We had spring picture day a few weeks ago and I took these pictures of the girls before we left for school that morning. The difference in the two made me laugh! One is completely happy and excited to take a picture, the other not so much! But, on any given day, the frowns could very easily be flip-flopped. Today Lucy was the frowny one because I would not let her put makeup on for her school pictures. Such a mean mom I am! But frowns or smiles, they are both so pretty and I do love them so!
I saw this picture on Facebook and think it's so neat! It's cool how illusions like this work!
Lucy got Molly a helium-filled balloon for her birthday. The balloon came with a long string tied to it, but there was no weight tied to the string to keep it from floating up into the ceiling. We explained to Molly that if she let it go in certain parts of our house it would float up and be hard to get.
She got the balloon around 2pm on Saturday afternoon and did a great job with it until about 10am on Monday morning. She made it almost 48 hours without losing the balloon! That Monday was President's Day, so Ross was off work and the girls were home from school. I went to my 9am class at the gym that morning and as I pulled in our driveway and opened up the garage door I saw Ross walking out to get the ladder to bring inside. I started laughing and immediately knew why he was getting the ladder....the balloon had been let go of in our two-story, open entryway!
It wasn't a big deal to get the balloon down, but it was just funny to me! However, I did tie a weight to the string to keep it from happening again!
Molly made this for me at school during her Valentine's Day party! I love it! It's a canvas that she glued tissue paper hearts onto and put mod podge all over it. I think it turned out great! (Molly's not a fan of having her picture taken sometimes!)
We went to the mall on Molly's birthday and we ended up going into the "Loli and Pop" candy store there. We looked around a bit and then I decided to let the girls get some candy. This was a lot of fun to me because it brought back good memories from when I was a kid and would go to the mall with my friends and buy candy from the candy store. Mr. Bulky's was the candy store in our mall when I was growing up and I remember them having soooooooo many varieties of candy! I also remember being careful to not fill my candy bags up too much because that candy was expensive!
I don't know how, but my mom and I discovered these chewy grapefruit wedge candies that we both really liked! She would get them for me for special occasions and sometimes just because. She would also get me red coin candies that were just chewy/jube jell candies that I loved. In fact, those candies were kind of my "food" for my first night away at college in my dorm room! I didn't know anyone at all the first night I stayed there and was too scared to go outside of my room to get some food! I was so hungry and thankfully mom had hidden some of the red coins in my bag so I had "food" to eat! Fun memory!
Anyway, it was a lot of fun going in that candy store! I wish it would have been bigger like Mr. Bulky's was because Mr. Bulky's had a huge variety of candy. Loli and Pop just seems to have a large variety of gummy bears, but not many other types of candy. The girls got gummy bears and I got some grapefruit wedges, too!
