18 Months Old!

Hunter and Reagan turned 18 months old on May 28th. So scary. I wish I had pics to post right now but honestly, I'm really too tired to get them downloaded. I will get some on here soon though. They had their checkup and not much has changed percentile-wise. Reagan is still in 75th percentile for height and 10-25 percentile for weight..WOOHOO! Hunter on the other hand is in the 50th percentile for height and 50-75th percentile for weight..HA!! I took him for his 4th haircut today and we are still waiting for Reagan to grow enough hair to even trim. It's getting there though and is beginning to curl. I wonder where she gets the curly hair from?!

We leave a week from tomorrow for Orlando. We are so excited we can barely stand it. The only plans we have so far is to visit Aquatica (waterpark owned by Sea World) and the beach in Clearwater. I'd LOVE to visit Sea World but I think that's really asking alot of the twins since we'll only be there 5 days. I'm sure we'll be back soon enough though. We'll celebrate our 7th anniversary (June 9th) while we're there and my impending 30th birthday on June 16th(EEK!!!!). I shouldn't even admit that. I remember when I thought 25 was way too old.

Ryan is in Nashville right now for "work". I call this his annual party week since it's just his entire group getting together for "meetings". Funny... I don't recall any work "meetings" that lasted into the wee hours of the morning and ended with a bit of a headache and nausea. Maybe I just wasn't that lucky to have a job like that... This week I am volunteering for Vacation Bible School at our church which leaves my poor mom to watch Hunter and Reagan every night for 2 hours. I came home this evening and seriously have never seen my house in such disarray. There were dining room chairs in the living room and another chair on top of the table. There were toys EVERYWHERE and she was slumped on the couch barely able to move. She told me she has never been so worn out and has no idea how I do it. It seriously took her 15 minutes to be able to get up and go home. She even wanted me to drive her home (she lives 3 blocks away!!). I just laughed. I really don't know how I do it either.. I just do.. And I love it:-)

Sweet Summertime..

Yesterday we bought the kids a new pool. Hunter wouldn't even let us get it full before he climbed in. I attempted to warm up the water with buckets of hot water so Reagan would get in but her brother's splashing was really annoying her. She did get in for a bit and thought everyone should be very proud of her for doing so. It wasn't long though before more of Hunter's water fascination prompted her to get out.

Just an awesome day in May...

Saturday we went over to Ryan's dad & Jan's house and finally just got to hang out outside... all day long! It was so nice. We had great food and Brett's signature margaritas so you really couldn't ask for a better day!

Reagan and I

These 2 love their ranch dressing! Any food is fair game for dipping! Hunter's a little dirty from all his gardening (see below) LOVE the buttcrack!! Reagan and Grandpa dancingHunter with his new toolbench from Grandpa & Grammy
Reagan just chillin' out Mmm.. food's all gone! You know he's serious about eating when he uses TWO forks!! He's sowing something in there. Only he knows what it is though:-) Here's the reason they ended up with only a diaper on! Someday she really will not be happy with me for putting this one on here..
Hunter ended up finding a dog brush and "un-planting" all of Grandpa's veggie plants. Sigh...
Here's one tired, little man.


Time to clean up! Thank goodness for the mudroom sink!!
Reagan's turn All clean and pretty!

He had a long, hard day. Zzzzzzzzz....... (Again, I promise he has blue paci's but he really isn't picky with colors. Whatever he finds first he takes:-)

My 8 Things

My blogger friend Bern, (and I'd like to consider her a real-life friend too...) tagged me with "Eight Things". I love reading these, therefore I have to oblige so I feel like I'm doing my part. :-)

So here are the rules for "eight things": Mention the person that tagged you, complete the list of eight things, tag eight of your wonderful blogger friends, go tell them you tagged them!

Eight things I look forward to:

• Summertime!
• Hunter & Reagan waking up in the morning.
• My alone time at night.
• Ryan getting home from his trips. Especially the looooong ones!
• Church on Sundays.
• Any vacation, big or small, that is planned. I wish those happened more often!
• Cool down time in spin class.
• My coffee and toast in the morning while checking email and Facebook.

Eight things I did yesterday:

• Went to church.
• Took a nice, afternoon nap.
• Visited with my father in law who brought me some tomato plants. He's so nice!
• Ate pizza with Mom, Ronda, and all of the kids.
• Well... looks like I need to do a bit more with my Sundays. I could only come up with 4?!?!

Eight things I wish I could do:

• Play the drums.
• Sing. I mean actually sing well without the tone-deafness I have going on normally.
• Go on more work trips with Ryan. Yes. I'm still whining about not being able to go to Spain.
• Spend more money. I am such a cheapskate. I guess that's a good thing in these lovely economic times we're in!
• Spend more time with my friends I miss the most.
• Eat healthier.
• Speak another language.
• Go shopping; whatever type of shopping that may be, with the twins alone without having a major breakdown!!

Eight shows I watch:

• I'll just tell you right now that there is no way I have enough time for the few shows I actually do watch, let alone 8! Those days are LONG gone!!
• Grey's Anatomy
• Desperate Housewives
• Family Guy
• America's Most Wanted
• 90210
• Well 5 isn't too bad! It's usually just music on all day long. Nothing better than watching the twins dance!

I tag: Amanda R, Susan (come on Susan!!!), Chelsea, Melissa, The Kelly's (Paul or Malia.. take your pick!), Alison. That pretty much sums up my blogger friends!! I know.. it's not 8 but that seems to be the trend with mine. Maybe I should have renamed it "My 5 Things"...

It's just not fair!

Ryan left this morning for Spain. I'm not talking an inner-city grody part of Spain. I'm talking beautiful hotel right on the even more beautiful white beach and turquoise water outside of Madrid. He'll be there until May 13th. I'm going to be a lonely momma on Mother's Day but I'm sure I'll survive;-) I was going to try to go with him but a plane ticket was over $1300 and it would have taken 105K airline miles. We're kinda stingy with the miles because we want to use them for multiple trips so we didn't do that. Obviously, we don't have $1300 lying around for me to just take a short trip overseas! So... I guess I'll just keep looking forward to a trip to Missouri to visit Amy & Weston and a trip to Texas to visit all my southern homies:-)

My new fave outfit

No... of course it's not MY outfit. I still have old, ratty clothes but at least my kids are dressed cute! In fact, I really don't think there is anything more fun to shop for then clothes for my kiddos. I don't stray far from Gymboree but this outfit was actually found at Bass Pro Shop of all places and was a gift from Grammy & Grandpa! I love it!!

I've learned that kids are born ornery. Any time Reagan sees a camera pointed at her, she flat-out refuses to look into it. Stinker...

Another backyard project

We are in the process of completely redoing our backyard. Needless to say, the couple that lived here before us were pretty darn lazy in the backyard. At least the rest of the house and the front yard were in really good shape so I won't complain too much. They had this ridiculous deck that maybe one person and a small chair could fit on. Hello? Where do you put the bbq?? Then they were WAY lazy by putting river rock everywhere leaving only a small patch of grass. What grass is there is in pretty bad shape but we're putting our faith in the Trugreen gods that they will fix it. The best part? They stained the fence.. but only so much of it so we have a lovely hue of colors on our backyard fence. I was a little worried to do the backyard because it seems like just when we got our Keller house exactly the way we wanted it, we moved!! I'm not thinking that will happen here though so we should be good to go. Here's some pics of the process along with some of the kiddos playing in their trashy backyard;-)

The new deck "foundation". Now THIS is the size a deck should be!

Ryan and his dad. Don't you love the fence stain??Lovin' the buttcrack

Not quite sure what she's so determined about..

Best gravel-diggin' friends
On a mission with her wood!
Such a big boy!

Nothing cuter than a little girl in a dress playing in the dirt!

Yesterday, Trevor came over to hang out. Hunter has sunscreen hair!