Oh, those Olympics

So I gave in and let the girls watch the Ice Dancing this time. After the same barrage of irritating repetitive questions, the following conversation took place:

Stella: Mom, I changed my mind. I'm going to marry Colton. He would be so proud to ice skate.
Mom: Oh, do you mean he would be your partner?
Stella: (sigh) No mom, he would be my ice skating husband.

The olympics make me nuts

So I thought it would be a great idea to watch the pairs skating with the girls. However they talk the entire time and ask the same questions/make the same statements for ever single pair.

Is she new?
She's wearing a ring? Are they married? I think they are married.
This is fabulous
Is she wearing tights?
Ohhh... I want her to win!
I want ice skates. Please can I get ice skates?
Are they going to fall down?
I hope Americans win.

Sunshine and bike rides

February sunshine just draws you out! Jonah took Stella to pick up Adrianne from school and off to the park they went. We have Spring Fever. Oh mama we can't wait!

Red

My Sweet Charlotte-
Her red hair is so great! Getting longer and holding in clips. Her first tooth came in on Sunday. The next one today! 2 teeth in one week...that makes for one crabby patty. Good thing she is so cute.

St. Louis

We headed to St.Louis, Missouri last Thursday to attend Mobilize USA, a conference for twenties. Yes, we know that we don't exactly fit into that age bracket anymore but since that is the group that we work with at church it was a great conference to go to. We went with Warren & Kim, the senior pastors of our church and Brent & Nancy. My friend Michelle lives in Wisconsin and drove the 5 hours to see me there. It's been 1 1/2 years since we saw each other last, which makes it 2 times in 10 years. We arrived in the city the day before the conference so we had time to run around the city to see some of the sights. We headed to the Arch first, the gateway to the west. I opted to not ride the "pod" up the 600 feet to the top (call me a chicken, I don't care). There was a great Lewis and Clark museum under ground there and it was fascinating to read their journal excerpts and see other historical things from that time. We headed from there to the old Courthouse building. Behind it was a great Italian place called Calico's which is a St. Louis icon as far as cuisine. We sampled the local specialty, toasted ravioli. Mmmmm...makes my mouth water just thinking about it. We walked from there to the Cardinals Stadium and while in the gift shop, ran into a fire crew. Turns out there was a fire station housed in a really old building just a few blocks away. After our station tour, we hopped back on the metro and headed to Forrest Park, a huge urban park in the center of town. It is 500 acres BIGGER then Central Park in New York. We walked from one side to the other passing the history museum, the pavilion from the 1940 World's Fair and the art museum. We ended at the St. Louis Zoo which is free to everyone and ranked in the top Zoo's in the nation. At first we thought it was great, the bear and penguin exhibits were amazing. Then we had some trouble. We would walk to an exhibit and then find a empty cage and a sign that said "See us in our winter home" but with no explanation as to how to find said winter home. After 20 minutes of wandering, we decided we were too cold and hungry to keep wandering. We ate that night at Pujols 5, some baseball guy named Pujol's restaurant. There was tons of memorabilia which was cool, but since I'm not really into baseball, it was kind of lost on me. I did enjoy my food though!!
The conference was amazing. I am so glad that I went and I am feeling very guilty now about all the whining I did leading up to this trip. St. Louis in January wasn't that bad. There really was lots of things to see. My girls survived and even had a good time without me. You may need to remind me next time that I said this!

Santa Babies

Highlights of Christmas 2009

Christmas Boots

Joan wanted to do something special for the girls so Sunday night as they slept, she came and filled their shoes with treats. It might as well have been Christmas when morning came. They were very delighted by their oranges, avocados (that's my girls), treats and toy. Adrianne said "Grandma is like Santa!"