My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Iphone pictures

Many of these pictures are from a few months ago, but I decide to put them on the blog because it’s a good showcase of things we have done in the past few months (crazy things my kids do)

012Brynn mastered the art of climbing…and does it ALL the time, which makes me crazy

013She really loves downward dog

017and doing the laundry. Although to Brynn doing the laundry mostly involves throwing clean clothes on the floor while I fold. She is a pro at moving laundry from the washer to the dryer though.

018At the Calallen game the night she danced at Half-time

029Best sisters cooking in the kitchen

032Reese the day the Aggies beat the pants off Alabama. Uncle Bill is a HUGE Bama fan so she has a cheerleading costume, which she wore during the game, along with her Aggie hat

034climbing again!

036Getting ready for her first Aggie game

038Brynn LOVES Kobe

041Taylor Swift, I mean Reese singing and playing Christie’s guitar while we visited Alabama en route to Georgia

045Driving home from Savannah…pooped girls

047Brynn loves playing in her stroller048 050In December we had to get our foundation repaired. It was a HUGE project. 17 holes were dug around our house so that concrete piers could be put underneath to level our house. Jackhammers went for 2 days breaking up concrete on our patio, driveway and garage. We could only exit the front door because the giant holes were outside all the other ones. The first picture was a shot of one giant hole. The one right above is the guy’s hand coming out of the hole under my house. He was about 5’11” or 6 feet tall and all you could see was his forearm coming out of the hole.

051Our Elf on the Shelf Dopey colored Reese’s nose like Rudolph's…she was less than thrilled.

054We played a prank on 3 of our neighbors right before Christmas. To get back at us, the 3 wives got together and t.p.’d the house. They were busted by my neighbor, whom they then convinced it was “ok” and finished leaving me the final product. All in good fun!057A local Church held a live Nativity in our neighborhood right before Christmas. We headed out with our friends the Nuse Family for the night to see all the animals. Sarah was one of the Moms who t.p.’d the house. Here are Reese and their girls Lucy and Lola in front of the heifer.058Our family

059Brynn and Hank, the Nuse’s little boy. They are about 3 months apart and love playing together. Brynn gets so excited when I tell her we’re going to see Hank. They did this hand holding all on their own.

060Brynn LOVES necklaces

064and pretend glasses

066Vanessa, who teaches Stroller Strides on my days off, taught Reese how to catch butterflies. Here she is with one in her hand right as she let it go to fly again.

070Coloring072Thurman was due for a check-up and I decided it would be a good idea to take him and the girls to the vet together. Bad idea..but cute picture073Brynn loves wearing purses around her neck. I tell her she looks like a little old German lady walking through an airport wearing purses like that. She was saying “mile” which is how she says smile when you take her picture

074Reese got an XBOX game for Christmas called “Just Dance Disney”, where you dance along to all the best Disney songs. She loves it, and it provided lots of physical entertainment for the kids one afternoon.

075As mentioned before she’s really good at moving laundry from the washer to the dryer. Apparently while I was in the restroom she moved herself in there too.

078She passed out in the grocery store

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Christmas wrap up

003Reese asked for a keyboard, on a stand, with a bendable microphone, a bench to sit on and stand for music to rest on. Sure Reese, those aren’t overly specific requests for Santa. Thankfully Santa had all those things in stock. Brynn got a Cozy Coupe Car

015Reese was stunned when she saw her gift from Santa and immediately began belting out tunes. Christmas was rather loud at our house.019Brynn was funny, because she didn’t really understand Christmas and was seemingly confused as to why she got this car. She sat in it for about 20 minutes just hanging out.

031She also got a tunnel which provides hours of fun for both girls.037Visiting Grandma038042Herbst Family 2012

050This is the outfit Reese picked out to ring in the New Year with some friends. Yes that’s a dance leotard, a tutu skirt and cowboy boots. In case you’re wondering I intend to use this picture in the back of her high school yearbook when she’s a senior.

I need to upload all the pictures from my phone and then I will have a whole new post of pictures for everyone to see.