Fall 09' (yes you read it correctly!)

No excuses, I'm just a TERRIBLE blogger!!!! I love it and want to capture memories, I'm just plain not good at it!!! Uggg. Here are some pictures from fall to catch me up:) Man, the girls have gotten soooo big:)

This is one of our many visits to pumpkin patches during last fall. We went with some dear friends of ours to Bishops Pumpkin patch in Wheatland. Our friends have girls that are the same age as our girls so we've had many play dates! Here are the older girls being silly:)

We moved down the street from two pumpkin patches so it was not uncommon for us to go down just to visit a couple of times a week. Lexi loved running around and Linzi loved watching her:) This time, it appears it was naptime for Linzi.

The girls and I had another play date at Fairy Tale town the Friday before Halloween. Here is us in Cinderella's Carriage.

That weekend Tommy worked on the backyard, with Lexi's help, as you can see! She loves helping her daddy and doing whatever he does. It was cute though because then she came running in to tell me that she got dirty! Oh my! She is a true princess!

True sisters! Lexi just teasing her sister with her sucker... Look at that look on Linzi's face!!! Poor Linzi...

This year Lexi was Cinderella and Linzi was her pumpkin. (I also had pictures taken by Deanna (www.deannagallardophotography.com)-- see above) Grandma Donna and Chuck came down and thoroughly enjoyed taking the girls around our neighborhood! And Lexi LOVED trick-or-treating! She went up to each house (once she got warmed up) knocked on the door said trick or treat, thank you and "next house!" I guess I should be thankful she said thank you:) We laughed each time and luckily our neighbors were understanding of our 2 1/2 year old:)

This is Linzi and Baby dog:( (Grandma Donna's doggie) She passed away shortly thereafter but was a great family dog that Lexi still asks about! So sad:( But I just think the expression on both of their faces is sooo precious!

We had been looking for a table for the girls for awhile and one night Tommy came home with this. Linzi was 8mo old and Lexi was 2.5. They LOVE this table and play at it all of the time. Linzi even sat in that chair "playing" for probably an hour! She was so excited!

Here is Linzi and her buddy Addison. They are a day apart and we try to get the girls together once a month but sometimes we forget to take pictures:) Anyhow, this was a new toy and they just had soooo much fun! Of course the moms do too!!!!

Here is Lexi and Linzi just playing in their house. I just love looking back at their pictures and seeing how great they are together. Lexi continues to say that Linzi is her best friend (in addition to Daddy of course!) but I truly hope that it continues forever. Having not grown up with a sister I don't understand but think that love is just so special!!!
Next up... Christmas:)

A little catching up to do:)

I know I know I'm a terrible blogger!!!! I LOVE IT THOUGH!!!! I thought when I worked from home I would have all of this extra time! Turns out I have to actually work:) And after we moved it took awhile to find everything to upload pics! And now my excuse is that the camera is out in the car, I haven't uploaded pics since my last post, and its POURING down rain!!!!! So I'm going to post pictures that Deanna took for us and try and catch up maybe this weekend... no promises:) This was a photo shoot that we did for Linzi's 6mo pics. Although she was one day from being 7mo. It just so turns out that it was close to Halloween so Deanna asked if I had their costumes yet. Since I did Lexi got a few pics taken too:)
I've seen Deanna take a few of kids in buckets and I just love the way these turned out! Here a few of my favorite of this shoot.
Hi everyone, I'm 7 mo old tomorrow:)
LOVE IT!!!!

Here is a comparison of the girls. Lexi was about 9mo in this pic but since the pose is similar I thought I would use it:) I'm so glad we got a picture like this:) I don't think the girls look alike right now, but this makes me think they totally will:)

And here are the girls Halloween costumes. Lexi wanted to be Cinderella and I wanted to find a mouse costume but since I couldn't find one Deanna said, "Cinderella's little pumpkin would be cute!" And of course they have those costumes everywhere! So that is what I got! I think they are pretty stinking cute too!!!

We couldn't get any of them together... something a little doctoring was able to fix:)

Our happy little Cinderella!

And our adorable little pumpkin!

Hope you enjoy!!!

Summer at the Sheridan's

Well, as you can imagine, it's been quite an eventful one. Here are some pictures from our eventful summer:) Enjoy!
Here is Devin playing "double duty" with Lexi and her friend at the park! What a sweetie!!! Can you tell he's used to sisters???

Lexi and Linzi cheering Devin on at his first football game! Wow did this bring back memories for me! I was cheerleading at one of these games 20 years ago!!!! Oh my goodness:) We've had a blast traveling to some of Devin's games. We've been to 3 so far and hope for a couple more. Surprisingly the girls do pretty good too! Lexi LOVES to see her "bubba" play.

Isn't this so cute:):):) Melts my heart!!!!!

On 9/1 Linzi had her first taste of rice ceral and Lexi INSISTED upon feeding it to her:) It was a hit and Linzi was VERY ready for her first foods. I eventually had to take over when Linzi wasn't getting it fast enough and wanted to feed herself. What a mess!!!!!

Here is Linzi on her 6th month birthday! At her 6 month appt a few days later she was 16lbs 1oz (45%) and 25" (like 30%). She's our little bundle of joy!!!

Here are the girls playing! They are finally starting to do more and more of that. I'm looking forward to this new stage, although I'm a little sad too! My babies are getting so big:(

I just love this little "business" baby outfit, so I had share:)

And here is Lexi trying to show/encourage Linzi to crawl! She's not quite there yet, but I know it's not far... oh my!!!!! Watch out mom, I just know it's coming...

Linzi playing with Noah and his animals:) She's so chill... she was pretty content just playing while I hung out with Lexi in her "house" and dad watched football. We feel very blessed!

Princess Lexi

This is what happens when I leave Linzi alone with Lexi for a minute, she ends up "dressed" up. At least she's not making her cry I guess:)

Lexi taking care of baby Stacey. She's such a good little mommy. She was patting her back so that she would go to sleep.

As you can see the kids are all doing great!

Devin started 5h grade this year and is liking it. He spent quite a bit of time with us this summer which we loved! He's playing pop warner football and we are enjoying going to his games.

Lexi is BUSY!!! She has names for all of her babies, loves to read and sing, is too smart for her own good, likes to pick out her clothes and sissy's too, knows almost all of her colors, likes to ride her bike (with no shoes! She's so tough she doesn't even cry when she stubs her toes!!!!), likes to go to Sunday school and is learning that God and Jesus love her! (We just love this!!!!) And she STILL says Daddy is her best friend!!!! I guess it's not a phase:)

Linzi is sitting up (as you've seen), wants to crawl, loves to stand (holding on of course!), trys to pull herself up (I'm so not ready for this yet!!!!), has 3 teeth!!, has eaten all of the single grain cereals so I'll start veggies probably this week, loves her siblings, she just watches everything they do and Lexi can get her to laugh like no one else. She mostly sleeps through the night and overall she is an EASY and GREAT baby!!!!

Tommy has been busy at work and seems to really be enjoying himself. He is looking forward to moving back to Sac which should be anyday now...

I had some medical issues going on but they are finally gone!!!!! Praise God!!! I'm keeping busy with work and the kids. That's pretty much what we do:)

See you soon!

Linzi's 4 months and Lexi's 2!!!!

I can't believe so much time has passed by and I haven't updated this! It's just been crazy around here!!!! And I still don't have time to update today!!!! But should soon. Just wanted to post some adorable pics and will update soon:) Promise!!!!
First day of part-time daycare for both girls since mommy started back to work today!!! Linzi was smiling but of course I couldn't capture it:)

Happy 4th of July!!! Love, The Sheridan girls!!!!!

Lexi's Language Development and Linzi's stats

Lexi is becoming quite the little talker these days and I wanted to update you all because I think it's so cute!!! Hopefully I'll get pictures up soon too, but while it's quiet and I'm thinking about it I wanted to jot down a few things:)
As most of you know Lexi's "school" (daycare) speaks mostly Spanish so she is learning a second language. It's so cool but now that's she's speaking a lot more I'm always not sure if what I can't understand is an English or Spanish word. It makes it difficult on Lexi too but we're fortunate we understand most of what she says and she doesn't say much Spanish to us!
About this time last year Lexi said her first Spanish word "Aqua". She loves water. Then about 4-6 weeks ago she started saying "Quiero Aqua" (I want water). Now she's saying "Quiero Mas Aqua please:)" (I want MORE water please:):):)!!!) Our child has impecable manners! Anyways. I think it's so cute and CRAZY to think that our little girl is saying sentences! It just seems like yesterday that we were awaiting Tommy's Bar exam scores and hoping Lexi didn't make an arrival BEFORE we received the results! Now... almost 2 years later, she's talking to us in sentences some being Spanish ones. I can't believe it! Actually as I re-read this it was this weekend (Memorial Day) 2 years ago that we received his results!!!!!!!! Man have our lives been changed FOREVER since then:) For the BEST of course!
Linzi is also doing really well. When she's not being smothered by big sissy, she is smiling, "talking" and hanging out with her play gym "friends". She grabs at them and smiles at them too. Her smile is infectious:) It lights us all up! She's also sleeping pretty good these days, she'll wake up about one time (in the 2 o'clock hour usually) eat and go right back to sleep. Then she's usually up about 5:30. Sometimes she's go right back to sleep but others not... since Lexi is an early riser as well, it's usually when we wake up. For the past few weeks we have been walking in the mornings and Linzi loves to be in the Snugglie, she falls fast asleep, and Lexi rides in the stroller. It jump starts our day and I love it! Lexi gets to see the school busses and mommy gets exercise:) Linzi is good in the car and just goes wherever I take her without much fuss! She's a pretty good little trooper:) Linzi is also starting to take a bottle well:) This means mommy may be able to detach from her for short trips by herself! We'll see though... I have a hard time leaving my babies:) Well that's all for now:)
Oh I forgot to mention. Linzi went to the doctors a couple of weeks ago (on 5/4) for her 2-month check-up. She was 9wks and 11 lbs 3 oz (61%) and 22 1/4" (45%)!! She's grown 2 3/4" and gained about 3.5 lbs! The doctor says she's doing great:) I would agree! I thought Lexi was easy... wow, Linzi's pretty easy too. Watch out teenage years I think we're going to be in trouble!!!!!