Fall Photo Session

This year, my twin club did their photo fundraiser and took pictures with Allison. The pictures turned out awesome. As always, she did an excellent job! It doesn't hurt that the girls love her and she always gets them to smile.

We were lucky that Nana was still here to get her picture taken with the girls too. 

3 Year Old Pictures

The girls were finally in a good mood and my friend Allison was able to get some great pictures of them. I love the pictures, she is such an awesome photographer! These were their "Olivia" dresses that Nana found. Just like Olivia, they had to accessorize with headbands that I made! I love how they turned out. I made them with Dollar Tree headbands and flowers!

Sweet Lizzie, finally not cranky!

Lovely Gracie, so cute

Such sweet sisters. They can play so sweetly and fight so bitterly! Notice Gracie's hand on her hip. She is so prissy.

The choke hold, AKA hugs. Lizzie is a little wrestler. She muscles Gracie into doing what she wants.

Love how they are such little hams! Gonna frame this!

Thanks so much Allison for the great pictures! I'm so glad we both had multiples so we could meet!

Third Birthday Party

On Saturday, we had the girls birthday party on their actual birthday! How fun is that. We of course picked one of the hottest June's on record to have an outdoor party. Fortunately, the party was in the morning and the kids played in the water and only the parents were really hot. I was sweating buckets! The theme was Olivia the Pig. The girls LOVE her! They always want to watch her on TV.

The kids in one of the pools

Reese and Riley stopped playing to get a snack and Lizzie couldn't be left out. Riley loves her snacks!

Lizzie checking out the cake

Lizzie and Gracie playing

Gracie in her sunglasses. They did not come off.

The girls had a blast and I think all their friends did too! We had about 20ish kids in our back yard which included 5 sets of twins and a set of triplets!

These pictures were taken by Nana. My friend Allison took some too! I can't wait to share them!

At the Movies

Today, we went to see Kung Fu Panda 2 with our friends. We went with our friends, Reese and Riley and Anna, Isaac and EJ. Yes, we took 2 sets of twins and a set of triplets all under 4 to the movies. That's 7 kids! We met at the mall and had Panda Express first. Then we headed to the movie. All the kids were so excited (and I think all the parents especially the dads)!

We first had to stop and look at the fountain.
From left to right: Lizzie, Riley, Gracie, Isaac, EJ, Anna and Reese

The girls stopped running down the mall to stare at a women getting her eyebrows threaded.

All 13 of us waiting for the movie to start! We took up an entire row! Its so dark you can't see all the way down.

Here are the girls cheesing it up.

We had such a good time. Lizzie and Gracie ate half a box of popcorn. All the kids were so good during the movie and they all loved it! Gracie did get a little scared of the peacock and wolves that were in the movie. She was upset the entire car ride home. Lizzie told me a couple of times she was scared but didn't seem that upset. She did whisper to herself a lot during the movie.

So now on our list of scary is talking trees, peacocks and wolves. I only see this list getting longer.....

They Look Sweet Don't They

See how sweetly these two girls can smile and look cute?

Lizzie saying "cheese"

Gracie looking cute

Well, they can look cute when they want to and then turn around and be little terrors. I took these pictures after we finished having lunch with my friend Shanon, where they acted like two little monkeys. They climbed all over her, jumped in the booth and tried to put something in a lady's hair sitting behind us. Finally, lunch ended when Gracie started screeching about something I took from her.

The next day, we met up with our friend Anna, Isaac and EJ for story time and playing. We got through story time with out trouble but when we went outside they were naughty. Lizzie would blatantly do something that I told her not to do. She was in time out a lot. Gracie was a little better and didn't go in time out as much.

Some other things they are doing:

• Gracie is fighting me about the car seat, I can't tell if its because she thinks she is in the wrong seat or not
• Lizzie likes to run in the other direction, usually when we are near really busy streets.
• Gracie is still fighting me about the potty. We are trying to bribe her with cute panties. I have to beg her to go when she wants to do something "more fun".
• Both like to hit. Lizzie hits Gracie when she is frustrated and vice versa. Gracie has a temper and tries to hit anything in her path.

We are trying to work on correcting all these bad behaviors. Its a little overwhelming when you have two at the same stage working against me. What keeps me sane and more calm is that they do have very cute moments. They are talking so much to each other. Some times I can't even tell what they are talking about (I think they are plotting against me sometimes) but they talk, laugh and play. Today in the car, they were talking and Lizzie was belly laughing so hard. It cracked me up!

Bluebonnets

Today, I took the girls to get pictures in the bluebonnets. My friend Allison had a great idea for our twin group. To have the kids come out and she would take pictures. I thought to myself, this will be great, my girls love to model for Allison and take pictures.

I should have know that today was not going to go ok. Lizzie woke up cranky and didn't want to do anything I asked her. I finally got them dressed and in the car. We stopped for donuts (I was thinking the sugar would work in my favor) and headed to our field of bluebonnets.

In my crazy dream world, I envisioned beautiful girls smiling sweetly for Allison. In reality, we get to the field to find out it was soaking wet, not from rain but from sprinklers. Allison got some really good shots of all the kids until their feet got wet. Lizzie and Anna (one of Allison's triplets) were not happy about the wet feet and were crying. Gracie wanted to be attached to Allison's hip while she was taking pictures of other kids (thus making taking pictures difficult). Again, my girls LOVE Allison. I think they would live with her if they could.

Anyway, we finally bribed Lizzie and Gracie with Fritos (chili cheese no less, their daddy would be proud) to take ONE shot together. It worked! I just hope Allison got a good one to use.

This is how most of the shots went when I tried to get them together.

The Fritos worked! This is with Gracie stuffing them in her mouth.

In my disappointment, I stopped at a field closer to home after I got the girls McDonald's water and apples

Pictures Please!

My sweet friend and fellow mom of multiples (sweet triplets) took our pictures a couple of weeks ago at the Dallas Arboretum. She did an awesome job like she always does! In 30 minutes, she got a ton of good shots! It probably helped that the girls LOVE to have their pictures taken and pose for Allison (they also love her).

Her are some pictures she took.

The family

My sweeties posing

Dancing away

Sweet Lizzie

Sweet Gracie

The party!

The girls party was on Saturday. I think we ended up having around 13 kids show up plus parents. It was a big crowd to put in our house. The kids went from inside to outside and back. They all seemed to have a great time! I stressed over everything and made some stuff myself. We had our house and our yard ship shape. Wes and I made the birthday banner, the invitations, pin the nose on the monkey and the square crayons. Making the crayons was really fun. We melted then together. The best part was that we had LiaLezon take pictures to help us remember everything!

The banner. My mom, the artist drew the monkey.

Banner

Pin the nose on the monkey

Crayons

Crayons hot from the oven