Friday, January 29, 2016

Birthday

I forgot I had a few birthday pictures.

Lily licking the beater after I made frosting for my technicolored cupcakes.


Opening presents. I was making a really weird face in all the present pictures. Maybe it's just how I look all the time. But this one was the least weird.


Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Christmas in Idaho

We spent Christmas break with Pops and Toots this year. (And Pete, Kansas, Laura, Ammon and Inny) We had such a blast!! There were games and snowboarding and dates and good food and really good company.

We did a lot of sledding. Madelyn loved it... Lily not so much.


Uncle Ian was such a sport and hauled my girls all over the place.



Lily only lasted a few minutes. There were a lot of tears.


Woo hoo!




Such joy! (Except Lily, poor kid.)


Snow angels with Toots.


Sitting it out but still having fun.


Madelyn, Ian, Lily and Dad sledding on the family heirloom.


Adam sledding aggressively.


We eventually decided the church hill was too wussy so we went to the property and sledded there for a while.


Happy Pete.


The long trek up.


Candace loving the snow.


"Come on Candace! It'll be fun!"


Nope.


Pete goes alone.


Madelyn, Pete and Candace on a milder part of the hill.


On a different day Rory and I got to escape to Harriman State Park to cross country ski. It was a gorgeous day!



And that's all the pictures we took. Except these of some mountain sheep we saw on the drive home. Thanks for such a great vacation Mom and Dad!



Oh, and here are some pictures of Lily's new teeth. Madelyn was my helper.

Bottoms.


Tops.


Enough!!


Thursday, December 17, 2015

Festivities and an Early Christmas

Rory is really great about crafting with Madelyn. They made a gingerbread house together a few weeks ago. 


She was very careful about putting all the candy on. It's been hard for her to understand that she's not supposed to be eating the candy off the house though.



Lily lending moral support.


Finished product.


We also decorated Christmas cookies.



And before our long trek to Idaho we decided to open a few presents. They were so excited.



Thanks Grandma Jo!


Friday, November 27, 2015

Family Game Day


We suddenly realized that Madelyn is old enough to play board games! So we went to the store and got a few. She loves them. I guess I know what we'll be doing for a while now.


Lily just wants to eat the games.



Birthday and One Other Thing


Our little Lily turned 1 last week. She is suddenly such a big girl! Her hair is coming in, she learned to crawl and she can pull herself up to standing. She also really likes to walk around when holding someones fingers. Madelyn tried to help  her once but found out Lily weighs a little too much for her. It was funny to watch them weaving around the room.

Helping Lily with her presents.


She loved her cupcake. I turned around for a second and when I turned back it was gone.


And the One Other Thing: Madelyn is really into building 'bird nests'. This one was built during nap time. Looks comfy cozy.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Madelyn's Big Dance Recital

Madelyn has been taking dance lessons for the last couple of months and she has loved every minute of it. Today was her last day of class for the year and the teacher had them give us a small performance. So below are the three songs that they danced to.

Act 1 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas


Act 2 - I'm A Little Snowman


Act 3 - Happy Holidays

Hope you enjoyed the dance recital as much as we did!

Saturday, November 14, 2015

And so it Begins

We filled about 20 big bags of leaves this morning and that was only the front yard. The trees have plenty more leaves to drop too. 


The girls had lots of fun running/jumping/sitting in the piles.