Mother's Day

We had such a great day together!
We made a runway for my mom to show off the new clothes that we all gave her! At least Zoie enjoyed the runway, she was dancing and twirling and strutting her stuff!

Chelsea was in town which was fun as usual! Rob, Zoie & Ava spoiled me with a pink "hi-pod" which was a total surprise! The best part was talking to Cam on the phone from his mission in Brazil. He sounded so great! We are very proud of him.

Sisterly Love

This was so funny. Zoie had fallen asleep on the couch, in her sleep she moved and ended up on Ava! It was so sweet! Zoie loves having a sister. It is the best thing in the world watching Ava smile and laugh at Zoie. She loves when she talks to her and dances in front of her. So cute!

TWINS!

Mommy Pam sent Rob home from Utah with twin outfits for Zoie and Ava! Zoie loves it and would wants to match Ava (or me) every day! Thanks Mommy Pam! This should be the first of many twin pictures they will take together! Rob was so sweet and came home with gifts for each of his girls- a cute dress for Ava, a Disney princess beach bag for Zo, and a couple of cute things for me from Forever 21. Not that we want him to leave more often, but we sure did like our gifts! Ha Ha! Zoie told me "I want my daddy!" He is such a great dad! All his girls love him!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Thanks to our fun friends, I had my first fun Cinco de Mayo ever! We went to a park and had fun hanging out together. We all brought different things to share and it was really yummy! The kids loved going on the Baddley's new water slide. How fun! Zoie had noticed the pile-up that tended to happen at te bottom and was trying to avoid it at all costs! Poor Zoie is already very cautious like me! She did discover that it was fun for Rob to throw her on the bottom half of the slide. It was hilarious watching her scramble so quickly to get off. Zoie had fun in her own little way and especially loved playing at the park with her friends! Thanks Steve & Sara!

Zoie's "Work"

So Zoie has been "working" for almost a full year now! It has been a lot of fun! She is practically retired now because in most print modeling they skip 2T. Thank goodness for Zoie's sake she is almost fully grown out of 18 to 24 month size! GAP has really liked Zoie and actually use size 2T. They have been so good to her. This was from her fourth GAP shoot and she has one more after this that hasn't been released yet. They are so sweet to her when she goes and they all know her by name. Zoie loves her "work" and is so cooperative there. It cracks me up how well she follows their directions! It has also turned out to be a good way for her to meet cute boys! You can't tell from the pictures below. But at every GAP shoot she has taken pictures with little boys! It is so cute!

GAP.com

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Another Photo Shoot (or 3)

So I am pretty lucky to have a daughter like Zoie. She is a girly-girl who loves to dress up and loves to take pictures! I have trained her well from the time she was little. What would I do without her? I get so happy when I get a cute picture of her. I love this one. It was last Sunday after church. She was especially in a modeling mood and was striking poses on her own. We had her hair in 2 french braids all day Saturday so she could have crimpy hair for church! This was also her new dress that she couldn't wait to wear! I know she is mine so I am bias..but isn't she so cute?

Ok, so photo shoot #2 was yesterday morning. I got the photo shoot bug again. I started with Ava because she was in a really great mood and because it had been too long since I had taken cute pictures of her. So, she was all dressed and I took her to the backyard with her Bumbo. Look how thrilled she was!

Ok, so she was giving me her crazy scowl! But she did warm up and I was able to capture her incredibly chunky arms and thighs!

Ava was most happy (as usual) lying on her back! She was so alert and was really staring at the camera a lot. I love taking pictures! I get so much satisfaction in capturing the moment and personality! Ava is so beautiful and brings so much happiness to everyone she is around! She really lights up when she is happy and smiling!

So, Big Sis saw what we were doing and wanted to get in on the action!

Ok, so I know you are bored by now. But I can't leave out photo shoot #3. I found a way cool vintage hot pink chair on Craigs List yesterday and they were selling it at an estate sale in Sacramento right then! We made it there just in time to watch a lady buy and drive off with my dream chair. Well, they had a gold chair, a wooden chair & a foot rest that were priced too good to turn down! I couldn't wait to see what they would look like...so here it is!

Happy Birthday Princess Zoie!

Well, I finally gave in! Rob has been wanting me to blog for awhile. I have enjoyed hearing the updates Rob has given me from your blogs! I think I was avoiding this because it will be like scrapbooking for me...I will feel bad if I am behind, I will want to blog everything and won't be able to...all the usual scrapbooking guilts! At least this hobby is free!

Zoie's Birthday was March 28th and her party was on April 5th. Her Birthday is old news and was soooo long ago. In fact, Zoie is already telling people "I'm 3 but I'm going to be 4 for my next Birthday". The funny thing is that she tells people this ALL the time whenever anyone asks how old Ava is!

Zoie's party was definitely exciting. We enjoyed gathering all of her princess and prince friends. They were all so cute and seemed to enjoy themselves (especially the girls). I went all out as usual and Rob was definitely ready for me to stop talking about, shopping for, and crafting for the party! At least he makes a super girl dad and helped out where I needed. He frosted the entire cake and helped in its construction and of course helped to setup the party! What a good sport!

Here's a few of the party's activities: hair and makeup station, ribbon tiaras, necklace making, rings, pin the crown on the prince/pin the slipper on Cinderella, duck duck goose with a magic wand, and more. We had a lot of fun and I loved it...oh and I think Zoie did too!