Amazing Skin Cream!

For Christmas my mom helped the girls make this "lotion" for all the ladies in the family. I quickly discovered how incredible it is! I put it on my feet every morning and in just a couple of days my feet were softer and prettier than they have ever been after a pedicure! My mother-in-law has been using it on her face and swears by it! Well with using it every day I quickly ran out, so I begged for the recipe and made some for myself yesterday- with Emory's help of course! It's so wonderful I have to share the recipe with the whole world:

15oz baby lotion (I used Johnson and Johnson- the pink kind)
7.5 oz Vaseline (store brand is fine)
4 oz Vitamin E Skin Care cream (probably have to go to a health food or vitamin store)

All you do is dump these three things in a bowl and squish it through your hands till all the lumps and clumps are gone, then put it in jars and get to using! Emory LOVES using lotion, so mixing this was right up her alley! Here is a picture of her, elbow deep in the mix:

Hinckley Look-alike Meter

Everyone always tells me the girls look just like their Daddy. Maybe if we could find a picture of him smiling it would change the results:

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Hinckley Look-alike Meter

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Hinckley Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Pictures from Greg and Trinity's campout

As you might remember from the post about their weekend, the weather during Greg and Trinity's Adventure Princess campout a couple of weeks ago was...um...less than perfect. They spent a lot of time inside, so that's what the pictures are from. Greg didn't take too many pictures because there wasn't too much to photograph, but here are the ones he did get:

Trinity laying in her bed, I think she was actually coloring you just can't tell from here.

Can you tell she was less than thrilled to have her picture taken?

Trinity and her friend, Charlotte. Trinity has discovered camouflage and was wearing it from head to toe!

Trinity sticking her hand in the running river where there should be steps

She must have gotten bored if she actually posed for this picture!

The girls have such a great time on these campouts! They love the time they get to spend with their friends and with their Daddy's. Some of my best memories with my dad are from these campouts too! It is such a wonderful program and I'm glad Greg and Trinity are participating in it!

Catch-up on Emory

I have a couple of random pictures of Emory and some really funny videos, so here is a post all about her. She is such a girlie girl! Seriously, she takes a purse with her everywhere she goes (it's one of my old ones, so she calls it her grown-up purse) and she fills it with all the necessities. This morning when I helped her clean it out she was very insistent we kept her cell phones (yes, that's plural because she has a lot of people to talk to), all of her lipstick (which she ALWAYS has on. She's better at getting it on her lips than most make-up artists), keys, gum (she chews gum almost non-stop these days), rubber bands (not sure what that's about) and money. She is still the most kind-hearted and sweet person I think I have ever met, but she is oozing with a little more sass each and every day. Last week Greg was correcting her behavior and she said, "Daddy, please stop speaking to me that way. I just don't like it." Okay, seriously she's barely three! At least she was polite about saying she didn't want to do things his way:) Her favorite past time is cheering. It's really more of a cheer/hip-hop thing, but she's actually really good at it. She is CRAZY coordinated! We have discovered more of her personality is really black and white. It's amazing how this influences her view of the world. She is doing really well at recognizing letters and numbers and at her one-to-one ratios (that means counting objects for all you non-education majors out there) because they just are what we tell them they are, she doesn't question why they are the letters or numbers we tell her, she just accepts it, memorizes it and moves on. She is also really grasping spirituality because of the whole b/w perspective; she says some amazing prayers every night and the other day said something along the lines of God is in my heart and all around me, you can see God when I'm nice to other people. It really seemed like she understood what she was saying, not simply repeating what other people had told her. It does get frustrating when we tell her her food or drink is warm, not hot and not cold; she just doesn't get it. We will go on and on with her about how it's warm and in her mind that's just not an option, if it's not hot, then it's cold. She's going to be awesome at math and science!

Okay, so back to what you really came to see, here are a couple of cute pictures of Emory and all her sass:

Here are a couple of videos of her dancing. These were a couple of months ago, before she started her daily cheering sessions- I'll try to get some of those on here too.

Catch-up on Addison Pictures

I have quite a few pictures of Addison doing various things, so I'm going to make a post dedicated to her pictures. I can't wait to be caught up with all these pictures, this is crazy work! Addison is growing and changing every single day! She is getting better at taking a step or two at a time, but nothing like she did last week when she took 8ish steps.

So let's get started...

The bows are back in town!!!!

Addison finally has enough hair to pull it up into a "pony tail". I know it's not much, but it's enough to put a bow in and it's getting longer and thicker every single day!

Hey guys, wait up!

She loves to play peek-a-boo and always finds somewhere to hide and start the game.

She has started entertaining herself in her bed if she's finished sleeping or not ready to go to sleep yet. Check out what I found the other day

She had pulled all the wipes out of a brand new package, pulled her blanket down from the wall, her pajamas from her changing table, and dropped her Mister Frog and Trinity's monkey out of her bed.

She is starting to get into babies. I don't think anyone's obsession could be quite as extreme as Emory's, but she is enjoying them. She was putting this on its potty when Greg found her

This is when Emory covered her hair in lotion on Valentine's Day. This picture doesn't really do it justice, but it gives you an idea

I hope you have enjoyed this round of catch-up on Addison. I'm sure there will be more to come in the near future:)

Pictures from the Arboretum

A few weeks ago we headed to the Arboretum for a picnic lunch (I already mentioned it in a previous post, so I won't bore you with the story). Here are our pictures from the fun day:

I sure so have a beautiful family! I am truly blessed!

Addison's birthday pictures

I know I posted about Addison's birthday celebrations quite sometime ago (since it was now over a month ago!), but now you can see the pictures of us celebrating too!

These are from her actual birthday. We celebrated after dinner with cupcakes. She really enjoyed them, but wasn't so sure about the crown!

These are from her Party:

Getting everything ready, a mother's job is never done! I think I was making homemade ice cream, playing walkie-talkie with Trinity, helping Addison get ice, keeping an eye on Emory's fingers around the icecream machine and answering a question to Greg all at the same time...no wonder I was so tired that night!

Trinity and Greg made fruit skewers with Addison's favorite food: pineapple and bananas...they were DELICIOUS and beautiful too!

My mom helped entertain while I finished getting things ready

Opening gifts!

Trinity enjoyed getting some attention from her grandfathers

She LOVES her piano from Pappy and Gommy!

CAKE TIME!

She wasn't a big fan of everyone standing around her and singing. I guess she hadn't been so close to a candle before because she put it out with her fingers! Oops, guess I should've talked with her about that before the party, huh?

'Okay, this is pretty good. Guess I can listen to your singing if I get this after.'

'All done! That was delicious! Now to play with all my new toys!'

Cousins playing together, what a beautiful thing!

Yipee!!!!!!

I finally made it to Fry's today, so now I can upload my pictures and videos. I am really far behind, so sit tight and enjoy the ride!

You might remember the video of Greg pushing Trinity and Emory around the backyard in their Jeep, well here are some fun still shots:

For Christmas Emory got an American Girl Doll Baby and some matching ballet clothes. Her Nana was the gracious gift giver, so she has named her Baby Nana. Here is Emory and Baby Nana in their matching clothes:

Back in January Trinity had a Friday where she was dismissed before lunch, so my sister and I loaded the girls up and took them to Chuck-E-Cheese. We all had a BLAST!

Emory had a very unfortunate collision with the corner of a game which led to a HUGE lump on her forehead. She laid with Nini for a while instead of playing:

Also back in January I took Emory and Addison to the zoo to enjoy the beautiful weather, here are a few of the pictures I snapped that day:

Watching the penguins enjoy their breakfast

Addison loved these Gorilla statues! She played with them and talked to them forever!

Nini, this one is for you: Your monkey watching monkeys!

Addison LOVED the play area, especially this tunnel!

I set Addison down on the ground and went to get something from the stroller, when I turned around this is what I saw (this is actually a recreation, but I had no idea she could do this!) Sorry it's sideways, I always forget I can't rotate a video. Hope you don't get a neck cramp!

Greg took Trinity to a Daddy-Daughter Ball the last weekend of January. She had a great time and loved being all dressed up with her friends. Here are a couple of pictures of her dress:

It passed the "Spin Test"!

Emory is silly! Here she is with her body sparkles (her prize from Chuck-E Cheese) stuck all over her face. You should've seen her arms and legs too!

Can you tell which baby belongs to me?

Addison LOVES her piano!