My Sweet Baby

Maddie has really gotten into having sponge rollers in her hair lately. I used to love getting my hair sponge-rolled - even with all the pain of trying to sleep while lying flat on my back the whole night so I didn't mess up any rollers and have my hair fall out. Paige is getting into the hot-rollers but Maddie is still totally a sponge head! Looking at these girls growing and having me do their hair to look super cute before school makes me so teary-eyed - I can't handle all of this growing up because it seems like it's going by too fast!

I never thought I'd love rolling 2 little girls hair so much or have the patience to do it but I'd never trade it for anything!

My little sponge-head!

Pumpkin Picking Time!!

We Bopped Bopped Bopped Bopped to the Top!! High School Musical....

High School Musical......

We went, we saw, we danced, we sang - a pretty good time was had by all! Me, Paige, Maddie, my mom Leslie, Aunt Michelle and cousins Parker & Lauren all went to see the show. The first half of the show was a little slow and of course we all knew what was going to happen because we've seen it on TV a million times but the second half was really fun! The cast comes out in the audience and danced with the kids in the aisles and Paige & Maddie got to dance with one of the main people so they loved that and danced all over the place. I spent way too much money on t-shirts, cds, High School Musical journals, little tote bags, and everything else you can imagine - BUT - to see them dancing and singing and just enjoying the show so much was worth it! So when High School Musical 2 comes to the stage I'm fully prepared for how much they'll love it!

PS - I've listened to the High School Musical 2 cd all the way thru more times than I can count - seriously! Little secret though - I actually enjoy most of the songs and me and my crazy girls turn up the volumn, open the sunroof, and just sing at the top of our lungs - good memories of how crazy my babies are!

High School Musical Here We Come!

We're on our way tomorrow to see HSM (or High School Musical for you not in the know). Me, the girls, my mom, and my aunt & her 2 kids will be enjoying the lovely dancing and singing of the traveling show tomorrow afternoon. I'll be spending tons of money on useless junk I'm sure will just end up in the toy box only to be resold at a garage sale for 1/80th of what I spent on it and stuffing our faces with popcorn, hotdogs, and big pretzels (ok so the face stuffing with big pretzels will be all me) but Paige and Maddie are so EXCITED they can barely contain themselves. Hopefully I can take a camera in to get their faces during the show but we'll see. Sadly, I too know every single word to every single song on not only HSM but HSM 2. Excited stuff over here. I'll make sure to post when we get back about how the show went. :)

Ahhhh, to be a kid again....

My mom recently bought Paige and Maddie bubble guns (about the 3rd pair of guns for them) and the girls were just dying to go outside and shoot bubbles everywhere! Watching them twirl around in the bubbles makes me realize how much fun the simplest things were when I was little. It was 100 degrees out but they just loved spinning, chasing, and giggling with those bubbles! Precious moments.....

Fantasy Football Widow.....

Well, it's official, I'm a widow - at least for the next few months and only Thursdays thru Sundays. It's not like I didn't know that football season wasn't coming. I even get excited that football is starting. I love on Monday nights when the song starts up - Are you ready for some football? A Monday night party! When I was little we'd hear it come on while my dad was watching it and all run in there and start singing (dorky little kids what can I say) and now when Paul has it on I find myself doing the same thing :) Now the added element of fantasy football comes into play. I'll admit I also enjoy fantasy football. It's great when Paul's team is winning and complete sadness and anger when it's not. I get just as angry as he does because I help him set his line-up sometime, and if someone that I picked doesn't do well I'm not a happy camper. I'm a seriously competitive person and I'm married to an equally competitive guy. Paul and I have no problem wanting to take down a ref at a childs soccer game (we wouldnt but jeez they make me mad)! So, if people aren't over at our house Paul is at someone else's house or some sports bar and if he happens to be at home with just me and the kids and a game's on WATCH OUT!!! Do Not walk in front of the TV, Do Not accidentally sit on the remote and change the channel, Do Not make any noise - ok he's not that bad, but the girls and I won't know our sweet, wonderful Paul/Dad 4 out of 7 days of the week. I guess I can deal with being a Fantasy Football Widow for a few months because the rest of the year he gives us all his attention!

Us at the Eagles/Cowboys game in PA -

A Funny Little Thing Called Love

I don't know about other people but I love to celebrate the day that Paul and I became boyfriend/girlfriend! Am I the only girl that does this? Certainly not. I'm sure most guys think it's stupid and couldn't care but I think it's sweet to remember back when all you could think about was the next time you would see that person. Not that I don't still feel the same way. But it was a time when it was just us, no kids, no pressure, no day-to-day stress, just me and Paul hanging out and having the best time! It's funny how it all happened. One minute I'm dancing with a friend at a club and the next second I turn around and BAM!! There he is - with the hottest spikey hair I'd ever seen and looking soooo cute in a blue button down shirt that just looked so right on him. It was just basically over from there. Skip to Sept 7th, we'd just gone out to eat and had a great time and we're sitting in his car (which we could do for hours - making out most of the time) when the hey let's make this official talk comes up. It was so awkward and just odd, but it was like - of course! It felt so right from the second Paul and I met that it was just ridiculous. To look back over the 9 years we've been together it's just been amazing. Some people probably thought we'd never make it - and we did a lot of things backwards, and some of the stuff we've been through I'm sure you would've had to see it to believe it but I wouldn't have traded one second of it for anything else. Does he drive me nuts sometimes, of course - but I know that I drive him completely insane too, but my heart still goes all crazy when I see him come home from work and I still love just being next to him. I love what a great father he's turned out to be and I love what a great husband he's been to me. So to Paul, thanks for putting up with me through all the good and bad for the last 9 yrs. Going to that dance club was the best decision I ever made!