Scenes from our weekend

Dinner at Ludivine on Friday evening with Natalie & Regan. So great to catch up.

Saturday was our neighborhood Valentines Social at our neighbor's house down the street. I love our street and I love that we have get togethers twice a year. Ava's face cracks me up here.

Lovebug

Ava spared no expense with the Valentines jewelry accessories. Like mother like daughter.

The neighbors and the cutest balloon curtain I've ever seen.

The dance off in the living room
Audrey & Ava got a kick out of this baby stroller and actually fought over it a couple of times.
Taylor and Audrey are the cutest together. They adore one another and hold hands everywhere they go.

Saturday night I coaxed mom into coming over for taco soup and to also style the shelves in my china cabinet. She has such a knack for dish/accessory placement and did such a fantastic job with everything I had to work with. Thank you Mama!! XO

Since I had my chevron stencil and paint out already I went ahead and gave a little life to the top of my end table in our bedroom.

Possibly a little obsessed...

Saturday the girls and I braved the freezing temps and headed to Affair of the Heart for some shopping. We only made it to 2 of the 5 buildings before the girls started to get restless and sleepy. I found the most darling rose colored bangles to go with my new watch to achieve the layered look I've been wanting. And they we 40% off. Score!

We completed the girls Valentines love note boxes for their party tomorrow. Ava picked out Rapunzel stickers and Audrey went with Little Mermaid to personalize their box. They decorated them all by themselves with just a little help from mom. They are becoming very creative and I love that we enjoy doing things like this together.

Happy Monday!

Halloween

I will forever love this picture. Snapped as we were leaving.

Halloween school party

Getting the girls ready for trick-or-treating was an interesting task to say the least.

Sugar High already

Love this shot of Ava. Taaa-Daaa

I made the girls' fairy wings out of wire hanger and panty hose, an idea from Pinterest. I let Audrey decorate her own and Ava's were covered in glitter flowers.

Love their green hair. Ava let me put make-up on her but Audrey did not. Shocking actually....

I was a gypsy with my fairies.

Love this shot

Meltdown to end the evening.

A Walk in Fall

Changing leaves make me so happy.

So does a beautiful walk around our neighborhood with my 2 little loves.

Scenes from our Weekend

This weekend we enjoyed the Fairy Ball, reading books and a picnic in the park.

Creating flower halos for the Fairy Ball

The Paseo Arts District hosts this every year and this was our first year in attendance and definitely not our last. The Ball featured ballet dancers dressed as fairies, face painting, flower halo/magic wand making, snow cones and music.

the most amazing sunset from our chairs....

Ava catching up on some sleep.

Nana reading a book to Audrey before bed

Picnic in the park

on the menu:: tuna salad sandwiches~pickled okra~sweet pickles~bananas~pb&j~chips & salsa~lemon cake. We are having perfect picnic weather!

Only 5 more days and The Hub will be back home after a 10 day trip. I wouldn't have been able to survive without the help of my mom and step dad this weekend. A BIG shout out to them for saving my sanity and stepping in to help me entertain the girls.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend!

School Back in Session

My little lovelies posing for me before heading off to school. They look so big in this picture and I just wish I could freeze time.

They truly love it there and I couldn't be more proud of them!

Trying to Keep Cool

Little Fishies

Fun in the Sun

An afternoon with two pretty little bathing beauties, some Chick-fi-la, & a gorgeous pool is all I need in the summer.

Gymnastics

Audrey's been to gymnastics twice now, and loves it. It's a lot to take in as a 2 year old, so she's ALL over the place. It's hard to keep up with her, but I do my best trying to lead her to the next station.

We had just arrived and she was watching her new gym friends enter the building.

:Overload:

Balance Beam

1st flip

I think it hurt her belly

This is Audrey's favorite spot, on the circles by the jump pit.

A ring pop to celebrate. Don't you just love her leg warmers?

Funny story about these pink shoes. Audrey is so infatuated with them. She has worn them to bed for almost a week now. I'm convinced she would wear them in the tub if I would let her. After she'd gone to sleep a couple of nights ago, I snuck into her room to take off her shoes. She shot straight up out of a dead sleep the minute I unvelcroed them and started bawling when she realized I was taking them off.

I let her keep them in bed. :/

Not really a good habit to reinforce shoes on the bed, but I don't know what else to do. They're the first thing she asks for when she wakes up and the last thing before bed. Maybe I need to start stockpiling them for the years to come??

Ava's a scrappy lil thing. She wants what she wants, when she wants it! Gimme that sucker!

They're pretty darn cute together!

Is the 'sleeping with your shoes on' thing normal?