More playtime with Sadie

These are just a few of the many sites we walk into when Sadie has been left to her play. Most of these were taken with one of our phones. Oh the imagination and busyness of an almost 3-year old!!!! LOVE it! You can only imagine the amount of time it takes for us to clean up after her at the end of the day!

waiting in line (all facing the same direction)...

her little people village....cars all loaded...


Jesus and His lamb....




a road...





her babies and their blankets and toys....

book anyone?

Winter storm 2011

We have had a seriously tough winter this year....and I'm not just talking about the sleepless nights in the Foley house! The entire months of December and January were one snow fall after another. Only 5 days the entire month of January hit the freezing mark, the rest below. Actually 80% of the days in January were below average. It was crazy.

We've enjoyed some unseasonably warm weather for much of February, but it didn't start out well. The first of February we had a winter storm that left us with about 4 inches of solid ice topped off with a couple of inches of snow. We were very thankful that it wasn't any worse and we didn't lose power. It took us a LONG time to get our entire driveway cleared off, ultimately the temperatures warmed up to an unseasonable 40 something degrees for several days to finally finish it off, only after a couple of weeks of living with it. We picked and scraped all but the bottom of the driveway clear to try to make it a little safer.

These are the only pictures we have of the actual ice. It looks alot like snow, but we had already scraped the snow off the top. This is pure ice. Crazy!

Daniel thought it was funny when I was outside working at the driveway and he was tucked away inside with the girls. I thought I saw a flash of light and was trying to figure out what it was, only to find out he was laughing inside and taking pictures of me! Nice, huh?!

Sadie wanted to go outside so bad when Daniel was out there picking away one day, but I guess she didn't want to do any of the work!

NOLA and the Foleys

Daniel's cousin Colleen got married January 22nd in New Orleans. So we made a quick trip down there to celebrate with the rest of the family. It was cold, cold, cold the morning we left. So we were quite happy to get the heck out of dodge!

Our friend Libby was VERY gracious to keep Sadie. So we only had Molly with us. Of course that meant that there wasn't much Bourbon Street for me after hours, but we still had a good time....and I felt alot better on the plane trip back having not spent much time out past dark! ;) Those Foleys can PAR-TAY!!!

Yum! Cafe Du Monde! Beignets, coffee, and hot chocolate! ...and a nap for Molly.

All work and no play!

The wedding was beautiful, the bride gorgeous, and the reception was fun! We had to cut out a little early because Molly wasn't quite digging the band. It was all held at the Ritz Carlton in the French Quarters, and the dinner was so yummy....a tasty cajun cuisine! The best wedding dinner I've ever had!

Grammi held Molly all during dinner...

John and Suzanne....


Margaret and Katherine....

Christine, Eric, and our oldest niece, Sarah, she was Molly's sole cousin in attendance...isn't she beautiful?

Christmas 2010

We had one of the best Christmases ever this year. We ended up staying in Indiana until Christmas day before flying to Texas which was a nice treat to be able to open presents here. Plus it was much easier on Santa this way! ;) He didn't have to travel all over the place with Sadie's and Molly's gifts.

Since we flew out on Christmas afternoon, we decided to open presents on Christmas Eve. Evidently, Santa heard and delivered the girls' presents a day early....

About this time, Daniel is saying, "Oh Sadie, come look!"

and what does she go for first? ....Molly's ONE present!

"taking pictures" with her new flashlight...

What is Christmas without a toddler sticking a bow on their head?!

Her first ever high heels and tiara! She got LOTS of dress up shoes and has LOVED them. She wears them on the hard floors to dance and can actually jump with both feet in them. That takes skill...believe me, I tried!

Reading a new Christmas book she got on Christmas Eve after church...

Trying to get a picture of the two of them...

Molly on Christmas morning....

Sadie on Christmas morning when we got home from church....we were excited to be heading south that afternoon to DEFROST!!!!

This was a pleasant treat, they BOTH slept on the plane! Woo! hoo!

You can only imagine how long it took us to try to get a picture of these four....a newborn and 2 2-year olds! Livy looks good in all the pictures though! :)

Presents at Mamaw and Papaw's...

Checking cattle with Papaw...

Trying to feed some of the cattle out of their hands...

With Grandma Wiederhold...

Playing at the park in Sheffield...

With Grampi and Grammi...

Molly and Mamaw....

Spreading Christmas JOY!

It is most definitely harder to take pictures with two kids instead of just one, but what is even harder is that one of the two is an almost 3-year old!

Here are some of our Christmas picture out takes...

We are not beneath M&M bribes!

We did get some good ones though too! How could you not when you use M&M's and take about 100 pictures!

And here's a couple with Molly's sweet little feet and hand...just because they are so cute!

and a picture of how Sadie had originally gotten herself ready for pictures.....


the girl's got style!