Weekly Update

Ed had Monday off for Labor Day so we spent the entire day doing fun things...

We've been wanting to go see the Big Horn Sheep in Boulder City so we decided to head there first. While driving around trying to find the right park we admired the cute houses, amazing greenery and beautiful views that Boulder City offers:

We found the park and immediately noticed the dozens of Big Horn Sheep hanging out in the shade. Tenley kept trying to run over to them and patted her leg to get them to come to her. We had a blast:

 Then, we went to the outlet mall to shop the Labor Day sales. We found these awesome bear hats at the Gap outlet and had to take photos in them:

(I'm so bummed we didn't buy these for the kiddos because they were too perfect for our little bears.)

Tenley charmed her way onto free carousel rides and kept saying "ga-ga" (again) every time it stopped. She had a blast going round and round forever with Daddy:

T was pooped from our busy day and practically passed out hanging off the couch:

We had an awesome storm late Monday afternoon and took advantage of the cold weather and clouds by going to the park after it passed:

Tenley read books in bed Tuesday morning:

I babysat Isla for a little and the girls were so good and had so much fun together, as usual:

Tenley danced to her favorite scene in Despicable Me and it was too freakin' cute. I could watch this video over and over again:

Tuesday was Ed's birthday and he said the only thing he wanted to do was get ice cream. Last year, I bought him some nice gifts and he returned them because he said he didn't need anything. He seriously never does anything for himself or lets anyone do anything for him. This year I listened to his birthday wish and we had a great relaxing night as a family. We went to Town Square, ate ice cream in the grass, and played at the park:

Tenley gave Daddy lots of birthday kisses at bath time:

(Happy Birthday, Ed!! Thanks for being an absolutely amazing husband and the father to Tenley that I only believed existed in fairytales. I don't know what we'd do without you. We love you!!)

We met the Rice girls at Grouchy Johns for coffee and muffins, then headed to the park across the street. The girls were obsessed with the small double slides and cheered each other on if one got down faster:

Tenley Bear and I spent Thursday morning at the park. She was fearless at the big kid playground and loved learning how to play hopscotch:

We spent Thursday evening at the Venturinos. The girls sat in their chairs, while eating snacks and jibber-jabbering back and forth. They also had fun watching the chickens, while I rocked Alena to sleep:

(There is absolutely nothing like rocking a squishy little babe to sleep!)

We met the Venturino and Rice girls at Grouchy John's (again, I know!) and took the girls to the park. We all had such a blast and I could honestly hang out with these girls (and their mommas) everyday. They are just so stinkin' cute...they're ridiculous:

I bought the twins bedding online and didn't end up liking it when it came so I sent it back. My sweet in-laws insisted on buying the twins their crib bedding since they bought Tenley hers so we went to Pottery Barn Kids to see what they had and picked these ones (thanks so much!!):

(Fun Fact: if your expecting twins or have twins, you get a "multiples discount" of 10% on every purchase there. I'm starting to find out about all these twin perks...it's awesome!)

My mom sent me a package full of goodies...everything from maternity shirts to loads of adorable baby clothes. Here are a few of the cute clothes Wes got:

(Thanks, Mom!!)

Saturday marked 20 weeks of being pregnant with twins. I'm feeling huge and it is getting really hard to do a lot...it's hard to believe that I'm already halfway (or less) done:

The sky was full of clouds so we spent the morning at the park where I showed off my belly:

Later that night we headed back to the park and played soccer:

(Seriously...we live at the park!)

Tenley has become obsessed with brushing her teeth and stole my toothbrush while Ed was brushing his teeth:

I was exhausted on Sunday and so was my pregnant husband so Ed and I laid on the couch and dozed off during the disappointing Steelers game, while T played in her playroom:

Lazy Sundays with football are my favorite days!

Until next week! :)

Weekly Update

Our Monday morning started off great- shopping in the rain with the Rice girls:

Then the day went to shit. Tenley's eyes looked exhausted, but she had all the energy in the world and refused to nap. She was just not having it...no matter how hard I begged her to nap and explained to her that mommy needed to nap, too. (Please don't judge me for needing a nap, being a stay at home is truly exhausting and even more so when you're pregnant.) No napping turned into no lunch for me; which brought my irritable level to the max and I was a mommy-monster from there on out. Of course, this would happen on a day when Ed has night school. Finally, at 4:30 Tenley and I were sitting on the couch watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the iPad when her arm fell limp and she passed out for almost an hour:

Tuesday was the same thing...this is what was going on during "nap time":

I dropped my cranky/tired kid off at Lindsay's so I could meet Ed for our doctor appointment and, of course, she was a total angel for Aunt Lindsay (she absolutely loves Linds and Mase). Our appointment went good and Tenley finally napped later in the day:

Wednesday was a struggle again. I'm thinking she is getting her two year old molars because teething is usually the only thing that messes with her napping schedule. So I caved and gave her teething tablets and she was back on schedule:

Not even the teething tablets helped on Thursday, but she finally passed out like this after hours of failed attempts:

We played outside after her nap and T insisted on bringing Princess Teddy (she goes everywhere now):

The weather has been absolutely ah-mazing this week. Rain, rain, and more rain! I woke up on Friday to pretty natural waves so I decided to take a bump pic since I wasn't a hot mess:

(18 weeks 6 days)

I met a mom with boy/girl twins through Chelsea so we got together to talk "twins" at Grouchy John's Coffee. Tenley and I had fun goofing off while waiting for our new friends. Tenley loved seeing Crystal's twins and wanted to help me feed them pears. On a side note, I am now totally obsessed with this cool, awesome and DELICIOUS coffee shop (wayyy better than Starbucks...check it out!!):

(BTW, I get the hot non-fat decaf OG; which is salted carmel and vanilla flavored...try it, you won't be disappointed!)

We worked on T's room all day Saturday and she chose not to nap, again...maybe she was too excited?? Either way, on the way to pick up her bean bag chair from the monogramming place at the Fantastic Swap Meet, she passed out hard:

We finalllly finished Tenley's big girl room.

We were all pretty exhausted from working on T's room so we spent Saturday night at home relaxing and goofing off:

Sunday morning we got ready and met the Rice's at Run Plus Fun:

(19 weeks 1 day)

Our crazy kid was still not tired so we hung out until we both passed out around 3:

What started as a horrific week for me turned into such a great week. Although Tenley (and my) nap schedule is all out of whack, I realized I can't control these things and no matter how tired I am I just have to embrace my super energetic child because when 2 more babies are added to the mix all schedules are going to be thrown out the window and I'm not going to have any control anymore. Here's to hopping we get some better naps next week!

Big Girl Status Alert

After four weeks, Tenley is now in a completely different room- her "big girl room". Ed painted the walls a pretty blue, put up wainscoting, and put up new closet doors. While I did the easy work...shopping!! It took what seemed like forever, but it was definitely worth the wait:

It still needs a bit of work...such as, wall decor. I'm going to try to custom order her name in wooden letters that match her new bedding because that was my favorite thing about her nursery, but it doesn't match her new room. I'm also trying to find purple silhouette pictures of ballet shoes and dancers, since Tenley is a little dancing machine. Slowly, but surely it will be complete!

 Tenley was so excited when we finally revealed her new room that she instantly crawled into bed and got in and out of the covers:

She slept so good the first night in her new room and woke up in such a great mood:

My baby is growing up wayyy too fast. I can't believe she is no longer in the room right next to me! Total Big Girl Status Alert. I'm really going to break down when we start to paint her old nursery. It's all becoming so real...we have a toddler with 2 little babies on the way! What have we gotten ourselves into?!

Someone slow down the time, PLEASE!!