Rockin the moves

I can't even remember why Emilia was making these poses, but I adore these pictures! She is so confident and beautiful. I wish I could give her the gift of seeing that her whole life. Bubs is funny. Emilia is one of the few people who can get her to smile when she doesn't feel like it. Emilia was obviously not paying attention when I took these pictures. :)

Bubs is 2!

And we had a party to celebrate.  The cake you see above is the ice cream cake with ganache frosting that I made myself because I was too cheap to pay $30 for an 8 in. cake.  It was really tasty and turned out even better than I had hoped on my first attempt at both an ice cream cake and chocolate ganache.

Mira turned 2 on the 28th, but we celebrated the weekend before.  On Saturday we went out with Grandma and Grandpa Watts for lunch and a shopping trip to ToysRUs.  Mira loved everything in the store, including a 30 in stuffed Twilight Sparkle.  Steve and I both put our foot down and said NO WAY is that coming home with us, I don't care how much she likes it at the store.  She ended up getting a couple of Little Mermaid Lego Duplo sets, which I think she has played with much more than she would have played with an enormous stuffed pony.  We also bought her a  set of wooden blocks so we could all have fun knocking down towers.

On Sunday, we went to my parents' house and had a barbeque and combined birthday bash for my mom, Dylan, and Mira.  We had a lot of fun opening presents and stuffing ourselves with tasty food and good company.

Mira opening presents:

Giving hugs to Aunt Haylee for her new summer shorts:

Some of the rest of the chaos--I mean family togetherness :):

Mira having fun with the bag her gift came in:

Thanks everybody for a great birthday celebration for our little Mira Bubbs Peachy Meachy Squeeze.  Happy Birthday sweetie!

Feeling pretty in their Sunday dresses

My girls are always cute--but when they're getting along and all dressed up, it's hard to resist taking pictures!

I think I have the cutest girls ever

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Girls room: Painted Curtains

About a month ago, I decided to take some curtains from the basement and put them in the girls' room.  The basement curtains weren't making a big splash down there, and they would match my girls' room much better than the tan ones that were in there.  White seems so boring though! So I decided to paint them.

I thought about doing a chevron pattern, since that's so popular these days, but that's exactly why I decided against it.  It's a fad, and I didn't want to have to redo the curtains once chevron patterns went out of style. After seeing this blog post with photos from a magazine about painting a pattern on the curtains, I decided to go that route.

A nice Fleur-de-lis pattern had a Paris-y feel, which I love, and seemed simple enough.  I bought a sample-sized paint jar from Home Depot, printed the pattern as big as I could on a regular sized piece of paper, and went to work.

Here is the end product:

I like that the pattern brings the pink I wanted into the room without being in-your-face. What do you think?

Facebook tidbits

When Mira heard the garage door going down this morning, she said, "Daddy? Going? Daddy? Daddy? GOING? No!! Daddy!!!!" Then she started to cry uncontrollably. She kinda loves that guy. (2/27/13)

Last night I was telling Steve my pregnancy woes of being uncomfortable and out-of-shape. His response was, "I'm sorry you feel so whale-like." If it hadn't been so accurate, I might have been offended. As it was, it made me feel better that he understood. I'm a crazy pregnant lady. (2/21/13)

Emilia was being wonderful and "helping" me by sweeping the kitchen. All of a sudden she was gone and when she came back, she was wearing her Rapunzel dress up outfit and a crown and singing, "Sweep again and by then it's like 7:15..."

A few seconds later...
Emilia: People sure know how to get lots of their food on the floor!
Me: Yeah, especially when their names are Emilia and Mira, huh?
Emilia: No...Not all kids have the name Emilia or Mira, and kids always get their food on the floor.
Hhahaha! Always the pragmatist! (2/18/13)


Yesterday my dad was teasing Emilia.
My dad: If you bring Box Tops to school, why don't you bring box bottoms, too?
Emilia: Because, Grandpa, box bottoms aren't allowed at school. (2/11/13)


Mira found our scale and trotted it out to the kitchen yelling, "Clock! Clock!" Emilia then latches on to it and wants to weigh everyone. I might have felt bad after I told her my weight and she exclaimed, "Woah! That's a lot." Except immediately after Steve got, "Wow! That's really big!" I could hear the admiration in her tone. :) (2/6/13)

I find it so humorous when Emilia narrates her life. It sounds something like this:
Me: I don't know. You'll have to look in your room. They might be in the closet.
Emilia: "I don't know," her mom says.
(Then, running down the hall...)
Emilia: She runs down the hall to her room to look for her Pinkie Pie and Caramel Apple. They might be in her closet. (2/5/13)

Tonight when Emilia was saying her prayers, she said, "Thank thee that the snow will be gone soon. Thank thee that the trees will have green leaves again." (She never asks for blessings, she always just thanks God for the things she wants, which I think is totally endearing.) I agree Emilia. I agree. (1/13/13)

While reading a book, Mira and I came across a page with a fish and a boat in a lake. Mira, in a sing-song tune says, "Feesh! (fish) Boat in ya wahyee (water)..." then followed up with, "Poop! Wet, in ya potty." I love that she was rhyming! And that she chose to rhyme those particular things. (1/11/13)


I love Emilia's ability to take something she hears and turn it into complete, yet brilliant, nonsense. I wish I could remember EXACTLY what she said, but this is pretty close. After playing fruit ninja tonight:
"Edible fruits were made in the Arctic. The fruit Arctic. It's called Insrummable. They are in the stream with flowers and death and summer."
I asked her about the death part, and she started giggling and said, "Yeah..." (1/4/13)

I find it so cute that Mira refers to animals by their sounds. For example, she got a horse today that Emilia picked up. She didn't like it, so she said, "My neigh!" Or if she is done eating her chicken nuggets she'll say, "No bauk bauk!" (12/25/12)


Yesterday, we slept in our house for the first time. In the car on our drive down, Emilia and I had this conversation:
Emilia: Are we going to sleep in our new house tonight, Mom?
Me: Yes
Emilia: So we aren't going to sleep at Grandma and Grandpa's?
Me: Nope. Is that good? Or does it make you feel sad?
Emilia: It makes me feel WONDERFUL! (10/1/12)

wipes and a basket

I was doing the dishes the other morning and it was awfully quiet in the living room. This is what I found when I went to check on them:

(Mira is wiping the pages of a sticker book with a wipe she swiped.  She may or may not have written on it first with Color Wonder markers. I'm not sure why Emilia is in the basket.)

I have such creative little ones. :)