Jeremy's old toys

Jeremy and Kathryn looked in his old cubby hole the other day and found some toys that have just been waiting for a daddy and a little girl to play with them. These are wooden blocks with little knobs that stick up (similar to legos). The girls have really enjoyed playing with them and I think Daddy has too!

Sitting with Santa

Here are the girls sitting on Santa's lap at the eye doctor's office. Rachel went first because Kathryn was a bit unsure about it. Rachel thought it was a piece of cake!

Craft Time

This year for our November and December craft at MOPS we painted blocks and put stickers on them to make a kid friendly nativity.Grandpa Jerry cut all of the blocks for us and there were just enough sets of blocks for Kathryn and Rachel to each make their own. The girls just love to do crafts with Mommy and they had a blast painting, stickering, and gluing these blocks.Kathryn always has her own idea of how to do crafts and no matter how I plead her crafts are always very different than what I envision.Rachel is usually very excited to join in the fun but crafts don't keep her attention as well as toys at this point.

My Girls

I have been struggling all summer to get a good picture of both of the girls actually looking at the camera. So, the other day when Daddy got this picture at Reptile Gardens I was thrilled. We've had a really fun summer and we are enjoying the beautiful fall weather (at least for now!).

Pre-School

We started the letter B today! Here's Kathryn's Broccoli Boy!

My deals at Target today!

There are quite a few coupons at target.com for Dora stuff this week. Apparently it's Dora's 10th birthday! http://www.commonsensewithmoney.com/2010/08/its-dora-the-explorer-birthday-freebies-and-deals-available/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CommonSenseWithMoney+%28Common+Sense+with+Money%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Here's a picture of what I got tonight ;-) All of this was $10.41 plus tax. By using a Target Web coupon and a Bic coupon the pencils and pens were all free!

My girls and their wild hair!

My girls have definitely got some of the Johnson curl in their hair! The second photo is of both girls smiling for the camera. Kathryn's not really into getting her picture taken right now. ;-)

The Sertoma Butterfly House

On our first full day in Sioux Falls we visited the Sertoma Butterfly House, the Sertoma park, and the GF&P Outdoor Campus. Here are a few of my favorite butterfly pictures.

Rachel just wanted to pick flowers and throw them in the water.

This butterfly was huge and had transparent spots in it's wings!

Kathryn was flying like a butterfly all over the place.

The girls were not cooperating for a picture together at all!

This was our lunch at the Sertoma park. I thought it was fitting!

Trip to Sioux Falls

Last week we took an impromptu trip to Sioux Falls, SD. Jeremy was headed there for some training for work and the girls and I decided to tag along. Kathryn was so excited to stay in a motel!! We had lots of fun. The girls weren't too cooperative for pictures though so this may be the only "good" picture I have of both girls from the trip.

The Day of Kathryn's Birth

Kathryn's birthday was on Wed (Feb 10th) and we did a lot of fun stuff. I made her a special shirt to wear and she loved it! She also completed the outfit by brushing her own hair and then putting a Minnie Mouse barrette in all by herself! She is getting to be quite the hairstylist! For her birthday we volunteered at the Y for 3 hrs and then we went to Sturgis and got to see Grandma and Grandpa Great (my mom's parents). Grandma Great gave her the supplies to make a Valentine's wreath and she did a great job putting it together. She also got to see Grandma Pam and Karter's Grandma and Grandpa at the church in Sturgis. We had to run though so we could get home to see Daddy (who'd been in Chadron the last 3 days) and then go to church at our church. Kathryn had fun passing out cookies for her birthday and Rachel was moved up to her class since she will be 2 this week. Rachel is quite the little - big girl sitting quitely in church and enjoying being with the big kids. Here's a picture of Kathryn (the barrette is right above her left ear) :-)

The Journey

Our MOPS Moms n Tots event for this month was going to The Journey museum. We had a lot of fun. I thought you guys would enjoy a few pics. The craziest part of the day though was lunch. Four of us insane mommies decided to take our kiddos to Applebee's for lunch. There were 4 moms and 8 kids. It actually went really well and I ate for under $10 :-) Enjoy the pictures!