There are no words....

..... to express just how mischievious Darci Marie can be!

What is this you ask? Well, it's nail polish of course. I found Darci sitting on our bathroom floor trying to paint her toenails. She was so cute I couldn't be mad at her though....

For the record, I can find no product that will remove this amount of nail polish from the carpet....

Looks like we'll be replacing it sooner rather than later!

A changing of the seasons, and our lives!

What's new with us in the last month you ask? Yes, I'm sorry, it's been over a month. *ducks head in shame*. We've been beyond busy (nothing new there!), but busy in a good way. Changes are on the horizon and I feel that as a family, we've hit a new milestone. I'm sure this sense of togetherness comes from Addison becoming quite the little person, and Darci developing more and more each day. Addison and Darci interact so wonderfully (any mother of more than one child knows that this only when they're actually getting along!!) and are so cute when reading books, playing playdoh and coloring. So sweet, I tell ya!!!

Anyways, back to our changes. 1) Nathan was able to be a stay-at-home Daddy for the last three weeks!! It's been pretty awesome seeing his bond with the girls get stronger over the last few weeks. They sure are daddy's little princesses. Why was he home for three days, you ask? That leads to change # 2) He got hired by a new department and starts on Monday! No longer a Deputy, he will now be an Officer. We're over the moon with this choice and how things have come together. Nathan has wanted this for SO LONG. 3) With the three weeks off work, he was able to make major progress on house projects. The wall in the backyard is officially built! Woot woot! Long time coming, but now close to absolute completion.

As for me, I'm going through quite the mid-life crisis (can it even be mid-life at 28?!?) and wondering what I want out of life. I'm addicted to change and evolution and it just hasn't seemed to happen much for ME lately.... We shall see what the future holds.

Addison LOVES school and gets angry when it's a non-school day, then tries to negotiate terms that will allow her to go to school. She is her father's daughter!! She loves all of her friends there and the stories she tells after school are HILARIOUS!!! The half-truth/half-imagination/half-complete nonsense stories make my day!! She's growing so fast and her third birthday is right around the corner.

Darci is a fireworker and such an individual. Happy and smiley and quirky and loving and awesome!!! She's been sleeping great (must get the love of sleep from me!). Coloring the walls while we're not looking is her most recent obsession (thank goodness for magic erasers!!!).  Absolutely addicted to music and dancing, wherever she is she will immediately start bopping her head or throw her hands up and dance when she hears a beat.

Loving life right now :)
Chrystle

Fall is here!!

A drive by post of our October activities!
Our trip to the Sacramento Zoo was a blast! The girls absolutely loved everything about it and boy did they take a great nap on the way home ;o)

Next on our agenda for the month was, of course, the pumpkin patch!!!! We actually made two trips to the pumpkin patch. The first, just the four of us, was rained out but we still had fun. The second was with the Hamon family.

Our first, rainy experience at the pumpkin patch:

And our second trip!

And my favorite picture of completely unprompted, sisterly love. Don't they just melt your heart?

Ahhh the carving of the pumpkins. This turned out much differently that I imagined. I thought it was easily going to be the funnest milestone for our family of four yet!!! Nathan starts cutting into the pumpkin... shows Addison and Darci the seeds.... and then I'm sure the neighbors could hear the shreaks!! The look of disgust on their faces was hilarious. Both wanted nothing to do with the process.

Immediately following this picture, Addison had to leave the room because she was dry heaving. Seriously. The smell of the pumpkin made her want to ralph. So Nathan and the girls went in the other room while I carved the pumpkins. Not what I was imagining to say the least! End result, pumkpins carved and kids are happy that it's done, as is Momma.

And next? Halloween of course! Krystal and Kayleigh came over to our neighborhood to walk the streets and beg for candy. The bumblebee, the leopard and the butterfly. Who could ask for more?

Oh! and we can't forget Tucker the squirrel *insert snicker here*