Our Simple Life: Life, sweet life!

While the girls were in MDO yesterday I spent the morning at our new house with the home inspector. I haven't been in the house for a month and a half so it was fun to look at all the little details I forgot. And some bigger details I didn't know existed. Like a large window in the stair well! Ha! The house passed the inspection with flying colors and our inspector commented several times that we were getting a great house. We were very pleased to hear that!

Yesterday I opened the fridge to find a can of pepsi that had been sitting right under the vent on the top shelf that froze then exploded! It sent pepsi on the top of the fridge, on the inside of the door, the back of the fridge with drips running all the way down to the bottom shelf, and of course puddled on the shelf, and everything on that shelf covered with dark syrup. What a mess!

My poor mind has too many things running through it and I'm starting to do silly things! Yesterday I forgot to put a diaper on Aubrey during nap time!! She woke up soaked!! All of her bedding was soaked, the cloth part of her bed rail was soaked, which dripped down onto her bed skirt and onto the carpet!! This was very shortly after I cleaned up the Pepsi mess!!

Ashlyn loves loves loves crafts. She will sit for a long time and color. The childcare workers at the fitness center comment on Ashlyn's attention to detail when she colors there.
Here she had markers, scissors, and several coloring books and was going to town. She did this for several hours three days in a row. It was a gigantic mess to clean up each day but she had a blast, so it was worth it!

This little beauty looks all innocent and sweet but she is a stinker pants! When she was an infant she was a super easy baby. Slept fantastic at night, loved napping (still does), content to play by herself or with us, loved to snuggle, and on and on and on. I told Phillip that I just knew she would be the one to give me a run for my money! Boy howdy I was right!!

She LOVES to pester Ashlyn, loves it. She will snatch something of Ashlyn's and take off running. She runs so fast her body has trouble keeping up so all of her limps are flying in all directions. And the louder Ashlyn screams the faster she runs. It is hilarious! I always have to regain my composure before I get on to her.
Aubrey is not afraid of animals. She will ~~walk up~~ run up to an animal and start petting it. We have a family of rabbits that live under our shed in the back yard. They have been there since Ashlyn was Aubrey's age. The other day the girls were playing in the back yard while I was working on dinner. They came running to the door and hollered through the screen door that there was a bunny laying in the grass and was being really still. So, I sent Daddy to go investigate the "really still bunny laying in the grass". Ashlyn then said that Aubrey touched the "really still bunny laying in the grass". I'd bet all my money that if Ashlyn hadn't been there Aubrey would have brought me the "really still bunny laying in the grass" like she's holding that baby doll up there. Ick!
P.S. Daddy took care of the bunny...

Have you seen this in the produce section? It's fresh basil in a squeeze tube? It is almost as good as fresh. I have several recipes that call for fresh basil and dried just doesn't cut it so I would have to wait until summer when it's in season or pay an arm and a leg for it out of season.

This is the hood of my van. That is my thumb resting on the hood of my van. That white dot is a chunk of pain missing!! I have no clue how or when that happened. Thankfully I have some touch up paint.
Don't pay attention to my crazy hair blowing in the wind no the dirt specks all over the van, this was before the car wash.

This was during the car wash... Aubrey was terrified!!! She's not afraid of strange dogs or large horses but she is afraid of car washes.
Bless her heart!!

Ashlyn loves to make her own PB&J's. She says her's are better than the ones I make. :) She's such an independent thing!

I never thought I would see this day. Aubrey is eating salad! She is slowly adding more foods to her "like" list. It all boils down to "want to" with her. She has a very care free, funny, lazy personality but she will do only what she wants to do. And eating is very much a control thing for her!