more shopping

Rain Gear for the girls. These will be Christmas gifts. The green coat is for L the pink for E.



The nightgowns they will get before Christmas so they can wear them Christmas Eve. The robes and slippers will probably be gifts. I got their names on the robes, so I think they will like that. All Lands End stuff.

Shop, Shop and more Shopping!

Thats pretty much what I did this weekend and today! I didn't go on Friday because thats when we decorate for Christmas. But Saturday Mr.F and I went to the most adorable toystore and bought lots of gifts for the girls. E was at a birthday party and L was at my mothers house. This is my favorite toystore and I usually buy all children's birthday gifts here. They always have exactly what I am looking for. We also went out to lunch here which is in the same shopping center as the toystore. We were very glad to get a lot of the girls Santa gifts done. The only thing left really is the Wii game system which Mr.F is going to pick up after work this week. I don't really know much about these things. He's very excited about it though. It's more for E and him then L. I also ordered E's American Girl doll and some clothes and accessories.

I am so excited about this. It is her first one and she finally wants one this year. I have asked her for the past few years and she never wanted one. So now for her birthday I am planning a trip here should be lots of fun!
Sunday we took the girls to the Westfarms Mall and the Rainforest Cafe. I pretty much finished up my shopping for family and friends there except for a few more things I can order online. Although you always think you're done and then you think of some more great ideas, right?
Today after pilates, L and I went to a friends for a playdate and lunch...turkey soup (I didn't mention that I had that last night for dinner). She is taking a much needed nap and I have just finished some more shopping online!

I bought these ornaments for the girls tree


I had planned on getting them for a friend but I think my friend will get more use out of this serving platter and plates:


And after browsing sale items, I couldn't resist a little something to remind me that summer will be here in just a few months (I know winter hasn't even started, but I am a summer girl!)

I bought the beach blanket AND the umbrella! Good thing Mr.F is used to us girls and all our pink and green!
I also picked up this suit for E:

and this one for L:

How great is it that they had my girls sizes (and on sale of course!)
Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Weekend Fun

We had a blast at the game and UConn won! We were only cold when we were tailgating since Mr.F's season tickets are in the skybox. Here is our view





This is what I wore to the game:











After the game we picked up the girls who had a wonderful time with their Nana (my mom). At the craft fair E bought me these earings. I thought it was so sweet that she thought of me. And they are very pretty!



After Mass on Sunday E had CCD so Mr.F and I took L to the park for a bit. Then we took the girls to get their Christmas portrait done and they looked adorable. We then took them to see Bee Movie (in dresses and all!). Since we were out most of the day I didn't get a chance to make my Sunday dinner so we ended up getting takeout Chinese.


E is off from school all week for Thanksgiving break so today we went to the craft store and bought our Christmas card supplies. It has become a tradition that we all make our cards. It is a lot of fun. I'll post some pictures when we get some done.


While we were at the craft store (Michaels) I found a pink tree but E said it was to bright. So we settled on a white feather tree for the playroom which we decorated with pink and green since that matches the room. It looks pretty cute. We'll probably put more ornaments on when we do our Christmas decorating on Friday.




Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Favorite Children's Books

My first tag! How fun! I have been tagged by One Fabulous Mom to list my children's favorite books. Oh my there are so many.

I'll start with L.
Right now she is very into princesses so she loves this and any book about princesses.

We also still read this every night (and have since she was born)



Paper Parade is a book that was actually given to E when L was born but L wants us to read it just about every day.

She also loves any Dr. Suess book and the Baby Einstein books.

E is a very good reader and started reading at 4. She LOVES books and reads all the time.

She read all of the Harry Potter books


She is also making her way through a set of Illustrated Classics that she received as a gift.

One of her favorite books is The Secret Garden

In kindergarten, first and second grade she read all the Junie B. Jones books

as well as The Boxcar Children series

and the Magic Tree House series.

Every night E reads to all of us a story from this children's Bible


Both my girls like the Little Critters books by Mercer Mayer as well as poetry books, currently we are reading from A Family of Poems

oh no she didn't

My sweet little L is now down for her nap, and I am officially hooked on this blogging. Anyway, after bringing E to the dentist this morning, dropping her off at school, I stopped at the market to pick up a couple things. While going down the dairy aisle, L saw a lady picking up some yogurts. They happen to be E's favorite so L yelled out, "hey dat lady is taking E's yoggies!" She smiled at my L as I explained that everyone can buy those, they don't belong to us until they are in our home. This didn't seem to satisfy her and as we walked away, my sweet, darling L muttered (not to quietly) "stupid lady". I literally stopped dead in my tracks, look of horror on my face. Please don't get the impression that I think I or my family is "perfect". But my older daughter is and always has been very quiet and shy and I never have had to deal with this type of child who apparantly just says whatever she thinks. without hesitation. Of course after I left the store I called Mr.F who actually started LAUGHING...as I was on the verge of tears. I know. I need to lighten up. But we try very hard to watch what we say in front of our girls, and I think we do a pretty good job. I think its from Spongebob. I don't even let L watch that usually but of course E sometimes puts it on in the playroom. They say stupid on spongebob right? that must be it.

little girls and their curls

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This is my L, yes she is wearing a crown, yes she wears it backwards because "dats how it supposto be!" She also wears her princess dresses everyday, all of them. I just wanted to show off her curls. I LOVE her curls. I have very straight hair, as does E. But L got her fathers curls, which I was hoping she would!

Playing Dress Up?

Yesterday E received her school pictures (they came out adorable). I can remember my third grade picture and it was so awkward. You know that stage where you go from being cute to ummmm... not so cute until you get to high school and you get the braces off and start doing your hair and thinking your a supermodel? But I'm sure my mom thought I was still cute. And so here I am looking at her picture and being so proud that SHE is not in that awkward phase and is still adorable. But my post here is not about how freakin adorable my child is...because that would just go on for way to long. Its about the class picture. It seems that I am the only parent in my child's class who had her dress up for picture day. There she is in the front row (because thats where they put the cute ones...not short!) with her button down peter pan colored shirt, jumper, tights and mary janes and matching bow in her hair. Not to dressy but perfectly appropriate right? Well out of the ten girls in her class, only ONE other girl wore a skirt. The rest had on jeans, t-shirts, just not "dressed up" clothes. I'm just wondering if anyone else who has school-age children dresses them up for picture day or if this is a thing of the past? My daughter happens to have very conservative tastes and since her best friend went to private school this year, she has been dressing almost everyday in a sort of "uniform" which I love (she really wants to go there...Mr.F and I are thinking of it for next year or starting in middle school). She has never worn jeans to school, or even tshirts so I know I am a bit more conservative with what she wears daily but I would have thought on picture day more kids would have been dressed up. NOT in hannah montanna tees and such. BTW, most of the moms around here dress outstanding. They just don't dress up their kids I guess. But maybe its just me and I am just playing dress up? Oh well...I love it.

for the little one...

for E