Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Instagram Revisited

For those of you who follow me on Instagram (or Facebook since I also post my Instagram posts to there) this post is going to be really redundant. I print out my blog posts and put them in a binder as kind of a family journal/scrapbook, and I want to be sure that some of my Instagram photos are included in that as well. I include some in blog posts that were about them, and sometimes I take a picture with my real camera at the same time that I take a picture with my phone, so I'll try to leave any photos that have already been posted out of this. Hopefully my memory serves me correctly. Here we go...

01/29/2013 - This is what I call family home evening! #airzooka #fhe #ilovemykids

02/02/2013 - Mommy's little helper. Took twice as long. Worth it. #myfutureslave #parenthood

02/04/2013 - So much cuteness, so little time. #ilovemykids #sisters

02/10/2013 - It's GO TIME!! #bestcallingever #iloveprimary #willneedanaptomorrow

02/10/2013 - This is how Lydia fell asleep for her nap today. I love it. #parenthood #ilovemykids #sunday

02/11/2013 - Santa cruz ducks have NO fear. Our girls, on the other hand, enjoy a safe table high distance while throwing the bread. :) #parenthood #ilovemykids #sisters #santacruzlife

02/14/2013 - Robert snagged this picture real quick as she pointed this sword at him and ordered, "Make me SPAM!" #sheisherfathersdaughter #ilovemykids

02/16/2013 - What do you do on a Friday night after the kids are in bed? We ROCK!! #bandhero #wearecool

02/26/2013 - Kickin back and eating samples at Costco #ilovemykids

02/27/2013 - Lydia accidentally bumped Mary. Mary fell and started fussing. Lydia went to say sorry and give her a hug. Mary says "A-PRIZE!" (surprise) and tackles her. #littlesneakster #sisters #ilovemykids

03/04/2013 - Painting with water - the only painting toddlers can do in their Sunday dresses :) #sunday #ilovemykids #parenthood

03/08/2013 - End of the day snuggles with my girls. BEST part of my day! #parenthood #sisters #ilovemykids

03/17/2013 - Matched one of my Primary kids today. Too funny :) #sunday #iloveprimary

03/21/2013 - Training 'em young. #chipotlelove #ilovemykids

04/04/2013 - "Look Mommy, I'm writing!" Lydia wrote these 2 As all by herself today without any prompting from either parent. I'm one proud parent! #ilovemykids #parenthood #only25letterstogo

04/12/2013 - The blur of a super dad playing with his kiddos. #clearestpictureicouldget #ilovemykids #ilovemyhubby

04/27/2013 - Happy girl at the beach bonfire. A great Friday night. #lovesantacruz #funwithfriends

06/07/2013 - Cleaning up her mess. She'll be my little slave before too long ;) Thank goodness the crayon she's cleaning up was a washable one. #parenthood #ilovemykids

06/08/2013 - Our high chair's new home. Started to get sentimental that both girls have grown out of it until I remembered we'll have to pull it out again in about 9 months. I'm okay with a bit of a break :) #masterofmaximizingclosetspace #parenthood

06/17/2013 - For Father's Day, Robert wanted to rub my feet. I obliged. #easytoplease #ilovemyhubby

06/20/2013 - And again :) Looks like we're living on the beach this summer #californialiving #summer
4 times in a week and still feel like going back tomorrow. ;)

06/24/2013 - These drawstring backpacks took WAY longer than they were supposed to, but I love how they turned out. Bring on Girls' Camp!!

07/01/2013 - It's fun when they play nice together #ilovemykids #sisters

07/15/2013 - First time experiencing a child breaking a window. Lydia is the guilty party. I'm sure this won't be the last time we experience this. #parenthood

07/16/2013 - How we teach our kids about Noah. #fhe #ilovemykids #ilovemyhubby

07/20/2013 - 5 kids 3 and under and a 12 year old and this is all the mess we had at the end of the night. I call that a victory! #supersitters

07/22/2013 - Making sun catchers with friends and cooking cookies 1 on 1 with Lydia. #mondayfunday #parenthood #ilovemykids

07/25/2013 - Eating treats at the park with friends. Not a bad life ;) #summer #ilovemykids #funwithfriends

07/25/2013 - Putting away yet another size of clothes my girls have grown out of. I cry EVERY.TIME. #ilovemykids #parenthood

07/28/2013 - Families Can Be Together Forever and football... That TOTALLY goes together right? ;) #iloveprimary

07/30/2013 - Lots of snuggles and rest with this little one today. I was up most of the night with her because she kept taking off her PJs and then waking up crying a little later because she was too cold. Silly kid! #parenthood #sotired

07/30/2013 - More Boardwalk fun. Saw lots of friends there. It was a great night. #sisters #ilovemykids

07/31/2013 - Just hangin at the beach. You know, the usual ;) #summer #funwithfriends #santacruzlife

08/03/2013 - Finally finished this week's project - organizing the office. At long last, everything has a place, everything is in it's place, AND... (wait for it...) EVERY PLACE HAS A LABEL. Hooray! #ocdparadise

08/04/2013 - Sometimes my visual aids make me happy. This is one of those times. #achildsprayer #iloveprimary

08/06/2013 - Morning scripture time with the kiddos. Best way to start the day. #parenthood #ilovemykids #ilovethegospel

08/07/2013 - New trend: Car seats instead of couches. Who's with me?!?

08/07/2013 - Two girls. NO crib! The battle begins tonight! #parenthood

08/09/2013 - Ice cream sculpture post-some eating. #youdontneedtwoarms #datenight

08/09/2013 - I'm melting! #ohthehumanity

08/11/2013 - We play games... and we like it! #ilovemyhubby

08/12/2013 - Monday Fun Day: Making and playing with sidewalk paint. Fun times :) #summer

There you go. You're all caught up, Instagram style ;)

Hand in Hand: Date Night Edition

We've started a babysitting swap with a couple other couples in our ward. It's working out great! We get free babysitting for 2 out of every 3 date nights, and then a party with 5 kids 3 years old and younger on the 3rd week. Score!

Anyway, for date night at the beginning of this month we did a "Hand in Hand" date. 


You might remember this blog post from over 3 years ago where we did this for a Family Home Evening. Well this time we upped the challenge to a whole date night holding hands from start to finish.

My handsome man!

We went to Santa Cruz Diner for dinner. Scrumptious!


Poor Robert got the short end of the stick and had to do everything left handed. 

Although looking very awkward at first, he did successfully eat his sandwich.

I printed out a list of "Date questions for married couples" and starred all of the ones that I thought were positive date questions and we went through the list the whole night. This was in an effort keep the conversation away from the to-do list, the kids, and the hum drum of finances and what not. It worked like a charm.


After dinner had settled we went across the street for dessert at Marianne's Ice Cream. I tried to get a good picture of Robert smiling with his ice cream...

Attempt #1

Attempt #2

Attempt #3

Better luck next time I guess.
Then, upon arrival at the babysitter's, the date was over and it was time to let go of our hands. This is our "Thumbs up, we did it!" picture, but Robert is making a "I don't want to be done holding hands" face.


It was a great date night! I love my man :)

July Wrap Up

Just a few pictures from the end of July

Rex Moved On


After a few more repairs we sold Rex. We got $1000 more for it than I thought we would. I'm ridiculously sentimental about things, so although it was nice to get rid of a car that has caused us so much trouble and stress, I was still sad to see him go. Hopefully the next owner treats it well and doesn't have as much trouble with it as we did.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game


 One of Robert's colleagues gave us a couple tickets to an Oakland A's game. So we got a babysitter for the day and off we went. It was a ton of fun. A laughable moment of the day was when a worker that was in his 70s offered me his hand to help me up a couple stairs then said, "You looked like a senior citizen coming up those stairs." What do you even say to that? Especially when it's coming from a man who is well into his senior citizen years? I didn't think I looked that cumbersome and not graceful pregnant yet. Guess I was wrong. We've been laughing at it since.

Monday Fun Day: Finger Painting


I love the noticeable developmental and personality difference between Mary and Lydia's rainbows. 

Mary's

Lydia's

Still a month left of summer fun!!!
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