Friday Night Excitement

A few Friday nights ago, we decided to meet the Pace's and go to Jungle Jims so the girls and their bestie Holland could have a fun night out.  We all went to Cafe Rio beforehand for some good food.  Then the rest of our exciting Friday night was spent at Jungle Jims.  Siena got a little freaked out on the crickety carousel and after that was a little nervous about a lot of rides.  However, Aria loved all the rides. She went on the jeep/train ride with just Holland and she even went on the fast roller coaster with me.  Brigitte went on the roller coaster with Holland and I'm surprised it didn't send her into labor.  I still think their favorite ride is the swings for both of them.

 
I couldn't help but think how a few years ago it would've been Brigitte and I out on the town on a Friday night going to a party, or trying to find something fun to do.  How things have changed and I wouldn't have rather been doing one other thing then spending my Friday night at Jungle Jims with my family and the Paces.

PS I can't wait until they're old enough to all look at and smile at the camera.

Meeting Santa

We took the girls to meet Santa this week.  We went back to the same place we went to last year and it turned out exactly as we thought.  They were happy looking and talking to Santa when they were in our arms.  They screamed as soon as we set them on his lap and then were totally fine and happy as soon as we picked them up.  Santa was super nice and told them he would still bring them some fun toys and gave them a little bag of treats.  The girls were really happy with the free chocolate chip cookies they handed out.

Aria throws up....in church!

Embarrassing moment this week.  This cute little face caused quite the ruckus in church this week.  Here's how it went down.  We walked into church, happy, clean, hair combed, etc.  Church starts, the girls are looking through books.  They start passing the sacrament.  I get out the girls sippy cups of water.  Aria is drinking away sitting on my lap.  All of the sudden she coughs, then again, then tries to take a breath and can't, then turns bright red.  Then....she throws up...all over herself and me!  And it stinks!!!  Bad!!!  Everyone turns around wondering how to help.  Shane gets out some wipes and the the dry onesie change of clothes to mop up the puddle formed in my skirt.  It stinks, everyone is staring at us.  Aria is just fine by the way, not crying or anything, just looking around.  We wipe up what we can, and with that we stand up (All 4 of us) and walk out.  Everyone is looking, smiling, sympathizing and thinking either 'glad it's not me or been there done that.'

Aria really just choked on water, she wasn't sick and has been fine since.

We got home, cleaned up and changed and well 10 minutes of church is good right?

8 is great for Avery Jane

Avery turned 8 and was baptized this summer.  Since she lives in California, I wasn't able to go.  However, as is tradition with all the nieces and nephews when they get baptized, they get to go to dinner with me.  Avery was in town with her family for Thanksgiving so we decided to go to lunch.  Her lunch choice was Panda Express.  Since this was such a low key place to go we decided to then go get some ice cream afterwards.  We got to make our own yogurt combination and sit on couches while we ate them up.  Afterwards we decided to go check out the new Scheels to ride their ferris wheel.  It was so fun.  Then we walked around and took advantage of all their photo op spots.  Avery and I had a great time and it was fun to spend time with just her.

Congrats Avery on your baptism.  Thanks for coming with me for a fun afternoon.

Girls night out

While my sisters were in town before Thanksgiving all my sisters, sister in law and mom, decided to have a girls night out and go see the last Twilight film.  We all met at Olive Garden beforehand and then went and saw Breaking Dawn Part 2.  By far I think this was my favorite Twilight film out of all of them.  It was such a fun night out with my family.

Shane got invited to a Jazz game last minute that same night so we had to scramble and get a babysitter.  Luckily, Shane's cousin came to the rescue and watched the girls for us.  The girls were good and I was able to sneak out so they didn't cry when I left.  They went right down to bed for her like they do every night for us and so it was a great night out for both of us.

Taggart

Look at this cute little thing with all his dark hair!  This is the girls newest boyfriend.  They're going to have to fight over him though.  Little Taggart Pace was born the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  It was fun visiting Brigitte and meeting and holding him the next day.  He was born at the same hospital the girls were born at so it was fun being back at the same hospital and being happy I didn't have to go into the NICU.

Welcome Taggart!  I can't wait to hold you again.

Business Suits

I have a lot of blogging to catch up on, you have been warned.

Just a cute picture I didn't want to forget to post.  Before the girls were born we bought these jogging suits for the girls.  If you know Shane you know he owns and wears a lot of jogging suits.  He calls them his business suits as this is what he 'wears to work'  He kept telling me when I was pregnant that the girls were going to wear these every day in the winter time.  They've worn them a few times but plan to get plenty more use as it starts snowing more.