silly summer afternoon

the girls swam in our pool this afternoon and the sillies came out! take a look!

may photos

these aren't really in any order, but they are finally posted! may has been another great month. take a look at these growing girls!

sweet maya

sweet ava

maya in her self-made alien costume

maya making daddy's birthday cake

maya making the bubbles and ava popping them (our favorite game)

mother's day



uncle ron and the girls

maya's new tree swing


flying a kite with daddy in the park


maya dressed up her sister AGAIN

maya maya ballerina

catie invited maya to be her guest at dance class today. anyone who knows me KNOWS i would never have a ballerina child, but she did look pretty darn cute in that costume- and she had a GREAT time. thank you, catie!!!

best buds

the awesome foursome has been spending alot of time together. they love to see each other and are usually well-behaved. maya and owen have been friends for 2 years now (she calls him her boyfriend and talks about their wedding weekly) so we weren't too surprised when ava and oliver took a liking to each other. take a look....

a visitor

about 2 weeks ago, i went to pull the weed in this picture. clearly i was about to remove the shade for this ginormous snake! i stood about a foot away from it before i realized what was going on. i backed away slowly and then ran inside to get my camera so people would believe me about how big it was! (thankfully, i did some research that night and it's just a large garter snake). eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

even a princess needs beauty rest

she had no idea that being pretty was such hard work! :)