2013

I guess it's time to post for the first time in 2013.  To be honest I have been dreading it.  To be completely honest I never really wanted 2013 to come.  This year scares me.  This is THE year.  The year Cambry starts sc..sch...schooo... schooo.... schooooo. You get the idea.  Even when I start to say the word, or apparently type it, it makes me cry.  2012 was so dreamy with two kids that I got to play with all the time, and we went where ever we wanted whenever we wanted to.  No schedule, no one dictating what we did except us, and certainly no one went to school.  I wanted to hit the rewind button and do it all over again and for the rest of my life because I feel like it can't get better than all of that awesomeness.  If every January 1st was January 1, 2012 I would be so happy.  I know Cambry is going to be great at school, and I'm sure she is going to love it and I know somewhere deep inside of me their is a piece of me that is excited for her to go on this adventure.  I think that feeling is just covered up by the crazy part of me that lays in bed at night and cries because this is THE year that it's going to happen.  For now I have realized that just because I stop blogging about our life doesn't mean that our life is not happening, so I might as well document it as we go along.  The girls where riding their bikes and kept looking behind them to see where they had been and I found myself saying "Don't look behind you or you will crash, look ahead so you are ready for what's coming!"  So I guess I need to take my own advice and look ahead.  

So..Two months later...

 Sorry about the lack of blog posts!  I just checked my blog and I haven't posted since Halloween and here we are at almost Christmas!  You haven't missed out on a ton, maybe that's why I haven't posted much because there hasn't been a ton to write about.  This season the girls have enjoyed decorating for Christmas, their elf Gumdrop Piggy Elf-Elf is back and we find him every morning, their advent calendar to countdown the days, zoo lights, hot chocolate Christmas walks at night, and sending out Christmas cards (still working on this one!).  I have captured some cute pictures leading up to Christmas that I just have to post.

The girls decorating their own tree

The culprit of many broken ornaments

Showing me what cranky elves would look like 

One of the favorite mornings when the girls found Gumdrop roasting a marshmallow on a candle

Only in Arizona can you put up Christmas lights naked.  You should have seen Drew. :)

Cambry's favorite day of finding Gumdrop.

Yes...I will make my children dress as elves as long as they will let me!

Halloween 2012

 Since Cambry has had her Halloween costume since June I thought that it might be a bit anti-climactic by the time that October 31st actually rolled around.  However, she could have not been more excited.  Every day in October she woke up and asked if it was Halloween.  Finally when the day arrived she was so excited, and we gave her one final touch that made her day.  "Crazy-curly hair that's orangy-red" as she called it.  She has been waiting to sleep in sponge curlers, have her hair sprayed orange, and have freckles added. I took out the curlers, put her in the tub to spray her hair, added her freckles, and then I lifted her up to my mirror so she could see the end result.  Her eyes bugged out of her head and her smile was beaming.  She WAS MERIDA!!!  I think it was the best day of her life.
As for Colbie she flip-flopped a lot over who she wanted to be from a cucumber to a giant.  Her number one choice was Prince Cornelius.   Who is that you might ask?  I would like to know as well.  Apparently he is some random prince who has wings in the movie Thumbalina a movie that I, and I would say most people, have not seen.  I envisioned myself going door to door to our neighbors with my baby girl as this winged prince claiming to be Cornelius.  Funny, but for the sake of having no idea how to get a Cornelius costume I steered her into another directions.  She loves cats and specifically loves a girl cat, Kitty Soft Paws, from the movie Puss In Boots.  That I can handle.  Unlike her everything-has-to-be-exact sister, she didn't have to have every detail of Miss Soft Paws, so she was comfortable in a black cat outfit and just corrected people on her identity if they had mistaken her for merely a black cat.  

 

My favorite picture of Cambry, I mean Merida, of the day.  That's her "Merida" face. 

 Oh the curls and sprayed hair that brought so much joy.  Some even thought is was a wig, but it was her awesome hair. 

 If pictures had sound all you would hear is meowing.  She meowed all. day. long.

"I'll shoot for my own hand!!" She said in her Scottish accent.

A goofy lunch

I'm not sure why the girls were so hyper, but they were cracking Drew and I up at lunch the other day.  The funniest part of this video is about 15 seconds in when Colbie (who turned three and has become a comedian) makes the most random face and voice.  You can hear by my laugh it was the first time she had done it and I captured it on video! Yes! The rest you may not even think the rest of the video is funny but I do and i wanted to remember what life is like at this stage, and I think it will might entertain your kiddos. 

New gig

As most of you know I have been doing hair out my home for years now.  It's been a great blessing to have clients who are dedicated enough to forgo the salon experience and stick their pretty little heads in my kitchen sink.  It's been a huge blessing to stay home with my children and work while they are with me.  Up until recent times things have gone very very smoothly, however, this ideal situation quickly went down hill.  The girls became very aware what they could get away with while mommy had her hands full.  This involved multiple pee's on the carpet (thank you Colbie T.), mental breakdowns, milk wars, emptying the paper shredder and leaving a shredded paper trail all through out the house, and mean streaks.  Mischief and disobedience in many different ways started to rear its ugly head.  Unfortunately, when I was with a client there was not much I could do until they were gone to put out the fire and discipline the fire starters.  And let me tell you they were turning into little pyromaniacs.  I was feeling disheartened and frustrated at what had gone on with the girls after each client.  They were getting into so much trouble, but being that they are unsupervised three and four year old's of course they were.   It didn't seem fair to them, to me, or to my clients. What was working in the past was no longer working.  Not just because of the girls, but I was also getting exhausted taking my kitchen and turning it into a salon and turning it back into a super clean hair-free kitchen multiple times a week.  It pretty much came down do two options: a very early retirement, or going to work in a salon.  I really love doing hair, so I picked going to a salon.  I'm so glad I did!!  I had my first day last Monday and it was awesome!!  I didn't go into work until 2pm so I had all morning with the ladies.  We went to had breakfast, went to dance class, did some schooling, played, had lunch, and then I got ready for work.  It felt like I got to see them and and then Drew was home by 5 so he had a fun evening with them.  (Don't worry there was a sitter in between those the time I left and Drew got home)  I'm only working one day per week so it is nice that I have all of my clients in one day and the rest of the week to be a mom.  It was a magical day and a huge confirmation that I made the right choice.  It seems that everyone is happier and we actually have more time together.