Weekend News

This past weekend we had our bi-monthly friends dinner at Denise & Ken's house. It was a lot of fun b/c hanging out with friends always is but in addition to that Denise & Ken announced Denise was 10 weeks pregnant and Andy & Laura announced that Laura was 8 weeks pregnant! How exciting! Congrats again to both couples we can't wait until February 2010 when these little ones will be born. In September the bi-monthly dinner will be at our house and we look forward to it. :)

Now before we went to Denise & Ken's house on Saturday I thought I would take the girls to get their first ever professional portraits done. Thanks to Christina's blog I printed off my free pictures coupon for the Picture People and it expired Saturday so I had to go! Adam hates these portrait things so I had to drag him but he was only willing to agree to it b/c it was free. I had to promise him I would not get suckered into more pictures. So along with Hannah's friend Sydney's family (who had the appt after us) we went to the Picture People at Arden Fair Mall and had our first ever professional photography experience. I must say those photographers have to have an incredible amount of patience. When we would get Hannah actually looking and smiling at the camera Samantha would be doing something else or just starring at the camera. Normally Samantha is a very smiley girl but she was just so taken aback by the lights and camera pointed at her face that she didn't know what to do so she just starred at the camera. Towards the end we got her to crack a few smiles...she even had an incredibly cute one with her tongue sticking out but then Hannah wasn't looking at the camera and had a strange smile...aahhhh!!! So this is the one that we finally settled on for our free 8 X 10, 2 free 5 X 7s, and 8 wallets:



Turns out it really wasn't that hard not to pick more then one pose since the girls really didn't photograph great at the same time...although I still LOVE this picture. Of course there were a few other shots that I thought would be cute to get but then the Picture People make it easy for you to get them b/c they make your pictures available on line to order as well. You can view them here: http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/my/images?cg=207294587120863729.

By the way since my last post about Samantha finally rolling over, she has not done it again...she just refuses to roll over...strange little girl. :)

It's About Time!!!

Samantha finally rolled over from her belly to her back! Adam was the one that managed to get her to do it and he called me at work to let me know. Of course I was sad to not be there but I am glad she finally did it. At around 5 months Hannah was rolling all over the place and Samantha is now almost 7 months and up until now pretty much had no interest in rolling over...she does a mighty fine job of sitting though. Anyway, we went to the Farmer's Market last night and Adam showed me Samantha's new skill. She does it in segments and in a sort of slow motion action. We met the Telfords (Sr. & Jr.) at the Market last night and when Samantha rolled over we all clapped for her...she gave us a kind of weird look like "What the hell are you people clapping at?". I am so proud of her. I will take pictures soon and post them.

In other news...Hannah is finally home after her 4 day adventure "camping" (she stayed in a condo in Lake Tahoe but really was suppose to go tent camping until Adam's Dad hurt his back) with Adam's Dad, his wife Susie, and her two cousins Kathryn & Krystina. She had a GREAT time and did fabulous but we are happy she is home...I don't know that she is happy to be back from her vacation but we are happy. :) Back to life with 2 kids...life with one was super easy! We forgot how easy it was...so much free time on our hands, didn't quite know what to do. :)

Happy Birthday to Me, I Celebrated Classy!

Saturday was my 34th birthday. It was quite exciting to have my birthday on a weekend. We started off the day by going to the "Black Bear Diner" for breakfast, then Hannah had gymnastics, afterwards Hannah & I went home and took a nap together, and then we went to this fun water park in West Sacramento right near Andy & Laura's new house. I had been to the park before with Hannah & Samantha with my mom's group and we had so much fun that I planned to do this on my birthday with the girls again and Laura & Andy had their niece Lily for the the night and Tara and the twins came too. We had a lot of fun again! That night we were dropping Hannah off in Elk Grove with Adam's dad b/c she was going camping with him and her cousins to Tahoe for several days. Since we were dropping Hannah off we also left Samantha there for several hours so we could go out to dinner for my birthday. Now this is where the classy part comes in...originally we were suppose to go to McCormicks & Schimicks, which is a nice restaurant in Sacramento. So we had packed nice clothes that we were going to change into at Adam's dad's wife house. We had reservations at 8pm but had to push them back to 8:30pm b/c we were running late. When we made the call to change the reservations they let us know they close at 9pm...what???!!! On a Saturday night???!! That is crazy. We didn't feel like driving all the way to downtown Sac from Elk Grove to be rushed through dinner. So we decided to go see a 9:05pm movie.."The Proposal" (great movie...go see it) and thought we will grab something to eat on the way there. Well we did not leave the house until 8:45pm and realized that we did not have time to go get something to eat. We were both starving and so when we got to the theater we got movie theater hot dogs in our fancy clothes...so classy. I have never had a movie theater hot dog and I was so scared to eat it but I was so hungry that I just sucked it up and ate it. It felt so weird being dressed up , eating a hot dog at the movies...I don't think I will soon forget that birthday meal. Here are some pictures of the water park we were at on my b-day:



Samantha loves splashing in the water:


I love this picture b/c poor Abby is curled up in ball on her towel with long sleeves just freezing and next to her is Hannah sprawled out on her towel soakin' up the sun:



A cool "artistic" shot of Hannah & Lily:


Adam getting dumped with water...I am so proud of myself that I captured this shot:



And since it has been soooooo long since I posted last here are some updated pictures of the last month and things that happened:

For Father's Day I decided to get a picture of the girls and put it in a frame. I didn't realize how much effort it would take to get ONE good shot of the two of them. After many many pictures and positions here is the winner:



Cute, huh?

More pics from Father's Day:

One of my favorites..


Daddy & his girls:



Samantha found her feet:



Samantha started day care at Hannah's school on July 1st (and has had 2 ear infections already!) and Hannah was more than happy to bring her to the infant room on her first day:



We went to visit my friend Jill in Novato and her daughter, Reese, who is 6 enjoyed playing with Hannah and they both enjoyed dressing up as princesses. Reese even did Hannah's make up...Adam was "thrilled".



I found out it is dangerous to leave stickers in a 3 1/2 year olds room when she refuses to take a nap...this is how she spent her "rest" time:



Samantha went skinny dipping with Ryan (Hannah's friend Sydney's younger brother):



...and went in for her first kiss:



Hannah and I went on a "date" and I took her to see her first movie at the free family theater fun fest in Sac. It was a free movie and we saw "Horton Hears a Who". Hannah was nervous at some parts but in the end enjoyed it a lot and I enjoyed our "date". Here she is in the theater...she could not take her eyes of the commercials that run before the movie long enough to look at the camera while I took this picture:



We've gone to the pool a lot and here are Hannah and Samantha sunbathing:



Finally, since Hannah is gone through Wednesday camping Samantha and I went back down to Novato to visit Jill & cool off. Jill lives a little further out in the country and has some really nice trails right near her home. So I took the back pack carrier for Samantha and we went hiking today with Jill. Samantha LOVED it! She kept laughing and squealing up there and simply just enjoying the ride. It was a great workout for me b/c we went up a good hill and Samantha and the carrier together put some good weight on my back. I am already sore right now from the and it hasn't even been 12 hours! Here we are just before we took off.