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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Beach and rides and fun...always!

That last weekend in April really turned out to be so nice out. Maybe not 75 degrees but the sun was shining so we headed right down to good ole Pt Pleasant. I feel like we'll be making many many trips this year. The girls have been loving the rides and you know, any beach day is a good day!

I love how they go on the rides together. There are some that Mya wants to go on, that Ash would go on too, but she's just too small still. I feel bad that Ash can't go on them, so we usually try to avoid them.
All ready for the first ride, the trucks!

sistas!

They rode in the gator named Michael! Had to send this gem to Uncle Michael.

Flying high in the sky, together forever!

So crazy that they're getting this big. And luckily Ash likes to sit on the back of this one and Mya the front, no fights.

Ash is too small for this ride. But she actually didn't mind that she wasn't riding on it. She was cheering for her sissy. Mya LOVES this ride!

BIG GIRL!

I had to go on this since Ash was too small. They had me spin and spin and spin it, once it started moving, Ash was not a fan of me spinning so much. I wasn't either, I was losing my balance. God I feel old!

Mya went on the roller coaster, ALL BY HERSELF. STOP, I can't deal with her growing up.

And I got the BEST shots of them on the carousal. My little ging, god I just love that smile!

Daddy jumped in.

This has got to by my all time favorite pic of them to date. I just can't get over how gorgeous Mya is. She looks like such a big girl. I wish these moments would just freeze, I enjoy them so much and want them to last forever.

Had to play the candy game. We won! I guess that's what happens when you play nearly every box. They (well Mya) picked starburst.

Lunch on the beach, always the icing on the cake for me!

free bird

getting our toes all sandy

Had an amazing day. Our hearts belong at the beach. Now if only I could move the rest of my family down there too....

Monday, May 12, 2014

Ag field day 2014

Every year Rutgers has an outdoor field day. They have live music, crappy carnival food, pony rides, and just a whole bunch of other fun activities for the kids. We usually meet other people there, including my parents, who were in VA this year for it, BOO! But we did meet some other people there and ran into others. All in all, it was a great day. The weather couldn't have been more perfect, and we literally left right before the rain started! SCORE!
We got there and met up with the Scicutella's, some of the Dupree's and Mrs I.

We happened to run into the William's crew and Daniel crew too, totally unexpected but great to see them there. We'll all have to plan on going next year too. It was so nice to be outside and have the kids run around.

Mya with her mascot! And maybe one day it'll be her college mascot too.

Ash on the pony ride. She absolutely wanted to go by herself, such a big girl these days. Ash was on Cinnamon.

Our big girls.

Mya on Marshmallow.

I can't get over how big she's gotten lately. So so beautiful.

I seriously could not love this face more.

And of course, this girl too. My cray cray.

Ava came a bit later, but I'm glad we were still there and got in some fun with her too.

So much fun as always. And this day always happens to be so beautiful out. Just a nice day to sit in the field all day and enjoy the weather and the kids running around! They always sleep good that night.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Hibachi night

Ryan had mentioned taking the girls to Hibachi one Friday night, I thought this was a great idea! They'd LOVE to see them cooking. Last time we went was when Mya was little and it was with our old neighbors. We asked Mags if she wanted to come too. We decided to go early to beat the crowd, plus we eat senior citizen early anyway.

Ash ordered chocolate milk but they bought her apple juice instead. She decided to drink both at once, DISGUSTING!

CHEESE

She can barely sit still for a long amount of time. Luckily it was pretty empty when we got there.

LOL! Mya had me cracking up, asking a million questions to the chef. He was loving it too. I had told her that they throw food in our mouth, she was a little disappointed that they didn't do it there. So was I!

I did get her to sit still and take a silly pic with me.

Mya too!

Time for the fire. Ash wasn't a big fan. Both were SO surprised when it started, than Ash got freaked out and hid behind me.

My big girl all excited that they're coming out with a candle...we asked them to sing to her, I mean, it was still her birthday month!

Just love this kid.

Daddy and his big girl.

We got back to Mary's to drop Mags and Jojo was there. He's never really cuddly with Ryan and he was that night, it was so stinkin cute.

Praying he caves for another baby, lol!

Can't wait to go back.

Easter

Easter 2014 fell on April 20th this year. Such a late Easter this year. We left all of our planning to the last minute, seems to be trending with us lately. We literally colored our eggs the Thursday before! No worries, still fun, plus we had to bring to Babci's so it would have been nasty if we did before that. Girls LOVED it!

We went to see the bunny when I got out of work early on Good Friday. Ash wouldn't sit on his lap. I was actually surprised that she even sat there. She was fine, until it was our turn and she looked at me and said, I don't want to sit on his lap. So I just told her to sit next to Mya. ALL SMILES! She wouldn't look at him though.

Of course after she walked back over and gave him a hi-five!

Onto Easter morning, the bunny stopped by! Ashley's basket was filled....

...so was Mya's!

The day before Mya and I ran to the mall for something. When we were there Good Friday, the girls wanted these dog balloons (which are pretty cool) so bad, but Ry and I said no. So when Mya and I went on Saturday she totally must have already thought about what to say cause she said to me, Mommy, I know I have birthday money from Dewey (the money you gave her for the boardwalk that she didn't spend) and I want to buy a dog for my sissy and I. I mean, how do I say no to that? So she picked out the one with blue bows for Ash (cause her favorite color is blue) and the one that looked like Lola for her (melt my heart). When Mya showed Ashley Easter morning she was SO SO excited and hugged her so long, it was so sweet! So posing with their doggies.

Took her FOREVER to get downstairs with her pup.

Mya found hers in no time!

We had to help Ash lol. She was too involved in her doggy.

She loved everything in her basket though, it was so stinkin cute. These pigtails are killing me too. Ryan did them, I usually do them lower, to me, she looks like Pippi Longstocking!

Mya was so excited for this little notebook. She picked it up, hugged it and called it her new journal, lol.

These freaking tutu dresses are Ashley's favorite thing in the world. Not my favorite by any means, but she seriously just adores them and I guess the Easter bunny couldn't resist for the happiness of this kiddo.

First stop, Babci's. Unfortunately Nunu and PopPop were in Europe having an amazing time. But we still got some QT with Babci, Uncle Michael and Auntie Laura.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic!

A tradition that I just love at Babci's for Easter. Ryan won this year, even though Mya thinks she did.

MELT

My little diva.

My little choc-o-haulic!

LOVE this 5 year old to pieces.

This was so sweet, Laura showing Mya how to play a song on the piano.

Group shot.

Onto my parents for dinner....Snuggles for Uncle Frankie.

We hid Easter eggs in the backyard a few times, the kids loved it so much and kept asking us to do it again. They were having so much fun, it was adorable.