Anara and Lynnea's Age

4 years and 10 months!!!!

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Miniature Golf

What a perfect day to go play miniature golf!  We had a blast!  Anara has improved since our last time a year ago but I don't see us getting rich when she goes pro!  ;)  Not being good didn't stop her.  (Hey, the team with the most points wins right!)

Oh and it must be noted that this is the day that A&M beat the number one team in the nation, Alabama!  Gig 'Em Ags!  I am pretty sure it was my girls wearing their overalls that sealed the win!



What is this thing?  Do I get to put it in my mouth?



Dad, stop tickling me!


I won!


Thursday, November 8, 2012

Christmas Card

I have never mailed out Christmas Cards before so I am super excited about this!  Here is a sneak preview of them.

Photo Card
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Lynnea is 11 months!

Lynnea is really starting to get a personality.  We keep saying that she is becoming a real little person!  I can't believe she is going to be 1 soon!

She has started pulling up on things which she really enjoys.  She is also starting to understand us more.  The other day I asked her if she was ready to go pick up her sister and she became super excited and started bouncing around.  It was so sweet.  Both girls just worship each other.  I LOVE it!  Anara has this weird obsession with petting Lynnea's head.  We have no idea why but it is very sweet.

Lynnea has also become attached to a toy.  She has a little monkey rattle and that is the only thing that will help (which it doesn't always) when it is nap time.  This child still HATES naps.  She never cries unless she is supposed to be going down for a nap.  Then you would think that she is being tortured.  She has absolutely no problem going down at night but the idea of a nap is just the end of the world and no one loves her.  It is just so funny because it is the opposite of her normal happy, laid back personality.

She is also finally starting to babble.  She did it a little before, learned to say dada, dog and cat and then really stopped making any noises.  She would occasionally say something or make a noise but she was basically silent.  All of a sudden she has become very vocal and is babbling constantly.  It is so much fun to have "conversations" with her now.

And I know I have mentioned this in a previous Lynnea post but it is worth mentioning again.  She loves her feet.  As you will be able to tell in some of these pictures!  :)





Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Alamo!

We couldn't live in San Antonio and not visit the Alamo!  It is hard to tell in the pictures but Anara wore her Texas Princess shirt to the Alamo.  We were worried that she wouldn't have a good time because she wouldn't understand it.  We were wrong!  She loved it!  (Riding the horse drawn carriage did help of course!)


Anara at the Alamo

Mommy and Anara on the Carriage going around the Alamo


Petting our horse (Sambo)

She really wanted the horse to neigh so she made faces at him and
demonstrated what he should do.  It was hilarious!



She was a little afraid of the cactus
You can't really see in this picture but they had a ton of fish and they were huge!



She was very interested in the cannons



Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween!

I am just soaking up how much fun it is to have young kids.  It was a blast to watch Anara go trick-or-treating for the first time!  I will never forget how she went to her first door, rang the door bell, opened her bag as wide as she could and had the biggest grin on her face!  It was so cute!

Anara wanted to be Shamu for Halloween.  When she told me that I was so worried.  How in the world was I going to pull that off?  It turned out pretty decent.  It was very fun and definitely a hit with everyone that saw it.

Lynnea was cookie monster.  I had seen a similar costume on pinterest and thought it was too cute.  I had to do it!  She has never had a cookie in her life but I am sure if she had, she would love them!

Here are my two perfect babies!









Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Lynnea's Idea of Fun!

This is what happens when you have two kids!  I was helping Anara with something and turned my back on Lynnea for a few minutes.  She utilized those few minutes!

Hi Mom!  Why have you never let me do this before?  It's fun!

How cute am I!

This is great!

Cutest little bootie!

I didn't have the flash on for this picture but I thought her smile was precious!

Monday, October 22, 2012

Ice Skating!

Anara's cousin Grace just celebrated her 5th birthday with an ice skating party.  Anara had a lot of fun but wasn't too sure about the skating part.  In theory she liked it a lot, she just didn't like falling.  :)  By the end she had improved a lot though!





Grace




Thursday, October 18, 2012

Pumpkin Patch!

I love this time of year!  All of the fun holidays and the weather starts to cool off.  Well, cool off at least a little!  We are currently staying at the lake house for a little r&r and we decided to take the girls to a pumpkin patch.  Believe it or not we had a hard time finding one and then the one we went to, barely had any pumpkins....  It did have a lot of fun activities for Anara to do so we had a great time!

Pictures with some of the few pumpkins they had!



The three little piggies!

Enjoying the hay ride

My little diva

Inside the Hay Maze

My little cutie!

Playing tug of war

Inside a giant tube slide

Daddy joined in on the fun

They even had a zip line!

She loved it!

Posing for the camera

Going down the slide

Anara decided to do some fancy moves!