The Clouds of Loulu Lane

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Happy Halloween

Olivia and Rapunzel with pascal.

I was a little in over my head trying to sew these this year, I completely underestimated how much trouble the ears and nose would give me.

Mima's scary pirate trunk

No I didn't die my hair--LOL.. Jack the pumpkin king and his girl (Nightmare before Christmas)

The family

Mima and Pop the Pirates with the girls

The kids with cousin Peter Pan (aka Taylor)

Wolverine (aka my brother) and his wife Alicia

Monday, October 17, 2011

I heart Fall

Our Fall: (this post is backwards, so the first photos are the most recent activities)

St. Joseph's Pumpkin festival. It was so much fun to experience our small towns festivities. The girls had a BLAST riding carnival rides and ponies!

I mistook Micheal Myers for Ben--LOL!

Yes, Layla got a sweet little hair cut to her shoulders. Now her Donald trump bangs match the rest of her hair.

Presley Loved her pony Sugar.

Pumpkin patch with cousin Taylor. He wasn't so happy that day.

Presley had her 4th Birthday and Mima and Pop drove up for the evening. (she hit jackpot with all her new toys!)

Yes, I made this crazy dog cake for Presley. She is really into puppies and loved this cake.

My first EVER apple pie (just ignore that I didn't have a real pie tin). We picked the apples from Schweitzer Farms. It was soooo yummy, Ben and I seriously ate the whole pie in one sitting.!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Summer, I will miss you!

Everyone is going to miss jumping on our new trampoline. It was probably the best buy ever! The girls love it, but putting it together wasn't so fun.

You may think this is just a cute pic of P, but she is really hiding a tool behind her back.

Both girls wanted to help dad

Its a low to the ground fully enclosed 8 ft trampoline--seriously perfect for kids! Plus I can even jump on it, so they will love it for years to come.

I am going to miss my cherry tomato plants!

The girls are going to miss their oasis pool!

We are going to miss how tiny our newest addition is. Presley named him Tuc and the girls are in LOVE! I'm not sure Tuc is, he hides when they come near!

I am going to miss Tuc's room. He lives on our back porch right now, but it in the winter we will have to move him inside. Right now the girls are forced to have monitored visits with Tuc. But most of the time I catch them standing on chairs to watch him.

What? We aren't standing on chairs!

Monday, July 11, 2011

Our Summer so far...

Celebrated Layla's 2nd Birthday

Presley drew a family picture for us. (Ben and I are in the middle) Pretty good for a 3 year old!

Taylor turned 1! This is my Bro Wes and his wife Alicia. (plus Wes finally got out of the hospital!)

The girls play at the pool or water park alot!

They got to take rides with Pop on his 4 wheeler.

We moved to Saint Joseph and celebrated with dinner.

Ben started his Residency at Heartland Health and turned 31!

Went to the dollar movies. Yes we still have to strap Layla in!

Celebrated July 4th and finished redoing the vintage/thriftstore furniture we bought. There are a few pieces of furniture in these photos that used to look like old scraps of junk. (I'll post more on that later).

The girls got bad girl tattoos and watched the fireworks.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The week I never thought I would see!

Ben and I traveled without the girls to Hawaii for his med school graduation. Congrats to Ben, or Dr. Benjamin Cloud (now). He graduated with a Pharm. D degree on May 14th and I couldn't be prouder of him!

Graduation dinner hosted by The University of Hawaii- Hilo

My two favorite Hawaii girl friends. I have missed them so much since we moved from Hawaii, they will never know how lucky I felt to have them as friends while I lived 1000's of miles from home!