Little Lola

I have a picture and a video for you this time! Lola was playing on the bed with Jeff and kept putting Sophy's Jean shorts on her head as a hat. It was super funny. We'd take them off and she'd find them and put them back on. We finally traded her for a denim hat.
The other night Sophy crawled in Jeff's lap and asked to hear music. Jeff switched to Utube and played some of his favorites. Lola crawled into he room and kept trying to dance. She would stand up and start then fall. It was cute and funny.

Cake #3

I learned something very important about roses this week. I learned that I HATE making roses! I also learned that I'm no good at judging icing consistency. I did get my ten roses made and I think that my cake turned out pretty good. I got a fancy piece of paper saying I'm finished with course #1! Yeah! One down 3 to go. I start course number 2 on Sunday. I am not as excited about this one, but that's ok because at least I don't have to make a cake every week this time. I am very excited to take course number three! I do get to make a friend's birthday cake this week and I'm thinking about making a birthday cake for all the many July birthday's up at church next week, so I might end up making a cake a week anyway.

Cake #2

I have now finished my 3rd cake decorating class. We leasrned roses and lots of little flowers. I also learned how to make a clown. I wasn't sure what to write on my cake so "eat me" it was. Hopefully all who see it will follow directions well. It is a strawberry cake with a vanilla pudding center! I kinda want to cut into it myself! I liked the flowers though. That was fun. Roses are Hard! I have to make 10 before next class and I have some work to do to get 10 good ones that's for sure!

Rose Garden Adventure!

Today I took a tiny break from working. Can you believe I've had 4 photo Shoots in the last week? Trish called to see if we wanted to go do something since we hadn't hung out in a long time. So I suggested we go to the rose garden since I have an upcoming Photo Shoot there and wanted to scope it out. I saw where all the construction was and were things are still blooming. Since we were taking the girls we packed a picnic lunch and we all sat in a little stone gazebo and ate. Afterwards we played with bubbles and walked around the garden taking pictures. I played with my new UV Filter and it seems to work well. I was really sad because at one point I was carrying Lola and we came to a bridge without good railings so I needed to hold Sophy's hand. I shifted my camera to the hand that was holding Lola and she thought it was great fun to poke my new filter. All the pictures after that have a smug in them that I didn't notice till we were on the way home! Oh well. Good thing it was just a family fun photo shoot! If you would like to see the shots I got of the girls you are welcome to click the title and type in the password: Roses. Enjoy!

Happy Father's Day!

Today Jeff got to choose where he wanted to go eat and he got to go to the park afterwards with the girls. It was a perfect day for pictures! I even let him play with my camera a little! Happy Father's day honey!
If you would like to see more from our trip tot he park just click on the title of this post and enter the password: Jeff (case sensitive). I was using my new camera so I was still learning it's features!

A new member of our family....

No I am NOT having another baby, but look at this beautiful piece of machinery that my loving husband surprised me with this weekend. I had a big photo shoot today (a friend from FE was getting married and talked me into doing the photos) and I was sad because my camera had such low resolution and we couldn't get my new one yet. Then all of a sudden the UPS guy was asking for a signature and there was my camera! Jeff can be so sweet!
Now I need to dress up the girls so I can go play with my new toy before the next shoot....

Cake #1.

I've always wanted to take a cake decorating class. I've loved watching Ace of cakes and looking at pictures. My wedding cake was only #2 then my dress in my minds eye. So I finally found out that I could take an inexpensive class at Micheal's. I got the class for my mom in Arkansas for Mother's Day and I signed myself up here. I've been two times now and I love it. Here is a picture of the first cake I made for class. Next week is roses and flowers...ohhhh, fun!

Are you hungry?

Today after her breakfast, a healthy yougart and bowl of cereal, Sophy stated that she was still hungry and wanted cake. I think it had a lot to do with her father standing in the kitchen eating cake for breakfast. The cake is lemon and had no frosting (a mess up cake from attempting to make a smooth iced cake for class) so I thought "why not". Jeff cut her a small piece and put it on a plate. Unfortunately he chose a segmented plate that we use for dinner time. Luckily it only had two sections. She took a look at the plate and demanded that something be put in the smaller section. We asked her what and began looking for some sort of fruit that would fit int he small space. She piped up that she wanted "Ketchup". So I decided I'd put some on to avoid the tantrum and try not to look as she ate her cake. Sure enough she sat and dipped her lemon cake into her ketchup and cleaned her plate! Yuck! Jeff stood by giving me the play by play since I refused to look at her. By the end I decided this needed to be kept for prosperity so here is a picture of Sophy eating Lemon cake and ketchup.

Work Picnic

We went to Jeff's office Memorial Day picnic today. It was a lot of fun. They had a cook out and carnival style games like the duck pond, ring toss, and a cake walk. Sophy and Lola both won prizes and we even won in the cake walk! It was a lot of fun and we were able to meet a lot of the people that Jeff works and travels with. Jeff always likes a chance to show off the girls.

Pool opens!

Our pool opened yesterday! Since it was SO hot we decided it'd be fun to walk down and go swimming this evening. We only swam for about an hour, but we still had a great time. Both girls had fun splashing and playing. When we were done Jeff gave the girls a bath while I made us a late dinner. Sophy loved her carrots and grapes but didn't like chicken salad sandwiches too much. We gave Lola grapes for the first time (finally found a good price on them) and she chowed down on them. They are both now peacefully sleeping the sleep of very tired out kiddos! Now as long as my jet lagged husband doesn't decide 3:30am is the perfect time to get up and make noise I might actually get some sleep tonight!

Art

Today Trish took the girls and I to the OKC Art Museum. I had never been before but I have always wanted to go. They allow pictures without flash on the 3rd floor so I had fun getting pictures of Sophy. Lola was strapped down and doesn't quite understand "don't touch". Since I took so many of Lola on Tuesday it was nice to get some of Sophy.
Sophy seemed to enjoy looking at the art. She liked the "snakes" (some glass) and the abstract art. If you would like to see more pictures click on the title and type the password: Art (case sensitive).

Flowers!

After I dropped Sophy and her cupcakes off at school I saw a very pretty field of flowers near my house. I had about an hour to kill before I had to be at work so I decided to grab my camera and take some shots of Lola. She was wearing a cute dress that my mom had gotten for her and I thought it would be a great moment with her since Sophy wasn't with us. They turned out so cute! I'm glad that I actually acted on the impulse. Now I have the moment frozen to always remember. If you would like to see more of these photos just click on the title and type in the password : Flowers (case sensitive).

Summer cupcakes

Tomorrow is Sophy's last day of school (till Summer session). Since some of her friends won't be there for summer or even next year I thought I'd do something nice for her class. So I made these cute Cupcakes for her class and I'm sending goody bags. It's nice to do something nice every now and then, besides I had an excuse to practice my decorating skills.
I saw this recipe in a book a while back and thought "man that's cute, but who would want to eat that much icing?" the answer: A class of two year olds.

Dancing Queen

Sorry the video is sideways. It's my first time putting a video on here so you'll have to bear with me as I learn. This is Lola watching Dancing with the Stars.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday Mom/Tammy/ Nana! I hope you have a wonderful mothers day and a happy birthfday! Know that we are thinking about you and we hope to see you soon!

birthdays and holidays!

This last weekend I was blessed to get to see my grandmother celebrate her 70th birthday! This woman has always been such a huge influence in my life. Next to my mother she has had more to do with how I turned out and who I am today than anyone else. On this mother's day I'm glad to think of how important my mom is and how much she has taught me. I never fully understood how big a job she had till I had that job myself. To not only keep a kid a live but teach them how to be productive members of our society, loving caring individuals, aware and in love with our creator, and how to be a good mom on top of it all. I only hope that someday I'll be able to watch my girls as moms and know that I did my mom justice. I hope I turned out like my mom so my girls will turn out like her too.
I love you mommy!
(p.s. I made the cake, my first attempt at a tiered cake. I think it turned out ok, but I learned a lot for next time too!)

Contrary to appearances I do NOT beat my child.

Little Lola sat on a wall (couch actually).
Little Lola had a great fall (well tumble maybe).
And all the kings horses and all the kings men (uhmm, Jessica, the kids, and myself),
Couldn't put Lola together again (but we did stop the crying!).

Sophy's school program

Sophy had her first school program last week. I got her all dressed up and off we went. She sang her songs and recited her verse to us at home and on the way. She was SO cute. They walked her whole class in and she was sitting SO close to her friend Chase that I'm sure his parents didn't get a single picture of him alone during the show. She just sat and looked at all those people and not a word came out her mouth! It was so funny! She sang her song the whole way home though! Such a silly little girl!
Worst part of the night? i forgot to bring my camera! So I snapped a few pictures at home but I'm at the mercy of other parents from her school to get some pictures/video of the program!

Lola's birthday present....

Here's some pictures of the girls playing with a friend in one of Lola's presents! They all seem to really like it. It could use some more of those balls, but I'm not sure I want to risk having to clean up THAT many when the initial fun wears off and they decide to empty the whole thing in my house! It is nice to see how much fun they have in it and together too!

Happy Birthday Lola!

Here are the promised cake pictures! Hope you like them!