Couldn't resist...

Mckenna has all this hair and doesn't like to have it put in pigtails.... Now they are a little off but how cute is that! I think I will enjoy doing their hair, at least for the first time I do it right?

11 months old!

Wow... how time flies.... and then I look back at all that has happened and then it does seem like a lot longer. The girls get their last RSV shot this week and I am pretty happy about that. Shots are definitely no fun with babies.... course, when are they fun huh? The girls are just barely starting to take bite size foods. They don't feed themselves but at least we are starting to chew things. They are also trying out sippy cups and doing pretty well. Carly is almost 20 lbs! Geez! And Madison is around 17 and Mckenna around 16 lbs. Madison is now crawling and pulling up to standing on the couch, chairs, printer, in her bed, everything. I think she might run not walk when she starts to. Carly is pretty content to lay on her belly and play with her toys. She does try to do this inchworm thing to move but ends up just going in a circle. Carly does love to bounce on your lap though. Mckenna is finally rolling! And I think now that she has it down she wants to just roll everywhere. She doesn't go much further than her mat but she's my first baby to roll to get somewhere. She's also stuck in going in circles in one place land. I think there is a very good chance she might crawl before Carly. But I hope it's not for awhile. I can hardly handle one being mobile right now. It's amazing to watch how in the last couple weeks Carly and Mckenna have gotten noticebly more impatient to move around. I'm afraid it will happen sooner than I want.

Carly - 11 months

Madison - 11 months

Madison - I know I have two of her but how funny is that face! Hillarious.... she has a great scowl.. when I'm being silly with them or singing crazy songs I get this face a lot from her. She already thinks, "Mom, you're so uncool..."

Happy Mckenna - 11 months

We took the girls to church for the first time a couple weeks ago. All I know is that's a lot of work just to get them there! We took pictures before we went since my mil was leaving. I thought it was a cute picture!

It's been a lot busier since my mil left but I am getting along. I am still get help from my ward a couple times a week for feeds since that's when the frenzy usually ensues. I just need to get them to hold their own bottles and pick up their own food and then I am good to go!

The Three Amigos on St. Paddy's Day. L to R: Carly, Mckenna, Madison

Projects...

The girls are sleeping for now, so I'm going to attempt some posts. I might not make it to the second one with the girls pictures which is the one everyone really wants to see. This is probably just mostly for my mom because she wants to see pictures.

So I was all in a frenzy finishing projects before my mother in law left. I have been without her for two weeks now and I must say it was much easier to have her help. But, I guess I have to learn to take care of those girls by myself at some point right? So here are a few projects that I have just finished. We needed a new TV stand because we were obviously not thinking in child proofing terms when we bought our first one (everything was open for little hands to find). And since our girls play area is right in front of the stand, we needed a new option.

So I have this crazy obsession with painted furniture right now... I love the vintage shabby chic look as long as it doesn't get too flowery, I'm not a big flower patterned person. I couldn't find a painted cream TV stand to save my life unless I wanted to spend major money and that's not an option. So I bought an inexpensive stand Kyle and I both liked and painted it cream and then antiqued it. I left some of the wood stain because I thought it would look better two-toned. All I know is it was a lot of dang work...and we couldn't park one vehicle in the garage for a good week or so. Then after I painted the TV stand my black end table just didn't go with it, so I painted it cream and antiqued it! And it looked to good I couldn't hide it between my couch and chair so it also sits on display next to the TV stand. I might have to find a basket or something for the other side to even it up. Maybe a toy basket... So here it is from two angles...

Oh I also painted the wall behind in a cornbready yellow for an accent wall (the rest of the walls are cream so you see why I had to)...

Then our decorative mirror in our bedroom feel off the wall and broke so I had to change the set up in there. I had a huge wall to cover and since custom made six feet shelves are way too expensive, I bought some cheap decorative L brackets from Hobby Lobby and bought a 2x10 six foot piece of wood, painted it black and wallah... a shelf! Don't ask Kyle how much he swore putting that beast up though... I thought it might be the end of my projects that night! Ha ha!

I had to show the picture underneath up close. It's an old picture (maybe 1920s?) of women lined up in their bathing suits. Thought it was cute and unique. The shelf goes perfect with my black and cream damask curtains.

And then, I didn't paint this myself but I found this old shelf in a thrift store here, already painted at a great price and it holds all my "treasures of trash" as my husband likes to refer to it. It's a cute corner hutch but I think the scallops along the edges are what makes it. Kyle bought it for me for our 5 year anniversary coming up the first of May.... So there are my projects. My next projects will be on a more miniature scale that I can do at night when the girls go to bed. I'm thinking about taking up knitting... wish me luck, I have no idea what I'm doing...