Wildflowers!

I've been enamored with this field right down the street from our house! This is one of the many reasons I love where we live. Of course as soon as I spotted these flowers I had to take the girls to check them out.

 Look at miss thang! Love her!

 Morgan was most excited about picking a bouquet for me. She made the below one all herself. Like I've said before, I swear this child has an eye for flower arrangements!

I Love Valentine's Day!

I have so much fun with this holiday! I love the pinks and reds and LOVE! Well, it's no secret that I'm a big fan of all holidays. They're an excuse to celebrate and life is definitely something to celebrate!

I wanted to post this post right after the holiday so it would be more relevant but life has seemed extra busy the last few weeks.

The girls and I got crafty and made our decorations this year.

Morgan asked if she could make our chalkboard a Valentine's theme. Loved that! She's learning from me.

 I've seen the below cake on Pinterest the last few years and wondered if it was as easy to make as it looked and yep, it was so simple and looked so festive and cute!

 And I even tried my hand at chocolate covered strawberries. I haven't made them in years and had forgotten how delicious they were.

 The girls worked on their Valentines while I crafted.

I made special chocolate covered strawberries for Charlotte to take to daycare for her Valentine party.

 It was early in the morning on Valentine's Day when Charlotte spotted them and asked if she could have one. I couldn't say no. 

My girls on Valentine's Day!

I was floored when they came home with all their goodies!

 Charlotte asked if she could have a sucker and I said yes. But then I caught her like this. I said she could have a sucker NOT three suckers!

 My goodies to Daniel.

 And my goodies to the girls. 

 They were so excited and ripped into their gifts.

I was so excited because Daniel had the most gorgeous chocolate covered strawberries I'd ever seen delivered to my work.

This was another memorable Valentine's Day.

Life Via My Phone - Part Tres!

She cracks us up with her salsa consumption!

While putting away our Christmas tree (late in January, eeek) I just had to take a picture of this ornament Morgan made for me while in Transitional Kindergarten last year. Her class made actual gingerbread cookies and then baked them and made them into ornaments. It is possibly the cutest ornament I've ever seen!

I swear Morgan has an eye for flower arrangements! Somehow her arrangements always strike me as beautiful. This one was simplistic yet artistic.

Love spending time with my girls. This day Charlotte and I were working on a booklet her daycare provider gave her to practice on. 

My favorite food is Indian food. Unfortunately my favorite restaurant just closed down and I don't know of another good one so I tried my hand at tiki masala and naan. Not too bad for my first time! I'm not so great at food photography as evidenced by the plastic food dishes below.

Charlotte recently requested a big girl pillow and I love how it looks in her bed (we stole one from Morgan's bed). I was trying to get a picture but Charlotte wasn't cooperating. You can see her two little hands and strands of blonde hair peeking out below.

One recent rainy day, Morgan asked to wear her yellow rain boots she got for Christmas. I'm a sucker for any type of "gear" whether it be rain, snow or swim "gear".

That same night was her open house. 

Morgan has a pretty good voice. Below she says she wants to be a singer when she grows up. Daniel and I want to put her in choir.

Charlotte's favorite thing to eat is still PB&J but she calls it peanut butter and jelly lunch. Even though we've corrected her a billion times, she still calls sandwiches, "lunches" no matter if we're eating them for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Charlotte loves to ride in the car with the windows down. She'll yell "faster mommy, faster!" And once we get going she screams with elated laughter, "this is so fun!"

While making a soup a few weeks back, I couldn't help but admire the beautiful colors of our fresh ingredients.

Daddy-daughter time.

Still enjoy finding remnants of my girls' play around the house. It often makes me smile and chuckle to myself.

I recently finally bought a new purse after using the same one every day for the last 3 years. It's funny how a little thing like this can bring you so much joy.