Sunday, March 21, 2010

A Butterfly Birthday Party

Guess who's 3!
After what seemed like forever to her, the day finally came. We've been searching out butterfly stuff for this party for a while and when it finally came... what a day it was!
She loved all the decorations and was just in awe at everything all day long. She could not wait for everyone to come!

Blowing out the candles on her butterfly cake...

And of course opening presents! She got lots of fun stuff from everyone that came. McKenzie picked out a butterfly puzzle for her.

She has been seeing a commercial for this Polly Pocket toy for about a month now and every time it comes on she tells me that she wants it for her birthday. Thanks to Meahma and Papa she got it. Look at her face! She was soooo excited!

She got new clothes from her uncle Troy & Savanah

and another cute outfit from Nyssa.

and of course she had to have new shoes (ones she can put on herself!) to go with from Uncle Alex and Uncle Clint.

She got more fun Polly Pocket stuff from Aunt Judy and family

And for the little girl that loves to fix my hair ALL the time.... a hairdresser set. The blowdryer really works and she loves it!

All the girls had fun playing with Chalissa's hair!

Thanks to everyone who could come and for the wonderful gifts! It was a great day!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Kenzie-Lou Who?

In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, McKenzie's class celebrated Dr Seuss all week long at school. Friday was dress up day and they were to come dressed up as their favorite character from their favorite Dr. Seuss story. As soon as she found out that The Grinch was by Dr. Seuss it was decided that she would go as Cindy-Lou who.

It was so fun and she absolutely loved it! She wore it all day and got lots of compliments and funny looks from everyone at the store later that day!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Girls Day Out

Since I'm back to having a day off during the week again me and the girls met up with my friend Tiffany and her daughter Lilly for lunch one day. I just love how excited my girls get when they know they are going to see Lilly.
Aren't they cute together!

Monday, February 15, 2010

Love Day!

We Love Fancy Nancy! For Valentine's Day we got the girls a new book to enjoy.

We also made some sugar cookies to give away for treats. As always decorating them is so much fun for the girls and they run out of cookies to decorate too fast.


Chad and I got to go out the night before. He took me back to the restaurant where he proposed to me 10 years ago on Valentine's Day. He took flowers there earlier so they could be there on the table when we got there and over dinner he gave me a beautiful necklace. It was so sweet! On Valentine's Day we spent the day at home with the girls. We read their new books and made a nice dinner at home together. So simple yet so great! I love being home with these little cuties!

Monday, February 1, 2010

Our Snow Family

Over the weekend Chad took the girls out to build a snowman and they had so much fun they decided to make our whole family out of snow.

Kenzie and the girls in her class made this one at school on Friday.


Thursday, January 21, 2010

Snow much fun!

This last weekend we found a really fun place to go sledding. Chad and I took the girls Saturday afternoon. It's just around the corner so we just put the girls in the big sled and pulled them there with the 4-wheeler. Here they are all ready to go.

Doesn't that look fun?!?!? That little dot on there is Chad.

Me & McKenzie

As always Brooklyn loved riding on the 4-wheeler.

Chad and the girls

We had so much fun that we decided to go again on Sunday and we got Donald & Judy and their family and Clint to go with. It is such a long hill that it would take forever to climb back up it. It is so great to have the 4 wheeler, we all go down and then Chad meets us at the bottom and takes us all back to the top. All aboard....

I could not believe Brookyln. She is such a little thrill seeker. Chad put her on a little saucer sled and sent her down, thinking that she would probably not make it all the way down. Well she did and after that she was hooked. She just could not get enough of it. She must be just the perfect size because she did it over and over and managed to stay on all the way down every time. She would get going so fast that we would have to have someone at the bottom to catch her. You could see her hitting bumps and bouncing around all the way down. When she was within earshot all you would hear was her laughing. Here she is waiting to go...

Here is a video clip of her going down. It's a little hard to see her at first but the hill is so long it's the best I could get.


Kenzie was a little nervous about it and it didn't help that right when we got there she tipped over and got snowrash (like road rash but from the snow :) ) on her face. After that she didn't want to go alone but she had fun riding along with everyone else. Here she is with me and Clint.

Then she and Brooklyn went with Erica.

She also discovered that her snowpants are pretty slippery and had fun just sliding on them.

And when all else fails it's always fun to play in the snow!

Jake went down with me a couple times but I' m not sure he knew what to think of it. He sure looked cute though!

All of "big kids" had just as much fun- if not more - that the little kids. It was fun to do and fun to watch. Here is Judy watching Chad help Levi, Erica and Liz get ready for a trip down.

Here's Ricky getting ready for one of his many trips down.

Don't worry Chad got to do more than just haul us all back up the hill over and over. He watched Ricky go off a jump then had to try it out for himself.

We all came home with red cheeks from the cold. Some of us with bumps and bruises and we were sore the next day but it was so much fun we can't wait to go again. Little red cheeks and all. :)

Friday, January 1, 2010

As a new year begins...

Always busy...

Yet it seems like nothing is ever getting done!
Everyday seems to go by so fast, we've got
A cute-as-can-be 2 year old who's so close to turning 3, and a
Really smart and oh-so-sweet 5 year old who'll be 6 before we know it!

I can't believe my babies are now a kindergartner and a preschooler!
Next year will bring 2 more layoffs, we're

Really lucky to have made it through the last 2, and
Ever so hopeful that we'll make it through the next 2. We're
Very lucky to have each other, our families, our health, our home and our jobs
In these hard times . We're Excited, and a little scared, to see what 2010 will bring.
We're hoping for ourselves, and you too, that it will be a great year!