Hugo's

Oh, date night! I have been looking forward to this night all week! Earlier I busted out my Entertainment Book to decide where we should go. I found Hugo's Steakhouse. Our entertainment coupon was buy one dinner get one free up to $17.00 off! Great deals.
Russ and I both ordered a steak. Fabulous. We topped it off with tiramisu. Perfect.

We did have to laugh though. The restaurant was hosting a rehearsal dinner and not only were there an abnormal amount of children in a nice steakhouse, a lady was walking her fussy 3 month old baby up and down the isle by our table. What else can you do but laugh. And order a second glass of wine.

Sample

My days are so crazy these days.

This is a little sample of a "normal" day. 

The following takes place between 5:30 and 6:00am..

OK..too much 24.

But seriously that was not a typo. Both girls wake up between 5:30 and 6am

EVERY DAY.

6:00 am-Bottles (thankfully Russ is home to help with this feeding)

6:15-7:30-play time (for the most part they play great either together or alone

during this time with little interruption. I spend that time doing laundry, 

eating breakfast, making breakfast for the girls, showering, and whatever

else I can squeeze in)

7:30-8:30-morning nap (I am still usually trying to finish getting dressed

do my hair, check email, make coffee..)

8:30-9:00-eat breakfast (either jarred or homemade baby food 

depending on how organized I have been that week, puffed cereal, 

cheese pieces, yogurt, basically what ever is in the house :)

9:00-9:30-clean up the giant mess that is breakfast. Not only the 

food that is on the floor, the entire high chair and both babies

from head to two. While I am doing this they are either wanting attention

or crawling around on the floor with the cats trying to get anything

that fell on the floor. 

9:30-9:45-change diapers and get both girls dressed for the day

10:00-11:00 run errands (try to get as many groceries as I can stuff under the stroller,

hit the bank drive through, get gas, grab a coffee. Yes, more coffee

don't judge.)

11:00-noon-either one or both have started crying so now we are back at home

during this hour I chase them around the house while they attempt 

to eat cat food and pick at the outlet covers. Or we go for a long walk

if its a nice day, or play out on the porch in the pack and play.

noon-12:30-lunch 

12:30-1:00-clean up lunch (see above) change diapers, put in bed for 

afternoon nap. 

1:00-230 or 3:00-NAP 

sweet love. this is the best time of my day.

but I am still running around planning dinner, folding laundry

picking up the hot mess that is our house

3:00-3:15-bottle

3:15-4:30-take a LONG walk outside if nice, run another errand 

if not nice. 

4:30-5:00-playtime 

5:00-5:30-dinner for the babies, Russ gets home from work 

5:30-7:00pm-playtime for the babies, clean up dinner plan what

Russ and I are going to eat for dinner, sometimes actually have time 

to eat dinner.

7:00-7:30-baths (every other night) bottles and 

7:30 BEDTIME. 

7:30-10:00pm-attempt to regain sanity. Eat dinner if we have 

not had a chance, discuss how crazy both of our days were, pick up the array 

of baby toys, wash bottles and make new ones for the next day. Feed/water

cats, try and relax and either read or watch TV for a few minutes..

Honestly, I love every crazy minute and would not trade it for the world! 

MIA

I have been MIA from my blog.

We switched from a PC to MAC and 

frankly..

I can barely use it! I have been

watching Apple tutorials in an attempt to join the rest of the 

world in the 21st century.

And Russ and I are watching Season 5 of 24

JACK'S BACK! 

and its summer..

so, I will back back to regular posting soon..

Here is a little cuteness for today

Memorial Day 2010

Lilly and Elise's first Memorial Day. I want them to learn what an honor it is to recognize those who have served
or are serving our country. Especially since their Uncle Pat is
in Iraq right now. They also have great grand fathers who served,
Grandpa Dykema and Uncle Erik who were in the Navy,
and their dad who works in law enforcement.

So, we decided to take them to a parade.
We went to the West Allis parade which is small and local
My mom got the girls outfits that we perfect for the day
So we took our little "American Flag" for a fun day out!

30th

One of my BEST friends in the world turned 30 this week! We have been friends since pre-school..seriously! preschool! We have a picture of the two of us graduating from pre school with our little paper hats and fake diplomas..

Even though she lives in California and I live in Wisconsin we have maintained a great friendship. I just wish I could have celebrated her birthday with her! She is such an inspiration to me and is someone whose advice and insight means the world to me.

Since I could not be there, I sent her a super fab purse filled with fun stuff.

now I want to make myself a black purse too

and a fun make up bag to go inside

Home again

I can't decide whether the trips back to Grand Rapids are going better or not..

I did teach the girls to pack themselves

and take turns driving..

HA HA!

on one hand we have less bottles..

which means less mixing formula and washing bottles..

which I love..

but on the other hand, less bottles means more baby food.

which means spoons, bibs, high chairs and giant sticky messes.

The girls take more regular naps..

but when they miss a regular nap it gets crazy fast!

They play and are awake alot more

but it also means worrying about doing a mini

"baby proofing" of everyone's house we go to.

Overall though, its great!

I love watching Lilly and Elise in the town we grew up in

making memories with family and friends

getting to know all of the people Russ and I have loved

all of our life.

I wish I would remember to take more pictures. It so busy and I am lugging so many

baby things that the last thing on my mind is my camera.

But this weekend Lilly fell asleep in the arms of her great grandpa

and Elise fell asleep in the arms of her great grandma

and I would do anything to look at that everyday

Oh Deals..

I had another great week of g-saling deals!

These jackets from a twin sale are going to be super cute next spring!

$2.00 for each jacket

boots with the fur..and the fur with the boots

Thank you Kelly for finding these for me..$4.00

I really only got this for Russ..it was kind of "over-priced" at $7.00

but I knew he would love watching the girls play with it..

I found this on Saturday when we were driving to the library. We drove past this sale..I made Russ turn the car around because I saw a ton of pink. (I tried to get Russ to blog about his experience but in his words, "I would rather not re-live that") HA! So, its me and two Asian ladies who have giant bins of clothes all new with tags..They running around me tossing clothes everywhere trying to show me things (most of which were too big for the girls..but super cute) meanwhile an entire rack of clothes almost falls on my head that was being propped up by one of the bins. I look in the van and see Russ in hysterics laughing..

Anyway, I got this great dress new with tags for $3.00. Completely worth all of the insanity.