Audrey is Walking

Don't just take my word for it:

One more reason I am glad I married Kirk

Every year for our anniversary Kirk writes me a poem, and every year it makes me cry. This year was our 5th anniversary and he took writing his poem a little further and made me a website of our lives together. Yes, I cried through the whole thing. He said he will add to it each year and I'm excited to have that become our new anniversary tradition. He seriously is the best. Check it out:

http://www.wix.com/croft50/igoththebestwife

"Teacher, my mom said rain is just water"

It is finally fall here in Vegas and this afternoon it actually rained! After opening all my windows so we could enjoy the smell we all ran outside to dance in the rain. Kirsten and I made it down the driveway before we both agreed it was too cold and ran back inside. Kirk and Audrey were die-hards and convinced us to come back out and catch a few raindrops on our tongues. The girls were so cute and pretty amazed with the water coming out of the sky.

After coming back inside the girls loved their dad tickling them until they were dry. PS Clearence rack at Target means matching outfits for my girls!

The costume search ended today at Target

We found the perfect Halloween costumes for the girls today. I figured we could pull off another year of matching costumes before we dive head first into princess costumes. Want a sneak peak? I thought so!

3 against 1

After bringing in the groceries this evening Kirsten and Audrey were playing with the umbrella stroller in the garage. Kirk brought the stroller in the house and strapped Audrey in so Kirsten could push her around. Devastated that she wasn't the one in the stroller Kirsten dramatically threw herself on the ground sobbing. Kirk eventually pulled Audrey out of the stroller and let Kirsten climb in and took her to get the mail. (There is a point to this story I promise) A few minutes later Kirsten is wanting help putting Audrey in the stroller so she can push her around.
Kirk looks at me and says "we could have saved a lot of drama if they would have gone with my idea in the first place."
To which I promptly respond "they are girls and don't want to be told how to do anything."
He didn't miss a beat " oh I know, I'm married to you"

funny Kirk

But the girls had fun and it was cute, see?

Young Love

Audrey and Adam hit it off instantly. As soon as they had the chance to crawl around on the floor together it was apparent their relationship would be a constant game of catch and release. But leave it up to my Audrey to make the first move.

It was a couple months ago, when they had only known each other a few weeks. I was on the floor changing Adam's diaper when Audrey crawled over to him, took his binky out of his mouth and leaned in for a kiss. Oh she didn't kiss him at first, she's a flirt and knows how to make him want it, but she only kept him waiting for a second because before I knew it she was planting a big open mouth lots of tongue kiss on Adam. Oh he really liked it! Yes I am jealous, she never comes up to me and gives me kisses. Boys are already causing drama in our house.

Audrey's first word? "ada" as in Adam. Anytime I mention his name she gets really excited and starts looking around for him. When his dad drops him off in the morning Audrey is ecstatic, complete with giggling, smiles, and shaking limbs. She then crawls over to his car seat and tells him hi babbling like crazy still with the giggle and smiles. He is excited to see her too and doesn't mind that she likes to take his binky in and out of his mouth a hundred times a day. She wakes up from her nap before him and as soon as she hears him wake up she says "ada" and starts crawling to his room before I have time to blink my eyes.

I love having these two crazy babies crawling around my house all day. They are always getting into the fridge and like to feed each other grapes. They are each starting to walk taking about 10 steps at a time, trying to out do each other. They love to climb up the stairs and slide down. It's a mad house when Adam is here and by 5:00 I'm usually flat out on the couch waiting for Kirk to come rescue me. I have not figured out how to have a clean house with 3 kids, pretty sure it's not possible. Anyway we love Adam, and I couldn't be more thrilled in Audrey's choice in men!

Be Warned: Trip Itinerary

A couple weeks ago Kirk and I celebrated our 5th year anniversary. We drove up to Payson Tuesday night and stayed with our friends Joe and Brenna. Audrey spent the entire night screaming and when she finally fell asleep Kirsten woke up and picked up where Audrey left off. Nothing sounded better to us at that moment than a few days away from the girls and a chance to sleep uninterrupted for a few nights! Brenna was sweet and made us yummy pancakes even though she had to listen to our girls scream all night. Part of me wished we could just vacation at her house with her green backyard, fields surrounding her house, and swing for the kids we were all in heaven!
Maybe next time.
We then were able to visit Dione and her sweet 6 week old baby boy. Seeing my friends swoon over their baby boys makes me think just maybe we should order a boy next. It was kind surreal to sit there with my friend and realize there were 6 kids between the 3 of us.
Weren't we just driving the "roller coaster" hills in Vernal?
Next we met up with Kirk's mom at his brother Aaron's house. Joriel made yummy coffee cake and we spent a few minutes visiting before we kissed our beautiful babies good bye. It was a big deal for us to leave them, since it was our first over night trip without them. They waved goodbye to us with wide eyes that were screaming "are you seriously leaving us? seriously?". But we totally did and did so before Karen realized how much like the girls like to scream at night!
(But they both totally slept through the night for her, SO not fair!)
We met up with some of our best friends Mark & Camille and had lunch. It was awesome to have time with friends without the kiddos around, even though all we talked about were the kids!
We stayed in Salt Lake that night and were delighted that we could go out at night and didn't have to stay home with sleeping babies. We spent time shopping at Tai Pan and Gateway before driving up and over Big Cottonwood Canyon into Midway where we enjoyed our honeymoon suite at the Johnson Mill. It was heaven and it turns out Kirk and I still like each other, alot!
But we were more than ready to see the girls on Friday. It about killed us to wait until 9:00 for our breakfast to be delivered so that we could get on the road and see our girls. They ran(crawled) up to us as we got out of the car, those girls are our piece of heaven.

In Vernal we were able to meet Eliza Jayne, have a Tea Party with my mom and some of my sisters and nieces, go boating with Liz and Derek(yes Kirk was really hot wake boarding), go to Women's Conference, go to the movie You Again with my mom, aunt janet, and kristy, Kirk and the girls went to Alex's birthday party, but mostly the girls loved playing in their grandma's backyards swinging on the swing set, playing with the dog, and rolling around in the grass (which was Kirsten and Audrey's piece of heaven). We met up with the rest of my family (Riley, Josh, Brett, Amanda, Garrett, Chelsey, and spouses/boyfriend) on Sunday at Riley's house. It is so much fun to be with family. It was the perfect trip! Maybe, just maybe we will do it again :)