Anyone emotional?

You know you're pregnant when:.....

You actually start CRYING on the phone to the Walmart manager while informing him that this is the 2nd time you have gotten home from grocery shopping and not all of your groceries made it into your bag.

 The girls ran their first "Kids Marathon" this weekend. They have been preparing for it for a few months now and it paid off. They ran their fastest time with smiles on their faces the whole way!

Pre-Race

Post-Race sporting their "Victory" medals

Honesty

Jocelyn made a picture for Sam. She showed it to me and explained that it was a picture of her and her daddy. She disappointingly said, "Only, I had to make daddy have brown hair because I didn't have a gray crayon."

The "New" Blog

In an attempt to satisfy those wanting to read a McCoy blog, and my inability to find spare time to write that blog, my husband suggested a compromise. "Blog Simply." This came about when I had mentioned a funny story to him regarding our daughter to which he told me "blog it!" No pictures needed, no long detailed story, just the basics. And so I am once again in the blogging world, mostly as a way to document things in our life, but hopefully to entertain my followers as well. :)

Yesterday, as we are driving in the car, we passed a man standing on the corner holding a large sign that says, "Will You Marry Me?" and on the other side says "Perry Jewelers." Jenna asked me why that man was asking me to marry him. I explained to her that it was a form of marketing and that Perry Jewelers sells engagement rings etc. She was quiet for a second and then said, "I guess I don't understand because I am a kid, and you understand it because you are an adult." I slightly chuckled but agreed with her that that was possible. She continued, "And plus, usually people on the corners hold signs that say 'Can you give me money?' "

The Beginnings of Christmas

What a wonderful, exciting, fulfilling, and exhausting time of year! Between work, school, Christmas parties, school parties, Christmas concerts, shoveling snow, making goodies, making Christmas meals, going to church at midnight, and making more food...I get WORN OUT! But I wouldn't change anything about it. (I''ll just complain instead.) :)

 The girls entertained us during their Christmas concert this year. Jocelyn stood there and smiled the whole time. She was cute, but completely uncomfortable with participating. So she didn't. At all. In fact, she drew more attention to herself as "the little girl that wouldn't sing or dance" while all the other little kids really got into it. That's my Jocelyn.

Genevieve enjoyed her songs and has really started opening up in the last year or so. She even asked at our Christmas dinner if she could sing one of her songs to the whole family.

Christmas morning was enjoyed at our house opening gifts with the girls and having a yummy breakfast! Then we made our way to my parents house for the big day! Lots of kids, lots of presents, and entirely too much food! I am certainly blessed with an amazing family!

Some of the best gifts the girls received were a basketball, a remote control airplane, Hello Kitty galore, and believe it or not...a white board! It's amazing what amuses kids these days!

Unfortunately, Genevieve didn't get what she asked for..."A cell phone so that she can text Mikayla."

Round 2 with the McCoy family coming soon!

Smiley Jocelyn at her school concert

Christmas morning...seeing what Santa brought

The ever serious Genevieve

Humfeld Family-gotta love them all!

The expressive introvert

I love how this picture depicts which child of ours is the serious one and which is the goofy one.

Jocelyn. 

She has a personality that I can't figure out.

She is spunky, dramatic, and giggly. 

She prefers a British accent and is heard saying things like, "Well hello my darlin'!" or "Shall we play a game of Fancy Nancy?" or even "Would you care for some Tea and Crumpets?" 

(Ok, maybe not that last one.)

She speaks very dramatically with heart and character.

She requested a hair-do of sporadically placed buns across her head, each sprayed with pink, blue, and silver glitter paint for crazy hair day at school.

But take a picture of her?! Absolutely not! And don't stare at her either! She can't handle it. She'll break down and cry.

She could definitely be an actress...at an empty theater. 

So, after all my hard work of making their hair just perfect, I was unable to document it due to some extreme shyness. So, I took them to my mom's house. She can bribe her into almost anything. Jocelyn agreed to the picture as long as I was in it! Crazy dramatic girl!

She is like a ticking time bomb. She can be laughing so hard at one moment and within a matter of milliseconds, she can be hysterically crying in pain, usually something to do with her head or stomach, and usually unwarranted. She needs attention. But she doesn't want it. Confusing, I know. I still can't figure it out.

Oh, and Jocelyn can say her alphabet backwards...faster than she can forwards. Don't believe me? You're going to have to, because getting a video of her doing it would involve a visit from CPS. Just not worth it.

Genevieve isn't afraid of a close up!

My crazy girls and I on Crazy Hair Day!

School Pics

Genevieve, age 6, 1st Grade

Jocelyn, age 5, Kindergarten

I thought I should update all of my followers (if there are any of you still out there!)
The girls started this year off at a new school and are doing really well! We are so far, very pleased with their progress! Genevieve has really broken out of her shell this year. She has always been quite shy and reserved. She is now much more talkative and social. Don't get me wrong, she won't be a theatre or drama queen, but she can at least now answer you if you ask her how she is doing. :)

Jocelyn has finally adjusted to all-day Kindergarten. Those first couple weeks were a little tough for her. She would come home from school at 3:30 smiling ear to ear, talking about how much she loved school and then by 4:00 she would cry about the smallest thing. She was exhausted! She loves her teacher and only wants to please her! This morning I woke the girls up to get them ready for school. I excitedly told them that it was the last day of school before having 3 days of for the holiday weekend. In unison, they both got sad faces and whined "oh no!" That makes a mommy happy to hear!

Both girls had awesome seasons of soccer! It was fun to see them each week scoring goal after goal after goal! The coaches for each of their teams couldn't be more different. Jenna's was very hard on her and expected a huge amount. He was not a very "sympathetic" kind of guy, but rewarded her when he saw progress. She responded amazingly to this! We were a little nervous that she was going to cry at practice, but instead she would tell us how much she loved it! Maybe our parenting needs to resemble this? :) Jocelyn's coach is a mother and was very loving and caring. The season was more about having fun (at such a young age) which Jocelyn did, but she also got some skills out of it too!

Jenna is now going to be playing Basketball with some of the girls from her soccer team and will have the same coach. She has never touched a basketball so we weren't sure if she was going to be interested in it. She asked us if her soccer coach would be her basketball coach. When I told her that yes it would be, she lit up and is super excited! I guess that says a lot about his style of coaching!

Jenna is the ultimate of loving and caring sisters. She is also very giving. Anything Jocelyn wants, Jocelyn gets. They could want to watch 2 separate movies and Jenna will let Jocelyn decide. Same goes with any other activity. Jocelyn can pick the game, the book, etc. Unfortunately Jocelyn doesn't understand why mommy and daddy don't just give in either. Someone has to put their foot down!

Jocelyn has a strong love for reading. She strives to do well at whatever she does. If she is reading and messes up a word, she doesn't get frustrated but continues to try hard to figure it out. Once she gets it, she practices it over and over again. She also exceeds in math. In fact, her teacher emphasized her math abilities at her conference this week. She can count to 200 (probably more) and can quickly answer addition problems.

Both girls are looking forward to the upcoming winter skiing. Their daddy has engraved in their heads that Winter is the best season because of this! We are planning on spending many weekends up at White Pass this year as a family!

We have definitely been blessed with 2 very sweet and loving girls!