Phia's first day of preschool(revisited!!)

Sophia officially started preschool at St. Peter Claver which is our Church preschool and the Church she was baptized in. She has to wear a uniform(unbelievable for pre-pre school) but she looks adorable and she's so proud to wear it. We bought her a monogrammed lunch box and thermos and I'm pretty sure carrying those to school was her highlight! She shed zero tears and in fact basically ran in the room and barely looked back. We think she'll be very happy here. Our good friends The Petchenicks' twin boys are also in Phia's class so we'll be doing lots of voluteering and school events with them! We can't believe our little princess is growing up before our eyes but we couldn't be more proud:)
The school is very strict on hand washing and the kids have to wash their hands before they enter the room. When Phia got home yesterday she went to the bathroom and washed her hands and said "i washed my hands two times to get all the spiders and ants off". What??? Not sure what they're telling them at school but it's working LOL:)

Standing in line to "wash the spiders and ants" off her hands!

She got right to "work" when she walked in the door(after washing hands of course)!


So happy Phia already has friends in her class!!

Mommy and Daddy are so proud of our princess:)

Brady and Blake's "Cars" 3rd birthday party!

Phia had been talking about this party all week. She was so excited and the party did not disappoint. Ally and Jason went all out and their "Cars" theme was a huge success!! Ally was so creative, making cars out of milky way and m&m's and car tires out of chocolate donuts! Phia loved the cake and cupcakes and all the yummy candy and loved "helping" the boys open their presents!!





The kids took a break from the festivities to hang out in the play room!


Birthday boys!

Quote of the week and school orientation!

Sophia says such cleaver things each day and we forget most of them but this week's was too awesome to not document. Here is the conversation b/w Phia and Leyla:

Leyla: Eat your peas they'll make you grow tall
Phia: I don't want to eat them b/c mommy told me she wants me to stay little forever

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! Nice try Miss Phia Lillian!! Love how she made the association though:)

We had parent orientation on Tuesday this week and the kids orientation today. Phia asked anyone who would come up to her "do you want to help me?" or "do you want to play with me?". Needless to say we think she's going to do just fine. We LOVE her new schools so far and the best part is our good friends twin boys will be in her class! We'll post lots of pictures of her in her uniform but today she decided to put on a "white wedding dress" from the closet of dress up clothes in her classroom!

Our favorite subjects...

I wish I could capture every moment, silly word, funny situation etc we experience with the kids but it's just impossible. They are by far our most favorite topic and what we are most proud of. Sophia is still so inquisitive, loving, and strong willed and Presto is really becomming quite the ham just like his sister(gives high fives and says "hi" to anyone who crosses his path!). In the evenings they love running after each other around the island or playing "hide and seek" which consists of Sophia saying "mommy come find me, I'm under the table". Presto follows her to all her "hiding places". She likes to tell us where to hide when it's our turn! When you say "I love you" to Sophia she answers "I love you more" OR "I love you more than the much and the most"(hilarious). Here are some pictures mainly bc we take so many but also b/c they grow so quickly!

I taught Presto what "under" is and when he says it, it sounsd like "unger". He likes to show me by crawling under the high chairs every morning!

Sophia is currently obsessed with anything princess and keeps count of how many crowns, necklaces, and pairs of princess shoes she has!


Uh oh...the only problem with having a princess in the house is also having a little prince who doesn't really know any better than to try on her princess shoes!

The many different faces of Presto while mesmorized by Toy Story!



Sophia's excema has been really bad this summer. We've noticed more heat rash induced so I put her hair up everyday and it seems to help a LOT!!


Toy Story(and Shrek) are the only movies they'll sit like this and watch...

Phia looks adorable in her minnie dress that she got for her birthday. Can't wait for her to wear it at Disneyland!!

Presto LOVES Woody("lello"). He must be accompanied by his cowboy hat or we'll hear "ha, ha, ha"(Presto's version of "hat") until we find it!

Santa Barbara at 30 weeks preggy!

This past weekend we snuck away for a wedding in SB! All my best girlfriends were present which was an added bonus! We spent Saturday eating breakfast burritos in IV and strolling around downtown(even the boys got pedicures with us!). The wedding was at the Bilmore and so beautiful and since we area spread all over the country now it was so nice to be in the same room with some of our favorite people:) Sunday BT took me to Ojai for my favorite pancakes!! We missed the kiddies terribly and of course picked up some toys for them at a really cute toy store in Ojai before heading home.

We had a little pre-wedding snack at The Biltmore overlooking the ocean before the wedding started. Baby was HUNGRY!!

The beautiful bride!



My most favorite ladies in the world!!



The food was amazing at the wedding. They had a lot of special touches but my favorite were the panini's, cookies, and wedding cake to go!

I had to include a picture of BT and Ryan getting pampered!

We love summer!

We've had so much fun with the kids this summer. Most weekends we're either enjoying the small pools and our daisy sprinkler in the bakcyard or we can be found relaxing by the pool! This past weekend we had the entire big pool to ourselves! It's been perfect weather and we haven't had a day over 90 which is so great for the kids. We take lots of different pictures of the kids around the house being silly so I wanted to document some just because. Sophia's latest accomplishment is she can count to 10 in spanish(she's done this for a few months). Her language skills AMAZE us! She asks me to read the "Mt. Kilimanjaro" Dora to her at night(she says it perfectly) and she loves experimenting with different languages(Bonjour is her new fav). Presto is repeating everything and loves to buckle everything and anything he can! His little leggies are getting soooo much better which makes us so happy and he still LOVES to sleep:)

Our favorite weekend activity(notice Preston's mouth open in every shot!)




The kids love the water! Presto loves drinking it and Sophia loves when Presto splashes her:)








Cheese break!


Fun around the house...









And a little photo shoot of our princess with our new camera lens: