Girls Nights Out!

The first weekend in July, I decided it was time for some alone time with Mommy for each of the girls. I have been working so much that I have not been able to spend as much time with them as I normally do during the summer and the time I am with them, they fight over me like crazy!

So...first I took Miranda to see a movie she was super excited about...Monte Carlo.

She just adores Selena Gomez and watches Wizards of Waverly place daily! Probably the most excited she gets over any show she watches.
She decided it was appropriate to dress up for this movie! How CUTE! She even put on a pink beaded necklace and jewelry along with a matching clutch! LOVE IT, she is a fashionista already!

The movie was great, poor thing ate way too much popcorn as usual, but she gushed about the movie for days. Even to her dad and his wife, lol!

The following day I took Loren out for some yogurt. This was her request. So we made a trip to YoLo in Collierville. We had a great time, and while good, we agreed Sweet CeCe's was much better...oh no worries we are still on a best yogurt in town quest, lots more to try.

Aww, poor Loren, her skittles she put in her yogurt froze and were too hard to chew. :(

Little Miss Diva, she is like her momma and wanted to sit right beside the window. We had fun sitting there watching all the people in the town square.

We plan on having a lot more mommy/daughter girls nights out, but for now, these two are inseparable! I love how close they are! :)

And I definitely cherish my time with them, each and every second!

Sweet Summertime~Goofy and Loving it!

One thing we ladies know how to do...is have fun! :)

We spent the majority of my days off at the sprinkler park in Collierville, that is until this insane heatwave set in...
On days we just couldn't take the heat, we moved indoors, to the Wolfchase Mall, where we usually hit up the merry-go-round, spider jump, playground, and Starbucks and Godiva, OF COURSE! :)

We had lots of lunch dates, mostly with Homma and Nanie, and lots of good times were had!

The girls swallowed a frog at one outing...

These girls LOVE dill pickles! So silly!

And on Father's day, the girls made their dad some gifts, and look how cute they looked for their dinner with their dad! Too sweet!

And THIS is how I found my little heathens, passed out in Miranda's bed at the end of the night! LOL, Miranda must sleep with her eye mask, but still has to have the lamp on!

And the following pic, is when the girls got Smurfed at Kid Station. If you have not checked that place out, you should, great ladies who run this really fun drop-in play center. The girls love going there!

This is the day Miranda did their hair to get them ready for their bath, haha!

And this was when the girls were having fun playing at our cousin Becca's house. So silly, Loren is pouting because she wants the other glasses back. Just watch...

...see, all better now! All is right in the world, lol!

This was just a taste of our goofiness, we are always up to no good, promise! ;) Hope you all had a wonderful and goofy summer too!

Miranda's 7th Birthday

Pretty in Pink...yes, the birthday girl is obsessed with pink. AND even requested strawberry cupcakes with strawberry icing.

Nanie was sure to get the birthday princess a sash and crown! So sweet, we love you Aunt Nanie!

xoxo

Very yummy, if I do say so myself, ;)

Of course, haha, Loren always has to eat things the messiest way possible!

Let me just tell you, Miranda BEGGED for this type of alarm clock. BEGGED!

What happened first time it went off and woke these lovely sleeping beauties?

They ran screaming at the top of their lungs, in a zombified state, through the house and terrified me to death! I had no idea WHAT was going on, but they no longer use this alarm clock she BEGGED for, because they are terrified by it when it goes off, haha!

Go figure!

And of course, you can't be a princess without a Disney princess gown! My mother, she is always spoiling these girls rotten...but she is oh so pretty! :)

Miranda also wanted a new Bible for her birthday. So I got her one she could understand, only now she tries to carry this big ole book to church with her, lol, it's very heavy!

But she is so glad it is one she can actually understand, but isn't made for really little kids, because, she's SEVEN now! A big girl after all, you know!

What else did this big girl request for her birthday? To have her ears pierced, so reluctantly, we did! And she was all excited about it until it was time. Poor thing, I think she's still traumatized!

She said she NEVER wants to get her ears pierced again! And Loren agrees, she doesn't either! lol...As for the piercings, she was finally able to change them after July 4th, she said they hurt so she took them out for ONE night, and they closed! Completely! I told her that if she wants them pierced again she will have to wait until she is grown and can afford to pay for them herself, lol! But she was VERY brave for going through with it in the first place!

I honestly can't believe my baby girl is seven...seems crazy to me!

May Fun, Field Day AND...A Wedding

So very behind on posts, obviously! May was full of fun and extremely busy!

The girls and I had so much to do we couldn't see straight!

Most of the summer ended this way...haha!

Miranda had a wonderful field day...Loren and I even joined her class for a picnic lunch! So Fun!

For the majority of the summer, Nanie and I treated the girls to Rafferty's...we fell in love with the patio, and the servers are pretty amazing to, what can we say?!

The girls love that we just randomly go sit on the patio on cool summer nights, they know the drill and what they like there, makes for very enjoyable nights!

The girls, standing in front of their dad's house, ready for his wedding weekend in MS!

The girls were so excited for their dad to get married, they couldn't believe they were going to be IN the wedding! So sweet! They said they had so much fun!

Pleading the 5th!

I have recently been having conversations with Loren that shock me. She sounds like such a big girl. I started thinking about it and realized that when Miranda was her age, actually even before that, I talked to her like she was a little adult. For some strange reason, I still treat Loren like she is a baby. Maybe because she is my baby. My mother said she did the same thing with my little sister. It's just what parents sometimes do, unintentionally. I am amazed at how differently I treat them. I'm glad I realized this though, I am positive that some of the behavioral problems I've been having with Loren are probably because I treat her like a baby and not like the big girl she is. I am creating my own monster! lol...time for a change for sure!

On another note, dontcha just love being able to make your kids believe you see and know all! I mean seriously I don't know how many times my kids ask, "How did you know?!" And I say nonchalantly, "I'm a mom, mothers know EVERYTHING!" I have also convinced them that I have cameras in the house and can playback the video at any time to see if they are lying to me, this has worked so well with Loren, who is known for telling tales! Today she tripped her sister in the hallway and said it was an accident. Miranda had a small boo-boo with blood and was being dramatic.

The argument started, "She pushed me on purpose!"

Loren, "No I didn't, it was an accident!" And so it went on.

I calmly said, "Okay, let's check the video to see what really happened." And as I pulled out a random DVD and pushed play I turned around to see Loren hiding behind Miranda.

"Loren, why do you look so guilty?"

Loren, "I'm not, I just don't want to watch it."

I said, "Well, if I watch this and see that you were lying, you will get a spanking."

Then she quickly admitted that she did it on purpose.

Miranda said, "Why did you say you didn't mean to then?"

Loren, "Because I didn't mean to make you bleed."

Then Miranda asked me, "What was on that DVD mommy?"

I simply replied, "That's the video from the hallway, I have cameras all over the house...I can see anything you girls are doing...at any time!" =)

Oh, I dread when they become teenagers and realize I'm full of crap! haha!

For the Love of Monkeys!!! =)

The girls' dad is getting married in two weeks, which happens to be on my weekend. Not a problem, we did some rearranging to accommodate this problem, and now I get Miranda on her birthday weekend :) BUT I didn't realize that it would switch us up to where I did not have my girls on Mother's Day! :( I tried to be a big girl about it. I see my girls every day and they'd be home in time for dinner. See...their dad scheduled Miranda's party for Saturday of Mother's day weekend, unfortunately his sister-in-law also scheduled his fiance's wedding shower at the same time without consulting him, so he had to move Miranda's party to MOTHER'S DAY! Again, I thought, no big deal, I see them every day and Miranda will have so much fun having a party and I will at least be getting her for her birthday weekend! I was completely fine with it all...that is until Mother's day finally came. I don't know what happened, I woke up fine, was a bit sad about going to church without them, especially when everyone started asking what I was doing for Mother's day. We all came back here for lunch with my mother to celebrate and then my sis and I took her for a pedicure. Very fun spending time together. Then I came home and it hit me even harder. They finally got home at 5pm, and I will say, NEVER AGAIN! lol...I just was not prepared for how weird it was going to feel not celebrating with my girls. It may seem silly to some, but it really is something I will never allow again. Oh well, at least I have her birthday weekend coming up! :)

Now on to the important stuff, haha. The girls, with the help of their Homma, secretly got me a framed picture of them from their Easter pics I took (the one above). LOVE IT!!!!! I have it sitting on my dresser in my room. (My walls are too low to hang stuff on, lol)

Miranda also made me a Mother's Day card at school. She wrote, My mom deserves a special day because she loves me and I love her and she protects me, I like my mom.

My mommy looks pretty when she goes out and on Halloween she dressed up like Katie Perry and she was "butful." haha, of the misspellings, this was my favorite. ;)

My mommy looks funny when she scares me. I laugh and laugh until I pass out or can't breathe.

And then there was a poem at the end. Too sweet!

Below is a drawing she did of me and her.

Loren made me a key chain that reads MOM...I forgot to take a picture though! I love my sweet girls and am so very grateful to God that He blessed me with those sweet little angels! I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day too!

Good Times with Great Friends :)

We randomly meet up for a play dates at McDonald's with our friend Janessa and her daughter Brooklyn, and our friend Lora and her girls, Kate and Alex. The girls LOVE this time! They have a really great playground and of course it gives us mom's time to catch up on everything! The crazy monkeys wanted some ice cream! Is it just me or does it look like the sugar rush is setting in?!