Vegas Fun

Our time in limbo is hopefully getting over the hump tomorrow (not on the down slide quite yet)...I'll post on that later. Over the last few weeks we've been enjoying being outside when we can, which is usually first thing in the morning because it gets into the triple digits by 10am. We've utilized the neighborhood pool and parks (the splash pad is broken, and once I own a house in this neighborhood I'll complain about it!) as well as catching up with old friends who live in Vegas. We have a plethora of friends here (mostly military) and its great! Of course we've traveled to California last weekend and are doing the same thing tomorrow for the long weekend. The girls always ask "are we leaving tomorrow?" I know its too early but I don't even want to think about the heartbreak that will come in 3 years when we move....

Kylie 6, Juliet 2 1/2, Ava 4 1/2

Enjoying dinner at the "Jacob's Bed & Breakfast" (and lunch and dinner).

After dinner workouts.

There are 2 parks in our development.  The girls like yelling at each other through these speaker thingys that go from one end of the equipment to the other.  You can whisper and still hear each other, but they prefer yelling.

They find a pile of sand and go right to it. 

"Girls, just play on the play ground, would ya!" ~ Mommy

And then they go on the swings. 

Don't they know this doesn't tire them out like running does?  They often like to throw a kink my plans!

Finally they make their way back to the equipment.

Looking up at the jets overhead.

And then, guess what comes on???

SPRINKLERS!!

Who needs towels?  You dry quickly here!

Bummer!  The sprinklers turned off, so back to the boring equipment.

Monkeying around.

The next day, we made our way across the street to the other park.  Its sprinklers were also on and the girls made a mad dash!

After playing in sand, again, they attempted the rock wall.

We found out about a neat program in town called Horses For Heroes.  We went just to test the waters and the girls LOVED riding the horses, petting (but not feeding) the goats, petting bunnies and playing with dogs on the property. 

Kylie did well saying "click click" and giving the horse a little kick and getting him to move.  She also did well at saying "woah" and getting the horse to stop.

Ava did well maneuvering the horse around the cones.

Juliet, to my surprise, loved it as well. She willingly went to the trainer (her name being Ariel may have had something to do with it!) and loved being on the horse. 

I too rode a horse and after watching Kylie and Ava, they clearly take direction better than I do!  The trainer had to re-educate me a few times on what to do and not to do.  My plan is to let it cool down and enroll the girls in the program closer to the end of summer. They had a blast but its is just too darn hot to be out in the sun from 9am to noon in the middle of the summer. I got worn out too just keeping tabs on all 3 girls.  Afterwards we were all hot, sweaty and dirty and I'm sure the other patrons at Target felt sorry for us when we walked in!

Big Girl Seat

We got Ava a big girl booster seat last week. She likes being able to sit in the back of the van with Kylie, but of course more "sisterly love" occurs back there...hitting, toy stealing, etc. Their singing voices have also seemed to get a lot louder now that they are in closer proximity to each other.

Headed to soccer practice.

My babies are getting so big!

Locks of Love

Kylie has such gorgeous hair! I know women pay good money to have hair like hers, and now a child without hair will be able to use Kylie's for a wig.

I had brought the donating idea up to Kylie a little while back and when it came down to doing it, she didn't want to cut her hair. As it got longer and sometimes a pain to work with, I put the bug in her ear again about donating it to a sick child who didn't have pretty hair anymore. She liked the thought of that and finally said she was willing to do it so I looked online to see what the requirements were. Different organizations require different lengths, and I knew I wanted to have it donated to children. Wigs for Kids wants 12 inches and Locks of Love wants 10, so we went with that. She didn't have enough to do 12 and since we are moving in a few weeks, I wanted Candace to cut it (Candace cut my hair a few years back when I donated it to Pantene and wouldn't dare have anyone else cut Kylie's hair). And to be honest, I don't think I could let her hair grow another 2 inches before having it cut.

All day today was asking "when is Candace going to be here" so she could cut her hair and I know she didn't take a nap because she was so excited. I think overall Jonathan was the most traumatized but at the end of the day, her cut is cute and no tears were shed, not even by daddy. I thought I may be a little upset by it, but I think since she's donating it, and she likes the length and looks cute, it didn't bother me at all!

The hair before.

Jonathan telling her its okay if she wants to back out. :)

Lets do this! I love the faces!

Her 10 inch braid!

Candace giving it some shape.

Jonathan brushing through it.

Sassy pants and her new cut.

Side view.

Thanks to my awesome friend Candace who has taught me to NEVER cut your own child's hair (proud to say I've never made that mistake) and that you don't DYE your hair, you COLOR it. You DYE Easter Eggs.

Mustache March

My lovely husband surprised me last weekend when he stepped out of his jet with, yes, a mustache. He started growing it on the beginning of this month while on his TDY to New Orleans and it was just a week old when I first saw it. I was shocked to say the least. I thought for sure he was going to shave it off after getting home, but here we are half way through the month and its still there. This is the first Mustache March he's ever participated in. Hopefully it will also be the last.

You can barely see it, but its there! The kids don't seem to mind it.

Don't let my smile fool you.

Soccer Season Begins

In the fall, Ava could not stop talking about her desire to play soccer along with her sister. We found out as long as she would be 4 by the first game for spring (which she is) she could sign up! I had zero issues with getting them on the same team, so as of now, I'm taking them to the same practices at the same time on the same days of the week, and we don't have to split up on Saturday mornings to watch their games....yet. I know I've got it easy, for a while anyway.

The girls first game isn't until mid March, but we're back to going to practice two nights a week (which means my crock pot gets a good workout), as well as gymnastics one day a week. Both girls enjoy both sports and hopefully when we get to Vegas we can continue.

We did it!

When I attempt to let the girls do something new, I usually have 3 little voices all shouting "I WANT TO DO IT TOO", so rarely I let them do anything new if their sisters are around. Of course this doesn't apply much to Juliet because usually she isn't doing something her sisters haven't already done, but more for Kylie and Ava.

My friend Candace convinced me to let the girls try to make their own PB&J sandwiches. Again, its not that I don't like them doing those things, it just ends up being more work for me and then all the girls want to do it, so something that takes me 30 seconds takes them 20 minutes.

They were so stinkin' proud of themselves. There were some shouts of joy as well as some jumping up and down...all over a sandwich!

Feety Firsts

We have a couple of firsts in the shoe department. Both Kylie and Juliet were in need of new tennis shoes so after not having much luck in town, I took them to the BX on Wednesday.

Here is Kylie sporting her first shoes with laces. She likes tying them all by herself.


And here is Juliet sporting her first character shoes. They have on them "Rella", "Booty" and "Belle".


This actually a first for our family. I'm not a big fan of character clothes. PJs are fine, and a souvenir T shirt from Disneyland is okay too, but I don't like putting them in those clothes otherwise to wear out of the house, so we never buy them.

New Decade, New Documentation

I'm turning over a new leaf this year...or this decade really. As Jonathan is TDY in Vegas and I am up late yet again thinking irrationally, I've decided to quit doing my totsite to document our life across the internet for all to see and I'm jumping on the blogger bandwagon. I like how the totsite emails my latest journal updates to family and friends, but I feel like I can put more on a blog and not focus it entirely on the girls. And if you really want to know what is going on with us, I figure you can add our blog to the list of the other blogs and websites you check on a regular basis. Maybe I can email out updates...I'll look into that after I finish typing this. I always feel weird and guilty when I talk about things that don't solely have to do with the girls on the totsite, but those 3 little princesses do have a king and queen at home that have interesting lives too, at least I think we do, every now and then. I'm trying to figure out how this works (I already typed this up once and am on my second attempt) and I've asked a friend to tell me how she prints her blog since I've also forgone printing 4x6 photos for photo albums (because no one but the girls want to look through them, and they are collecting dust in a closet on a shelf) and it'll be nice when 2010 comes to a close in which I don't have to upload pictures again to an online photo storage site and make a photo book when I've worked all year on a blog.

The only picture I have so far of 2010 is a few minutes after midnight on New Years Eve of Jonathan and I. This is our 12th New Years Eve together.

Enjoy!