The Blogging Begins

I've been going back and forth about the whole blogging thing. I have plenty of cute pictures and stories of the kids, but not much free time to write/post them. Also, I am not so capable with technological things, but with Tammy in Spain, I figured if I'm ever going to start one, now would be the time! So...our story begins...

Here are the top 3 things I am happy about right now:

1- Kylee's first real ponytail! Today I successfully put her hair in the cutest ponytail, complete with pink clippy- and an even bigger success was that she left it in most of the day! She also wanted me to paint her fingernails and toenails- sparkly pink, of course. Then later she was walking around in her pink Barbie sunglasses. Too cute. Every mother should have the joy of having a daughter.
2- Sledding in the backyard with Kael. We have a little bit of a slope in our backyard today and since a heat wave of 40 degrees hit Central Iowa today, we were not going to pass up the opportunity to be outside to sled down it! He is just so happy when he can be outside. He also wanted to go down the slide of his swingset- his snowpants were all wet and the slide itself was a little bit icy...I have never seen a little kid go down a slide faster than he did today!
3- Dollar Spaghetti Night at Hy-Vee. See Tam, don't you wish you were in Iowa?! Just kidding. But the kids LOVE spaghetti, so it was a good excuse to get out of the house. (although when I made it the other day at home, Kylee insisted on feeding it to herself, and also insisted on ripping her bib off, and sitting in a "big girl" chair which means there was no child tray to catch all the stuff she dropped. She was such a mess- I found a spaghetti trail all around the house for the rest of the afternoon!)

Here is a picture of the Barbie glasses I was talking about!