Little princesses

Auntie Aimee wanted to buy the girls these nightgowns. They look so cute and like little princesses.

Aimee here are the girls in their nightgowns. Nani calls it here wedding clothes.

I was testing out my new flat iron, so their hair is straightened too.

Ode to the Dad in our house.

This is our late father's day post. We were out of town on Father's day, but thought this was fitting for the Dad in our house. Love you babe and you are so cool!

Next project

This is the next project in the house. (even though there are still unfinished projects)

The baby"s room. Last week, we cleaned all the girls toys out of the baby room and moved them downstairs to the basement. We finally got our carpet redone in the basement so now we can start organizing things down there. After clearing out the toys I set up the crib and rocking chair. This is what the room looks like right now. It definitely needs some love.

Who knows when it'll be done. It's a small room. It shouldn't take too long. We have ideas for it, but not concrete plans.

Soon though.

I have a fabric line picked out, Dolce, by Tanya Whelan. The fabric looks much better in person. In fact, that's how I found it. Every time I see it online, it really doesn't look too cute, but I've seen it a few times in the fabric store, and I love it! We're pretty sure that's what we're going with. Now the idea is to go peaceful, light, breezy, whimsical and neat. Much like the girls bedroom. I just feel so happy when I go in to the girls' room that we wanted the baby's room to feel that way too.

So there it is.

My dad's wedding.

We recently got back from a trip to San Diego for my dad's wedding. He got married June 12th to a lovely lady named Geri Eberle. It was fun to be there and to be with family. I need to get more pics from my sis. so I can do a better recap of the whole trip.

Congrats Dad and Geri!

Why Nani loves us

For Family Home Evening we went around and said why we love each person in our family. I had to share why Nani loves us all.

Nani: "I love Aleah because she makes me laugh a lot (she repeated Aleah) and she bonks me on the head with the ball. I love Mommy because she makes me mad a lot and she bonks me on the shoulder." Then, with a big grin on her face and such a sweet look, she turns towards Daddy and says, " I like Daddy"

The funny thing is, we all said one of the reasons we love Nani had to do with how she makes us laugh.

She's such a funny girl.

close up of the quilt

This fabric was the inspiration for the girls room. I love their quilts. I still need to put the binding on. I feel like it's just been crazy busy, but it's on the list of things to do.

I made the quilt tops and had a friend, who has an awesome quilting machine, quilt the top for mw. She did a great job!

Aleah's party in action

I asked Matthew to be in charge of games and he was very happy to do it.

He pretty much ran the party. I would much rather be the behind scenes and he's good at running the show. It works out perfect.

the first game was musical pillows

then a mummy wrap game

Of course, the traditional Pin the tail on the donkey

then we did lunch and a pinata, which there are no pics of

present opening,

and some birthday cake

traditionally you do cake first, before presents, but we were losing them

There was a little extra time and we already did everything that was planned, so Matthew, with the help of a friend, found a few more games to play. Still there was more time so Matthew did basketball drills with the kids. He said they liked it.

Well, it was a good time. Aleah enjoyed it and we had fun doing it for her.

Birthday parties can be a lot of work. Good thing we've only decided to do parties for #5, #8, and #16 birthdays.