Meet the Trucks

Maris is pretty neutral about her interests.  While she's had the usual princess, pink, and dress up obsessions, she's spent an equal amount of time obsessing about dinosaurs, trains, and construction equipment.  She loved our city's Meet the Trucks event.

 Testing out her firefighting capabilities.

 

 The city parks the "diggers" at a location right by our house.  I think she'd try to go play on them everyday if we let her.

  

Posing with the police dog.  Aren't police dogs usually German Shepard types?

 

That better be the only time we ever see you in the back of cop car, Young Lady.

Pinkalicious

Happy 3rd Birthday, Maris!

Maris was very clear that for her birthday she wanted a pink party.  PINK.  Further, she expressly stated that everything should be pink.  Food, drink, cake, decorations, and even the clothes we wore.  We did our best to accommodate her.  And it was a LOT of pink!

  On her actual birthday she got to use the birthday placemat and she chose a Pink Lemonade (of course) cupcake from Main Street Cupcakes.

 

Make a wish!

 

Opening presents from Mommy and Daddy.  It was a collection of Disney Princess stories.

Next up was party day.  This was where we really kicked it into high gear with the pink.  Read more here.

We had a hot dog bar, because, hot dogs are pink!

 

We also served Ambrosia Salad, potato and macaroni salad (both dyed pink), watermelon, jello jigglers, and cake (batter and frosting also dyed pink).

Everyone wore pink including some of our guests!

We love you, Maris and hope you enjoyed your Pinkalicious Third Birthday!

Royal Wedding

Maris was really into the whole Royal Wedding.  Okay, okay, it was me.  I was really into the Royal Wedding.  We DVRed the wedding, dressed up in fancy dresses, bought Raspberry Royale tea and found crumpets at our local grocery store.  It was a fun little "event" with my girl while the baby slept.

By far the best part of this whole royal wedding event was Maris running around Heinen's saying, "Mom, we need to buy tea and crumpets!!"  I wish I carried a video camera with me.

Opening Day

We have a holiday we celebrate every year in the first week of April.

Happy Opening Day!

Go Tribe!

Outdated

Well I sure was doing better at consistently blogging when I was trying to take a picture everyday.  We've been doing lots of fun things with our girls this Spring and Summer.  I have a mini goal to get all caught up by the 4th of July.  We shall see.  :)

Sisters

I don't have a sister.  When we found out we were having another girl, I was so nervous that I wouldn't know how to properly raise the girls to cherish each other they way I've seen other sisters do.  Turns out, I'm not much a part of that equation at all.  They have to grow into their own relationship.  And Maris making sure to start things off well!


Meeting her sister for the first time.



Maris was very eager to hold her sister when she visited at the hospital.

At Paige's one week photo shoot.

Maris is really protective of her sister.  She always wants to help out and loves to sing to her when Paige is crying.

 On St. Patrick's day, the fury sister wanted in on the picture action too.

Maris is over the moon about being a big sister.  While Paige doesn't return the favor just yet, she does love to laugh at Maris and give her giant grins when Maris sings to her.  I can't wait to see how their relationship develops as they grow up together!

January 25, 2011

Welcome to the world little one!

  

Baby Paige joined us on January 25, 2011.  

She weighed 8 lbs. 15 oz. and was 21 inches long.