whoops...

hard to believe that this...

grew up to be this...

 and did this...

...to our car...

 yep its true... quite an arm on that kid... too bad when she was trying to show her friends her amazing softball pitch {never played a game of softball in her life} she happened to be showing them with a rock and happened to release the ball  rock a pinch early...

 blessing in disguise: there was a whole line of cars at that party and she happened to hit ours...

miracles happen.

hey, we are still smiling... windshield  replaced and ready for our 30 hour drive to UT

{don't worry, we really replaced it!}

little water fountains...

i told those little monsters to go pick me some peonies for the kitchen table and this is what i get...

a giant peony explosion in our tiny wading pool...

... laugh it up little monster, you guys are SO funny...

 "but mommy, i just wanted to pretend to be a water fountain"

can't really argue with that logic.

 of course Cora wanted in on all the fun...

 and daddy was MORE than happy to help her out with that...

"baking" cookies...

So, like a good mommie i told the girls we could bake Christmas cookies.... (and by "bake" i mean buy the sheets of dough and let the girls cut them out) So after they cooled off we start frosting them and adding gobs of sprinkles (canned frosting , of course) suddenly Cora accidentally broke a piece of her cookie off and say's "oh DAMN IT" she doesn't even look up from what she's doing! Cory and I looked at each other with our eyes bugged out of our heads and said to her "what did you say?" and she says "i said oh damn it" like what are you deaf... after Cory and i stop laughing we ask her where she heard that word (i was prepared to be busted) and she said "Syd" (check out syd's blog "forever young") at this point Cory and i were dying we were laughing so hard! Syd, you were totally busted, although we both know thats not the first place she heard that

All the naughty things...

okay, so its technically my fault my kids do these naughty things... something like this happens every morning because lets face it i'm a lazy bum and i dont get up before 9:30 . My kids however get up at 8:00 and they both know that they have a solid hour and a half to raise hell before i get up. this first set of pics is Eva's playdough explosion....









...she knows shes in trouble...










then Cora decided that she needed to have her nails done...so she did them. Wait, it gets better she did her nails with nail polish she found on my nightstand and painted her nails, her arms, her legs, her jammies, and MY sheets, MY comforter and MY pillow that i was still sleeping on!!!!!!! sometimes i can't believe how dense i can be... and its always something, this morning the two of them were in the backyard before Cory and I were awake, a few days ago i came down the stairs and said to Eva "if you made a mess clean it up before i see it" and she says "oh mommy we were just coloring" so of course i am prepared to find my walls covered in pink crayon when 'crunch' i step on frosted flakes... not just a few, an ENTIRE BOX of frosted flakes! their bedroom, the living room and the kitchen floors covered in frosted flakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if i could quote my mother...."they're gonna drive my to drinking!"