Rodeo

July 22nd, we went to the Days of 47 Rodeo. We had a lot of fun. I especially love rodeos and haven't been to one for about a year now. The girls were both pretty tired by the end. I took quite a few pictures of them there because their faces were hilarious!!

Homemade Oreo Cookies

We made these today and they are YUMMY! I've had a few requests for the recipe, which I found on this blog. Just eating the cookies plain are really good too! We would know, we tried a few! :)

Cookies:

• 2 devil's food cake mixes
• 2 cubes butter
• 4 eggs

Mix ingredients together. Roll into small balls (about 1T). Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees. When cookies are cool, spread filling on one cookie and sandwich with another.

Cream Cheese Filling:

• 1/2 cube of butter
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1 t vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Beat ingredients together until smooth and creamy.

Posts, Posts, & More Posts!

I have been so crazily busy lately, but finally decided to rest for a bit while both girls were napping and try to catch the blog up a bit. I still have some more to catch up on, but this is plenty for now! So just keep scrolling, there are lots of new posts!!! :)

Dancing In Heels

Maddie loves to play dress-up, and loves to wear my heels! I find them all over the house. And I'm pretty sure she can walk better in them than I can!She was so funny dancing and twirling around!

And yes, this girl is totally nude under the slip. We have a hard time keeping clothes on her!

Visit With Sevrine

My cousin Colleen and her daughter Sevrine live in Arizona so we don't get to see them often. So when I heard Sevrine was here in Salt Lake visiting her dad, I jumped on it! My aunt Karen and her daughter Natalie came along with me and the girls to see Sevrine, who we haven't seen since she was only a few months old! We asked the girls where they wanted to go eat, and they all yelled out "McDonald's" at the same time... yuck!! But how could you say no to cute little faces like these...

The kids played so well, and were hilarious together!! If only you all could have seen it. They kept us all laughing the entire time!

We were ready to go probably an hour before we actually left the place, the kids did not want to leave! I'm pretty sure we stayed past the closing time!

We can't wait for Thanksgiving when Sevrine will be back up visiting again! Maybe we can even talk her mommy into making a trip up here before that so we can see her too! :)

PS. Sevrine has the best manners! I hope Maddie acts like this when she's out around other people... this girl said please and thank you for everything! :)

Chloe At 11 Months

A little late on these. I took these a couple weeks ago (her birthday is only 2 weeks away!)

Maddie will tell me to "stop taking pictures" whenever a I try to snap a picture of her, but funny thing when I want to take some of Chloe, I can't get Maddie out of the way! Little Miss center-of-attention! :) Chloe does love her sister though! Her face just lights up whenever she sees Maddie! It's pretty darn cute to watch them play and interact together!

My Bear Lake Birthday

My birthday was actually this last Sunday, but we celebrated early and went up to Bear Lake. We had so much fun up there, and although we went up for the lake and the raspberry milkshakes (which I surprisingly only had 1 the whole weekend we were there... what was I thinking??) our favorite part was probably the pool! And even crazier... it was indoor! Why you ask? Not only did they have a regular sized pool, but they had a kiddie pool that was quite shallow so Maddie was able to jump and swim as she pleased with no floaties at all. She met quite a few friends while we were there.

She also loved showing off her bobs in the water. We are amazed at how well she can hold her breath under water!

Even Chloe loved the pool! She liked to lick the water off her floaty. It was pretty embarrassing when it was time to go, literally dragging Maddie out of the water back to our condo. And she cried the whole way. That girl could have stayed in the pool all night if we'd let her!

We had fun building sand castles and building a dam so that when the boats came by, the wake wouldn't come and drench all of our stuff.... again! It worked!! And we had fun building it. Sorry, no picture! :(

While we were at the beach, Maddie learned to pee in the lake. Ya, big accomplishment, I know! But it did take a bit for her to actually be able to do it! There was a little boy next to us learning to do the same thing, pretty funny! There were no bathrooms around so it was our only choice! Then we gave her the lesson about how we only pee in Bear Lake, no where else! I could just see it happening, Maddie thinking it's OK to pee in the pool!

We also went on a bike ride... so fun for our whole family! It was quite the workout for Mike and I, but the girls seemed to love it, laughing and giggling most the way, waving to everyone we passed!

Playing Outside With Attitude

We all were enjoying a nice evening outside (just before the 4th... I'm just a little behind!)playing with sidewalk paint and chalk and throwing the "pop-its", which Chloe LOVED... I tried to get it on tape, but missed it! She cracked up every time she heard the "pop"!

Watch this video below (excuse my annoying voice in the background... I hate that!) Maddie is like a light switch, she can go from "happy" to "attitude" in a second (and vice versa!) I'm glad I caught it all on tape so when she's a mom and complains about her daughter's attitude, she'll know exactly where they got it from! :)