Busy Bees

We had such a fun, busy weekend! Friday night, Matt and I had a fundraising party at Christ Church (the girl's school) and it was so much fun! The only thing we "won" was the Teacher Tuck-In, which means that their amazing teacher, Ms.Janet is going to come to our house and read them their bedtime story and tuck them in to bed. When we told the girls on Saturday morning they were out of control excited about it. We can't wait to schedule it with her...you'll DEFINITELY be seeing it on here some time in the future. So cute.
Saturday we took the girls to a birthday party they'd been invited to for their friends (also twins), Luke and Kinsey who turned 3! It was a pirate themed party and was just awesome. The girls had a ball. The most amazing thing about it was they'd rented a bouncy house. For the first half of the party, both girls were afraid/nervous to go in to it. But Riley must have said about 50 times that she really, really wanted to go in and finally I asked her if I went in with her, if she'd do it and she said yes. Of course. So...I had to climb into the bouncy house with all of the other kids. But it was SO worth it. Reagan climbed in soon after and they had more fun than they've had in forever...not even kidding. They both cried when they had to come out and on the way home from the party all they kept asking about was if they could go back to Luke and Kinsey's to jump. Ha! They loved it. I know they'll have many, many more opportunities to play in bouncy houses, as they seem to be all the rage at birthday parties these days....

Then today we were invited to our friends Holly and Jeff's house (their sons Jack and Luke go to school with the girls...Jack is Reagan's "very, very special friend"). They live a block from the beach in Neptune Beach and the Donna Half Marathon/Marathon was happening today so they had a bunch of people over to cheer for the runners since it ran right past their house. It was a blast...the kids just ran around and played and occasionally came out to the balcony to scream at the runners, and the grownups drank mimosas while watching the runners struggle by at mile 18....ha! My kind of race!
Such a great weekend and we're all just so happy that we have made such fun friends here in Jacksonville!

Sand and Sunshine!!!!!!

The girls and I spent the entire day at the beach today (minus a break to go home for lunch and naps)! It was absolutely beautiful, and warm and we had so much fun. They just swam and swam and swam in the pool for hours (obviously no pictures of that because I was the one making sure they stayed above water)! And we saw some of their beach friends there too, so we played at the beach and dug in the sand and found some starfish (don't worry...we put them back!) and just ran around and around. Matt met us for dinner tonight after work down at the beach and then we came home for baths...I wasn't even sure they'd make it up all the way through their baths tonight, they were THAT tired! Reagan did NOT want to stop playing long enough today to have her picture taken and Riley said she'd love to have her's taken as long as I gave her a lollipop...hence the reason that Riley is smiling in one of the pictures and Reagan looks like I'm just interrupting some important sandcastle building. And yes, "Reagan and Riley's log" is still there....it washed up around October I think? and it's still there...they run to it immediately upon getting to the beach and use it for their choo-choo, as a balance beam, to hide things in and as a seat.  I'm praying that we don't show up someday and it's been removed...they'll be devastated!!!

Our Valentine Dancers

The girls and I met Matt down at the beach for our Valentine dinner last night! It was such a gorgeous, gorgeous night and we got to watch the most beautiful full moon rise all the way up to the sky. I tried to get a couple of pictures so that I could try and capture how huge the moon looked over the ocean, but I just couldn't do it. But take my word for it, that it was phenomenal!
The girl's favorite singer was singing last night...it was a little too chilly to sit outside and eat so we ate inside and as soon as the girls were done eating they begged to be able to start dancing. They LOVE dancing to the music there...particularly any Jimmy Buffet!  SO cute! It was a perfect night!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!!!!! The girls woke up this morning and were so excited to go to the breakfast table where we had all of their cards and a few little presents for them to open! They got a Minnie Mouse doll from Nana Susan, new Minnie Mouse cups(filled with candy!) and some awesome new books from Nana and BopBop and a little Minnie Mouse necklace from Daddy! (do you sense a pattern here?!) They love Minnie and all things Disney World!
Sorry we have been MIA...the winter sicknesses finally seemed to all converge together in our house and we've all been sick for about 2 weeks now. That means we've done virtually nothing other than a few walks outside, the playground and just play around the house. We are VERY ready for spring around here!!!! I think we're all on the mend at this point....so fingers crossed we'll have a lot more fun things to post here in the next few weeks!
Hope you're all having a fabulous Valentine's Day! We have the two cutest Valentine's in the world and we love them with all of our hearts!