Sisters

My precious girls...

Sweet sisters

Audrey 2 years

Alaina 5 months

I absolutely cannot wait to see these girls grow up together.

Mother

I have now celebrated my third Mother's Day

and I feel so blessed to have two precious baby girls.

What a sweet feeling it is to love you both. It's almost impossible to describe.

Sometimes I catch myself just staring at you in awe.

I love you so much and am so thankful to be your mother.Troy, Audrey and Alaina got me a rose bush for my garden.

What a perfect gift for me!
And we were able to celebrate Gia for Mother's Day as well.

We all love you Gia. You are a precious mother and grandmother. We couldn't ask for more.

updates

Well, I guess it's time for a little update from the Douglas fam.
(my computer died and I haven't been getting online much.)

Our house is coming together. you'll see pictures soon. We have painted the entire interior of the house, Troy put up an awesome backsplash throughout the kitchen, carpet is laid, curtains are fixed and hung. Pretty much 2/3 of the house is done, our bedrooms and the den/kitchen. Now we just have to put in flooring in the office/spare bed (which Troy is doing this weekend), I have to finish painting the spare bathroom, we have wallpaper ordered for a portion of our dining room, and then we have to lay the wood floors in the living/dining room/hall. That's the big job that is left to do. We'll be done by the beginning of June.
We've also worked on the landscape a bit (as cheaply as possible for now.) We have big dreams for this, but will work on it as we have more money to spend.
I am reading a book called "All New Square Foot Gardening" which I can't wait to use.
We're going to be some crazy gardners!

We've been visiting churches. Found one that we think might really be a good fit for us, but the pastor has been gone both times we've visited. He'll be back this week and we are looking forward to that.

Our neighbors are SO friendly. We have retired people all around us. And they are out to talk to us all the time. Last Friday night one family ended up in our backyard sitting down and chatting forever. Never experienced anything like that before. They have offered help, equipment, advice. Very nice.

Mom has been here to help. She has gardened, made curtains, cleaned. She's loving helping us fix everything up.

Audrey LOVES being closer to Gia and Bapa. And Her Nana, Aunt Jess, and Cameron are coming to visit next weekend. She can't wait for that!

Last week my friend Kelli from Boston came to visit family in the area and got to bring her new baby Quinn over to introduce him to us. Precious boy! Here he is with Alaina and Audrey.
(He's 2 months younger than Alaina.)
I love how they are all touching eachother in this picture.

And Audrey is really enjoying our jet tub. She loves to "go swimming."

I guess that's it for now.
We have grass to plant, rooms to paint and floor to lay starting this evening.
The fun seems to never end!

Pink Toes

Tonight my cutie pie had her toenails painted for the first time.

Big Girl

So fun!
The world of painted nails has begun.

It is a gorgeous day here in Ft. Worth and Daddy came home early
so we headed to the park to play.

Alaina's first time in the swings

We swang for a LONG time.

So long that Alaina fell fast asleep.

What a life eh?

snacks...

I'm a Ft. Worth girl now!

What a fun time we had.
Tomorrow we are meeting our little cousin Jack at the park.
Audrey is so excited already.

Big Girls

Our baby girl is almost 5 months old and she tried her first rice cereal last night.

I think it was kind of shocking to her.

But she actually took it a lot better than Audrey did for the first time.

We'll try again today.
~
On another note...an Audrey note...
Last night we were reading a Curious George ABC book.
I said "abcdefg" and Audrey said "hijklmnop."
Then later I read "hijklmnop" and she said "qrstuvwxyz now I said my abc's next time won't you sing with me."
What!
Smarty pants!

Walkin

This week we started walking in our neighborhood.
We have wonderful walking trails all through our neighborhood and a great park with a playground that Audrey loves.
Here are Audrey and Alaina ready for their first neighborhood exploration...

(Audrey has decided lately that she doesn't want her picture taken.
Alaina, however, was definitely up for it.)

Off we go!