Elvis Madness!

Here is the Elvis impersonator singing to the ladies at our table. The video shows how we all felt about it!

Happy Valentine's Day!

When the girls woke up from their afternoon nap I decided to do a V-Day photo shoot. Here they are "not too into it". I had to try hard to get them both looking and smiling.

That's as good as it gets.

Here's Miss Happy. Most of her pictures were very good since she's such a happy little girl. Cute story-Hayden has started calling Layne "Layner". It's not really a story, but still so cute!

And of course Miss Priss had her individual photo too.

One More

Here is one more from yesterday. Well, actually it's the same picture I just cropped it and made it black and white. I just love how it looks.

Sunny Day Off

I don't work on Friday which is awesome! We had some running around to do today, but I made sure to make some time to go to a new park that I found last week. Hayden had a great time! When we first got there there were about 15 other children. Most of them were from some before and after school care program. They left soon after we arrived though.

There were two climbing play areas that included a ton of different slides, two rock wall things, and a few other climbing toys. They had swings too. She just had so much fun and the weather was perfect!

She is getting old enough where she can do things on her own and doesn't even have to ask mommy for help. Bitter sweet I suppose. At least I still have needy little Layner!

We even found something that Layne could enjoy, besides mommy holding her. The bucket swing was a little too big for her, but she had a great time.

Sister and best buds!

Valentine Baking!

Here are the cookies that Hayden is going to give her friends at preschool for Valentine's Day. They are having their party tomorrow. Hayden has not been in school all week because she's sick. Hopefully her cold and cough will go away enough for her to go to school tomorrow!

Here are the cookies that Conor is going to give his friends at preschool. His grandmother contacted me and asked me to make them for all of the children in their class. So, I wanted to make the cookies different from one another since it's for the same class. Hope they like them!

The Arm Update

On Monday Jeremy had surgery in order to get the pins and bar out of his arm. Everything went well and this is now what it looks like. The splinted it and wrapped it up because he has the 4 pin holes that go right to his bone. Don't want any of those holes to get infected!!

His skin is extremely dry, but he is so glad to have those pins out!

On Friday he went back to the doctor and they cut the splint off! So, now it's time to get that arm back up to par. We were both kind of thinking that once he got the splint off his arm would be back to normal. Well, that's not how it was at all. He can't move his wrist very much at all. He can't pick things up at all.

We went to O'Charlie's last night and we had a to go box (one of those Styrofoam things). I had Layne and her car seat and Jeremy was going to get Hayden and the to go box. All of a sudden I heard Jeremy saying quite loudly, "Ahhhh....take it take it take it!". I was thinking I was going to look up at him standing there holding a stack of plates or something. But he was holding the to go box in his right hand. He said later that it felt like someone was hanging from his fingers! He also said that when he had his little outburst he noticed at least two table of people looking up at him like he was crazy. As mom and Bern say, "You'll have that!"

Here is Hayden checking out daddy's arm. What a face!

Little Layner swinging outside yesterday. I know I know, where is her other sock....who knows!

Hayden fell while we were in the shower this morning! She hit her head on the shower seat. I didn't think it was a big deal until I took a look.

Dora can heal all! I guess the band aide felt weird on her eye so she had to make weird faces.

Baby Humming Bird

2nd Generation

Last night Hayden and I walked back to the bedroom to change her diaper. When I got her in the room she was making this face. It took me a little while to figure out why she was making that face.

But, I got it! In the hallway there are two pictures of Jeremy and I imitating a baby humming bird. She saw the pictures and decided to make the face too.

What a goon!

Laundry Girl

As I was putting Layne's clothes away tonight she squirmed over to the laundry basket and started to play around.

I think she liked peaking through the holes in the basket. I just wonder what was going through her mind while she was doing this.

Miss thing posing for the camera! She is super excited to be back at preschool in the mornings. Even though this going back to work thing is hard for me it just warms my heart to know that Hayden is very happy where she is while she's away from me. Layne is really enjoying the time that she gets to spend with daddy each morning too. I guess I am the only one that's missing the time that we all had together in the mornings.

Layne has become such a little explorer. As soon as we put her down on the floor she rolls over to her tummy and gets moving. She likes to squirm to different things and check them out.

Grandma and Pop gave Hayden this light up shirt for Christmas. Everyone, including Layne, love it. Hayden is very patient with Layne. Today one of the teachers at preschool told me that Hayden is "the little mother" which doesn't surprise me one bit!

Monster Trucks!

Here is the last of my baking for a little while at least. These are for the same friends that ordered the monster truck cake this weekend.

The truck on top of the cupcake is a toy!
I didn't want you to think that I made that out of fondant or something!!

Sweet Victory!

Here are the victory cupcakes that I made for the super bowl party that we had last night. How sweet the super bowl victory was....how sweet it was!

They were chocolate cupcakes with a mini snickers in the middle, iced in butter cream with sugar sprinkles around the edges and topped with a chocolate steeler symbol.

Super Bowl Party!

Here is Pappy getting Hayden ready for the big game. He came in this weekend for my birthday. It was such a crazy weekend between all the baking, birthday partying, and super bowling that we didn't take too many pictures of the visit. We had a good weekend though. Friday we all just hung out. Saturday (my birthday) Jerm cooked a nice breakfast then dad took me shopping for my birthday. I got lots of new "tops" as he would say. Then we went to Matt and Jamies for a Matt/Trista birthday celebration. Sunday we went to church and then got ready for the super bowl and party. Today dad watched the girls while I worked in the morning and while Jerm and I went to the hospital to have his arm device REMOVED!! Yes, it is gone and yes I went back to work! I am working as kind of a consultant to the special education teachers at Edwards Middle School. It's only 4 hours a day 4 days a week. Hayden will be in preschool while I work and Jerm will be at home with Layne.

Here is Hayden with her two buddies Charece and Danielle. They played together the whole night.

Hayden didn't really want to wear her helmet, but Charece liked it!

Heather stopped at Publix and picked up some 3D glasses for everyone so we could all watch the commercials.

At halftime it was time to put the glasses on!

Steelers Cookie Package

I had 3 baking orders this weekend. So, I woke up this morning at 5am in order to get started on the cookies. I finished at 5pm!! I had a lot of fun doing the cookies though. I had extra circle cookies so I made them yellow and black in honor of the Steelers.

I made these for a three year old's birthday party favors.

What a Day...

(and it's only 3:00!)

Well, here it is...the monster truck cake that I have been thinking about for almost a month now. One of our friends at church asked me to do this for her son's 7th birthday. I think the wheels could be larger and the truck body could be smaller but that's what happens when you draw out a template and don't buy a mold for it!

This is what the kitchen looks like after I am done baking a cake or cookies. It's always worse with cakes since there are so many different steps and stages involved. The kitchen will look like this again tomorrow because I have to make some Steeler and helicopter cookies (two different orders!). Now you can see why I chose to blog instead of clean up my mess!!

Special Delivery!

Bernie sent these Eat 'N Park Steeler smiley face cookies as a little treat. They were wrapped in two Super Bowl XLIII version Terrible Towels. I was getting a little nervous that Bernie had forgotten about us. Yesterday my sister sent an email with a picture attachment of her "Steelers Wall" in her office. It had a nice new Super Bowl terrible towel. I asked her were she got it. Then I got another email from her with a picture of smiley face cookies. In the email she thanked mom and Bernie for the cookies and terrible towels. I was thinking, "What the heck!" But then I thought about the fact that Pittsburgh is closer to Michigan than Georgia. So, our cookies would just come today. Then Bernie called and was talking to Jeremy about it and I heard Jeremy say, "Oh, so Johnny got his cookies too!?" At that point I really did think that Bern forgot about us-I AM the middle child after all....the forgotten one. I reassured myself that we do live in Georgia and things are always a little slower down here. Thanks Bern-it was worth the wait!!

Jumper

Today Hayden decided to bring her potty into Layne's room. I thought that she was going to go to the bathroom on the potty instead of the floor this time. Then she climbed on top of it and jumped off. This went on for about 30 minutes!

So I had plenty of time to get some action shots.

She is wearing her big girl undies because we really are working hard on potty training this week. I want her to be ready, but I just don't think she is yet. We will keep plugging though.

Layne was just laying in her favorite position reading a book while her sis acted all crazy.

Check out her crossed legs in this one!

6 Month Doctor's Appointment

Layne went to the doctors yesterday. She got 4 shots and an oral vaccine! Poor girl was so worked up about it. It was another 2 hour doctors visit too. So, needless to say I was a little worked up about everything too. Here are her stats-she weighs 13 pounds and 10 ounces which is in the 10th percentile and her height is 26 1/4 inches which is in the 75th percentile. So, she is tall and skinny....not such a bad thing! Here is a picture on her FOUR band aides!!

Here she is just hanging out playing on her tummy.

She loves to be on her tummy-even when I am changing her diaper! She thinks it's so funny when she tries to roll over as I am trying to get a clean diaper on her. What a goof!

She can "crawl" all around her crib and on the floor. She just kind of moves around like an inch worm-no real crawling yet.