The "twins"

Two sweet girls. Born on the same day. Born a few hours apart. Mistaken for twins many a time. Not even related. Same toothy grin. Same bubbly personalities. Same love of life. Same rays of sunshine.

Best of friends. Chums. Pals. Giggling girls. I love these two. I'll claim the one on the left as my own.

On Friday they celebrated their 6th birthdays (for the second time. Round one was on Thursday at the park with their friends.). A golden birthday for two golden girls.

(J was staying at our house because her mom had just had a baby.)

They giggled, shrieked and plotted how to get out of getting birthday spankings when Hubby got home. They didn't put up a fight at all and squealed with delight as soon as he pulled in the driveway.

Right before having cake, they dunked their heads in the pool. Makes for some nice pictures. ;) They giggled and grinned as we sang to them.

As is tradition in our house, the birthday kid gets to cut their own piece of cake. Gulp. They did end up putting their bowls in the freezer to finish later. Birthday celebration complete, they dashed off saying, "We should be sisters. We should be twins." With a hug, a squeal and a skip they went out the door to play with their gifts.

It's Friday so how about a

giveaway from CSN?


CSN has over 200 online shops where you can find everything from dinnerware

to wall art,

housewares

to baby gear

and travel.

The generous folks at CSN have given me a $50 gift certificate to give to one of my lucky readers. Think you could find something to spend it on? Did I mention that shipping is free on most items? How sweet is that?

Putting your name into the hat is easy peasy. Just leave me a comment here on this post before next Friday. That's it. Simple.

You can get extra entries by blogging, tweeting or Facebooking the link for this post. You have to make sure you leave me a comment here with your link though so I know you actually did it. (Just trying to keep honest people honest.)

Now for the fine print:

• Only comments left on this post will be counted as an entry.
• CSN only ships to the US and Canada. I apologize for that. There's nothing I can do about it.
• Entries will be accepted until Thursday, August 12 at midnight MST.
• The winner will be drawn by one of my little cherubs.
• The gift certificate will be e-mailed to the winner.
• The gift certificate is for a one time use for any of CSN's shops.
• Selma, even though you won the gift certificate on Jessica's blog, you can still enter this one. If you win, you'll have to rethink your statement about never winning anything. ;)

Who needs a horse

when you have an older brother?

A little of this, a little of that

• Good intentions seem to fly out the window rather quickly nowadays.
• On Saturday I had good intentions of getting some cleaning done when a friend told me she was running to Glenwood. I couldn't resist hopping in her ride. I finally bought some decorations for my living room. I'll post pictures when I get them hung up.
• When JB and Mom (note I said "when" not "if") come visit, they'll be so impressed. I've hardly ever decorated my house. Sad, but true.
• My good intentions of getting organizing done yesterday took a hike when I found a mountain bike on craigslist for our son. It was in Aspen, which is about a hour from here. Instead of organizing, I spent all afternoon in the car.
• I did buy the bike. I told Hubby it was in very good condition. After his inspection, it turns out it needed a bit of work. What do I know? It still was a good deal, although I probably could have talked the guy down further had I known exactly what to look for.
• He is usually the one to go look at those things but he was working two hours in the opposite direction. I had to be his "fill-in". Pathetic as I am when it comes to that.
• I have good intentions of getting the house spotless today since Hubby is hosting a meeting here tonight. I have a sneaking suspicion that the floors and bathrooms will get done and that's about it.
• It's just a bunch of guys, they'll never notice. I think and hope. Hopefully they'll pause to admire the coloring all over the wall at 3 year old height. :)
• Just in case you missed out on the giveaway on Jessica's blog, I'll be doing it on here. Just working out the details. Stay tuned.
• Aunt Selma won Jessica's giveaway. I'm still waiting to see what she's going to buy me with her winnings.
• Lou has been waking up and staying up for two hours at some ungodly hour for the past two nights. Yawn! She sits there and grins at me. I almost hate to "encourage" her by grinning back. ;)
• Last night she had an outfit on that said "positively perfect". I couldn't help wondering if that was true at 4:00 am. It's true. She is perfect.
• I was so exhausted by the time Hubby left for work at 5:00 am this morning. Lou was showing no signs of going back to sleep so I laid her down, shut the door and let her cry herself to sleep. Bad Mom, I know but I really needed the sleep so I can deal with the riff raff today. I really don't think she cried for very long.
• Still, I have a hard time letting newborns cry. Even ask Hubby. He told me the other day that I fuss with her too much. That I can let her cry a little more. Hmmm...
• I wonder what my chances of sneaking a little sewing in today are. Sigh. I better just wait until tomorrow when nothing else is hanging over my head.