Tis the season....

The girls requested a camp out. Here is a pic of the 3~

Of course, Dylan did not sleep on the floor with Alex & Taylor - but a cute pic was in order! Here are my girls pre-Christmas.

We always have a Christmas with the step-siblings about a week before.

A fun fall photo shoot...

So, all 3 girls have stipey pants this fall.

None match but all are cute. The dress Dylan is wearing with her leggings was mine and my sisters when we were little.
They thought for a ground shot they should all hold hands.
I am not sure Dylan would aree!
Kind of a mug shot of Dylan.
We borrowed the neighbors tree for this one!

This may be a Christmas card shot.

This is next to the apple tree in our backyard.

OMG! Look at these pictures!

So, I took the girls to the Applefest parade this morning, then headed to the Applefest.

For $15 I got a 5x7 matted pictured of the sepia pose, and for $5 more, I got a CD of all the poses (18 total!). Here is the untouched pic of my angels...
Here is the Sepia pose that I got -
Shh! It will be a gift for my husband!

The above pic in color-

Another pose, with my color doctoring...

Another pose that I messed with the saturation...

I am super excited. I thought I lost the CD and had to go back to get it... (or see if they could copy another) however - I found it in my bedroom. Hmm... how did I get to be so scatterbrained?! Well, I think that my parents and in-laws are also getting these for Christmas - cheap and cute!

My naughty daugher...

It has not been a secret that we have had our share of challenges with our dear 4 year old since the birth of her baby sister. I think this latest one takes the cake for naughtiness. Yes, she has started to pee the bed at night since her sister, yes, she gets into trouble when I am feeding the baby, yes she pushes and bosses her two year old sister around, yes she is always in the babies face.... however this one makes the rest look so minor.

Despite her actions a few weeks ago, I ran on the treadmill and put the baby on her blanket in the living room while I showered. Alex comes running into the bathroom telling me that baby puked. I tell Alex to hold her on her side and I will take care of it when I get out (I had conditioner in my hair). Alex leaves and runs back saying that baby has puke on her eyes. I jump out of the shower and poor Dylan is screaming like she is hurt. (I tried to cover with my towel, I just pray no one was out taking a walk by my house that day. We have a 8x6 foot bay window in our living room that would have had quite the show in it!) I get baby cleaned a bit and place her in her bouncey and reprimand Alex. I return to the shower, throw something on and give the baby a bath. Alex later fessed up that she was trying to shove a pacifier (which Dylan does not like) into her baby sister's mouth to get her to be quiet.

NOPE, that was not the naughtiest thing!

Last night the girls really want to see the 11 year old neighbor girl. There had been no activity at their house all day and she saw that her dad was home then. I told Alex that we would go outside after Dylan woke up because she had just fell asleep. The girls were watching cartoons and Dylan was asleep in her bouncey seat. I took advantage of the moment and went to my bedroom to fold laundry. I come out to check on them just in time to hear Dylan start screaming, from a dead sleep. At first, I thought she was having a dream - but then it progressed and got worse. Taylor first tells me that she hit baby in the eye. It comes out shortly that ALEX flicked her sleeping baby sister in the eye to get her to wake up so she could see the neighbor girl sooner. REALLY?! If you turn off the baby's vibrator on her chair, she wakes. If the girls yell, she wakes. But NO! Her sister thought that it was somehow a good idea to hit her baby sister in the eye while she is sleeping! WTF?!

Have I ever mentioned that I am glad she starts preschool soon, very soon.

What's new....

Here are some recent pics of the girls.... Alex & Taylor playing dress up...
Taylor's green eyes

Baby Dylan's almost smile

And Alex & Taylor jumping in the puddle after a recent thunderstorm.

Here are our rockers. Alex is in Godsmack, Dylan in AC/DC and Taylor in Guns & Roses. Ironically, Dylan pooped on hers before we got to the birthday party....

If it is not poop it is puke (or both!).

Holy weight gain!

So here is my 30 week belly pic for y'all.

Excuse the boxer shorts, I had just woke up and didn't want to forget.

So, yesterday I had my 30 week doc appt. The doc said that I am holding onto water like it is going out of style. This is something I have noticed the last week ~AND~ I noticed that my weight had jumped 8 pounds in about a week. (uhhh!!) So, in a month's time, I gained 13 pounds!!! That brings my total for this pregnancy to a whopping 43 pounds already! With 10 weeks left to go, I know that I will surpass the 48 pounds I gained with Alex. At least it is coming on as water weight now, so it will come off easily after birth. :o) (I hope!)

So, I am also measuring 5 weeks big (this is typical for me). I go back in 4 weeks, then 2 (At 36 weeks) and we will have another ultrasound to gauge baby's size. Then we will plan a course of action....

On the bright side, here is a picture of my girls.

They posed before we went to church Sunday. So pretty and cute!

Alpacas

While I was in college, my parents bought the farm.

The land was origionally my Great Grandfather's Grandparents land.

My parents moved a house out there and took care of my Great Grandparents until they passed.

Probably about the time Alex was born, or the spring before, my parents invested in Alpacas.

You can read more about Alpacas on my parents website,

http://www.paradisealpacas.com/

So, these are more vacation pics, but only of the alpacas or the girls and the alpacs.

Here are the girls playing in the pool.

I think that the Alpacas were jealous because it was really hot.

Here is Taylor feeding.

I love how the Alpaca stepped in the way to block Alex out of the shot.

Here is my Mom the farmer. :o)
I never thought farmers wore flip flops or matched them to their shirts!
It was hot and she was having helpers feed the herd.



This is Taylor posing at the door of the Alpacas.



One of the babies, I think her name is Zeeva.
I may be wrong, it may have spelled it wrong too.

Here is Taylor sniffing noses with one of the Alpacas.

Here are the girls at the fence of the Alpaca's. They really had a good time feeding the Alpacas with Nana.

Here is a shot of the girls at feeding time.

Another random Alpaca picture.


My parents make great quality items out of the Alpacas fleece, this is the main part of the business. They make sweaters, socks, coasters, scarfs, etc. Visit their farm store on their website to see their great work!

http://www.paradisealpacas.com/StoreHome.asp

I have 4-5 alpaca scarves now, so chances are if you see me wearing a scarf, it's alpaca!