Family Get Together

On Saturday my Mom & Dad had everyone over to celebrate the March birthdays in our family (Jillian, Heather and Kristen). Shawn, Kristen and kids came in from Illinois the day before so we were excited to spend the day with them! It was a beautiful day so the kids were able to play outside. It was a fun day full of family and good food!!

A fun picture with Shawn, Kristen, Connor, Lauren, Jillian, Claire, Anna and Catherine.

Claire loves all her big cousins picking her up!


My parents with all their grandkids, except Caroline, who was at a Disney show when we took this picture.


Here's Caroline!!


Jillian opening the doggie snow globe we gave her for her birthday. If you know Jilli, you know she LOVES snow globes AND dogs!


Grandma McDowell & Lauren were being entertained by Catherine!

FINALLY...

We have been waiting, waiting, waiting to go outside and play! When Deanna asked us to go to the park today we jumped on the opportunity to get outside and enjoy the beautiful day! We spent almost two hours at the park and loved every second of it! It was a wonderful taste of the beautiful weather coming our way! Ahhhhhhh...

Anna is a swing lover like her big sister!

Claire & Landon swinging together!


Little Olivia enjoyed the baby swing, too!


Claire liked the tunnel slide!

Claire & Landon loved racing down the slide! It was so cute to watch them wait for each other at the top of the slide and then it was

1-2-3-GO!

It looks like Landon is going to win!

It was close, but Landon won this round!

Claire adores baby Olivia and gave her plenty of BIG hugs!

Landon & Claire on the rocking Dino!

Anna & Grant swinging! SO cute!!

Big girl Anna was in a hurry to play!

So fun!!

Love Fest!

With all the hugs & kisses also comes some pushing & shoving, but it's fun to watch their interactions as they get older! They're quite a pair!

I Can Do That!

So... it's fun times at the Cutting house. We are in the midst of some VERY hard core potty training with Miss Claire. She is doing great, but we have been spending a fair amount of time in the bathroom over the last several days. Anna, of course, is very curious about all this new activity and is RIGHT there watching Claire's every move! She mimics pretty much everything that her big sis does so I shouldn't have been surprised when I found her today sitting on the potty! I took her off and closed the lid and she turned around immediately, lifted the potty lid, sat down and clapped for herself (we have been clapping A LOT for Claire). It was the funniest thing! What I am hoping is that Anna will be super easy to potty train because she knows the routine already at 14 months!

Valentine's Week in Review!

We had a busy Valentine week! It was nice to spend it with many of our family, whom we LOVE more than anything! A fun trip to the mall play area!

The girls needed to get out of the house (Mommy did, too!).

Story time at the library. V-Day was the theme for the books & craft!


Claire loved her craft... it involved coloring, stickers and paint! What more could you ask for in a craft!


Anna is really interested in coloring!


Nuna dropped by for a quick visit before she left for Illinois!


Claire was able to give Nuna the Valentine she made for her! The girls loved the stuffed animals she gave them!

I had to throw in the picture of Claire with SIX hats on her head. Somehow she managed to do this all by herself! It was hysterical. What a very silly girl!!


We made a trip to Nanny Grey & Grandpa's house for a Valentine visit!

Claire talking very seriously to NG!

Papa Stephens is so silly with the girls and they absolutely love him! It's so neat to watch their interaction! Both of my grandparents light up when the girls are around!

One of my new favorite pictures of Papa Stephens and Anna smiling at each other! PRICELESS!!

Valentine's Week Continued...

More pictures from our Valentine's week...On V-Day, Ben gave the girls a card, candy, stickers, a glitter craft for Claire and a stuffed animal for Anna! What a sweet Daddy! Here Claire is opening her card!

Claire holding her glitter craft from her Valentine! (I think Sophie thought there was a chance there was food in that box!)

Daddy & Claire playing with the stickers!


Anna holding her stuffed animal! She carried it around all day!!!


Aunt Beth got the girls these adorable matching Valentine shirts! Thanks Beth!!!

Claire was anxious to do her craft and Daddy was nice enough to help her with it!

Grammy & Papa watched the girls so Ben & I could go out to eat for V-Day!

Papa had the great idea to blow up the air mattress so the girls could play & jump on it! Needless to say, they loved it!!

Sooooo fun and a great way to burn excess energy!

Our sweet Valentines! They're so much fun!!

xoxoxoxoxo

My Valentine Girls!

Grammy bought these matching Valentine dresses for the girls. Claire & Anna wore them to church last Sunday and I was able to get some cute shots of them together before church!! They are definitely our Valentines! Soooooo sweet!

I love how they are looking at each other here...


... and holding hands in this picture!

I just want to squeeze those faces!

Claire loves her "baby sister"!

Happy Valentine's Day!