego last week. Geoff found out he had to work in San Diego on Thursday and we left on Sunday. McCall decided to go with Christan too. (he and Geoff work together). We thought it would be fun to take the girls to Sea world and the Zoo but we also thought it might be a chance to see Geoff a little bit. Unfortunately Geoff worked until 11:00pm every night but, hey, we got a little trip out of it.

Fortunately McCall was there. It was So fun!!

Have you ever been to Sea world? Well if you haven't I strongly suggest you get in the car RIGHT NOW and get there. It is a wonderful place full of surprises, fun and serious amazement. The girls loved it, I loved it all around a great time.

Jack, Cash, Aria and Laila ready to see Shamu

Shamu was by far Aria's Favorite. I have to say it was my favorite too! Seriously so Amazing!

We are waiting for one of the shows to start. So excited.

I think Cash loved being surrounded by so many girls!

The exhibits were awesome and fascinating. We are watching the sharks.

Another of Aria's favorite was the Pet show. Laila fell down on the bleachers you can kind of see her goose egg.

We also got to get up close and personal with the dolphins.

Laila thinks she is one of the big kids and wont sit in the stroller.


The next stop was the San Diego Zoo. That place is HUGE not to mention the extreme terrain.

Can you see the huge Gorilla ?

Aria really is a monkey!

This is the only picture I have of McCall. We were each others photographers so we never had any pictures together.

The trip was full of extreme weather, sick kids, getting lost and A LOT of fun. I am so so thankful that McCall, Cash and Jack were there, they made the trip so much more fun! I am trying to figure out when we can go again.

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Aria's first day of dance

Aria loves to dance... well, she mostly loves to wear ballet outfits and twirl around. Ok, honestly she is very high maintenance and wakes up at the crack of dawn asking what we are going to be doing that day. If the plan is not up to her standards it is not a good day, believe me. In an effort to fill up our days I thought a CREATIVE dance class would be wonderful.

When I was little I had a creative dance class and it was a lot of twirling and leaping. Well...Vegas is a little different. Aria's dance class consists of creative booty shaking, creative chest shimmies and creative pole dancing. Gotta start 'em young eh?

hair cut anyone??

While in the shower this morning Aria crawled up on a chair, then crawled onto the desk to get a pair of scissors. She thought it would be a good idea to cut her hair.

She discretely chose a lock of hair kind of underneath her hair. When I went to do her hair and realized what she had done I had kind of a hard time getting mad because I realize it could have been soooo much worse. So somewhere inside Aria there is an ounce of understanding that actions reap consequences.

Oh but if she EVER does it again....

Feeding the Fish/Ducks.

Today we went to Lake Mead to feed the fish. We do this a few times a year when the weather is nice and ALWAYS when Geoff's friend Alex from Chile comes to visit. It was a beautiful day, very warm.

Laila only wanted to eat the popcorn.

Aria was the popcorn police. Don't take too many, or else.

Laila has no concept of "edges" so we almost lost her in the water a few times.

Aria was one of the "attractions" at the Pier. What have you never seen a crack before?

We have SNOW!

Las Vegas has received more snow then they have seen in 20 years. The girls loved playing in it. If anyone reading this knows me, I wasn't to happy about it. The best thing about living here is that I only spend a few months in the cold and it isn't even that cold... then it snows. RUDE!
But seeing my girls playing in the snow made it wonderful.

Laila totally caught a snowflake on her tongue.
Aria threw a snowball and hit Laila right in the face. Good thing they both laughed so hard.

Laila was the only one that would look at me for a picture.