Finally...

Finally I have the chance to update my blog!!! I tried once last week and of course blogger was down...Well we are back from our vacation and we had a great time! The girls loved the ocean and it was a blast to watch them together as they ran in and out of the ocean about a million times! We did have a couple cool days but that did matter to the girls...they loved it all the same! We hope to go back to Hilton Head at the end of August for 2 weeks...of course by then little Abigail will have joined us!

Checking out a jellyfish

We also had an amazing time visiting with Lily and her mother, Heather! Lily and Ella were in the same orphanage for a little less than 2 years. Lily is the cutest little thing and I loved to see the girls together-it was such an amazing time! We went to the Atlanta aquarium and all the girls really enjoyed it! And I owe Heather a huge thank you for helping with my girls!! They are a handful and mommy struggles!! We are so blessed to have had the opportunity to meet Lily and her mother and we hope there are more opportunities to spend time together in the future!!




.............................................................I looked back in the car and caught the girls holding hands!!!

How cute are we???

Thank you, Heather!!!!...................... Sophie sleeping with her new whale that Heather
so kindly bought for each of the girls!

Off to the Beach...

We are off to the Beach...we are leaving today for Hilton Head and then heading down to Atlanta for several days. We are very excited to see Ella's reaction to the ocean! We are sure the girls will have a great time!

While we are in Atlanta we are hoping to meet up with a family that adopted their little Lily back in May from Ella's same orphanage...they are about 4 months apart and essentially grew up together-we are really looking forward to meeting them!

Ok...back to work!

I'll be sure to post lots of pics when we get back!

Happy Easter!!!

So cute!


My little bed-headed babies on Easter morning....The girls with their new kitchen!

Ella's first Easter baskets!

How cute is this??

......................................................................Ella and Aunt KeeKee

Ella's first Easter egg hunt!

Bargain Shopping...

As some of you may know one of my passions is to shop...I think I could do it everyday if I did not work full time-but then again I would not be able to afford it if I did not work...anyway. My favorite stores for the girls are Gymboree and BabyGap. I can name almost every line of clothing Gymboree has had since Sophie was a baby-I'm a Gymbo addict! And the best part is my girls have so many clothes that they usually wear their clothes once or twice so then I can sell them on Ebay and then use the money to go to Gymboree and buy some more!!! :) So anyway...I went to Old Navy a couple weeks ago to buy some maternity clothes and found some great deals for the girls...Check out how cute these dresses are!! They were only $4!! They looked so cute! I love the one picture of Sophie if only I could digitally remove the binky it would be perfect!!!

Poor Ella is always on guard when standing next to Sophie-Sophie is actually just patting her head in this picture but as you can tell by poor Ella's face she thought Sophie was going to take a cheap shot!

Been awhile...

I'm too tired to write about how cute my dear little Ella is (and of course my little Sophie too) so I will just post some cute pictures...and write later.

Fun at Chuckie Cheese

Ella and her Daddy!

Sophie woke up the other morning with the craziest hair I have ever seen!!! It's her first little rats nest!

Spring fever...

I can honestly say I am so sick of winter!!!! I've had enough of the snow, and consequently I'm sick of the snowplow that goes down our road at 5 a.m. that wakes me up from a sound sleep on my last day of vacation...I'm sick of trying to squeeze my pregnant body into my winter coat...I've had enough...so to help lift my spirits I went shopping for my girls...and Sophie got a cute "spring time" haircut. Here is a couple of pics of Sophie's haircut as well as a peek into the girls springtime wardrobe...



Sophie's first haircut!

A cute little bob!

Sophie refused to partake in trying on her new wardrobe (with the exception of the hat)...but still had to be in the picture!

My little turtle!

What a cutie!!!



I hope to take more pictures of the clothes we bought...let's hope my sweet little Ella continues to think trying on clothes is fun!!!! I've already lost Sophie months ago!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have quickly learned that it is much easier to take separate pictures of the girls rather than trying to get a good picture of the two together...much less stressful! :)

Happy Valentine's Day!!