Monday, February 28, 2011

Road trip!

 This past Saturday the girls and I went to Austin! My Aunt and Uncle from Virginia had flown in and were staying at my Aunt Terri's house in Austin. My parents, my brother's family and even extended family from San Antonio came too! Tony had to work so he couldn't join us! :(  
He was missed!!

 We got there and these 3 went straight to play in Jarrett's room (Jarrett is my 8 year old cousin) and then they all sat down and enjoyed watching Toy Story 3!



 Jillian found lots of little cars and had a great time playing with them all. After lunch, Jilly took a loooooong nap!!  She must have been worn out from the car ride and all the new people!



 Aunt Terri has a great backyard...lots of land and trees! (Kaitlyn)



 Kennedy


 They LOVED the freedom to roam, play and explore!


 Chris found a great spot to relax!



 The twins loved the swing that held them both at the same time! (Kaitlyn, Kennedy)



 Here are my Aunt and Uncle from VA! I hadn't seen them in 4 years!! It was my Uncle Randy's birthday so we all sang to him!

 Kennedy and Kaitlyn couldn't wait to "help" Grandma with the cake!


  Jilly with her Pa



 Uncle Chris stealing a kiss from Jilly bean!



 "You ready to go, Kennedy?" 



 Jillian loved playing with all the rocks and sticks...and loved telling me about the ants. She loves talking about ants! (But is very careful not to touch them.) My sister in law took this sweet picture and sent it to me. Thanks Jenn!



 Before we headed back to Houston we got a group photo of everyone that was there!! WOW!! Thats a lot of family and we had a lot of fun!

We drove back  and about the last hour, all three girls fell asleep! Jillian woke up as soon as we pulled into the garage and she just lit up when she saw Tony. Luckily, I changed her into her pj's and she went right back to sleep for the night. The twins were soooo out of it. Tony and I changed them into their pj's and they pretty much never woke up! Funny!!! 

Monday, February 14, 2011

Our not so perfect Valentine's Day

 My Valentine cuties! Their Ya Ya gave all three girls these adorable valentine outfits!  They love them! They also have matching headbands and cuuute flip flops! I'll have to get pictures of those soon!


 This is how Jillian spent Valentines day. No cute outfit. Poor thing.  Here's the story....
Last week she had another cold (I feel like we have all had colds all winter!)  I noticed that she didn't seem to be getting better, so I knew that a doctor visit was in the near future. On Friday, she started having a few stomach cramps. I dreaded this when I saw this because last time she had these cramps there was throw up involved.
She slept fine that night but Saturday her stomach cramps got worse and she also had fever most of the day. She would just hold her stomach, moan and cry! It was so sad because there was nothing I could do to help her. We also noticed that she hadn't gone to the bathroom all day. (which made sense that she was having stomach cramps).  Saturday night, she also slept all night.
Sunday, I stayed home from church with her and she still had fever and those cramps were still there....
Fast forward:  9:00pm. I hear her cry on the monitor and go up the stairs to find out that she has thrown up.  Twice. In her bed. I get her out and clean her up while Tony takes care of the laundry side of things!  She continued to throw up for the next few hours. She didn't want me to put her down so we stayed in the glider in her room until about 1:30am. (I was finally able to  put her down) I slept in her room on the floor just in case after that.   So, around 6am I realize that I need to get valentine stuff set up for the girls.

 I took a quick picture of all the balloons (given by Grandma and Pa) and all the cards lined up by the window. I put out a couple of things for the girls and Tony too.


 Kaitlyn woke up first. For this Valentines Day, we didn't want to get them a bunch of junk, so we decided to make date cards. Each girl gets to go out with mommy and daddy BY THEMSELVES!!  They don't get a lot of individual time (away from the other) and we want to be more intentional about that. They also got a cute dot to dot workbook.  Jillian got a new Barney dvd. She loooves Barney. ( I was planning on making those date cards A LOT cuter, but that was all I could do at 6 in the morning and not having the night before to work on it)


 Kennedy working on her dot to dot book!


 Dressed for school and playing with the play dough that Aunt Jenn MADE for them. They had a lot of fun with that! They had their valentine party at school today and had soooo much fun!
Tony and I both stayed home to care for Jillian. Tony took her to the doctor early this morning and the diagnosis was:  1)  severe constipation  2)  sinus infection  3) stomach virus.
No wonder she was feeling bad!!!! Just ONE of those things is enough to do you in!!!  She has a lot of meds but actually, she wasn't much better today. In fact...a little worse (minus the throwing up which stopped....thank goodness!!)  We are praying that our baby girl gets better soon. This has just about broken my heart seeing her like this.
Here's hoping next Valentines Day is better than this one!  :)

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Daddy/Daughter Night

 Yesterday Chick-fil-a had Daddy/Daughter Night! Tony had made "reservations" a few weeks ago and the twins were beyond excited!! (Jillian stayed home with mommy....still too little to go. Maybe next year!)

The table!  (Complete with conversation starters)


Yum!

 Of course, there had to be some play time! (Kennedy on the left, Kaitlyn on right)


 This was the best picture out of the ones they took.  (Poor Kaitlyn barely made it in the picture!)  Tony was a trooper for taking the camera and getting some pictures so I could blog about it! :) hee hee
The girls LOVE their daddy! They came home talking non stop and showing me their balloons, candy, flowers and pictures they drew! What a fun night!

Sunday, February 06, 2011

"Snow day" and Birthday fun

 Valentines clothes are so fun and cute! Here are the twins wearing one of their new Valentine shirts earlier in the week!
 On Friday, we had off from school due to the snow and ice that was predicted to come! LOVED having the day off, but everyone was super disappointed when we woke up that morning to find NO snow!  We stayed inside and just played and had a good day together.  Kaitlyn read Jillian a book and she showed her the sign for duck.


 Miss Priss showing off her shades.  (The twins always call her Miss Priss)


 Sun afternoon we went to Allie Klubnik's 2 year birthday party. It was an Elmo party and all the girls had a blast! The first thing Jillian saw was a stuffed Elmo and she claimed it immediately. :)  They loved playing with all the toys at her house...especially the little kitchen!  Of course....I ran out of the house without my camera, so please forgive the photo quality. I had to use my iphone.


 Jillian playing with Allie (the birthday girl!) 


 Enjoying a yummy dinner!  (Thanks Jon and Tiff!)


 Yum!
 
 
 Tiffany had a cute game for all the kids to play...pin the nose on Elmo! (Kaitlyn)


Singing  Happy Birthday to Allie!  (Isn't she cute?)


 Adorable cake