An aPEELing Life: August 2012

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Olympics

I love, LoVe, LOVE the Olympics!

I always have!

And this year, was the best yet {Probably because we have two little acrobats to enjoy it with!}

{supporting America with our USA diapers}

I also, love to plan/ throw a little party, too.

Why not have an Olympic party on Opening Ceremonies night?

So I did.

I made little gold medals for everyone to wear. The girls and little boys loved them, not so sure about the big boys.

Pioneer Woman’s Cherry Limeade, Yummo and all American food, too

The Cardwell’s came, of course. I think Huddy was in bed when I took this picture.

The Host and Hostess

Everyone had to wear red, white and blue :)

Jared and Ava

it may look like the boys were happy to sit and watch the Olympics, but they could care less

they still don’t love tv, which I guess is a good thing

Graham, going for the gold in… doing something he shouldn’t be

Gage, doing a little gymnastics on his chair

The boys may not remember their first Olympics, but Jared and I sure will!

What a fun two weeks it was, so sad it’s over.

For Father’s day, which I never blogged about, oops, I gave Jared a massage (sorry, Jare, secret’s out, you love a good massage) and 2 tickets to a RoughRiders game. Two weeks ago, on Thursday night, probably the hottest night of summer, we decided to go. With G & G. Really?

The game started at 7, which is 30 minutes before their bedtime. Oh well, it’s summer, throwin out the schedule. {Just for a day, though.}

We decided to eat dinner before, and then get the boys some snacks (at the game) to hold their attention longer~ Parents of the Year, promoting good health! ;)

we don’t leave home without the phone!

(look at that hair, by the way, wow! no worries, we just got it cut)

Thankfully, the game wasn’t very crowded, at all, so we had the whole first base side of the bleachers to ourselves, (and a few other adults, who were having too much fun).

We kept them content with a couple of my favorite ballpark snacks… peanuts and lemon chills, for about 5 minutes.

Then, they were off.

Up and down the steps.

Running down the sidewalk.

Playing in the dirt. (I don’t have a picture of them playing in the dirt. I think I was too tired from chasing them)

Until momma and dadda were tired of chasing them.

So, around 8:30, we headed home.

Very fun night.

I think we will try again,

in a year,

and when it is a little cooler?

Monday, August 13, 2012

first trip with the twins, all by myself

I’ve never been called independent.

I’m okay with that.

But when I became a mom, I had to learn how to be independent real quick. Especially being a stay at home mom of multiples.

And because I am able to stay at home with my boys, and Honey is off for the summer, and daddy was traveling all week, I decided to pack up the boys and head to Abilene.

All.by.myself!

It wasn’t a bad trip.

In fact, it was awesome!

We missed daddy, of course, but the trip and week, couldn’t have gone any better!

Because it was my first time to travel, alone with the boys, I decided to leave at 4:30 in the morning.

Why not? I am a morning person, I can drink as much coffee as I want, in the quiet, without anyone tugging or pulling on me, and the boys will sleep the majority of the trip.

And that’s just what happened.

Graham woke up 30 minutes before we got in to Abilene and Gage slept the whole trip!

Perfect!

Here are some pictures of our week…

Braden and Graham

When we got in town, we went straight to Aunt Brittany’s for breakfast and a little play time with cousins.

Then, it was time for a nap.

The boys were being a little difficult for the morning nap.

So Graham slept on my chest…

and Gage slept with Aunt Brittany and Camden in Camden’s bed.

And for some reason, that was all the pictures I took that day. We ended up staying at Brittany’s all day and then went swimming at the Country Club that afternoon.

After we spent the night at Granna and Easy’s, we headed over to Papa G’s and Honey’s house.