Go to the Gap website and find the contest link, then search for "bandtfamily", and vote!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Gap Casting Call
Here's one more worth mentioning! We thought it would be fun to enter the girls into the Gap casting call contest since we had a few pretty nice pics of the girls and let's be honest - it would be pretty fun to see the girls make the finalist list and any prize they won would certainly be welcome....... but let's be clear too - we have no delusion that this would actually happen. There are a TON of amazingly cute kids entered in this and the odds are just too stacked against you. But hey, like with the lottery, if you don't play you can't win. It's fun to dream a little though! Here are the pics we entered.
Go to the Gap website and find the contest link, then search for "bandtfamily", and vote!
Go to the Gap website and find the contest link, then search for "bandtfamily", and vote!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
October Festivities
Since I have been a slacker again, I decided I would provide a little update with some of the things we have done this month. It got a little long!
7th Wedding Anniversary: Brian and I celebrated 7 wonderful years of marriage on the 12th! We enjoyed our evening by having an amazing dinner at The St. Paul Grill and then spent the evening at Crowne Plaza in St. Paul. It was a very nice treat for us to get away for the night and have some quality couple time. Aunt Corrie spent the night with the girls and got lucky enough to have them sleep until 8:50! That NEVER happens. They must have known that Aunt Corrie likes to sleep in!
College Girl's Trip: Brian got his "Mancation" w/ the guys in August and I got my girl's weekend in Arizona this month! Five friends from college stayed in Scottsdale for three days and two nights. We spent most of the time enjoying the record heat of 100 degrees by lying by the pool and soaking up rays. We also had two fabulous dinners out, did a quick shopping trip to an outlet mall and climbed two mountains for our morning exercise. Well, OK...we climbed half of one of them (most of us chickened out when we saw we had to actually use a pole to climb up part of the mountain) but the other one we did three miles (pic posted below)! I would definitely enjoy working out more if we had the mountains to climb in MN! Needless to say we had a great time and it was so fun to catch up with friends and have a little relaxing "me" time. I am hoping we make it an annual adventure! Oh...and Brian did a GREAT job watching the girls while I was gone. They enjoyed time at a pumpkin patch picking pumpkins, went for a bike ride, and played with Sam!
Birthday Celebrations: We have enjoyed a few family birthday celebrations this month. My step mom turned the big 50 so my dad took me, Brian, my sister, her husband, and my grandpa out to dinner to celebrate at Jax Cafe in Mpls. We had a wonderful time celebrating with everyone and a great dinner to boot! We also hosted a birthday party for my grandma who turned 89! All the kids had a great time playing together. I think the highlight of the day was my brother-in-law playing "happy birthday" on his accordion!
Halloween Party:: The girls had their annual school Halloween party last week. Kate was Snow White and Annie was Princess Aurora. They had a lot of fun playing games with their friends and getting prizes and treats. A hilarious moment was when the girls entered a room where a boy dressed as Spiderman was really getting into his character by crawling around the room. Kate and Annie just stopped to watch and he then took his mask off and said, "It is OK Kate, it is just me...Donovan!". Too cute. The girls are VERY excited to go Trick or Treating in a few days.
That sums up some of the fun things we have done this month. It has been a busy one but very fun! Of course in the midst of all the fun, we did have a few trips to Urgent Care. Kate had another ear infection and Annie had a UTI. Wouldn't be a complete month without one of them being on antibiotics. We are just praying H1N1 stays far away from our house (and yours too)!
7th Wedding Anniversary: Brian and I celebrated 7 wonderful years of marriage on the 12th! We enjoyed our evening by having an amazing dinner at The St. Paul Grill and then spent the evening at Crowne Plaza in St. Paul. It was a very nice treat for us to get away for the night and have some quality couple time. Aunt Corrie spent the night with the girls and got lucky enough to have them sleep until 8:50! That NEVER happens. They must have known that Aunt Corrie likes to sleep in!
College Girl's Trip: Brian got his "Mancation" w/ the guys in August and I got my girl's weekend in Arizona this month! Five friends from college stayed in Scottsdale for three days and two nights. We spent most of the time enjoying the record heat of 100 degrees by lying by the pool and soaking up rays. We also had two fabulous dinners out, did a quick shopping trip to an outlet mall and climbed two mountains for our morning exercise. Well, OK...we climbed half of one of them (most of us chickened out when we saw we had to actually use a pole to climb up part of the mountain) but the other one we did three miles (pic posted below)! I would definitely enjoy working out more if we had the mountains to climb in MN! Needless to say we had a great time and it was so fun to catch up with friends and have a little relaxing "me" time. I am hoping we make it an annual adventure! Oh...and Brian did a GREAT job watching the girls while I was gone. They enjoyed time at a pumpkin patch picking pumpkins, went for a bike ride, and played with Sam!
Birthday Celebrations: We have enjoyed a few family birthday celebrations this month. My step mom turned the big 50 so my dad took me, Brian, my sister, her husband, and my grandpa out to dinner to celebrate at Jax Cafe in Mpls. We had a wonderful time celebrating with everyone and a great dinner to boot! We also hosted a birthday party for my grandma who turned 89! All the kids had a great time playing together. I think the highlight of the day was my brother-in-law playing "happy birthday" on his accordion!
Halloween Party:: The girls had their annual school Halloween party last week. Kate was Snow White and Annie was Princess Aurora. They had a lot of fun playing games with their friends and getting prizes and treats. A hilarious moment was when the girls entered a room where a boy dressed as Spiderman was really getting into his character by crawling around the room. Kate and Annie just stopped to watch and he then took his mask off and said, "It is OK Kate, it is just me...Donovan!". Too cute. The girls are VERY excited to go Trick or Treating in a few days.
That sums up some of the fun things we have done this month. It has been a busy one but very fun! Of course in the midst of all the fun, we did have a few trips to Urgent Care. Kate had another ear infection and Annie had a UTI. Wouldn't be a complete month without one of them being on antibiotics. We are just praying H1N1 stays far away from our house (and yours too)!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Funny Faces
So I was harassed again by Bridget for not updating our blog and I decided I better add a post! Because it is midnight, I decided to make this a quick post of a few fun pics of the girls. I was looking through some recent photos and found these funny faces that Brian took of the girls. We've got a silly face, a pout face and a smiley face! When I look at these pictures my heart melts. Brian and I are so very lucky that we have these two beautiful, fun, and sweet girls in our lives! What a wonderful family :)
Oh, and I will get an update (or two) in this week with fun pictures and stories of some of the exciting things we have done this month!
Oh, and I will get an update (or two) in this week with fun pictures and stories of some of the exciting things we have done this month!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Two Peas in a Bedroom
Anybody still check this blog out?!?!? Hope we haven't lost our followers with our dismal update record lately! We've been busy lately shopping for new twin beds so we could move the girls into the same room together. It's still a mess but Kate's day bed is taken apart and the new beds are all set up in her room. No....there's not another little one on the way, just making Annie's old room into a play room for all their stuff. Our hope is that they eventually start to go into the play room when they wake up at 6am on the weekend instead of coming into mom and dad's room! And of course that they keep building a great sisterly bond! Tonight we listened in on them from outside the door and heard this - Kate:"Goodnight Annie" Annie:"Goodnight Kate" Kate:"I love you Annie" Annie:"I wuv you too Kate" Kate:"Do you like your new bed Annie?" Annie: "Yeah I wuv it".
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