Pumpkin Patch

We took the girls to the Pumpkin patch today and it was both of the girl's mission to never look at the camera, but we did manage to get a few good shots of them. Samantha had so much fun picking out a Pumpkin to bring home, and Alexandra just tries to eat anything that gets close to her mouth!! I also threw in a couple other random pics into the slide show that I thought were cute..... Hope everyone had a good weekend, we sure did!

"I'm too big"

We have a new saying around our house. For anything Samantha doesn't want to do she tells me "No Momma, I'm too big." The first time she said it I came in her room to ask her why she wasn't taking a nap and she tells me "I can't Momma, I'm too big." I literally fell over laughing and she began giggling as well because she was quite proud that she had made her Mommy laugh. And I laughed so much that I of course didn't make her take a nap because her wit had amused me. Well now she is saying it for everything. I will ask Sam "do you want breakfast, do you need to go potty, etc... and the response is the same "I'm too big." There also seems to be some confusion/trickery on her part if I try to tell her that she can't do something because she is too big(like sit in her doll stoller). She immediately starts telling me "oh no Momma I not too big, I Sam, I the big sister." Where does she come up with this stuff? She cracks us up.....

Also, Miss Alexandra is officially saying 2 words. She says "hi" and "Da Da." As much as I coached her to say Momma first she is laying the "Dada Dada" on pretty thick! Does he feed her, bathe her, change her??? Not near enough to deserve the first word! Am I jealous?? Maybe just a little... :)

Geeky??!!

Today while my mother-in-law was over visiting Samantha disappeared for a few minutes. When I went to find her I found her sitting at Justin's desk in our office just typing away on the keyboard I asked her "What are you doing?" and you know what she told me "I am checking my e-mail!" clear as day and very matter of factly as if of course I should have known that without asking!!! Anyone who knows us knows that we are a bit geeky at our house with enough computers for each of us to have 2, but jeez I think we may have corrupted our 2 year old or maybe she is just starting early to be the female version of Bill Gates!! Laf! Below is a pic of Miss Samantha checking that e-mail.

Austin Weekend

Our last unmarried college friend got hitched in Austin a week ago and all of us went down to their wedding. We had a good time celebrating with them. Justin and I left Samantha with my parents but took Alexandra with us. Alexandra had a lot of firsts this weekend, her first plane ride, her first rehersal dinner, her first wedding, and her first ride in a limo. It was a long weekend for her and she slept quite a bit the day after we got home. Here are some pictures of the fun event. Congrats to Brent and Lauren!!! Hurry up and make some babies you guys are the last ones for that too!! Love you all!

James, Kerri, and Anna (of course she will make
her official apperance in December!)


James, Lauren, Brent, Samer, and Justin!!
You boys sure look handsome!

Samer, Farah, Jana, and Ally after dinner.

Mommy, Daddy, and Alexandra dancing.

Kerri, Jana, Alexandra, and Farah getting in our
limo to take us to the wedding!


Farah and Alexandra

Samer and Alexandra

Jana, Justin, and Alexandra

The Ceremony

The happy couple!

Sick Girls

Two sick girs!!! Eeek! This is the first time since Alexandra was born since they both have been sick at the same time and it has been quite busy around here. Samantha got sick first and now Miss Ally has it. They both have a runny nose and cough and overall just don't feel well. I got up this morning and took them both in to the doctor and she said they have a virus that is going around and gave them a cough medicine. I told Sam this morning that her and Ally were going to the doctor and she told me "No baby sister goes to the doctor, I go to the big doctor." Her doctor is a little short and looks young, so if anyone knows any "big" doctors please let Samantha know. I will post more when I have something more to write than I wiped noses all day!!!

Late Labor Day Post

We went camping/4 wheeler riding over Labor Day weekend with a bunch of my family. We had a ball with everyone, and the girls proved to be great riders. There were 7 4 wheelers with 14 of us in total. A couple days before we left we went on a search mission to find Samantha a helmet since we knew we would be doing a bunch of riding, but her head is just so tiny we couldn't find one. So we ended up getting her a bicycle helmet and my mom got her some goggles. She is so adorable wearing them and since our return home has requested to wear her helmet around the house some. I get a few raised eyebrows when I open the door at home to people wondering why my daughter is wearing a helmet, but whatever... Anyhow I wore Ally in one of those Baby Bjorns and she spent quite a bit of time sleeping. Samantha has always been one of those kids who NEVER and I mean never passes out, but a couple of times that we stopped for a break while riding she was asleep, so let's just say 4 wheeling really takes it out of them. Funny story the second day we went riding we left about 10:00 a.m. to ride thinking we would be gone 4 or 5 hours like the day before, we brought lunch drinks and a few snacks. We stopped at lunch time at this great rock wall and had lunch after we finished my Daddy decided that we should not go back the way we came but go out a different way and he said it would wrap back around to our camp. Well guess what we got lost. I in no way mean a little lost, I mean big time lost. We spent the rest of the day basically driving in circles at the top of this mountain. Long story short we rode the 4 wheelers 70 miles that day and had to get someone to show us how to get back to our camp. We rolled back into camp around 9:30 p.m. pretty tired, and a bit hungry, but overall we had a really good time being lost, and we are all ready to do it again especially Samantha. Anyone else game?

Halloween Already???

Today I took the girls to Babies R Us to pick up a few things and I thought that I would just browse through the halloween costumes, well Samantha saw Elmo and it was over I knew I had to get it for her. Well she wanted to put it on when we got home and we have to basically make her take it off in order to cool herself off. She loves it. Justin thinks it will be worn out by Halloween! Laf! He also reasoned with her by telling her that she was too young to cook her brain by wearing around this incredibly warm costume in August.... It was crazy talk, but she actually let him take it off her after that. She has gone to bed now, and I am pretty sure I am going to have to hide Elmo until the weather gets cooler!!! I am sure you will be seeing another pick with Elmo in a couple of months.