Fun At The Fair

The State fair was a year of new experiences this year. John's Mom and Dad, and Uncle Kenny and Aunt Carol, were up and had never been to a State fair before. And the girls took everything in two jam packed days.


We made sure to stop for Honey Straws

Played in the mister

and we made sure to take time for play.

At The Beach

We went for an end of summer vacation at Saylorville just north of Des Moines.

The Girls LOVE the water

And we had the beach all to ourselves

For swimming

And sandcastles

It was a Wonderful Day!

Tea Party

A Date Was Set, And No One Was Late

To The Mad Hatter Tea Party

A Celebrate for

Lexi Renee Trochesset

and

Hanna Marie Trochesset

There were so many good picture, I created a slide show, click on the photo and it should take you to photobucket - Enjoy!

The First Day of The Rest of Their Lives

July 28th

Today was the long awaited, at least by John and I, day!

The girls were both happy and sad at the same time and we had lots of heartfelt discussions that I never thought I would be having with a 6 and 4 year old. It was an emotional rollercoaster, which ended with grins and forever good-night hugs. We decided that they would both make just and fair judges when they grew up :)

Baby Emily Arrives

We welcomed a new member to the Family in May, just two weeks before Lexi's Birthday :)

Emily Kaye Schnedler

The girls welcomed her by throwing a baby shower and they were named the Hostesses with the Mostesses!

Beginning of Summer

Trip to Nashville - To see Family

The girls began another long trip - this time with Dramamine in hand - to Dickson TN, on the east side of Nashville, to see their Aunt Amy, Uncle Rich, and Cousins Kelsey and Kaylin. We stayed at the State Park in Dickson, which was a lot of fun, and spend lots of time with family.

The Hawk Eye

We made the paper :) Enjoy!

The Hawk Eye

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The Drama Queen

In Action. The other day we were having dramatic play with the child care and she showed her true colors. She is such a drama queen - we have been telling her that for months, but now we caught her on film :) I loaded the whole episode on Picasa for you to enjoy :-)

From Lexi Dramatic Play

Thoughtful Children

I look these as the girls were contemplating the inner meaning of Easter (or so I would like to think they were that sophisticated).



Aren't they beautiful people!

Easter 09

What a wonderful Spring Day to celebrate!

The Easter Bunny arrived at our house sometime in the night and left the girls easter baskets filled with Barbie Movies and Wipe-off coloring/tracing books.

Then after Church, the girls discovered that the bunny left eggs in our yard.

Cousins

The girls met my Sister's two little girls, Kelsey (7) and Kaylen (2 1/2) and I am so excited that they will grow up together. Kelsey and My daughter both share those "oldest child" similarities and my youngest and Kaylen are both, quite obviously, the babies. Kaylen and my youngest were much too worried about whose mommy was who, rather than keeping up with the Kelsey and my oldest.

Don't they look like trouble? I think our only saving grace is that the girls live about 7 hours apart. But summers and Holdays will be soooo much fun!

Old News and New News

The new arrival is now old news at our place.


John and the girls started a clutch of 19 eggs in the incubator, two babies broke through their eggs, but only one made it. Mixed emotions ran high as our family was once again reminded that life is does not always turn out as we expected. At first, John and I discussed getting rid of the extra eggs and running out to the local farm store to buy some baby chicks and replace the rotten eggs while the kids were gone to school, but the reality is that it really doesn't teach the kids the real facts about life. But in the end, we did go buy three more babies to keep our one Americanas company, after all, chickens are social animals. I am little perplexed by our choice of chicks - some broiler breed - since we are vegetarians, but I guess that goes with John's theme. Boar goats (meat goats) and broiler chickens - go figure.

Vacation South Slideshow

There are so many pictures from vacation that I have just made a slideshow. Hope you don't mind being redirected.

http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o201/cmtrochesset/Feb%20Vacation%20South/?albumview=slideshow

Enjoy!

Let's Play Beauty Shop!

is what The Oldest must have been saying to the youngest, when she decided to cut off sissy's hair and then her own.

Everyone keeps asking if I can laugh about it yet, and the answer is, "I am not quite there yet. I know I am not suppose to let things like this bother me, I know it is a phase, I know it is only hair, I know they are just girls, I know that every girl does it, I know, I know, I know"; BUT the truth is my heart is still sad to see their pretty hair gone.

Sat. morning, as I was preparing babysitting handouts for the local girl scout troupe, The Oldest came into the kitchen, took the kitchen scissors out of the drawer, went into the bathroom, and began cutting on the youngest's hair - or at least that is the best translation I can get out of either one of them. Why didn't I see her get them out of the drawer is beyond me. And I should have known, after the 6th time she came by and told me she loved me, that something was terribly wrong.

At one time, the girls hairs was as long as the longer pieces on the side - all the way around. The only thing to do was to cut it all down short. She had no bangs left and The other one had about a 1/2 inch of hair in the middle of head going from her forehead back. Jamie, our wonderful beautician, said the only way to get it to grow out decent was to cut all down. So we did.

She is much happier with her new cut than the youngest. In fact, she loves her new hair and is eager to show it off and answer any questions about her new haircut. The youngest on the other hand, wants her princess hair back and will not let me take a picture of her cute new haircut. But if you can imagine, her hair looks like Sissy's only a lot shorter in front, in fact, she had no bangs.

New Arrival

What a SURPRISE!

We got home last night around 9ish after a LONG car ride home. This morning we woke to a damp little foal. I am so glad she waited until we got home.