The Girls

Ursula & her cousin, Olivia. Olivia's older by 3 mths.

People think they're twins we're all together :)

Calista & her cousin, Soleil. Calista's older by 8 mths.
Soleil's a little taller. They don't get mistaken as twins. lol

Ursula as a Geisha Girl on Halloween 2009.

Calista as a Southern Belle/Scarlet O'Hara for Halloween 2009.

Health-wise, the girls are doing great :D

Calista's having problems at school (5th)... as in making bad grades :( She's been grounded for the first 2 report cards... two F's on them... and inconsistantly too... she has A's, B's, & C's in some subjects... Thankfully, her teacher sent home a website that has all four of her teachers' sites along with homework assignments... so, now I'm checking to make sure she does the homework that's on the sites... not just what she tells me she has to do.

Ursula's doing well in school :) Of course, Calista wasn't having problems in 1st grade either... not until she got to 4th grade.

Its funny how different they are. Ursula has been moody since day one. Calista's more happy-go-lucky... which is probably why she sees no problem with making bad grades in school. She's just more into arts & crafts. I'm trying to get her to read more (she checked out Twilight!!! from the library for A.R.). Anyways... Ursula's very concerned about her school work and doing well.

I decided to buy Calista a camera for Christmas and Ursula a MP3. I just know they'll LOVE these gifts! That's their big gifts... I bought them both boots. Birthstone jewelry. Learning PC games. They're gonna love their presents! Oh, on Craigslist, there's a guy with older computers that he formatted, fixed up, etc... for $50 to $75 each. I asked Jeremy to buy one for the girls. They have my old one but one of the RAM chips is burnt so, the computer shuts down for the simpliest games (the educational ones they already have)... its just fustrating to them, so, they barely want to use it :( So, hopefully, Jeremy will buy one of those PCs from that guy and that'll be a nice gift for them as well :)

Pictures from Christmas

Wyatt didn't want to get in the pics... so, its just Calista and Ursula...
But, as you see in the second picture, Ursula was finished after just taking one... and that face, well, she's been doing that same face since birth, practically.

Yes, only 2 pics of Calista right now because Jeremy backdated the computer and all of the pictures in my Kodak folder (where they go when I upload them from the camera to the PC) disappeared! He backdated to Dec. 2nd and all pics from that date on are gone. Jeremy said I can get them back but backdating the PC to yesterday. I haven't done it yet but will after I finish this blog entry.
Anyways, these are the only pics I had gotten around to editing and putting in 'My Pictures' folders... so, apparently, pics there aren't affected by backdating... good to know, huh? Good ole hindsight.

We had given both girls some make-up in cute little girlie things (Calista's is a cool denim jewelry box and Ursula's is the same brand but is a denim pants backpack). So, they couldn't wait to put their make-up on (even the wrong ones in the wrong places... like lipgloss on the eyelids). So, I put some mascara on them both :D
Only later on, I noticed Calista's eyelashes weren't quite the same... apparently, she didn't want the mascara and started pulling her eyelashes out!!! (although, it looks like she cut them, IMO)... instead of just asking me how to take it off. So, now her eyelashes look like shit. Short, almost to the skin.

Ursula didn't mind the mascara... I mean, really, the mascara comes off anyways... it flakes off.
Here ya see Ursula with lip gloss on her eyelids... along with the mascara I put on her.

Yep, fingernails polished too.

This is a funny picture of her blowing on her nails :) hehehe