Sunday, December 20, 2009

WOW! 2 posts in one month!!!

Well the Christmas festivities are in full swing around our house!! It seems like every night we have had something fun to do! It started off with the ward couple's Christmas dinner. I did not bring my camera...so no pics. Good food, good friends and a great night! Then it was the ward family party. Again, good food, good friends and lots of Christmas songs!!
Here is Kylee and dad at the Christmas party.
Mom and Brooklyn....
Here is Kylee in her angel halo for the Christmas program.
After all the church parties, came Kylee's dance recital. She was SO excited to be able to perform twice...and was even more excited that she got to wear tap shoes AND makeup for her dance!
Getting ready to go to the 1st recital...they danced to "All I want for Christmas is my Two front teeth". They did a great job and it was so fun to watch!
Posin' for pictures in her dance costume.
My little dancer girl! She really did a great job...she knew the whole dance and made sure all the other girls in her class knew where they were supposed to be! Good job Kylee! :)
And this is how Brooklyn kept herself entertained during the recital...silly girl!!
Dance recital #2...dad and Brooklyn entertaining themselves! Like father like daughter!! :)
Kylee and Chloe doing their partner sequence! Making sure to do it JUST right! After her dance was over...all smiles!
We got home from the dance recital and I needed to run in the house to get something before we headed back out to do some Christmas shopping. Well, while the girls were waiting for us, they found my camera and used it to take a few shots of each other....here is Brooklyn's "glamour" shot....
A silly shot...
And now it's Kylee's turn...
Then it looks like they found my video camera and wanted that in the pictures with them! What silly girls they are! I will save you from seeing ALL the pictures they took of the door, the windows, the steering wheel. Seriously. Like 50 pictures of nothing. And 50 pictures of them posin'!
We had some time before church this morning so we tried to get a few good pictures in front of the tree. Well...the sun outside was NOT making it very easy...shining RIGHT through my windows and making a HUGE glare. So...this is what we ended up getting. We will try again next week! :)
Dad and his girls...they FOUGHT over who got to sit on his knee. Brooklyn won!
Kylee and Brooklyn...I LOVE this pic! :)
Me and my cute girls! Love them! This next one we will have to try again next week, but I just LOVED their cute little Christmas skirts and wanted to see the whole outfit. Again...the sun was NOT cooperating with me!!
We hope everyone is enjoying the wonderful holiday season!! My parents and my brother are coming up for Christmas and we are VERY excited to see them!! On a side-note...27 days until our baby boy is here!! Yup...we are down to DAYS now!! YAHOO!! :)
Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hello again!

Wow...blog slacker. BIG TIME! So sorry!! I don't know how much better I am going to be in the coming months..but promise to try!! :) The following pictures are part of the reason for lack of blogging. I did the Unique Boutique Craft Fair over in Idaho Falls in November. With my parents co-owning it, I figured I should be in it!! It went really, really well, and kept me extremely busy in the months leading up to it!! I did it last year also, and hope to be able to keep doing it! Next year might be a different story with having 3 kids!! We will see!
Here is my booth...thanks to my AWESOME and very talented dad, he made the whole setup. THANKS DAD!! :)
I do a little bit of everything...bows, headbands, flower clips, crochet baby hats, tutu's, etc!! Lots and lots of cute girly-girl stuff!!
The whole she-bang!
I loved how these turned out...cute pigtail raggedy scrunchies. They are my new favorite for Kylee's hair! :)
Hats, hats and more hats! These were a HUGE hit! All in all it was a GREAT show, and it helps us out so Santa can come for the girls!! :) They will definitely be spoiled this year!
These next few pictures are of my sweet girls. These two silly things are the light of my life. They honestly are the best little girls, even though they make me want to scream sometimes!! But they are the best of friends, and are at such fun ages!! I made them dinner tonight and then went to switch a load of laundry. When I came back in, the kitchen was empty...or so I thought. I heard two little giggling girls and looked underneath the kitchen table and this is what I found! Silly girls having their dinner on the floor!! They thought they were pretty funny!!
So I took advantage and snapped a few pictures while they were being cute!
Kylee is LOVIN' kindergarten! We went to parent teacher conference and her teacher, who is amazing, had such good things to say about Kylee. She is the class helper and sometimes the teacher has to remind Kylee who the REAL teacher is!! :) She just loves to help the other kids and it's pretty fun to watch. I go in once a week to help in her class and I love to watch the interactions!! She is doing great in school, reading and writing and all sorts of fun stuff! She constantly carries around a little notebook, sounding words out and writing them down. She wrote a little story the other day, about a puppy and his mom. I need to scan it on here, cause it is super cute! She is VERY excited about her new little brother coming in January!! This little guy is definitely going to have more than one mom! He is going to smothered with love!! Kylee is a GREAT help around the house. One day she talked her dad into giving her a dollar for doing something and he gave in, and so now she is CONSTANTLY asking if she gets money for her chores!! She keeps her piggy bank pretty full with all of the jobs she does!! We love you Kylee!!
Little Brooklyn is quite the entertainer around our house! She is ALWAYS singing, making up songs and dances to go along with them. She has a microphone that she carries around and will put on a show to ANYONE who will listen and watch! She just LOVES music. I think I need to get her into a singing group! She is actually quite good!! Her new favorite song is one from Tim McGraw...Southern Voice. She knows the chorus and always has to have something to pretend to use for a guitar! She calls it the Cowboy Song!! The first few days that Kylee was in kindergarten, Brooklyn had a hard time without her sister. But now, she QUITE enjoys the time she gets to spend by herself! She loves having FULL control of the toy room, the toys and the movie-picking decisions!! It has been fun spending one-on-one time with her, as it will be non-existent when baby comes!! She still LOVES chocolate...sometimes asking for it first thing in the morning! She is definitely a girl after her mom's heart with that one!! :) Boo definitely has a personality all her own. She is VERY stubborn and insistent upon the fact the EVERYTHING has to go HER way. And when it doesn't...WATCH OUT. She definitely keeps us on our toes!! But we love her anyway!! :)
These two really are the best two little girls any mom and dad could ask for!! They are both COMPLETELY excited for their new little brother to get here!! They had fun helping me get his nursery ready and are loving all the cute little boy stuff! They are very worried that he doesn't have any little boy toys...but I assured them that he doesn't need toys yet and he will be just fine!!