pictures proving preposterous

All alliteration aside, taking pictures to post is getting a bit difficult. We almost always forget the camera and just take pictures with our phones. Granted, the pictures taken are never as clear, the camera just never seems to make it with us as we are tyring to de-clutter our lives and lessen the amount of "stuff" we take with us when we go out. And a lot of the pictures we have been taking lately are of us at the Please Touch Museum (where we try to go once a week), to which I will not subject you as they will be of the same place; Our kids will just have different clothes on mostly...
So if you want to see our pictures, we might just start uploading the majority of those to Facebook as we can do that from the phones...and if I do manage to take pictures with the good old fashioned camera, we will upload them here.

But as I am depriving you of any cool and awesome pictures, here is at least a run down of the excitement we have been having:

1) Ada finally got her hair cut!! She had such a little amount of hair for so long, and then it was so thin and fine we just decided to let it grow for a while. Then the ends were looking a bit ragged so we decided to get her "mane" trimmed. I thought about having my hair stylist-to-be sister Devin cut it (but I think she was a little daunted as she has never cut kids hair before and didn't like the idea of having a child who might move suddenly and then have me be upset by a bad haircut) but I thought it might be cute and fun for Ada and I to have a Mama-Daughter outing. So I looked and looked and finally found a super, almost completely over the top place nearby in North Wales.

Here's the website if you want to check it out : www.sweetandsassy.com

Ada LOVED it and they let me know a few things I was not aware applied to childrens' hair:
1) They (all kids, yes even boys) need conditioner at LEAST once a week. Ada needs it 2-3x per week and RJs' hair feels so much better after just once a week.
2) It's winter and the kids get baths before bed. Now, I always blow my hair at least almost all dry before I go to bed, and so I do the same for Ada. But it needs some sort of protection before scorching it with a blow dryer (I knew I needed this but for some reason I thought kids hair was more resilient!!)
Point of story: She loved it, no tears and she can't wait to go back. And they cut of maybe 1/2''. Just a trim but it looks more shapely. Oh! And she could watch any TV show she wanted. It was a toss up between Handy Manny and Scooby-Do. She chose Scooby and Josh is afraid we will have to end up naming our family dog Scooby too (of which neither of us is very fond...)

2) Snow-not as much as some other family members, but enough to make everyone nearby drive like nuts (the slow and aggravating ones who drive in the middle of the road and a good 20 miles under the limit). They like the snow OK but after a little while want to come back in and color, read, or do yoga (yeah my kids love it!!)

3) I am going to start doing Hot Yoga. Just found out about it and I start this week. To say that I am excited would be a very mild understatement. A fast intense yoga in a hot room (102-104 degrees) where you sweat a ton?!! Sign me UP!! Oh yeah, I did. Josh also got me a yoga mat and strap from Wal-Mart and painstakingly decided on which color I would like better; it was very cute. I have a cool purple one and he even let me get a Heat Gear Under Armour workout shirt as I plan on sweating a lot (side note: I like to sweat when I workout and have not been able to really since I stopped my collegiate running. My regular body temp runs a bit below average at about 96.5 so it takes A LOT to make me sweat). Anyway, had to give a shout out to the Hubs, he loves and takes good care of me!!

Anyway, hope that my ramblings make up for the lack of pics of the chitlins' and hope you are all having a great time too!!

Getting ready for Santa

Getting ready for Santa and it was awesome having our kids be just a bit older and really being into Santa. We almost forgot to put out cookies and milk for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer! The kids loved their gifts, so thanks to everyone! This is only a small portion of the pictures taken so more to come later...