OH YEAH.
Joseph showing off at the state fair...

Sarah and Daddy bonding over some mini wheats

Maddy got to meet Smart Cat at the State Fair, and It was the highlight of her day. She was star struck!

Daddy pulling the girls around in the laundry basket! Maddy has always enjoyed this game, and now Sarah has been introduced to it. I have a feeling that in a few years Joseph will regret having started this to begin with!

It's been a while since I have updated our blog! Things are a little crazy with Stephanie's wedding coming up! Here is a look back at what the girls have been up to since the beginning of October. Sarah is learning to feed herself... or just make a mess... and both girls enjoy Daddy pulling them around in the laundry basket! Who needs an amusement park when you have that? We pulled out some of Maddy's old toys that Sarah has never seen before, and of course when Maddy saw Sarah playing with them she decided that she wanted them. I think she has played with them more now than she ever did as a baby!

Joseph loves spending time with his girls.... He and Sarah take little naps together, and the three of them always read books together before bed. It's pretty much the cutest thing ever!

We went to North Carolina this past weekend to visit Phillip and his family. They took us to a cute little farm where there were fun fall things to do! Maddy got to pick out a pumpkin and decorate it. ( Sarah was glad because she got to play with it) We got a cute little Candy Corn necklace and bracelet for Maddy to wear. They matched the Candy Corn on her face!!

They had stickers and markers for the kids to decorate their pumpkin with. Maddy took this job very seriously, and carefully picked out which stickers would be best. She was so cute. They had a corn maze for little kids too. It was great because the kids could run around and feel independant while the parents could see where they were at all times! Maddy ran through it and fell.... then she cried and cried ( so I took a picture) It was the last thing she did so I think she had just had enough! She was ready to go...

Sarah isn't in too many pictures! She was just watching everyone and having a good time doing it!! She loved sitting in the grass and tried so hard to pick up the grass and eat it! That's what made it so hard to get a good picture.. she wouldn't look up!

HOORAY for HAY RIDES! Well, I think everyone had fun except Maddy. She was absolutely HORRIFIED. They had some Halloween decorations that shake or move up and down (ghosts, spiders etc.) when someone claps. I've never known them to scare anyone... until Maddy. She was shrieking and shaking- out of absolute terror. I had to give her to Uncle Phillip because the scary...what ever it was-happened to be behind me. She held on to him so tight! Then luckily they had a tall, not so scary Big Bird from Sesame Street hiding behind a tree so that distracted her. Phillip started showing her pictures on his phone too. That helped!

Poor Sarah didn't like the dirt! Or maybe she didn't like whatever Maddy was doing to her head, either way she is not happy in this picture!

Maddy playing bean bag toss with Uncle Phillip. She really didn't get the concept of throwing the bean bags into the holes... or she didn't want to! All she wanted to do was collect all the bean bags and hold them!

There was a barn scene set up so the kids could play or take pictures... it was really cute! There were horses and pigs a lamb and some chickens. Maddy sat on all of them, whether she was supposed to or not!

Maddy and Addison loved looking at the animals - there were goats and pigs and bunnies, they even had a donkey you could ride! After the horror of the hay ride Maddy decided that the donkey was not for her. The only thing she is going to ride is in her car seat in the car or maybe the stroller!

Maddy and Addison had great time running in and out of these tunnels! There were lots of little activities to keep the kids occupied. I'm surprised Maddy wasn't scared of the tunnels... they were kind of creepy looking!

Maddy wanted to get her face painted. Of all the selections she wanted a Frankenstien on her face... She doesn't even know who that is! I talked up the Candy Corn instead and she decided to go with that. She was so good while her face was being painted, and so proud of it when she was done!

Maddy got her first haircut!! I really didn't want to have it cut, After all, it has taken soooo long to grow! She is going on three and still doesn't have a whole lot of hair. She was looking as if she had rat tail so.... I let the AWSOME Mindee Barton cut her hair! One of these days I'm going to figure out how these pictures upload on here... they are in reverse order, SO you get to see the results, then the process, and then the before!!

I absolutely love her haircut too! She had fun with Mindee while it was being cut, and she kept saying "It doesn't hurt mom!"

Maddy being styled...

Here goes nothing!

THE BEFORE.... doesn't it look so much better cut??

Joseph loves to help out with the girls....It's a good thing I told him to take everything off before he started feeding her the carrots! I'm not sure if Sarah really got much to eat...She looks as if she is wearing most of what was in the jar!
Maddy wanted to watch a movie and Sarah wants to be doing whatever Maddy is doing, so I set them up on the floor to watch Peter Pan. They had a blast together but If I could do it all again I never would have shown Maddy that movie.... She wants to watch it over and over and over and over! I have never seen a movie so many times in my life! I thought her Finding Nemo phase was bad!

Sarah's cup was empty, but she was thrilled to have one anyway!

My cute almost matching girls! I got them ready for church and they were so darn cute I had to take their picture before we left.

Picture time!!! We took the girls to JC Penny for some pictures! Maddy is such a ham.... she wanted all the photographer's attention. We did Sarah first, and she was soooo jealous. Then we did the two of them together, and Maddy last. Of course when it was time for her solo picture she had had enough and wanted to go home. Figures... I still think we got some cute shots, but I think Aunt Naomi may be enlisted to take the girls pictures from now on!