Marisol got a new haircut, and meet our new friend Ruby!

Hi everybody, it's Callie again! Are you tired of me yet? I hope not.... ;)

The Olympics have started and Penny and I have been living in our leotards--well, not really; that would smell kind of funny I think!--but we have been loving everything! We spent some time practicing in the back yard today.

Penny is getting really good! I'm pretty proud of her!

While we were practicing though, our friend Marisol came over and guess what! SHE CHANGED HER HAIR!!

I was so excited I gave her a hug!! And then yelled for Merlin because I think her hair looks great and I wanted pictures.

Doesn't it look fantastic? I really think it suits her, and she'll be able to do lots of great hairstyles for dance, too. (I'm not sure though, is she allowed to have bangs or will she have to tie those back?)

I love this side braid that she had her hair styled in! Note to self: borrow this hairstyle ;)

I love this picture. I have to say that my baby brother is getting to be decent!!

While we were taking pics, our brand new friend Ruby heard the commotion and came over to say hey! I haven't introduced her yet, but guys, she made it home safely!

She wanted to know what was going on so I told her that Merlin was taking pictures, and since she hasn't even made an appearance on the blog yet (I know right?) that we needed photos of her too! She was happy to comply.

Ruby comes all the way from the New Orleans area. Her mom is Cajun, and her dad is Latino/Black from the US Virgin Islands. Ruby's family goes on vacation to St. Croix every year! She's adopted, which we think is really neat. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up. She's been hanging out with our friend Anne and her company over at Dreaming of Dolls, and she's really excited to join us here. She got to ride a train all alone!

Her hair!! I i just love it.

And her bright colors! Oh, she and I are going to get along really well.

I wanted a picture of my sister's awesome leotard.

She's so photogenic, I love it.

I hope that everyone's having a great wrap-up to the end of their summer! We still have lots of posts left to talk about, PLUS something very exciting coming up in just a couple of months! In the meantime, is everyone enjoying the Olympics? Our favorite sport is obviously gymnastics, but what's yours?

Love, 

Callie

PS: Penny says I have to put one more picture of myself to make this entry fair.

Gotta Catch What?

Hi everybody, Penny here!

It's time for the summer postcard exchange again and today we wanted to go out and take some pictures for our postcard! Last year, only Callie participated because I was still visiting Aunt Aggie in Texas with my cousin Chloe, but this year we're sending one together! I'm super excited.

Here's Callie's with one from last year!

We've been really busy this summer, so we felt really excited for the chance to get to connect with some of our online friends! Just as a sample, here's some of what we've been up to.

We planted a garden! This was from when we first put it in, but we got a really good yield from our small number of plants and it turns out that everything grew something really well. We have an eggplant, two zucchini plants, three roma tomato plants, an okra, and two bell peppers. We have never grown eggplant or okra so we weren't sure how it would turn out but it ended up being fine!

Besides the tomatoes, the bell pepper actually ended up being our favorite plant. It just smelled so good.

We saw live eagles! (still need to blog about this, callie....)

Trinity took a road trip to Dallas. She had lunch with some friends and then came back and told us all about it. She brought us a couple of souvenir cups and saucers too! She's a big food person and she runs a food blog, so she was pretty eager to judge the food at the restaurant. She said it was cute and that they went out of their way to make it look special!

AND we got caught in a really scary storm that knocked out our power for a couple of days. It got realy hot after the storm and it was pretty miserable for us.

AND we have a new friend coming to join us! This is Ruby. We've been pen-palling for a while so we're super excited to get to show her around. Right now, she's hanging out with our friends Anne, Zia, Nani, their big person Beth, and the whole crew of their friends over at Dreaming of Dolls. She says she's having a blast and that she gets to see the circus town. We're SUPER jealous, but we're glad she's having a nice time!

So today we got up so we could go take some pictures at the river nearby, but we ran into a problem. There weren't any parking spots!!

these are pictures from the same river! We thought we'd go there again.

There aren't very many to begin with because here, there are small areas a few miles apart all along the riverbank, and people bike or run on the trails that travel along beside the river. It's very pretty, but usually we see one guy with a bike and maybe a couple of joggers. Today, there weren't any spots anywhere, and the riverwalk was packed with people all staring at their phones, getting excited over things that they could only see in their cell phone cameras, and muttering that they had to catch everything.

Catch what?? We had no idea! So we went to another park nearby with some pretty landscapes that's usually pretty empty:

Wouldn't that make a nice postcard? But it was packed too! With people doing the same thing!!

I know we sound kind of mad about it. We're not. There's been a lot of nasty going on in the world lately that makes us and our friends very sad. We stood and watched these people walking around, looking for their invisible little creatures, using all of these public places the way they were supposed to be used--and most importantly, they were so nice to each other, talking to each other even though it was pretty obvious they'd never even met. Laughing, getting along. It was really nice to see when we've had so much hate shoved down our throats lately.

So we asked our uncle what was going on and he explained Pokémon to us and now we're kind of totally into it.

We're making it a family game since we're all a little young to go roaming around by ourselves, and we're really enjoying seeing what the game leads us to see!

And by the way, we did finally find a place to take a picture for a postcard! Here's one we didn't use :)

We can't wait to see everyone's! 

Love,
Penny

Old Friends and New

Hey everyone, this is Wrennie! Hope you guys had a great Christmas. We did, we also moved to a new house after the 5K so we've been super busy.

But you know we did something else that weekend too! We went to a cave:

Well kind of, it's a man made cave out of cement. Pretty cool huh?

Chloe wasn't so sure about going in.

The inside was way too dark to get a lot of pictures, but I got a few:

It was pretty!

The whole area was really pretty! There was a lake and lots of trees:

And so we decided to meet some friends there!

Top: Zia, Nani, Callie, Chloe, Me! Bottom: Addy, Penny and Anne!

My hair was so bouncy. -Chloe
You have gravity defying pig tails! -Penny

It was really really good to see Zia and Anne again!

I hadn't gotten to play with them in a really long time. I think they missed me a little!

Penny and Nani became really fast friends:

They hung out all day!
We had a lot to talk about and she's really nice! -Penny

Zia was really excited to meet my sister:

We spent all day playing together!

Callie and Addy became good friends too!

We had a lot in common! I told her all about my dolls too :) - Callie

Course I had to get a picture with my sister:

 And my BFF!

 Addy, Zia, Anne, and Nani brought some teeny friends too:

 We spent a lot of time taking pictures and playing with them.

 

 Aren't they SO cute!?

After we played and explored Chloe wanted us to do photo shoots. Merlin was busy with our dads but we did pretty good!
Glamour shots! -Chloe

Here is Anne:

And Penny:

 This one is my favorite! Penny you look like you're about to do something you shouldn't! -Chloe
Because I AM about to do something I shouldn't!! - Penny

Then we took Nani's pictures:

And Chloe:

 I was kind of too busy posing everyone else to get too many taken! -Chloe
They're so pretty though! I love the second one of you. - Penny

Addy looked really good in her dress:

And then there is me:

 My pretty big sis! Love you -Chloe

I love how pretty Zia looks:

But of course Callie took the best pictures!

  This one is my very favorite! We took it in this big fake tree thing.

 She can't help but be photogenic! -Chloe
Aw you guys are making me blush! -Callie

We had the best day with our friends! The new ones and the old ones. We've moved a little too far away to see them all the time but I bet we'll see them again sometime soon. I'm really glad that Callie and Penny and Chloe liked everyone! I know I did. Nani and Addy are really sweet and fun and Zia and Anne are two of my favorite girls! Love you guys!

Well I hope you guys liked all our pictures! And stay warm, it snowed a bunch today!

Wrennie

Clothes
Callie:
  Sweater: AG Isabelle's Coral Sweater
  Jeans: Maplelea Saila's Meet Outfit
  Shoes: OG Plaid All Over

 

Wrennie: 
  Shirt: My Life As
  Sweater: OG Jumping For Joy
  Leggings: OG Mad About Plaid
  Shoes: Springfield Collection Black and White Tennies

Penny:
   Sweater: AG Innerstar U Outfit
   Leggings: AG Starry Hoodie Outfit
   Shoes: AG Mia's Meet Shoes
   Evenstar Necklace: RainbowLilyDesigns on Etsy

Chloe:
    Shirt: AG Dallas Souvenir Shirt
    Pants: AG
    Shoes:AG Recess Ready Outfit