Baby Jennings!! We had our anatomy ultrasound last thursday and everything looks great. The baby is measuring exactly on date and is very squirmy! We didn't find out if it's a boy or a girl... so we still have a little less than 4 months to go! We are very excited to welcome our new addition to our family. Maddy is really hoping it's another sister. I even think she'll be upset if it's not... time will tell. Hopefully you can make out this picture.. the baby is lying on its back with its bum up in the air and its legs tucked in. Silly baby.Maddy and Sarah are loving eachother more and more! They love playing together and making huge messes! Maddy is really good (most of the time) at sharing her toys with Snoop Sare-Bear StahNizzle (Daddy's new name for Sarah). They love playing Mr. Potato head together.

Sarah is getting so big! She'll be a year old in just 4 days. I can't even believe it. Here she is rockin' pajamas that Maddy just grew out of this past winter. Then again Maddy is super thin for her age. She just got weighted yesterday and came in at a whoppin' 29lbs. At this rate she'll be 10 before she can move up to a booster seat for the car!
She loves to do whatever Maddy is doing. I think Maddy is starting to get tired of it, but for the most part she is a good sport.

This picture scares me. I guess I should explain that we went on a little family vacation last weekend to see Uncle Phillip, Aunt Stefani, cousin Addison and cousin Cooper. Addison has a make-up kit that Maddy just adored. This is a picture of Maddy after she has applied her make-up. I guess she doesn't understand that it goes on her eyelids, not the brows!! I will be sure to show this picture to her first date...

Uncle Phillip and Aunt Stefani treated us to Chuck E. Cheese while we were there. It was so much fun! Maddy was a bit timid at first. She just wanted to watch everyone else play. SO Sarah and I took a ride on the giant rocking horse. We rode it about 4 times. Sarah loved it.

Maddy joined us for the last ride, but from the looks of this picture she really wasn't that thrilled!! Sarah is giving her a look as if to say - Girl whats your problem?? They had tunnels that you could crawl through, and it wasn't until she saw Addison play in them and come out the slide that Maddy realized that this was definately something she needed to do.

She even stayed in there after Addison came out to eat some pizza! I was shocked. Of course that was about the time we were getting ready to leave... why is it that kids finally warm up to things when it's time to go?

Snoop Sare-Bear StahNizzle chillin' at the table. She ate an entire slice of pizza in record time. Then the poor girl was ready for a nap.

Joseph and I took turns holding Sarah and trying to win some tickets to get Maddy some cool prizes. We won a combined 424 tickets, and two bags of cotton candy. What did Maddy want to get with those tickets?? Rubber snakes. Seriously Maddy? How about a pretty bracelet? If I even suggested anything else she had a meltdown. SO we ended up going home with 2 bags of cotton candy, a ring, a tin Chuck E. Cheese lunch box, and not 1,not 2 but 3 rubber snakes. What a weirdo!! When we got back to the house Sarah took a super long nap while Maddy and Addison played in the back yard. It was interrupted when a old hatchback car started smoking in the front of the house. The car was on fire, so Phillip called 911, then out of the blue a firefighter dressed from head to toe in his gear came running down the street towards the car. There was no fire truck or anything so I'm guessing this guy lived in the neighborhood. Well Maddy gets really excited and yells "FIREFIGHTER TO THE RESCUE!! GOOO FIREFIGHTER!!" It was so funny. Then the fire truck came and as Maddy puts it "saved the car". It was amusing to us, but I'm sure the guy who owned the car was not to amused. The girls got to see the fire department in action though, so it's a good day in my book!

After the whole car fire thing, we had a blast playing in the backyard. Uncle Phillip pushed cousin Addison around really fast, and then of course Maddy wanted in on it too. So Maddy got a turn. I thought it was funny because Grandaddy tries to push her in the same car at their house and she gets so scared! I guess after watching Addison she realized all the fun she was missing out on!

Maddy had the time of her life playing in Addison's backyard. They have so many fun toys! After the car they got to ride together in the wagon.

And if that wasn't fun enough they have a cool parachute like in elementary school! The girls loved it!

We serioulsy need to get one of these! It was so fun. They put balls on it and counted to three and sent them flying into the air. My house is definately not this fun. No wonder Maddy asks me every day if we can go back to play with Addison!!

Uncle Phillip is looking SO cool with the parachute on his face! SO cool infact, Maddy felt the need to do it too!

Ah, My little ray of sunshine!

As if car rides, and wagon rides and balls and parachutes weren't enough, Maddy played T-ball! I'm telling you... they have a magic shed that produces the coolest toys when you get bored with the one you've got! Ha ha, no but really, Maddy had a great time swinging around the bat. She wasn't so bad at hitting the ball either!

Thanks to Aunt Stefani and Uncle Phillip for an awesome weekend! Now the pressure is on to entertain them as much as they did us next time they come down! Hopefully there will be another post soon seeing that my little Sarah is having her very first birthday in 4 days!! She gets to have 3 parties too! One with my side of the family on Saturday. We're having a BBQ at the State Park to celebrate Sarah's Birthday along with my sister Erynn, and my grandpa! Then another one on Sunday with Joseph's family and finally she'll get her cake on her actual birthday! What a lucky girl!

Happy Valentines Day!! Maddy and Sarah had a blast with some marshmellow pops that Mamacheri gave them. Sarah wasted no time... she dived right in and didn't slow down at all. Maddy on the other hand was not too sure she wanted to eat the colorful and squishy rope on a stick....
After holding it for a few minutes she did give it a try.

Sarah.... Well she ate that thing like she had been starving her entire life! She just ate and ate, and paused to say "Mmmmm" a few times between bites.

I realize that this is a lot of pictures of two children eating candy... I just thought that it was so funny! I couldn't get enough of Sarah eating with no hesitation and Maddy being cautious. Notice how Sarah's marshmellow is torn to shreds, and Maddy's is pretty much intact.

Their dresses are too cute! Josephs cousin bought them for the girls.... I LOVE when they match. They got another set of matching dresses that I will post as soon as they wear them!

Maddy decided in the end that marshmellows were not for her. She gladly gave it to Sarah, who definately didn't need any sugar added to her system! Thank You Mamacheri for Valentines Day treats!

Little Sarah is just weeks away from her first birthday! I can't believe how fast this year has gone. She has got a head full of hair and tons of personality to go with it. She said "Cocoa" yesterday (our cat's name) so now she can say: Dadda, Mamma, Thank you, Cocoa, and she says SSSSSSS for Sarah. She also is really in to babbling the last few days. She'll point to something and just go off like she knows exactly what she's talking about. I love it.

Life is pretty good! We are about half way through the wait for #3! It is going by way to fast! Only a little more than 4 months to go... We are having the anatomy ultrasound on March 4th, and NO we're not finding out if this baby is a boy or a girl! Where is the fun in that? I will post pictures of the baby if they turn out good...

Poor Maddy got sick a few weeks ago... I got a call in Florence only to find out that Maddy was throwing up! Daddy took good care of her until I made it back home. She finally got some rest after she had her throne made... On our bed with her new DVD player she got for Christmas from Grandmama and Granddaddy! Complete with Baby Baboo, Bunny Baboo and Bear Baboo, oh, and her barf bowl. What a sorry looking kid!

"I'm a big girl mommy" she says to me as she puts on my pants...

What crazy girls! Underwear makes a great hat ya know! I put the pair on Sarah's head and she didn't even try to get it off! She loves to do whatever Maddy is doing, so she wore it as long as Maddy did.

After waiting her entire life.... Maddy finally saw SNOW!! She watched the news with me and when the weatherman said we'd get snow for sure, Maddy waited all day for it. She almost lost hope, for it was bedtime and still no sign of the good white stuff. We told Maddy that we'd get her out of bed if it did snow, and right before we headed to her room Joseph opened the front door and....

IT WAS SNOWING!!

We got the girls dressed to the best of our ability! After all, we have never experienced snow as a family! We ran around in it and our neighbor took some pictures of us. Maddy was freezing but she LOVED it.

She got her first taste of snow... "Maddy, what did the snow taste like?" "Oh, it tastes like spicey water." There you have it, snow tastes like spicey water... maybe she meant dirty water!!

Sarah was a happy girl, but she had no idea what was going on. This picture shows how much snow is on the lawn after about 15-20 minutes... After we went inside and looked out the window another 10 minutes later, you couldn't even tell that we had been running around outside. All our tracks were covered! So we put the girls to bed and told them we'd build a snowman in the morning...

Much to our shock and amazement.... our yard looked like this when the girls got up!

The backyard...

Maddy was dressed and ready at 8am... but awake much earlier than that!

More front yard, the horses across the street were out, but not in this picture!

The tree in the front looked so pretty! Notice the untouched snow... it sure didn't look like that when Maddy was finished playing in it!

We had about 4-5 inches around our house... It was almost all melted by lunch!

Happiest girl in the world! "Mommy its crunchy!"

She had a blast making snow angels while Sarah watched from the front door. When Maddy finished we started our snowman!

Only Maddy had gloves, so Joseph and I just took turns making small snow balls and rolling them around the yard with our feet. Our hands were freezing! Our snowman was pretty big, but not perfectly shaped...

My Happy Baby!!

Putting the finishing touches on our "SNOWDEN" We don't have the proper supplies for a snowman, so we used a random kitchen utensil for a nose and grapes for eyes and a mouth. I didn't have an extra scarf, so a scrap piece of Cubs material had to do...

The start of a snowball fight....

OOooOOh, Pretty!

We stayed outside and posed next to everything that looked cool. After all, we might never see snow again!

The finished product, and proof that Sarah witnessed the snow as well. She loved watching Maddy run around, but I think she was really confused!

The CUBS fans...

Maddy was so proud of her snowman... she immediately wanted to make another. Upon that request, we insisted that we go inside for some hot chocolate!

Much to my dislike, Maddy refused to go inside, so Joseph took Sarah in, and Maddy and I threw snowballs at the door so Sarah could "play with the snow" and stay warm! She kept trying to get the snow off the glass, it was great... and kind of mean, now that I think about it!

When we were finally ready to come in, Sarah lunged for the snow on the porch when the door opened. She picked up some snow and immediately ate it. She didn't so much like it, (maybe because it was spicey) but she held a piece in her hand for a few minutes. I finally took it away because it had turned into an ice ball, but she cried and cried when I took it. Maddy took off her scarf and a nice little bit of snow fell onto the carpet, so it kept Sarah entertained until it melted. I guess I should have let Sarah crawl in it! Oh well, it's melted now!

Maddy went back outside an hour later and had a blast with her daddy. She got really, REALLY upset when her snowman fell over because he was melting.. Joseph explained that it was getting warmer, so the snow was going away. She got really excited because Joseph used the word WARMER. I've been telling her when it gets WARMER we can go play at the beach... so she was ready to forget the snowman and get her bathing suit on! Oh the mind of a three year old!