Note to mommy

Note to self: Try and do hair every day, it will make you feel good about yourself. 

When Ellee was born, I struggled the first couple months with all the new things, but then I fell into an easy pattern and I did well. I had time to get ready most days, and put on a real pair of pants, shirt or shorts. But when Peyton was born, it was winter so there wasn't much going out anyways, and there were two of them so it was difficult to find time to do anything but the 2 minutes of teeth brushing. Now with them being so active and it being winter again, let me be honest,I sleep in the yoga pants from the day before and rarely get out of them until afternoon nap the next day. 

It makes me recognize moms in the grocery stores with their kids. It's easy to tell the moms apart. 

A first time mom is a mom that I think any mom of more than one could recognize at the grocery store. She has a shopping cart cover with a child sitting happily in a perfectly cute outfit, maybe a bib on to stop any mild drools or spits. She has her hair and make up done and is dressed in a fitting outfit. She has a massive diaper bag filled with absolutely everything needed to tackle an apocalypse with a baby. She is smiling and enjoying her time waltzing around the store with toys to keep the sweet baby entertained. People notice her and the child and many will ask about the baby and she'll happy tell the age of baby and make him smile or coo for the interested party. 

The mom of more then 1 has a kid plopped in the cart and one in the seat. The kids are in comfy clothes, sweat pants and regular tees. If the younger spits the shirt she is wearing will suffice as a bib. She has a purse with a bag of Cheerios , one diaper for each kid and a small pack of wipes. She has comfy pants and slip on shoes or boots on and hair up out of the way. Maybe even glasses on still. She is too busy focussing on her list and getting in and out of the store in the quickest amount of time without any meltdowns, she doesn't recognize people taking interest in her children. 

Does anyone agree? Well if not i can say this is me.

 This is the difference in my Walmart shopping trips from a year and a half ago to today.

Maybe it will change over the next year and half, but for now, I just need to try and do my hair everyday. It really does make me feel motivated for the rest of my day! 

Snowboards and snowmobiles and lots of smiles

This past weekend matt and I headed to Madison to visit family and really just get some us time. Our awesome family said they'd watch the girls while we took time to enjoy our favorite sport season. We went snowmobiling through Madison area. It was a lot of fun!
I never grew up with snowmobiling but matt is very used to them. I am do hesitant about them. We went snowmobiling in new Hampshire 2 years ago and I actually lost control after being cut off by someone on the trail.  It was one a curve and he was hugging to far to my right resulting in me over turning and then going major left into the ditch. I bailed, yes jumped off, which turned out perfect because the snowmobile shutoff and ended up sticking straight up in the ditch.  Matt came around the corner to see just the snowmobile. He was a little panicked and helped pull me out of the 5 feet of snow after her found me unharmed. Fast forward to this weekend I just started out going really slow. Matt called it grandma speed. Then things got better and we had a lot of fun. It was fairly straight trails and there wasn't many people on them. :)
We also went to cascade mountain north of Madison and did some snowboarding. I love snowboarding.  I hate riding chairlifts though. Ugh. Snowboarding down the hill you don't notice any cold. But the chairlifts are like throwing yourself in a freezer and you just sit there and endure. By the time I get off my face feels frostbite. All in all a great snowboarding trip. Except I majorly wiped out getting off the lift and ended up on top of some dudes skies. Opps. I apologized from in between his skies...embarrassing!  Matt stood off in the distance not claiming to know me. Thank goodness for goggles, helmets and masks!
Peyton and Ellee quite enjoyed their time playing with cousins but as usually it's always nice to get home.
Ellee has been quite enjoying the box house I made her. It's so cute she takes her leap pad in there and plays some games and of course mr.bear joins her in there as well!