Visitors! :)

A few weeks ago, we had some visitors! :) We LOVE visitors. We weren't able to go home for Christmas this past year so we didn't get to see any family.  Eric (my brother), Megan (my sister-in-law), and Kaylee (my niece) (and their dog, Saidee) drove up from Texas to visit us. It was so good to see Eric and Megan and to meet little Kaylee, who is a month and a half older than Brielle.  Megan made matching skirts and bows for all 3 girls. They were are way cute.  Mckenna loves to wear her "matching dress" with Brielle. (You would not believe how hard it was to get all 3 kids looking at the camera... let alone smiling haha)

We went to the Saint Patrick's Day parade in downtown Des Moines.  We saw lots of crazy drunk people there :).  Saidee was scared of all the noise and spent a lot of time like this... haha

We had a few people wondering if Brielle and Kaylee were twins :)

Mckenna really did have fun, by this time she was just tired and not willing to smile

Mckenna loved Saidee.  Eric helped Mckenna shake with Saidee. Mckenna thought she was pretty cool.

At the zoo

One good picture of the 3 girls

Thanks for coming! We had lots of fun. Can't wait to see you again!

Everyday Fun

So I have decided that I'm really bad at this whole blogging thing haha. But I will keep trying! :) A few random pictures from March (yes, like 2 months ago. For some reason, I can't just pick up blogging from where I am. I have to update and catch up. So, bear with me :)  )

One of my favorite things lately is hearing the girls in the other room laughing together.  It happens all the time and I love it! I always try to peek in and see what is going on because it's just so cute.  When I looked in, this is what I saw...

Yes, that's Brielle under a bunch of blankets trying to get out. And believe me, they were BOTH laughing really hard. Little Bri is a good sport :)

And this was what I saw next...

Mckenna has been into dressing herself lately, and as you can tell, that's a battle that I choose to not fight. So she usually wins.

Mckenna loves talking on the phone. It just makes her day to get a call from her friend Nelson.  She loves it.

And little Brielle is as cute as ever. She's very curious and gets into everything. She knocked the snacks out of the diaper bag and strew them across the floor. I guess she was hungry.

Mckenna and I had a marshmallow shooting contest. She was in heaven!  It was lots of fun.

Mckennas favorite thing to do is somersaults.  She's getting pretty good!

and here she made a slide for all her little friends to go down. This kept her entertained for a few hours!

Curious Brielle, just looking around :) (I love those big cheeks!)

Happy Valentine's Day!

I can't look at this picture and not laugh! :)


I made this delicious dessert for Valentine's Day! It's chocolate chip cookie dough on the bottom, then a layer of oreos, and topped with a brownie layer. Of course, we had to serve it with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup on top! Yum!!!

Outside Fun

It has been so warm here lately! We took advantage of a warm day last week and played outside. Brielle loved the swings!


Mckenna has always been a slide girl.


We were lucky that it was a day that Devin didn't have to go to school and was able to take some time off to play with us.

Grandpa and Grandma Bowman got Mckenna a make-a-puppet kit for Christmas. We have had fun making finger puppets.

Picture Overload!

Just some random pictures we have taken (by the way, there are like 6 posts below this one. I finally updated haha)




My first photo shoot with our camera (and I wasn't in auto!)









Brielle- I think this first one is my favorite




Another random picture that I thought was funny