unexpected outings

since having twins, i have become a much more organized person. i can't say i am as organized as i would like to be, it is just that with multiples, if you are not organized, things spiral downhill before you even realize what is happening. schedules are very important to us and strict schedules at that. well with the painter at our home for the week, our daily routine has come to a screeching halt. it has been replaced with trying to spend an entire day out with twins. today, after going to the gym to pass the morning time but still part of our usual routine, i had planned with my friend kim, to spend naptime at her home while she was at work. she so graciously gave me her garage code and i picked up lunch for the boys and we headed over, right on time for lunch and nap. it was all going so smoothly! i planned ahead and ...........we hit a brick wall. kim's garage code did not work. she had been having some trouble with it and after 30 minutes of trying and the boys having a meltdown in the car, we headed over to the park in her neighborhood. after chasing them down the middle of the street, i lured them to the table with chick-fil-a. after a few bites of lunch managed to pass a little over an hour at the park. not the easiest task but plan b was to keep them up through their usual naptime and then hopefully they would sleep on the ride to b's school and all the way home. you can see the boys enjoyed swinging....and i think they actually might talk after all!

flounder

b has never been a princess girl. when grandma beth was so kind as to treat us to tickets to the prebroadway play, the little mermaid, i was not sure how excited b would be. she was happy to go but not like some little girls i know. we were looking at all the merchandise for sale prior to the play and b was simply not interested....imagine that. at intermission b could not find the boy who played flounder fast enough in the program. he made the play for her, although we all agreed the entire play was just fabulous! b talked about flounder all the way home........

walk, trot, canter.....canter.......when can i canter again?

b- my horsey girl. she has loved horses since before she could ride. she loves animals in general but horses are number one in her book. she had a horse birthday party when she was two and has had a horse cake every year since! she has always rode her horse, joey, with grandpa but started lessons when she was five. it was not quite the same in the vegas heat, when you have to take lessons at 8pm because it has "cooled down" to 98. she really has got into it this summer when we moved back to colorado and has really taken off! she is so proud of herself. we are so happy for her!