The Hogue Family

Mia's three month picture with Maddie!

The past two weeks have been a little busy at the Hogue house. I went back to work after being off for 12 weeks. I have to say that it is still an adjustment and I'm hoping to get a routine down soon? Having two kids to get ready and out the door in the morning as thrown off my old routine. I find myself getting up much earlier and I still can't get everything done that I would like to. I'm going to have to be much more organized and start putting out the girls clothes at night and getting Maddie up earlier (which isn't easy)!

Both the girls are doing well at daycare which does make it easier on me. Maddie loves playing with the other kids and Mia is content just watching everyone. She doesn't like to be left alone and wants to be where the action is! I feel so blessed that she has been a pretty easy going baby and is always full of sweet smiles!!

We celebrated Bob's 51st birthday on November 9th! He was off that day and got to hang out with the girls. Our friend Julie came over that night to watch the girls so we could go out for dinner. It doesn't happen enough, but it was so nice to have a date night with my hubby!

This past weekend I went away to a worship conference with our church. It was being conducted by Andrew Ironside for the Hillsong church in Australia. It was very informative and I had a great time getting to know everyone on our worship team more. I was a little nervous about leaving Mia for the night but knew she would be fine with daddy. Bob's sister CeCe also came up to spend time with the girls and they had a great time together! I got home late Saturday night and was excited to love on my girls.

Christmas is in the air at our house! We had to set up Maddie's princess tree last night in her room and I would like to have the trees up and decorated this week. I love Christmas and have so many wonderful memories as a child. Our house was always decorated to the max and I want our kids to have fun and enjoy the holidays too!

I haven't had my camera out much so I don't have any fun pictures to post. Mia started to giggle last night for the first time and it was so sweet. Maddie kept trying to make her laugh too and I love to watch them interact together! It will be interesting to see how they play when they get older? I really hope that they will be close because I know how much I love and appreciate having a sister!