Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Kiki's fav. xmas present


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kiki got this purse for xmas, she loves it! kiki's fav. presents:
waterbottle from peggy: obssessed!
princess nightgown: she is always trying to put on halle's and so she was thrilled!!
Snow white lollypop!!

the girls!


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Christmas Morning


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We had the girl missionaries over for breakfast on Christmas! Halle was sooo excited because she adores them and was happy to show them her presents! She made sure to tell me a few times, "not the boy missionaries, i want the girl missionaries to come over"
We love the sisters!!

Favorite Xmas present


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Halle showing off her fav. present: a princess video game!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Halle being funny at Christmas time

when we got home from the church party halle said, "mama, who was that man dressed as santa?' i said , it was santa. she said, "no, who was it, what was his name?' me, "santa", halle, "mama, that man goes to our church and was dressed as santa, what was his name?" me, eddie peacock. Halle, "yeah, thats who it was, eddie peacock"

halle, "mama, can you send santa an email and tell him what to bring me."

halle, "mama, santa is coming to our house, the REAL santa"

xmas morning tom told halle santa came, halle tells me, "mama, santa came to our house. do we have a chimney?" (she knew from the movies that we need one, i said no, we let him in the front door)

xmas eve, halle says, mama, when santa comes tonight, i want to talk to him.

Halle is totally obsessed with poop jokes. she thought it was hilarious to say that santa was going to fill her stocking up with poop. and she said to tom, "dad-ariah" (like diariah, i thought that was pretty funny)


halle sneezed right on the christmas cookies and said, mama, i just blessed you on the cookies.


halle said to dad in the car, "ruthie doesn't smelligate (celebrate) christams, she smelligates haunikkah"

halle sang a haunikkah song all evening when we went to ruthie's house to celebrate haunikkah on tuesday, "haunikkah , oh haunikka , come light the ba-nor-ah" (aka, Menorah)

halle said to ruthie's papa, happy haunikkah, and he said, happy haunikka to you too. halle said, "no, papa, your supposed to say merry christmas to me"

i said to halle , do you want to call grandma and tell her thank you for the presents. halle said, "grandma didn't bring these , santa did" . i guess no one is getting any credit for their gifts this year.

Thanksgiving at our house

http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/Viewer.aspx?sbid=1119449

this is a scrapblog that i created of my families visit for thanksgiving.

Monday, December 15, 2008

halle took her job as grandma's personal stylist and makeup artist, totally serious.


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-halle to a random old man at the store, "hi, my name is halle, whats your name"
man, "bob"
halle, "did you put up your xmas tree yet?"
bob, "yeah, did you"
halle, "yup, a really big one"

-me getting frustrated with halle asking me to do things while driving:
me, "seriously halle, i'm trying to drive"
halle, "seriously mom, don't talk to me like that"

halle didn't know the word "melted" yet, so i caught her the past couple days using the phrase, "lay into it" to replace it.
her grilled cheese sandwhich wasn't melted enough and she said, "mom, put it back in the pan, i like when the cheese lays into the bread"
i put mozerrella on her spaghetti and then went to put it into the microwave.
halle, "no, mom, don't put it in there, i don't like when the cheese lays into it"

halle is trying really hard to get kiera to say her name, she says it right into kiera's face a few times in a row, kiera babbles something back at her and halle gets excited and says, mom she tried to say it!

halle finally figured out that tom is more fun then me, mostly cuz i'm too tired to throw the girls in the air, give pony rides on my back , or their favorite activity, let dad roll you up in a towel , and then he holds the back of the towel and swings them around the house. now she says to me, daddy is my friend and kiera is your freind. its funny because when i had kiera, for a long time halle would say that she was my baby and kiera was daddy's baby.

halle wears a xmas dress everyday, she has three, and rotates, she loves the attention she gets at stores from being dressed up like xmas.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

breaking bread for stuffing!


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these guys did this for over an hour ( i love stuffing, so i got 6 loaves)
who knew a bunch of kids could sit for so long!

We miss you, Grandma!


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update

we've been busy...had all the family here for thanksgiving...pics coming, already on flickr. first time my fam was altogether since 3 years ago (actually jeff was in iraq 3 yrs ago so i can' t even remember when we were ALL together)
8 adults and 8 kids all in the same house...we had a blast...the kids were great and minus kiki, wesley and lucy, they all slept in the loft for a big sleptover party!!
more posts to come!!

halle finally started pooping on the potty (instead of waiting for her diaper to go on at the end of the night) and kiera finally started learning words....the milestones keep on coming.
kiera uses words, but never on cue when i ask her to, and she still can speak entire sentences of Russian, and if you ask her "what?" she'll repeat it, sometimes halle can translate for her.
the girls started playing together a lot and have become best buds, kiera does whatever halle does, or whatever halle asks her to do, "go in the tent, get on the bed, lay down, get that barbie, come here, hide, give me a bite of food, no-no,give me that" kiera can follow mosts of halle's orders which makes them get along great...kiera doesn't get walked on though, halle is very sweet to her, she takes turns and has a decent amount of respect for kiera considering kiera is a tough chick and can hold her own (she can take halle down in a tackle)

halle is totallly obssessed with the grinch that stole xmas and won't watch any other xmas movie and told me today the grinch was her favorite thing about xmas....distrubing, right?

kier is more like having a puppy then a child, she is so happy and giggly and wild and crazy. Halle could do more then her at her age, but halle was easy to work with and kiera is wild, but she is still very smart. right now halle is sitting on the couch and kiera walks up and halle kicks her in the stomach and kiera falls back on the ground and they both are laughing hysterically...see, they get along great.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

kiki and mama


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kiki finally learned to say mama...its so cute, even in the middle night, followed by baba...i feel like i waited forever for her to say it, she said dada months ago and even learned to say coco (one of halle's dolls that she named coco that kiki loves) before mama...that was a sad, but i feel so loved now!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

halle

Me, "kiera, what are you doing with my phone?"
halle, "mama, don't worry, she's just going online"

halle, "mama, lets dump these toys in this bin and recycle them" (i have never used the word recycle, hmmm...tv isn't so bad, right?)

halle put her babies to sleep, kiera is loud as usual...
halle, "mama, can you tell kiera to be quiet, she is going to wake up my darlings"

halle, "mama, lets call your baby (meaning kiera), kiki doodles" (or stinky doo, kiki dinki, halle says this line a few times a day and then laughs really hard, we've all come up with quite a few nicknames for kiera...keeka deeka, deekas, kiki burras, burras, doodles, deeka deeka doos...)

me and tom were having a classic discussion...this isn't my fault, well it isn't my fault, yes it is, why would it be my fault...you get the idea...
halle doesn't like when the tone of any ones voice is sounding even close to upset or serious so she tries to step in to stop it even though she doesn' t know what we are talking about, being my number one fan and defender....
"mama, i know this is daddy's fault, but you still shouldn't sound mean to him"

the day of our halloween parties halle called me "mama witch" the entire day and had to end each sentence with it...are we going to the store, mama witch, will you get me a drink, mama witch. it was funny.

Friday, October 24, 2008





























Thursday, October 23, 2008

Halle's room

I've been working on some projects for halle's room. i still have some to go, but here are some pics of what's finished. I still need to finish sewing the extra pillows for her bed which are halfway finished...
I bought this bench at the goodwill, it was old dark wood. i sanded it and painted it. i still need to sew a cushion for the bench, but it was done enough to go in her room.

I finally got out my sewing machine that I got for christmas 2 years ago and made the curtains...now on to kiki's room...



isn't it sooo green in georgia!













Halle' s Armior


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I bought this off craigslist, sanded it, painted, and put on new handles. it is for all halle's dress up clothes. i hung hooks inside so she can hang them up, it is sooo packed full of dresses, tutus and shoes. halle and her friends have had so much fun playing dress up!

crazy girls


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one of these days i'll get a video of halle when she' s dressed. here is kiki walking in her slipper shoe, which she loves to do, but usually just likes one because it doesn't slow her down as much. halle acting silly, as usual, and the girls using teamwork to get the oven open.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Look how cute all the girls looked!


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More party pics!


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A princess never gets tired of looking at herself! This is halle' s newest friend, she lives down the street from us, isn't she cute?!

Halle's Stool


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Today I painted this stool for Halle's room. It matches her bedspread, Halle kept telling me I did a beautiful job. It was kinda theraputic-ly fun!

Happy Birthday, Halle!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Her Royal Highness, Princess Halle, requests your presence at the Royal celebration of her third birthday.
The celebration will be October 17th from 3:00-4:00pm .
The party will be held at The Highlands Playground.
Please feel free to dress in your royal attire...princesses, pirates, witches, dragons, genies, even commoners are welcome.
Halle had a princess party on Friday! I made this snow white cake, it was my first cake, i was so proud of it, but it took me way longer then i thought it would. i should have just bought the wilton cake mold, but i barrowed different parts from different people to pull it off and halle was thrilled! this is halle' s best bud, Ruthie! there was about 20 kids at the party, about 15 families, I had it at the playground in our subdivision, it was a perfect day for a party, clouded over and about 75 degrees, October is the best month to have a birthday in Georgia! nice cleavage, ruthie, and halle's face always goes like this (crocked smile and weird eyebrows) when she says cheese, its really too bad because she has such a pretty smile.
this was the cake about half way through the project. Halle, who is my number one fan all the time, kept saying, "it looks so beautiful, mom, your doing a great job!" and then had to admit, "it looks a little weird". I kept trying to reassure her it would be pretty, but she just kept telling me it was beautiful, shes so nice to me!
I know what your thinking...where did we ever get such a cool cd player? get this...you can turn the cd part over and there's a mirror with lights around it! and the purple part, is fur! JEALOUS!

ok, enough of the cake....back to the party. I set up a table with a bunch of makeup and mirrors and nail polish. the girls (15 girls and only 5 boys, sorry boys!) were glued to this table for the first half of the party, they LOVED doing their make up and each other nails! I set up another little table with snacks and all halle' s tea party stuff. all the girls came dressed up, so cute!
even kiki came dressed up, kiera loves for us to put her in dress up clothes, its really cute because kiera fights getting dressed everyday, but picks out dresses and pushes them into you and grunts till you put them on her, she also loves wings and dress up shoes...princess in training...she's being trained by the best...halle!
i'll post more pics soon, but i wanted to get some up for mom!

Monday, October 6, 2008

kiki


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this is kiera a couple months ago in arizona at tom's parents house.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

family pics

so, nikki's family's pictures are soo cute, i'm jealous. i'm not brave enough to try to get teh whole family looking nice one day and then go get pictures and try to keep both girls happy, let alone just get kiki to sit still. but i really want some now, i'm certainly too cheap to pay a professional, especially since it could be a big waste of money if the girls do not cooroperate. i just want some casual pics of us at the park, nothing special, everything looks better in black and white or sepia anyways, so i wouldn't mind if they used my camera, its nothing special. just wondering if anyone knows anyone out there (even a teenage) who is looking to get into photography and needing some subjects or works for a ridiculously low fee. ok, so maybe me and tom aren't cute enough to make it into a portfolio, but the girls are! OR...if someone else is interested in family pics and if you take some of my fam, i'll take some of your fam.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

halle quotes

if halle can't think of a word fast enough in the middle of her sentence, then sometimes she'll come up with the funniest word filler:
Halle saw gymnastics on tv and said, "look, it's the o-lipsticks"
Halle holding a tamborine, "I've got a trampoline"
instead of scare crow, she switched the begining sounds and said, "care scrow"

I asked halle who should we invite to your party, she said, "ruthie, peggy, and kiera"

halle picked kiera's passy up off the floor and put it back in her mouth for her. she said to me, "mom, kiera drops her passy on the floor every day, she's the nastiest little girl I ever met"

halle woke me up in the morning, "mom, did you hear that sound, it was stomach saying, (in this weird monster voice) 'i'm hungry".

tom wrapped the towel around halle in a "towel dress". halle said, "i'm going to go show mommy, that will be interesting"

at a playgroup, halle was watching a little boy battle with his mom to get on her lap, which she didn't want, he was yelling and crying, halle turns to me and says, "mom, that baby is frustrated at his mommy because he wants to get on her lap"
it made me laugh because the other moms looked at halle like shes been in therapy to learn how to express her feelings.

Halle said, "mom, I love you"
I said, "what does that mean?" (curious what she would come up with)
Halle thought for a while, "um...um.....happy!"

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

sillyness.

At the end of the day, they sometimes end up naked.
kiera and halle thought they were so funny putting the mr. potato head peices on their faces.
sophesticated and sexy.
(thxs for the pretty bracelet, jen, halle rarely takes it off!)
halle put the nose peice up her nose hole, shes such a crack up.

kiera, not to be out done by halle, thinks of this, shes pretty funny, too.

more painting outside.
halle's pregnancy stomach painting. halle tells people that she's got a baby boy in her belly, so when she did this, i thought of those woman who have their bellies painted.


there are certain toys that i love to play with and can' t pass up if i see them at the good will or yardsales. i am totally obsessed with mr. potato head peices, everytime i see them i have to buy them. my girls rarely play with them, but i can't stop until my collection is complete. other ocd toys: doctor kit peices (we actually love to play dr, but seriously, we don' t need 4 stethescopes), magnetic doll dress up kits (halle doesn't play with these, but i think they are so cute), and dress up clothes, which halle loves, but we have at least 10 princess/barbie dresses and i rarely see halle in anything but cinderella, i know she'll use them more later and her friends love to come over. tonight at the goodwill i bought halle a unicorn/pegasus snow globe, we were both soooo excited! have i mentioned how much i love thrift stores?



Around the house!

usually i save these kinds of activities for when kiera is napping, but she actually sat there for almost an hour making cookies with us! I am excited that she is becoming more of a playmate. The girls had a blast. mostly they ate dough. this is a picture of halle drinking the sprinkles.
kiera has been jealous of halle's chair for a while now, i found the pink one at a yardsale and so now each princess has their own princess chair. they are so cute drinking their milk and watching cartoons together in there little chairs.
it's been a lifelong dream of mine to own a chia pet. i can still remember watching the commercials and longing for one ("chi, chi, chi ,chia", remember the jingle?) I saw this one brand new in the box at the goodwill and it was like xmas morning. I rushed the girls home, ripped open the box, let halle paint it, planted the seeds and only 3 days later we had this. the grass is longer now, but i'm pruning it everyday, determined to keep it alive!
kiera loves to wear purses and stethescopes around her neck. its cute, just like halle at her age, shes like a miniture lady in training. btw, this purse is from walmart, they are in the craft section, only 2 bucks, they look like little skirts, i got halle some fabric paint and she decorated it.
i have been painting the furniture for halle's room for a few weeks now. we go outside everyday during kiera's nap and halle paints scrap wood and her table. its so hot and humid, but halle loves it! yestarday she asked me, "mom, how come you don't paint naked?" wouldn't the neighbors love that?!

Monday, September 22, 2008

Halle Quotes

I have to post a couple funny Halle quotes, so i don' t forget.

"mom, if I eat this paint, I will die. and then you will have to put batteries in me so I work again."

previously, i told halle that you can feel Jesus in your heart.
holding the stethoscope up to her heart.
"mom, can you hear Jesus in there?"

Halle to her nursery leader:
"Kiera uses her hands as a fork, I just use a fork"
"Kiera is a stinker"

I told halle to pick out some shoes for church. I was trying to offer suggestions so I kept saying stuff like how bout the white ones, or the brown ones are downstairs, or the pink ones would match your dress. halle gets annoyed when i even imply that i am telling her what to do, when it is HER decsion.
"mom, stop telling what shoes I have. At the store yestarday, you were telling me what food I could eat (refering to me offering her suggestions of what to order at the resturant). If you tell me one....more.....time....what shoes to wear, you will go to time out" (the spacing refers to how I emphasize each word when I say it to her)

kiera almost aways has a big smile on her face , especially to halle, this is usually a good thing. sometimes its not:
kiera bit halle's toe, and comes up with a big smile on her face. halle: "thats not funny kiera, its rude"
kiera is laying in front of halle watching tv, halle uses her as a foot stool. i tell halle thats its not polite to put your feet on people. Halle: "but shes laughing, she likes it". and of course, kiera turns around with a big smile on her face!

Wesley James Anderson!


This is my new nephew, born sept. 8th. He is soooo cute, i can' t wait to meet him!!!
This is my sister Melanie's 3rd boy!!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Arizona Trip!!!

The Garrett's with their new addition, Christopher!



AT the children's museum!, halle taking a pizza out of the oven. i asked her to smile, she wanted to , but this is her trying to hide the smile and do her, i'm on a mission, don' t bother me!
this is a peter piper, this is the girls favorite ride, kiera holds on all by herself! we did it tons of times. good thing the walmart in macon has one of these!
visiting my family! this is aunt lucy. the girls love there aunt lucy and aunt iris!
aunt iris and ethan and brenden! the cousins had a great time together!
kiera showing off , as usual, she loves to be the spotlight, she LOVES to dance!


kiki just chillin at the museum, in her little birds nest.
halle's dream come true, they had this huge house for the kids to paint, she could have stayed here all day!
Grandma gave halle a spa day and makeover every day. Halle LOVED it! it started in grandma's

huge tub, with TONS of bubbles, then a blowdry, curls, hair products, makeup, nail polish, ect, grandma knows how to take care of a princess!

kiera was totally obssessed with the dog. she was always chasing it and running to grandma's room to find it. she tried to mount it a few times and hug it, which means lean your head on it, thats what shes doing in this picture.



The children' s museum was a blast!

me taking the girls for a ride!
Halle could have stayed at the store the entire time. this is her favorite thing to play at home too.

Neco, elly and new baby gaby. neco loves his baby sister, he also loves to be a ham for the camera!
All the Garrett cousins, elly, gaby, neco, kiki, halle, and christoper!
Halle and new baby cousin christoper, what a cutie!

Kady and Gaby! GAby is adorable! and Kady already looks fantastic!
snuggling to watch a movie together, kiki is a big snuggler, she would love it if halle would snuggle with her more often, but princesses usually need their space.



the cousins had such a fun time together, halle of course had to immediately put on elly's nightgown and all of elly's princess dresses, she was in heaven! elly put on some ballet gear and showed off her dancing! she is really sweet and adorable. neco is a fun, happy kid that is really sweet babies!

Giggling. you don't what i had to do to get this picture of all of them smiling!
halle and elly dancing together. two of a kind!
Gaby and christoper! cute as little buttons!

we went to this huge in door jungle gym. the girls had a blast, me and tom had even more fun! this place said 3 and older and kiki did awesome! shes such a climber, this rope net was really steep and long and she could climb as fast as halle!

see how coolthis place is, i you look close they had rope bridges that were SO high up. i was so scared, but hid it so halle wouldn't take my cues and chicken out. it worked we did everything and had a blast!
this tube was so high up and it was wobbly and just these ropes that made it easy to see the ground below, the first time halle was a little scared, so tom let her ride on his chest while he did the crab crawl through.
You had to wear socks, i didn't do this to kiki on purpose. they had a fish tank there, kiki LOVES fish! she calls them "ish" and can find them and point to them in any book and says ish, ish over and over!