Muffin Turns Two

We celebrated Muffin's second birthday a week late since we were out of town on her calendar birthday. I love to see our three girls get together. They still don't really play together, but they sure do watch each other. Muffin loved all of her new toys and so did Peanut and Punkin.

She looks so much older than 2!!



Checking out their new tattoos.



Punkin is growing up WAY to fast.



Papa always has the girls crawling all over him ;)



Mom and Dad with the birthday girl.



Love the little waves in Muffin's hair. Again, just checking out things together.



So there you have it. Another fun day with the family. Pretty sure our son got some pretty good pictures too and I'll have to go snag some from him :) In July the girls will be 1, 2, and 3 for two days before Peanut turns 4. They really are growing up too fast.

Great Way to Start A New Year!

After spending a fun evening with my sister and her husband on New Years Eve we spent the rest of the weekend with our immediate family. Saturday we went to our son and daughter in law's place. We had so much fun with the girls. I'll let the pictures tell the story.


This first one is of Punkin crawling around. She's only 5 months old.


Talk about arresting eyes. And I love the little curl on the top of her head.


Here's Muffin enjoying her new house :)


She thought it would be fun if I came inside with her. I love playing with her.



We'd done a little 'horsing' around on Christmas Eve and she remembered ;)


Her new 'M' needed a ride too lol.

We had lots of fun coloring, reading and playing with all of her new toys... trust me she has a LOT!!

On Sunday our daughter invited us over for dinner and more play time. While the adults played with the racing games we girls had fun dressing up in all the new costumes Peanut got for Christmas. When we started playing she whispered to her Mom "Hey, I have an idea. Why don't you and Daddy go out for dinner and I'll stay here with Mimi and Papa." She is such a stitch!!



With each new outfit she changed her shoes and we redid her hair. Think we have a modeling beauty in our future. She is adorable!!


She got this 'Belle' costume from Uncle and Auntie. Yup, she's stylin..


When we finished with her costumes she wasn't done posin so she did this get up with a nightgown, Hawaiian necklace and she was doing a hula dance lol

We had a lot of fun dressing up and then set up her table for some Play Doh time. She is such an imaginative child... just like her mommy was.

Grandpa T takes some amazing photos and shares them on Facebook. I nabbed a few for my own use :)

Punkin in her Christmas finery. Love that smile!


Muffin in her matching dress. She's so photogenic!


This beautiful dress I call the "rose dress" because she looks like she's enveloped in rose petals. Just beautiful!


And finally our smiling beauties.


If this is how our year is going to play out then I'm ready for the year to begin!! I love spending time with our kids and grandkids. They are all so lively and fun and there is never a dull moment. How's your year going so far?

Halloween Pictures

We have a tradition in our family - as new babies come along we get them in a pumpkin at Halloween time. We didn't get to see Punkin in October, but I saved a large pumpkin for when we did get to see her this past weekend. Isn't she a beautiful smily baby? Just love her.




This is Muffin in 2009

And here we have Peanut in 2007.


The two older girls wouldn't get in any pumpkin this year, but they posed behind it. We're still having a lot of difficulty getting them to look and smile at the same time lol.


There is not a doubt in my mind how Muffin got a bruise on her cheek.... She is such a climber and jumper. Always in motion.


While I was holding Punkin I thought we might be able to get the other two in a photo too. What a joke. Peanut might have cooperated, but Muffin is just too active at 19 months. She just laughs and runs lol


So there you have our weekend in a nutshell. I love spending time with all the girls. Just a barrel of fun and energy.

Fertilize Friday 9/3/10

Our wonderful host Tootsie who I haven't checked out yet today. She always has gorgeous pictures and wonderful hints for gardners. There are a lot of other gardners linking up so check them all out.


Well, it's almost Labor Day and things are really drying up. We had a good rain yesterday and last night to perk them up, but most of the flowers have seen better days. Basically we have the Rose of Sharon at the back of the deck still going great guns. The coleus and daliah are also doing good. The coleus falls over every time it gets a little dry (okay sometimes we go away for a few days :)), so I'm amazed that it's still doing good.




So pretty with the rain drops hanging on.


Bought some new Rudbeckia yesterday.


Hope I have blooms like this next year when they are out front replacing the


flowerless daisies. The daisies are in between the azaleas



Look who else I found on the camera. Little Punkin! We watched her last week while her family went to a wedding. She was actually starting to coo a little... she's about 5 weeks old in this picture.


That's it for this week. I have serious doubts about next week, but I'll show you how the Rudbeckia look in their new home and where the daisies are being moved.

Great Weekend With Kids

This is my idea of a perfect weekend. We went to our son's on Saturday and I'm afraid I don't even visit with them much (my bad) I want to spend all my time with the girls. Muffin loves to dance with Barney.... is that cute or what? She really gets into it.



In this shot you'd think that she's sharing her soothie with Punkin.... lol nope, that's Punkin's soothie being tested by Muffin lol. Good thing Punkin doesn't care.


Not sure if she always wakes up this happy, but it was a lucky day for me :) Look at all those teeth lol


I think Muffin enjoyed the bag as much as her new quilt lol. She was playing peek-a-boo. The kids tell me that she has to have the quilt on the floor... if they pick it up when she's down for her nap she drags it down and puts it on the floor again. Glad she likes it so much.



Then on Sunday we were invited out to see my niece that is in from CA. On the left is my daughter with Peanut in front of her. Next to my daughter is my niece from CA holding her son whose twin is the little girl on the right side of the pool. The other two boys belong to my other niece who lives in the area.


My niece with her twins. They will be two on the 14th of this month.


Peanut showing the duck that she fished out of the pool with the bubble wand.


So that was my weekend. Smiling, dancing, fishing, peek-a-booing kids. Did you do anything this weekend?