I can't believe how big Talia is getting. She is almost 3! She got this bike last weekend, and she is absolutely in love with it! The first day she just scooted around and didn't really want to try the pedals, but she was content just to push herself around for hours.

We bring it inside for now, so it doesn't get really faded in the sun, and our dog doesn't try to chew on it, so she plays with it everyday all over our small house. I trip on it about 17 times daily because she has a tendency to put it right behind me when my back is turned. You can see it didn't take her very long to figure out the pedals.

I guess even princesses ride bikes (notice the shoes). She struggled a little with the pedals this day. :)

Here is my other big girl, who is 5 1/2 months old already! I can't believe it. Anyway, her new prize last weekend was this booster chair. She is still a little young for it and kind of tips over a little, that's why we have propped her up with the blanket. She loves sitting in this chair. I think she feels like such a big girl. Now she joins us at the table for breakfast and dinner at least.
I think she is going to be my good eater as you can see Talia in the corner crying because she doesn't want to eat her dinner.

Krissi is usually pretty intersted in what Talia is eating so I have to be careful Talia doesn't share just yet.

Krissi really like her rice cereal. I usually let her chew on the spoon when we are done, but sometimes she gags herself, so that's what the bottom picture is.

They grow up so fast, don't blink!

A couple of weeks ago, I was babysitting and wanted to do a fun project for the girls. I was already buying paint to work on a wooden dollhouse I found for Talia. So I bought these little face masks for $1 for the girls to paint. They all had such a good time. It was pretty cheap entertainment and everyone with kids can appreciate that! I know that's probably not what our recycle bin is supposed to be used for, but I didn't want to put them on the ground with our puppy running around.

Talia was so careful with each little stoke of paint. Her little paint plate was still real organized and hadn't mixed all the colors together.

Then here are a couple picture of their masks when they were all finished.

So last weekend we decided kind of last minute to go camping. We realized that summer is going to be over before we know it and we haven't really done anything yet. One of our friends was telling us about a state park that is only about an hour away. You can camp right on the bay and go fishing. So of course, Wuilman was all for that. So it was around 6:30 p.m., so we went home threw some pjs and clothes in a bag, went to Walmart to load up the cooler, and buy a tent. (This is our first Texas camping trip) :) So we got there around 9:30 p.m. and it was SO SO SOOOO windy! It was super hard to set up our tent, but we finally got it. Krissi was pretty good hanging out in her little chair while we set up camp. As you can see, she figured out if she pulls out one end of the arch she can actually reach the turtles!

This is me and the girls waiting for Papa to finish cooking our hot dogs! It was so windy all night long, I don't know how anybody got any sleep. One time I woke up and Wuilman had his leg in the air trying to hold the tent up! We survived anyway.

This was right out the front door of our tent. We had bought Talia a little Dora fishing pole that has a bobber and a little rubber fish on the end of the line. You can really cast it and reel it in, but Talia did not like seeing her fish really going in the water. You can kind of see her put her hands up in protest as she thinks Papa has lost her fish for good.

The rest of the morning she wouldn't let her fishing pole out of her sight!

After breakfast we walked down to a pier they have to go fishing. We don't have a picture of Wuilman and I fishing, but here is one of Talia again. She would throw her line over the edge, but not far enough to get in the water. She would then pull it up and say, "Mama, I got a fish! A pink one!" She continued to do this for about an hour! She really enjoyed that part. She caught the most fish though. Wuilman and I didn't catch anything, but I'm not complaining :) Krissi is asleep with that pink blanket over her chair.

By lunch time it was too hot for clothes, not that we had any clean ones anyway.

Talia has a blast with bubbles, but what kid doesn't?

This is our little campground. It was pretty nice. Each space has one of these with a picnic table, grill and a fresh water spout. You can see how close we were to the actual bay in the background. We had our tent set up in front of the cover, but we had already taken it down.

As Wuilmand I were packing up, we left it up to Talia to try and map our way home. Here she is trying to explain the map to Krissi.

Krissi is looking with real interest.

This is the typical Krissi face. If you knew her you would understand. She can be super happy and then all of a sudden you see this face and the tears just start coming. All in all it was super fun and we can't wait to go back, but we will definately check the weather first. It wasn't the same as Idaho mountain camping, but we still came home dirty and isn't that the point of camping anyway?

We went to a Friend's wedding this past weekend where Wuilman was one of the best men. After the reception was coming to an end and the band had left. Wuilman went to say goodbye to the groom and I look up and he and Wuilman are on the stage and request a song from the DJ and just start singing and dancing. It was hilarious! The picture didn't turn out very good because I was holding Krissi, who was crying, and I couldn't get too close.

These two are of Talia dancing with the groom's little brother. I don't know exactly how that happend, but when someone comes to talk to her, she usually just grabs their hands and starts dancing. He was a good sport though and spun her around a couple of time.

This was before the reception really got started so after a minute they needed him to go take more pictures. Talia came running to me crying big alligator tears that he was gone. She has seen all the fairy tales, so I guess she knows every princess needs a prince!

This is Talia with the Bride, Jessica. Everytime Talia would see her all night, she would just stare in awe and say, "Beautiful dress"

This is Wuilman with the other best men.

The reception was out on a ranch so they had some goats that Talia thought were pretty cool. She was feeding them and getting her shoes all dusty.

This is my pretty blue eyed baby.

This is my almost three year old who got super bored during the actual ceremony.

Wuilman and my pretty girls. You know I should be in this picture. I WAS actually at the wedding, but somehow I didn't end up in any of the pictures. I was in the bathroom fixing my slip when they took this.

Talia and her Papa prince. As soon as Wuilman brought his tuxedo home, Talia kept calling him Papa prince.

Lots of kisses at my house
Look my eyes are still blue!

These are just a couple pics for Grandma and Grandpa to see how my baby girls are growing!