Goodmorning!

The other morning I was in bed, waiting until the last possible minute to get the girls up. Sarah Gray suddenly burst into my room saying "Alright mom, I'm ready to go to gymnastics!" Well, although gymnastics was not until 3 that afternoon...I was so so proud of her for getting ready by herself. She had dressed fully in the clothes I had set out for the next day, put on her socks and shoes, and had even put a head band in her head. I believe this is now something fun for her...picking out her own clothes and coming downstairs to surprise us with something she "designed" herself. Saturday morning we had a birthday party to go to at 10, and at 7 she came down, all dressed again. Although I made her change her shirt and put her hair in a ponytail, she is actually getting ready by herself at 3&1/2! It really does save me a lot of time, trying to get both the girls ready to head out the door. I can't believe how fast my baby is growing up. Here is a picture of her on Saturday morning (you have to love the shirt and tights)!

I am so glad I am not going to have to change my blog URL! As soon as I saw those little legs kicking, I knew it was a girl! We are so excited to welcome another precious baby into the world..our family is so truly blessed with so much love, it hard to believe its my life sometime. Little one's due date is May 28th. We have not discussed names, as we never had a 3rd choice to Sarah and Katherine...but I know she will come into a world filled with lots of pink and purple, bows, dollies, and ponies. We can't wait to meet you sweet baby girl.

Welcome 2010!

Well, as many mom's will do this year, my resolution is to start, and stay with a family blog. From the post below, you can see I attempted this activity about a year and a half ago. We see how far I got! I have also not updated my girls journals in about 4 months...and I feel like such a bad, slacker mom!! Maybe this blog will let me feel a bit better about documenting our family experiences, and the joys and laughs our girls bring us everyday. And was we await the arival of Baby Douglass #3, and the exciting adventures our "new life" in Summerfield, I am sure I will have plenty to share! I have never been big on making New Years resolutions, but for some reason, the start of this decade leaves me with much excitement of what is ahead! So here are my family resoutions for this year:

1. Join a church!
2. Less TV/more crafty activities with the kids.
3.Work on creating more creative, healthy/organic meals. Bake more! Eat out less.
4.Work on ways to save money: couponing, free, fun family activities, avoid Target!
5. Use babysitters more.
6. Learn to take better pictures (my personal goal).

Happy New Year everyone!

Here we go!

Welcome to our blog! With 2 years of journal entries for my daughter Sarah Gray, a Kodak Gallery account with over 50 albums, and now, trying to avoid an addiction to Facebook, I think this may be a better to start collecting and sharing our family news. Of course, this blog in its entirety will be about our wonderful daughters Sarah Gray (2 years) and Katherine (13 weeks), and maybe sometimes our dogs will get their opportunity for fame. After looking through some pictures this evening, I have come to realize that Scott and I no longer have/take pictures of each other, so its very unlikely you will ever see photos of us. I guess I will start this blog by posting some recent pictures of the girls.

Sarah Gray, who is 2, had a great time on her first visit to "Build-a-Bear." She is very much into "princess" things, so of course, her bear had to wear a princess dress too.

Katherine looks more and more like her big sister every day with those big ole' blue eyes. Not too mention they both look like their dad. Why is it that we women go through so much labor trouble and these girls come out looking like their daddy?