Timehop Thursday

I've got some cute baby ones today!

Miss Maya:

Miss Callie:

Miss Callie on the left, Miss Maya on the right:

2015 WNBA Champs

For the third time in 5 years, the Lynx are WNBA CHAMPIONS. 

We weren't there in person tonight (my mom and Mari were), but we were glued to the TV and cheering like we were there.

What a bittersweet feeling. We love the Lynx, and have for years...and so did my dad. He would be so dang excited right now.

We made it through a whole Lynx season without him, and that is hard to believe. 

But we just have to remember how he lived- with such passion and excitement for awesome things like women's basketball- and do our best to carry on that legacy.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday!

I feel like it has been a reallllllly long time since I have done an honest to goodness post about the girls.  Yes, I post pictures, but I haven't had the time energy to write about them.  I'm going to try and remedy that tonight before sharing the pics from our weekend.

First up, CALLIE.

We have really had our ups and downs with this one.  She's now over a month into kindergarten and the transition has been okay.  She seems to love it, but evenings are more often than not a challenge with her behavior.  I'm guessing it is a combination of her exhaustion, our exhaustion, her still trying to figure out grief, us still trying to figure out grief, and some new fun kindergarten attitude.  But what is kind of mind boggling is how sweet she can be.  She can be the most darling, adorable, smart, sassy, sweet five-year-old.  And then she can turn into a walking DISASTER one micro-second later.  But she is learning SO much, loves to sing Taylor Swift, is learning to read and spell like a boss, gets super excited to do her homework, still hates getting her hair washed and brushed, still basically eats peanut butter and jelly at every meal, and currently wants to be a zombie (what?!?!) for Halloween.  So that's what is going on with her.

Then there is MAYA.

This isn't the best picture, but it describes her perfectly because she is always on the go.  She never stays in one place too long, and is still a major Mommy-cling on.  Like major.  She has settled in to being the only child during the days while Callie is at school, and she is digging all the one-on-one attention with Daddy (Tuesdays), G-ma (Wednesdays), Pa (Thursdays, and Boom (Mondays and Fridays).  She would only eat bagels and cream cheese if she had the choice, and getting her to eat any kind of fruit or vegetable can sometimes be a chore.  Trying to brush her teeth is also a chore, and the girl HATES nap time and bed time.  And why wouldn't she, when she just wants to move and play all the time?  She is much more out going than Callie was at 2, and her language is just exploding every day.  Also, she pretty much loves to gallop everywhere.  In fact, here is an adorable video.


IMG_0730 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

The girls together can sometimes be great, and sometimes be disaster.  They both get mad and aggressive at times.  Other times they can be so sweet and loving.  And most often they egg each other on to see who can be craziest.  Like this example, in the small confined space of Chris' car.


IMG_0623 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

Okay.  I hope you enjoyed the update.  On to our weekend...

Yesterday morning we met my mom and Auntie Cat out at the Arboretum.  It was a lovely (windy) morning and the girls had a lot of fun exploring all the different fall-themed displays they had.

They also had a Frozen and Minion display- so they know how to get to the hearts of little people!

On Saturday night we went to the Knutson's house, and most of the entertainment happened in their Bounce House.

Avery, Callie and Maya jumped and fell over and jumped and flopped, and also had a blast doing smushy faces against the netting, much to the adults' amusement. 
Baby Eli even joined the girls in the Bounce House at the end of the evening.

Today I had some one-on-one time with Miss Maya (and Kona).

Those faces!

Then this evening we headed over to Auntie Cat's house for playtime and dinner.  It seems pretty crazy to be outside in short sleeves and tank tops in the middle of October, but we were happy to soak it in.

This coming week is MEA, so Cal and I have a short week and long weekend coming up.  Fall is flying by.

A Picture Update

It's 5:45am on Saturday and apparently this didn't publish last night. Let's try this again...

It's 10:30pm so this is all I got: 

A stinker at the library.

Nail decals from Bethany.

Kona is home for the weekend!

Friday sunrays.

Smartie pants.

Friday night dance party.

A picture from a friend.

Happy Friday!

Timehop Thursday

I have been missing my TBT posts for 5.5 months. I always loved going back and finding pictures of Callie at Maya's age and doing to comparisons. 

I just can't do much of that still because it is still hard to look at old pictures. 

But every day I do look briefly at the Timehop app. It pulls all my pictures every day from prior years on that day. Most days a picture or two of my dad shows up. Some days I can look at it. Other days I skip past it quickly. 

But one of the features I can do with Timehop is a Then & Now. So I'm going to try and do a couple of those every week to share on Thursdays. Because it still is so fun seeing Baby Maya and Baby Callie.

Here are my Timehops for today:

Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Sunday.

I started the weekend with a cup if coffee in my favorite mug. 

Things were looking good. Our friends Brent and Bethany were in town and staying with us. The girls seemed relatively normal. 

And then my back totally crapped out and I could barely move.

Thankfully Bethany is amazing and went to Target to get me some supplies- foam roller, therapy ball, Epsom salts, an ice/heat pack, and even de-stress tea. With that and little bit of medicinal intervention, I was able to make it out for our girls night dinner and comedy club show.

The girls hug out with G-ma and Pa and went to a fall festival.

Dr. Stewart came in special for me this morning to work on my back and it was awesome. I'm still tight but can tell it has slowly loosened up throughout the day. Hopefully a good night's sleep will help as well. 

We spent the afternoon downtown watching the Lynx game and playing with Boom.

On the way home we saw a pretty sky and Callie said, "Hey! That's Bops saying hi to us!"

I'd like to think he was.

Have a good week.

A Picture Update

You guys.

1) My level of exhaustion = High.

2) My level of sanity = Low.

I don't know what it is, but this week seriously kicked my butt.  It must be remnants from the full moon.

Actually I could probably name a lot of other things it was, but see #1.

Therefore, once again, this Friday post is going to be lacking in content and sweet little stories about adorable children.

But to be honest, these are more accurate representations of my children this week than sweet anecdotes (from Fowl Language Comics):

 

 

So here are some pictures of my two nutjobs:

 

 

Because this week has been so hard I have been more attuned to the sky.  It has seemed prettier this week.  And others have thought so as well, because I have gotten beautiful pictures from other people too.

 

 

We took the girls on a walk tonight.  It officially feels like fall, which means it is a new season.  Hard to believe.  But fall sunrays are pretty too.