I finally printed out the girls first year scrapbook

I am happy to say I printed out the girls first year scrapbook. Last weekend was Nation Scrapbooking Day. They had a great deal. Only 1.49 per 12x12 sheet. If I printed them at sams, they are 3.00 per sheet. Joe didn't let me print all of the pages I have done. It would have cost over $450. I had to only print what was to go in their first year book. Which was still a lot!
I did redue a couple pages from the very begining. Here are a few pages for you to enjoy.



Growing like weeds.

Every time I turn around the girls learn and grow so much. They already know over 120 words and that does not include all the animal sounds they know!

Happy Easter

We didn't celbrate today since the girls and I are still sick. We will do it some time this week when I have the energy to get them all dressed up. I can't believe that is has been nearly a month since I posted some pictures. I have gotten way behind because of all the remodeling and getting ready for Joe to leave.
Here are some that I worked on the last couple of nights.

Our garden

Here are some pictures of our jungle out front. We have managed to tame it some so it is not as overgrown as it was when we moved in. Joe took these pictures. I thought he took some of the fountain in our front patio area (by our front door) and where we plan on putting the Japanese maple. I will have to take those pictures and post them later. There are a few of the fountain on the last picture posted today where the girls are playing in the water.

I am still working on our back yard. We put in a vegetable garden and are planting a few trees. Here are some of the things are little girls have been up to. Hope you enjoy. Thanks to anyone who tells me any spelling mistakes as I plan on printing them.





Proof the washing machine does eat little girls' socks!

Over the last couple of months I have bought several new pairs of socks for the girls. We couldn't understand where they all were going. I would buy a couple of pairs, but by the end of the next week, the girls had no matching socks to wear on laundry day. Joe's theory was the girls were taking them off everywhere we went (the store, library, etc.) that might be true, but I notice when they take them off and throw them either in my purse or put them back on their little feet.
Joe happened to pull back the rubber seal around the washing machine and found 34 little girl socks packed all around the rim! It didn't eat any of our socks, just theirs! I wish I grabbed the camera before he dug them out.

I was so excited when we pulled out our camera that we don't use as often and found some more birthday photos of the girls! Here are some better ones of them digging in to their first cake and making a big mess!

And, as always, here are some scrapbook pages that I put together in all the spare time that I have. I have to admit, I don't get very much these days. Luckily I have become very fast at digital scrapbooking and for the most part keep up with all the many wonderful adventures our little girls experience.

                        

Muckin' Fudders defeat the Tough Mudder

Saturday we went to the Tough Mudder where Joe competed in a 12 mile obstacle course trudging through mud, electricity, fire, ice water etc. His team called themselves the Muckin' Fudders. The website said to expect to make it through in about 2.5 hours but Joes group took 4 hours and 50 minutes. The girls and I were tough ourselves and lasted the entire time! The girls were exceptionally good even when it was hours past their nap time. Oh, and it took 3 hours to drive there and 3 hours back. They were troopers! Here are some of the pictures I was able to take. I was not able to see much of Joe in the race since I was carting the girls. Hopefully others have taken some good pictures that I can share with everyone.



The first obstacle was swimming through thick muddy water. Note he starts off without a shirt. We got there just at the start and one of his team member's father was holding on to it to give to him when he passed along the track.

Here's Joe going through the woods trying to get around some of the slower people.

We didn't see Joe again for several hours. The girls made friends and charmed the runners. Melody drank the rest of my gatorade (without spilling!).

And here's Bethany in true survival form scraping the last Teddy Graham crumbs off the bottom of the container.  (Waste not, want not)

This was the first time we saw Joe after the start. This was taken at mile 10, many hours into the race. They were tired, thirsty and hungry. They even drank Melody's other gatorade! She was good to share.

Right after the picture above was taken, we saw them go through the monkey bars, a balance beam over water, and a walk through fire.  I didn't get any snap shots, but I took video which I believe Joe plans on posting later.  The girls and I had to move fast in order to get to these obstacles in time to watch "daddy".

The girls cheered "daddy" on as he crawled through the mud under barbed wire.

Look at that concentration!

The girls wait patiently until they can see daddy again.

Almost done, the finish line is around the corner after a 15 foot drop into some ice cold water.

The girls give Joe some encouragement and some loves.  Joe returns the favor, giving each of them a "mug" (mud hug).

Getting ready for the cold blast!

Superman!

Victory! Too bad I was not able to get in front of Joe before he ran through the finish. (Hard to run anywhere when you are holding two girls, have a backpack on, and carrying a camera). The last obstacle was running through electric wires to get to the finish. Joe thought about going back through just for the picture, but desided against it since he was too cold and tired and was FINISHED!

If you want to see descriptions/generic photos of all the obstacles involved, cruise over to http://toughmudder.com/events/georgia/highland-park-course-map-2011/.  You can hover your mouse over each thumbnail picture on the course for more info.

Of course, I can't do a blog post without posting scrapbook pages of our darling angels.