Hello Again!

Well friends and family, we're at it again! This is possibly my 4th or 5th apology for the lack of blogging, but I must say that now that the girls are older, I don't have as much to blog about! They're doing amazing as always. We have had a new schedule with Lillian for the Summer, we have her every other weekend (just as before) but we pick her up Thursday night at 7pm and she gets picked up Monday night at 7pm, and let me say, those long visits make a HUGE difference! I'm so glad things are starting to look up with our visitation, because we're getting her for holidays as well now! Yippee!

Lilly is still a witty little gal and is in love with princess things, decorating and doing hair. We succesfully had her 4th birthday as well. First off, FOUR!? I don't know where it goes, I truly don't! Anyways, we had a low key celebration this year. Our family (Nic, the girls and I) went to Red Robin for dinner the Sunday prior to her birthday and let her order whatever she wanted, got a fancy strawberry lemonade and of course the birthday sundae! Nic had to work on her birthday, so he came home around noon and we let her open presents from her grandparents. Seeing as she's getting older (and quite picky), for presents Nic and I took her to the store and let her pick her own presents! She chose a Rapunzel boat with Flynn Rider and glowing lanterns, a princess crown (to add to the collection) as well as another Rapunzel toy, I just can't quite remember what it was! Needless to say, she was elated and loved her gifts. I am so proud to call her ours and be a part of her life.

Zoey, the firecracker, is growing so much every day. She is constantly blowing my mind with her eagerness to learn and the words she takes from us. Her most recent was while we were cooking eggs (I allow her to add the eggs, milk, cheese and ham and mix it) and she cracked the egg. Some of the contents had got on the counter and I said, "Uh oh Zoey, that's messy, lets be careful next time!" She rubbed my arm and said, "It's okay mommy, accidents happen." Let me just say my jaw dropped. I picked her up and squeezed that little 27lb girl so hard. I just can't believe how big she is. And have I mentioned that she is fully potty trained!? We're still doing diapers at night as of now since she's been on medicine fighting a cold, but other wise she'll wake up in the night and tell us she needs to go! It's a whole new World guys. She has learned a few more colors since my last update, as well as shapes, and goodness only knows how many more other words and phrases.

A couple weeks ago we made a trip to Enchanted Forest with my step mom, sister, cousin, and her friend and it was a blast! Zoey J loved the rides, yummy food and running around. It was perfect weather too. It's so fun to see her wheels turning and soaking in all this information. I've been looking into different gymnastics for our monkey child, she's always doing sommersalts and head stands, so I might as well get her started young!

Other than that, things are going great. Nic and I are working and doing the daily grind and doing our best to raise these little monsters. I will post photos soon since this blog is being typed from work :)

Until next time!

xoxo