Chloe's First Sleepover

This past weekend was a ton of fun! Chloe had her first sleepover. Her friend Kate stayed with us for the weekend. Her Mommy and Daddy went on a little trip to Florida. It was a like having two 7 month old twins and a one and half year old. There was a ton of diapers and bottles, and lots of moving around. It was pretty easy though knowing that Kate and Chloe did the same things at the same time. They ate, slept, and played all at the same time. And Sophie loved having Kate there, or as she called her "kaytee."


We had a little picnic out on the front lawn. They loved being out in the sun.


Playing in the bath....ok ok more like crying in the bath. Chloe was the one freaking out as she always does, but you know if one baby is crying they all have to...its the secret baby code.
We also did alittle grocery shopping. We had many comments on how cute the twins were...I would just laugh and politly tell them that they were just friends. It was fun watching the two of them sit in the basket. They were so good and content just to sit and watch all the people passing them.
I meant to get some pictures of them in there sunday dresses, but I couldn't find that darn camera. But let me just tell you they looked so stinkin cute.

just want to post some cuteness

This me when I was about Chloes age.

I think she finally looks like she belongs in the family.

Who's that girl????

I have been wanting to do this for a long time and finally I got her to sit long enough to do it.!!! She doesn't even look like herself!

Oh Those Sick Days!

As a child, when you are sick, you stay home from school, your mom makes you soup. You get to watch your favorite cartoons and movies. You lounge around all day in your pajamas. As a child you look forward to these days. You almost wish for them. Sometimes you just fake it to get out of school. And then one day you grow up and you are a parent, and you get sick and guess what..... NO ONE CARES!!!!! Your child depends on you to get them up, get them fed, and to turn on their cartoons and movies. They don't care if the night before you didn't sleep at all because your fever was so high that even the covers on your bed were hurting your skin. They don't care that your head was so full of pressure that it felt like your face was going to fall off. They don't care that with every cry and every whine your ears would pound into your brain!!!!!! Nope they are just spoiled and insensitive little people! OH WAIT....I was one of them.
So to MOM and DAD I say, I am sorry! I am sorry for all the times that I faked being sick. Even for the times that I was actually sick but could have survived with out you doing all sick day expectations.

**** Disclosure****
Someone did care....Leslie Larson and Kristi Harvey! Oh and My hubby!

These are pictures of them at the Downtown Memorial Park in Houston. They were both sick and still we took them out into the cold. We are sorry if anyone thinks that we are cruel for doing this to our children! We thought they felt better. Turns out we all got much worse later that day!

The Triathlon........

After having Sophie almost 22 months ago, I was determined to get the baby weight off. I soon realized that it was alot harder to shed anything let alone a pound. Then to my great surprise I found out that only after 6 months of having Sophie I was again pregnant. It was extremely hard to get it into my head that, Yes, once again I would be gaining more weight. I thought I was doomed...I had not even lost anything from the first pregnancy,... how was I supposed to put more back on? During Chloe's pregnancy I was determined if I could not get the weight off, I would at least stay active and workout as much as I could. I joined the YMCA and started taking some classes. It went well, I felt great through the pregnancy. Now it is 6 months after having Chloe and there is no way that I am getting pregnant again. So now here I am, over weight and not happy with myself.
A couple months ago McKenzie Pew and I were leaving from somewhere and she mentioned to me that she would be doing a Triathlon in May. She asked me if I wanted to do it with her. HAHAHA In my head I was laughing and thinking "Yeah Right!" Instead of telling her that, I instead told her that I would think about it. Then one day I found myself telling someone (I'm not quite sure who it was) that I would be doing a Triathlon in May.... ( Oh my gosh did I just tell someone that??) I could not believe that I just agreed to do this. I really hadn't thought about it, and now I was all of a sudden committed to doing this. I'm not a very good runner. I know that I am not the best swimmer, and Biking??? What was I thinking?
What I am thinking now is that I have a few poundage's to loose and what a great way to loose them. I have a great goal in the end. I have great friends to do it with. And I get to see how far I can push myself. I am happy to say that I am excited to do this now.
We started training today and I am feeling it all over. The people that I am doing this with are: McKenzie Pew, Elizabeth Chappell, and JIMMY!!! (and anyone who would like to join us)

A quick and cold Trip to the ZOO!

Sophie wanted to climb over and play with the cute puppies!!


Poor Chloe, she has never experienced that kind of cold before.


As you will see here on your right...a baby nursing on its mom. I wonder if Sophie had any flashbacks.

The years recap!

Can you believe this year is already at an end? There was so much that went on. Just a little recap... To start off the year, back in January I was already pregnant again. (Lets just say we will not be starting the year off like that again.) In Febuary we found out we were having another Girl. We were excited for Sophie to have little sister. Sophie turned 1 in March. We were able to have a couple parties for her. One while we were in Las Vegas, one with friends, and one just with Mom and Dad. We had many visitors..Robin and Marv...Ron and Jan...Becki and Maya...Aaron...Andrew and Emily Stubbs.. and Greg and Leah Spittle. Jimmy and I were in charge of the serive project for the stake conference, which was a carnival for handi-cap individuals. The only problem was that I was scheduled to have Chloe the same day as the carnival. (June 29th) So we worked it out that I had Chloe on the 26th and was abke to make it to the carnival on the 29th. Both events went off smoothly. Then that sunday July 1st we blessed Chloe Brynn Hales. Ha, she was only 5 days old. She was the youngest baby to be blessed in our ward. In July we celebrated the 4th with Marv and Robin here in Texas. In August, my dad and I share the same day birthday. He was turning 60 so the whole family surprised my dad at a Giants game. (A tradition that my dad and I share.) In Sept. Jimmy left for Angola, Africa and I left to stay in California for about a month. In October we headed to Utah to see Aaron and Rachel get married. (We miss Utah!) It was fun being with all the Hales fam. November was Thanksgiving, we had it with some friends in our ward. Now December is here and going fast...Christmas was a great day with our little family. I Can not believe we will be starting a whole new year tomorrow. Happy New years Everyone!!

Here's an update...

Well, I know that I have not posted in uhh well...a long time. But Chloe is now 6months and Sophie is 21 months.Chloe is begining to crawl and Sophie can now open all the doors and climb on pretty much anything. It's going to be a mad house when they are both realize what they can accomplish together. Anyways, we had a great Christams here in Texas. Sophie still doesn't quite understand what Christmas is all about, but it was just fun to be all together and playing with all our new toys.

OUR fun trip to Dallas!