I know there is no excuse for why I have not uploaded the blog in the past week...or so I have been told. The girls have been sick with bronchitis, which has been pleasant for everyone! The girls and I have been quarantined for the past two weeks until all of their symptoms were gone...which meant that we went to drastic resorts to keep ourselves entertained and sometimes this included watching The Little Mermaid on repeat (me crossing my eyes).

Gryffyn: "If only they would feed me" (that's a plastic waffle from the play kitchen)

Hannah's favorite lounge chair

looking through the oven window

so exhausted....

fun hairstyles...(that they will kill us for documenting in 14 years)



When we finally were symptom free, we got to start going to storytime at the library. Hannah has storytime on Tuesdays and Gryffyn has storytime on Thursdays. We have made some great friends and some awesome crafts.


This video is from story time at the library...

One might be topless and one might not have any pants....but they are hard at work in their kitchen...

Here are the pictures as promised...Gryffyn standing in crib!

Plus cute videos of the girls playing outside...

ok...I don't have pictures yet or videos. But I did want to post that Gryffyn has had two achievements this morning. She might have done this before BUT I caught her STANDING in her crib when I went to get her this morning and she likes to CLAP! I love new developments.

This weekend went by WAY TOO FAST! I can't believe that it is already Monday!

On Sunday, we went to Sweet Tomatoes for some yummy food with a bunch of our friends (Shannon, Nils, Armani, Jackie, and Conner). After a few trips up to the buffet line, we went to the park to burn off some of that energy. It was a gorgeous day!


Here is some of our fun...

Gryffyn just smiling

Gryffyn showing Conner how she crawls...it's what all the cool kids are doing!

Armani playing on the Pink Playground

Hannah won Tic-Tac-Toe!

Woo-Hoo...Slide!

Hannah's a monkey (with Daddy's help)

Nils making sure that the swings were safe

Gryffyn and Conner swinging around

Everything's Dyno-mite!

Our group...Conner (9 months), Gryffyn (9 months), Armani (5 years), & Hannah (2 years)

We returned from the park with an exhausted Gryffyn and a fighting-naptime Hannah. Hannah has been coughing for the past two weeks, so I took her to the Urgent Care while Gryffyn and Daniel chilled at home. Hannah got so many compliments for her behavior from the triage nurse, the receptionist, and the doctor. The doctor told me that she has "Kiddie Cough" which is not contagious, but does make her uncomfortable. She now has some medicine to take, but she is still Happy Hannah just not as well rested.

The past few months, Hannah has been letting Gryffyn play with her musical table that she got for her first birthday. We had to take the legs off of the musical table so Gryffyn could sit down and play with it. We have finally been able to put the legs back on because Gryffyn is getting stronger with her standing. She will be walking any day now...are we ready for that?

I think we have started a tradition that the whole family can enjoy...Sunday at the Park. Sunday was such a beautiful day that after visiting a church in the Palm Beach Gardens area (where we are buying a house), we decided to go to the park. About two blocks from our new house is a park with lots of different playground sets. It is fenced in so the kids have the run of the entire area and the area surrounding the playground sets have that cool astroturf ground, which was comfy for Gryffyn to crawl on while Hannah enjoyed the slides and swings. I could definitely see repeating this every Sunday (weather permitting).

On the 23rd of December, we flew to Birmingham, AL to visit my family for Christmas. We had to fly from West Palm Beach, FL to Atlanta, GA...for a two hour layover and then fly to Birmingham, AL. The girls were awesome during both flights!

Gryffyn enjoying a bottle, & Hannah watching a DVD.

Before the flight to Birmingham, AL from Atlanta, GA, the girls changed into their jammies. We didn't land until 10:30PM, so we figured that they should be as comfy as possible. Hannah was so proud that she had her own "big girl" seat that I just had to take a picture. Right after the picture was taken, the flight attendant insisted that I hold Hannah during the flight in my lap even though we had purchased a ticket for her. I was fine to hold her, even though I didn't understand since we had bought her a separate ticket, but what broke my heart is that Hannah cried when she couldn't sit in her "big girl" seat. All in all the visit with her grandparents made up for the misunderstanding with the flight attendant.

We had a great birthday breakfast on the morning of the 24th with Dearie, Papa, and Uncle Joshua to celebrate Hannah's 2nd birthday. We had strawberry pancakes and Hannah got some awesome presents. Dearie and Papa gave Hannah a pink camera because she has been obsessed with taking pictures lately. Uncle Joshua got her the most annoying present ever....a singing barn. It doesn't stop singing!

Christmas Eve Night we went over to my grandparents' house (Mamaw and Papaw) and had a wonderful meal with my mom's side of the family, which included Uncle W.H., my cousin Liesa and her husband Billy, my Aunt Karen and Uncle Ken, my cousin Kacey and his girlfriend Vickie. Everyone had a great time visiting and catching up on the past year. I got lots of great advice from my Uncle Ken, who inspects homes, on our future purchase here in Florida. Dan and I barely got to hold either of the girls because people were fighting over who got to cuddle with them. We had to break up the party a little earlier then usual due to two little girls having to get in bed before Santa arrived at their Dearie and Papa's house.


And boy oh boy, did Santa deliver or what? It looked like Santa's workshop had exploded in my parents' living room on Christmas morning! Oh course all Hannah wanted to play with was the tubberware container.

Gryffyn trying out her stroller

Dan trying to figure out the cost to ship everything back

Papa dancing to the most annoying song (courtesy of Uncle Joshua's present)

Hannah dancing over the most annoying present

Gryffyn looking ADORABLE in her new outfit from Dearie

Hannah searching for more presents...

and our trip wouldn't be complete without a picture of our Coloring Queens

We left Birmingham on the 26th due to Dan having to be at work on the 27th. Due to the "snow" in Birmingham and Atlanta, our flight kept getting delayed. So we waited...

and waited...
and waited...
and then we finally got to Atlanta, GA where we missed our flight by 30 minutes and had to get re-routed. Thankfully our kids are EXTREMELY cute and a Delta employee took pity on us standing in the long line of people trying to change there flights due to missed connections. He re-routed our flight very quickly (for the next morning), made reservations for a hotel, and re-routed our luggage to our new flight.

and the girls remained happy...WE ARE SO LUCKY!

After our "interesting" flight back, we decided to lay low and let everyone recover from the holidays, except Dan who had to work. Dan did not have to work New Year's Eve Day (Friday) so we spent our 4 year anniversary with the girls enjoying life in South Florida. We went to Mellow Mushroom to enjoy some pizza outside on the patio (because it was 76 degrees) and then we went to the park and the beach.

One's anniversary and New Year's Eve is much different after having kids, but this one was still pretty darn awesome!

I'll end with a new year wonderment. I know that Vampire Movies are extremely popular, but Gryffyn's new fangs are a little bit of an overkill, don't you think?