it's about time I had something to blog about

Well, I guess I could have written about Sadie's birthday last month, but I didn't get any pictures and what is a post without pictures. Scott's family was able to come down and spend a week with us for Sadie's birthday. We had a lot of fun going to the beach and visiting Old Sacramento. On Sadie's birthday we had a big pool party at my parents house. It was a big "Tangled" party, per Sadie's request. I even went online and bought some Chinese wish lanterns that we set off into the sky that night. It doesn't seem like much happened after that until it came to my birthday. On July 14th I met a few of my friends from high school and a couple of my brothers to watch the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie. It was awesome! We were out until 4 in the morning, and on the 15th we left early for a trip with my family to lake Shasta. My dad rented a house boat and we camped on the lake for about a week. It was really awesome, and I have to say one of the best birthdays I've had in a while. I got a new camera for my birthday and I hope that it will inspire me to blog more.

As for the girls;

Sadie

She is 3 years old now (CRAZY!)
she can swim on her own, as long as she is wearing her monster floaty

she can be quite the diva at times

she is sneaky and likes to get into my makeup and clothes

she is very sweet and loving with her sister

she is very good at listening to me and reminding everyone else, even me , when we are not allowed to do something. or when we are supposed to be doing something.

She loves to say the dinner prayer

She loves to read, well... have books read to her.

She has eagle eyes that can spot her favorite character on any item across an entire store.

She remembers every detail about everything and likes to retell the days events to me every night at bedtime. (mostly to delay going to sleep I think, though I usually catch her in her bed with books and toys anyway)

She loves fishing now too.

She loves her family and reminds us of that all the time.

She still cracks me up most of the time, like when she makes up sayings while playing with her food. For example she likes to say "bockwet bockwet reda " when stirring her yogurt. I have no clue what she is actually saying but it is funny all the same.

Eloise

She is almost 9 months old (again CRAZY!)

She is a very good eater and probably weighs about 18 lbs

she is starting to sit by herself really well and can now roll across the room.

She has quite the temper when you take away a "toy" that she really likes.

Over all she is a very good baby, and a very good sleeper.

We have been waiting for her to teeth her first teeth the last few months (the doctor said it would happen any day a few months ago : )

She, like Sadie, loves the water. She actually gets mad when you take her out of the pool prematurely.

She is a bit bashful.

I think one of her favorite people is her Grandpa Ken (my dad) she usually gets pretty grumpy with everyone except me and him. (I think it has to do with the plastic wrappers and bags he lets her play with ;)

She is spoiled by her daddy sometimes. On the trip he gave her a licorice rope to play with while I wasn't looking. The red on her face and hands was enough evidence for me to know what he had done : )

I love my girls so much. Sometimes I feel like my life is a little crazy and that I personally don't have much of one, but most of the time things are pretty awesome. I'm so glad I get to be their mom and I can't believe how perfect my life feels when I actually stop to think about it.