We're combining!

After much thought and debate (over the girliness of my blog) we have decided to combine and become one. Josh and I are now at joshandlisamoore.blogspot.com. Sorry for the inconvenience! Oh, and when you visit, feel free to become a follower of our blog because we like to know how popular we are. And Josh would like to call you his "minion." Thanks everyone!

Love notes

Sydney is really into making love notes for people these days. At church on Sunday she made a love note for everyone in the family sitting behind us. She's always asking what comes after the I and the L in I Love You. She can get two letters in before she needs help with the spelling. Most of the notes turn out like this one: I Lovey Ou. I haven't taught her how to separate the words yet. This love note is extra special though because she said it's a picture of her and Jesus holding hands. She sat down and said "I'm going to draw a picture of Jesus....Oh! And I have to draw a picture of me holding his hand....How do I spell 'I love you?'" I thought it was sweet.

Dress-up

This week I decided to add to the collection of princess dresses. A friend of mine sells them for much better prices than you'll find at Toys R Us or Target. So I got two, one in a smaller size so that Natalie almost fits in it. It's still about a foot too long for her but I think she was pretty happy about getting to play dress-up like her big sister.

The fair

Today Sydney, Tanner, Natalie, and I went to the state fair. We chose to go today because my youngest brother, Adam, was performing with his jazz band. They sounded fabulous and Natalie was really getting into it with all her little dance moves. She's a big fan of music. We met up with my mom and dad which was great because 3 adults with 3 kids makes a smooth outing.

Here's Adam. I guess he had better things to do with the rest of the afternoon than visit the sheep, pigs, goats, and cows with us. Aaww, you missed out Adam!

Tanner's favorite animal was, by far, the goats. And they loved him too. He would toddle up to their pens and they'd all stick their heads out and he'd just giggle. I assumed these animals were nice enough not to bite.


These two were butting heads. Hhhmmm...that reminds me of a couple of my kids. Maybe they're twins too. Well we do call Natalie "Nanny" most of the time, which is a goat term.

Speaking of which, here's the the little angel. She was so content to sit in the stroller for almost the whole time.

My dad was kind enough to push these two rugrats around the whole time.

At one point during the animal tour Sydney saw the pony ride. And we all got to hear the words "I want to ride a horse" about a hundred times while we finished looking at the animals. When she wants something she does not forget about it.
The day hit a highlight for Sydney when we met up with my friend Shayla and her kids. Sydney is friends with Elise as you can see.


I rode with them on the ferris wheel.
My new favorite part of the fair is the Little Hands farm where kids do farm jobs and at the end they earn a farm "dollar" with which they can purchase a snack at the market. One of the best parts is it's free. Woohoo!

Tanner looked so adorable in his little farm apron I was tempted to smuggle it home.

Sydney is picking apples in the orchard.

Natalie is supposed to be planting a seed but her apple is too interesting.

What diaper?

This afternoon I could hear that the twins had woken up from their naps and were in their room chatting. I went in to get them and could see them looking at each other through the bars of their cribs. I thought that was unusual because they normally ignore each other as much as possible. They seemed pretty happy about something too. I went to get Tanner out of his crib and stepped on something a little wet. Hhhmmm...I get the joke - open diaper on the floor. Tanner didn't have his pants on during his nap because they were dirty from earlier in the day and I guess he decided he didn't need that diaper on anymore either. There wasn't much mess and it was well worth the laugh.

4-year-old preschool

I think one reason why fall is my favorite season is because of back to school. It was always so fun getting new clothes, backpacks, school supplies and getting ready to see all your friends again. Of course after the first week it's not so fun because you have start making your brain work. But Sydney doesn't have that problem yet because she's been so excited for pre-school to start again all summer that she's been regularly practicing ABC's, numbers, and starting to sound out some words. I clearly remember sounding out my first word in kindergarten so I think kids are smarter these days. Sydney was so anxious to go to school I think she asked half a dozen times if she could go the night before and I've never seen her get ready so fast on her first day. I ended up taking her picture a half hour before we had to leave just so we had something to do.

Aahh, the summer goodness

Fruit shakes are one of my favorite things in the summer. Not to say that I don't also have them the rest of the year. But they are especially refreshing during the summer so we make them a lot. Today was a picture-worthy day because Tanner and Natalie had their very first fruit shake. And they made a pretty good attempt at the hard-top sippy cups which they have never used before. Natalie must have been a bigger fan because she drank her whole cup. Tanner wasn't sure if the treat was really worth all the effort of trying to figure out how to use his cup.

For those of you who are dying to experience this summer goodness for yourselves, simply blend a bunch of frozen strawberries with some strawberry yogurt and orange juice. Easy peasy! I've been splurging lately and using Simply Orange orange juice which really makes a big difference compared to the concentrate.