dana joyce!!

Ok, another post on cam's phone. I just need to share my excitement: Dana will be here in 48 hours!! I can't wait. I'm so lucky to have a best friend that can be silly, serious, fun, intellagent and calm all in one visit. We haven't been able to spend tons of time together for a long time and in a lot of ways our lives are totallydifferent but she is my kindred spirit. She is the sister I got to pick. I am so excited to see her. If anyone wants to join our fun. We are having a halloween party at 3:30 on Saturday. If you want to come show up with a treat ;o}

death

Our comp up and died. It won't even recognize its plugged it. Won't start, nuthin'. So I'm posting this from cam's phone. I just have to say how cool is this phone!! So I will be internet-less for an unforseeably long time. Suck.

halloween

I love to dress up! love it. Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that i'm huge fan of costumes. consiquently i love the dress up part of halloween. hate the ghouls and the scary stuff but i love the dress up part. Anyway, for halloween this year we (girls) are going to be fairies. i'm pretty excited about it. we bought some tutus from this lady at the farmer's market (i'm picking up all the completed ones today since i only have jade's) then my creative juices started flowing. is there anything more fun than doing a little crafting project? i'm sure a few things but its high on the list. anyway, so i decorated onesies for the girls then made them these crowns and the little ribbons with sequence will...i dont know they were going to be for the wand but think that will look dumb now that i'm halfway there. so my girls' costumes are almost done, i just need to do their wings. mine and dana's haven't even started. oh yeah...best news!!!! DANA IS COMING TO VISIT ME!!! i'm so excited. dana has been my best friend since seventh grade. you know how you have one of those friends that is just fun all the time and jsut gets you. you dont ahve to explain anything they jsut understand. thats my dana. i can talk to her about anything. i just love her. so wonderfully she is coming to visit over halloween weekend. so she is going to be a fary with us!! she loves dressing up too. anyway. just wanted to share my fun!

best friends

when i was little i always wished for a sister. i used to pray at night that i would somehow in some miracle get a sister. when i realized that i was not going to get a sister i started praying that when i had kids i would have two girls right next to each other, so they could be like my mom and her sister. well i got my wish. and my girls already love each other so much, even though they aren't quite at the same stage in life. i took this great little photo shoot of them in jade's room the other day. jade just loves alana so much. yesterday she was eating an apple then walked over to alana and put it in her mouth. later she took a binkie put it in alana's mouth, took the other one, put it in her mouth and sat down next to alana, five minutes later those binkies were switched. that i think is pretty cute. alana always follows jade with her eyes and laughs at her. i know as they grow they will just become better and better friends. thank you Heavenly Father for giving me two girls, so my daughters can have a sister.

big girl room

well, Alana grew out of her bassanette. amazing. she is wearing 6-9month clothing right now. i put her in some 12monthers actually and just roll up the sleeves sometimes. it is really quite amazing that she has grown so much, so quickly. Anyway, her growing so fast necessitated Jade going into her big girl room. My sweet mother for my birthday last year bought a queen sized bed for Jade to move into. So it was decided she was moving into her room. We went to walmart and i took the kids drapes down. i held them in front of her and said 'Jadynne which one do you want in your big girl room?' she said mickey, pointed to the princesses and then took the tinkerbell drapes and held onto them. a pretty clear sign i thought. i got the comforter that matched. Its actually a twin but considering jade's size i figured it would work out. i headed down the isle when suddenly jade reaches out of the cart and grabs a furry purple pillow and puts it in the cart. i thought, alright, you picked it, if it makes you sleep in a big girl bed ok. we continued shopping. i couldn't really see jade with alana on top of the cart so later i stopped the cart to check on her- she was much to quiet. low and behold, my little darling had arranged the comforter to be behind her. she had her shoes off and was laying on the purple pillow holding onto her new drapes.! oh boy. we decorated up her room with stick on tinkerbells and she was so excited. she kept saying tinkerbell! tinkerbell! at one point (while waiting to go and pick up daddy from school) jade disappeared. i went upstairs and she was laying on her bed sipping away looking at her tinkerbell room. There was really only one hard night of adjustment. naps took about two days but now she is a pro! she loves her bedroom, sher loves her freedom. its pretty amazing to see. plus i totally recommend getting a bed that you and your kid can sleep in, becaus that hard night was a lot easier since i got to fall asleep with her. Anyway- we all have our own rooms now!

the stairs!!!

so, our house is horriblily made, those hydes who grew up in the original house will understand when i say 'a bunch of drunk idiots' made this aptarment. one result is our horrible stairs. they are super skinny, and super steep oh and they are very small steps. a couple of weeks ago i fell down them two days in a row and both times i had alana in my arms. yeah. this was not in the middle of the night either, and no i was not drunk or on any medication. fully awake and fully aware i fell down the stairs. alana was fine thankfully. anyway, the day before i fell for the first time Jade took a major tumble. from the top step down to the door- wahbam!!! huge fall lots of tears, no good. two days later she was half way up and low and behold we hear the noises again. slip bang bang bang. she slipped FACE first down the carpeted stairs then rolled over and came to a stop with her feet on the door and her head slamming into the floor. it was not good. so now our child looks like we beat her. huge rug burn down her nose. wow. hate our stairs. oh and the next day she threw a tantrum outside where she threw herself onto the ground...her forehead right onto the concrete. awesome

some family pics

no phone

i dropped my phone in the sink....it was full of dish water and dirty dishes. we are letting it dry out but as of now it isn't working. so either call cameron's phone or email me. lame.