Independece Day

Our 4th Of July in pictures.

family.

fireworks.

food.

 

selfie stick fun before the family cookout.

 Family car selfie, whats new?

 Smore's.. our favorite summer snack.

 Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles.

 Thankful to be able to spend this 4th of July with this woman, my girls other Nana.. JD's Mother.

almost time for the fireworks.

 So many cute cousins all in one picture, but this isn't even all of them.

This slide was probably the best thing all day.

Nothing was funnier than watching the 3 little ones sliding down the slide, slamming into the side of it while making silly faces as they hit the water.

 

more bubbles.

the sparklers were fun for the little ones except Kaylee decided to touch the end after her daddy told her "make sure you don't touch the end of the sparkler"  
 lesson learned, I suppose.

 shopping & pizza because what's a day without it, right?
especially for a holiday.

photo credits go to Jennifer, my Mother in Law for this awesome picture of us three ladies watching the firework show that their daddy was putting on for everyone.But.. what this picture doesn't show is Kaylee throwing her temper tantrum to go inside because it was too dark for her.

Happy 4th Y'all!

x0x0 Brooke

S U N D A Y.

Sunday's are my favorite, normally it's our stay in our pj's and watch movies type of day but not anymore.. JD and I have been talking for a while about getting ourselves + the girls back into Church. Let me just start by saying, they love it.. I love it.. but JD didn't get to go yet because he worked last night so he had to stay home and get some sleep. Sunday School is at 9:15, I met my Aunt Shelley at the church around 9 a.m because I wasn't sure where to even take the girls. This is the first time I've went to church and taken the girls with me.. I was always afraid too because I never leave my girls anywhere. However, they will be 3 July 14th and they're big girls now so this will be good for them and get them prepared for actual school.. plus, church is much needed in life. Jesus is much needed.

All through breakfast, I talked to them about where we were going, why we were going, and that Mommy can't stay in the classroom with them. They took it well, more Kaylee than Kylee which I figured would happen. Kaylee saw toys and took off, Kylee sort of turned around giving me this look like "please don't go mom" We got back upstairs, found our seats, sat down to eat breakfast.. This church has donuts.. can I seriously get an amen?! Everyone who knows me, knows it's either donuts or pancakes for breakfast. Sunday school was about to start, Aunt Shelley had to run back down to make sure the girls stayed there even through church once it began at 10.. she was taking a while which made me think Kylee was upset so she was trying to calm her.. sure enough, she was. 

It felt great to be back in church, the kids did great besides Kylee getting upset here and there when she realized I was gone but they never did have to come get me so that's a blessing. The girls will adapt to it, although Kaylee was already asking as soon as we got in the car..

 "Mom, I want to go back to church"

Kylee kept saying "I cry to the teacher, I say I want Mommy but sissy was good"

 One of the teachers came up to me afterwards telling me how sweet my girls were to one another. When Kylee was crying Kaylee kept trying to comfort her, the teacher told us once Kylee stopped crying and started to play.. Kaylee came up to her saying "She is ok now, she's not upset"

As much as they can drive me insane, they are the sweetest girls especially to one another although they fight like cats and dogs. I love their twin bond, there is nothing like it and that is a blessing in itself.

We had a great first morning back to church and I do believe we found the perfect one for our little family. This is a baptist church, it's very traditional which JD and I both love. The people are friendly and the Pastor was wonderful.. plus, they feed you donuts which I didn't even know about.. I think it's a sign.. maybe even a thank you from God for getting my behind back into church where it belongs. I'm so excited for this new beginning for us and I can't wait to continue to build my relationship with God!

After church, we headed home so I could feed the girls lunch and get them down for naps so I could start thinking about dinner. Dinner was Loaded Totchos .. not quite sure why it's called that. I found it on Pinterest, of course but there isn't any nachos in it. I don't have a clue but I do know that it's delicious.

It's so simple to make, too!

Recipe;

32 oz bag of Tator Tots. enough to fill the pan. I used a baking sheet to bake the tator tots for 15 min at 425.

While those are baking, you need a bowl to fill with 1 cup of ranch and 1 cup of sour cream, mix it together.
Once the tator tots are finished, I switched them over into this easy pan I can just trash when we're finished with it. Pour the tator tots into it, pour the bowl full of sour cream and ranch on the tator tots.
cover with shredded cheese. I used Colby Jack. Cover with bacon bits (normally I cook bacon & cut it up)
Cover with chopped onions.

bake for 5 more minutes, enough to melt the cheese.

D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S

We ate, JD took some to work, and then I sat down on the couch to relax my full belly while the girls played quietly.. and they did, too. Surprisingly. They also asked to watch The Good Dinosaur for the 1044363 time this week. But, I don't mind.
We also went over our numbers, colors, and shapes. I recently bought two workbooks for their age along with flash cards to help them with counting. They know all of their colors and can even name most shapes which is good for not even being 3 yet.

Sunday's are my favorite and these are all the reasons why.


These two cause me to want to pull my hair out.
Make my blood boil most days.
Make me want to scream at the top of the world.
But, I am blessed because not everybody gets to experience this crazy thing we call Motherhood so I'm going to accept the hard times that come along with it, and enjoy the fun times, too.
I know they won't be this little for long so I am going to make the most of it while they're still young.
I wouldn't want to fight like sister's or take bathroom mirror selfies with anyone else in life.
I love you both to the moon and back.
don't you ever grow up.

x0x0 Brooke

Fun Filled Fridays

Craft of the day.

- Dory - 

These girls are busy, busy, busy and since we are always home during the day sometimes they tend to get as bored as I do with the same every day routine.. so, 

one day will be the park, one day will be crafts, going outside to play at least an hour a day if not more, movies in the evenings after bath time to get settled down which means we are in for the night and getting ready for bed at least by 7:00 pm besides on certain weekends when we are expected to be out late because these girls need at least an hour or a little more to calm down before I just throw them into bed. Normally Kaylee is up until 10, but with all of these new activities I'm going to be making them do.. as well as being outside more in a day.. I'm sure it's going to wear her out more. I'm hoping anyway.. because she fights me on most nights meanwhile Kylee is sound asleep by 8:30 - 9:00 pm.

It's 7:30 and Kaylee is laying down watching a movie.. whoop whoop. 

Momma = 1

Kaylee = 0

anyway, that's an update for another blog post.

back to "Fun Filled Fridays"

the girls loved making Dory, although JD did have to pull Kaylee to the side a few times for telling me "NO", being impatient while I helped her sister, she's very demanding, very strong willed, and wants what she wants at that time. Besides that, it was a lot of fun and I can see us making Nemo in our near future also.

might just start a collection of the Finding Dory cast.

For creating Dory

you will need; 

1) paper plates.

2) blue paint + paint brush.

3) yellow cupcake wrappers.

 (cut them into a triangle for the fin)

4) popsicle sticks.

5) googly eyes.

also, don't forget to use scissors to cut her a mouth.

next -lunch

 BBQ Onion Rings & Hotdogs.

 next - outside playtime.

who needs a bathing suit? just sit in it in your clothes. whatever works.

the water table has been a great investment so for any new toddler Mommas out there, 

go buy one for the Summer. 

Hours of entertainment.

next; bathtime, movie, & french braid learning session for Momma.

bathtime was splashing, fighting over who gets what toy, 

some more splashing, 

more fighting over who gets to put what toy in what spot.

me; let's go girls, come on.

them; screaming, pinching, hair pulling, annnnd crying.

finally. they're out, they're dried, teeth are brushed.

it's movie time.  

The Good Dinosaur.

I. AM. OBSESSED. 

no, really. I mean it.

I've asked the girls if they want to watch it at least 3 times in the last few days.

If you've seen it, you understand me. If you haven't seen it, please go watch it and thank me later.

These new children movies lately can relate to real life. or maybe I'm just an adult who understands now and all of my childhood movies were the same. who knows, but it's super cute.

If you read my last blog post where I said I was learning to french braid, I can now say I'm officially getting the hang of it. now to just get it a little bit tighter so it stays in all day with a busy toddler running wild all day.

pretty good job for a beginner.

that's all for Friday.

Enjoy the weekend, y'all!

- Brooke x0