December in Pictures

I decided to just post a bunch of pictures taken in December. We've had a pretty busy month with birthdays, winter colds, family parties and Christmas programs.

Lilly and Emma visited Santa, Emma was freaked out, but Lilly thought it was cool.

A nice person at the outdoor mall took a cute family picture for us :)

Lilly and Mike made a bird feeder, and boy do the birds love it! It is really fun watching them from the window.

Lilly wrote on the bird feeder, I thought it was really cute and clever.

We've read lots and lots of Christmas books this month, I am so glad my girls love to read!

Lilly had her ballet Christmas program, it was very cute!

Lilly all dressed up for her school Christmas party, she thought she looked like and elf and was very adorable!

Yay for cousins! Yay for family Christmas parties and grandma dressing everyone up in matching outfits, so cute!

Jacob played the piano for the talent show, he did great!

Kaelyn played the piano too and did a really good job, she was so nervous, but pulled it off and I was impressed.

Emma and I sang Jingle bells while I plunked it out on my guitar. Emma was so proud of herself, it was adorable!

Lilly danced around grandpa Y. to Taylor Swifts "Santa Baby" :)

The kids made gingerbread houses and did some great work!
It has been a fun month and I am so excited for Christmas, it is my favorite holiday.

Spirit week!

Last week before Thanksgiving Break Lilly's school had spirit week :) The school week was only two days, so we only had two days of dressing up :)

The first day was "Sports Day"... well... Mike and I don't really play sports, or watch sports and didn't have ANY type of sport outfit, so Lilly came up with the idea of being a runner :) I thought her outfit was adorable! After school Lilly and Mike went on a jog too :) It was a really fun day for Lilly, she ran everywhere and kept her running stuff on all day.

The next day was "Spy Day" Lilly went undercover and dressed "like a normal kid." I gave her a little notebook and pencil to write her spying observations down on, she got a kick out of that!
Spirit week was a success and Lilly had a great time.

Emma Turned 2!

I can hardly believe that little Emma is two! Time is going so quickly... where did my little 3 pound baby go? :)
Emma is now 25 pounds (35%)
She is 34.5 inches tall (78%)
She is mostly caught up from being a preemie, and the pediatrician was very impressed with her vocabulary and also her ability to talk in 3-5 word sentences.
Emma can sing her ABC's, she can count to 13 and loves to do anything that her big sister does.
Her favorite book right now is the Biscuit book and also loves Good Night Seattle. (I keep telling Mike that she needs to go there and see Seattle for herself ;))
She also loves the t.v. show Super Why.
Her favorite letter of the Alphabet is E :)

Emma was so excited to open presents :) This was the gift from Lilly, Mom and Dad :)

Lilly made Emma a little note that she stuck to the present :) I'm so thankful that my girls have each other, sisters are the best!

Emma's birthday this year was Monkey themed. She LOVES monkeys so much.

For our party game we did barrel of Monkeys, this is Emma and her favorite cousin Jacob. The night before her party Mike asked Emma who she wanted to come to her party and the first person she said was Jacob :) Well, besides Mommy, Daddy and Lilly :)

Mike decorated Emma's cake this year, he did such a great job! It is really awesome to have such a creative husband that enjoys helping with things like this.

I think this picture is so cute of Emma blowing out her candles, she was really concentrating on it. Our little family is so lucky to have Emma, she is always full of energy and is really starting to develop a funny sense of humor with a bit of mischievousness :) We love you Emma!

The Rest of Halloween...

We had a scary fight with the stomach flu, a cold and overall sickness in our home the month of October so Halloween kind of wasn't as spooktacular as I wanted it to be, but it was still fun. Things are always so much fun with Emma and Lilly around, they are so awesome.

We woke up early the Sunday before Halloween (like 6:00 AM) to carve pumpkins...me at 6:00 AM is pretty frightening, so no pictures of me, just the cute ones :)
We didn't quite trust Emma with a knife this year, so she got to paint her pumpkin :) She did a great job.

Lilly sketched out her design for her pumpkin and Mike helped her carve it, they even added a bow, because it was a girl pumpkin :)

The final result :) Emma's pumpkin we grew in our garden, it was the only one to turn orange by Halloween so we had to buy one for Lilly.

Lilly and Emma helped me make Mummy Dogs for Halloween dinner, they thought they were delicious.

The girls on Halloween night :) Emma is Minnie Mouse, Lilly is Tinkerbell :)

School Pictures

Hi everyone :) Lilly recently had her Kindergarden school pictures taken :) I thought they turned out pretty darn cute :)

I think she has the most beautiful hair! Lilly is growing up so quickly, it makes me sad and excited because she is a great person and is becoming a smart, funny, beautiful girl.

Time to Catch Up...

My last post was over 2-months ago, wow... it has been a busy 2-months :)

I am not sure where to start, so I will just start from yesterday and maybe play catch-up in the next little while.

Lilly had her ballet Halloween party yesterday and it was so fun! I dressed both girls up and they really enjoyed their costumes. Emma enjoys going to Lilly's dance and watching all of the ballerina's Emma will escape my lap as much as she can so she can go to the bar to dance and look at herself in the mirrors :) It is so adorable :)

Lilly really, really, really loves her teacher this year, and was her shadow in dance yesterday. A cool thing that Ettie (Lilly's ballet teacher) pointed out to us was Lilly's feet are really flexible and she is able to point her toes almost perfectly. She told us that a lot of dancers work years to be able to point her toes as beautifully as Lilly :) I was pretty impressed :)

Aren't their costumes soooo adorable! Emma loved wearing her Minnie Mouse costume and cried when I took her ears off in the car. Lilly is TinkerBell this year and I found an amazing hair tutorial on Youtube on how to fix her hair :) It was really easy and looks great!

Tomorrow is Lilly's classroom party and I am helping out, hopefully I will be able to snap a few pictures there too. Emma is coming with me too (our babysitter cancelled) so hopefully things will go smoothly. Happy Halloween!

Lilly's First Day of Kindergarten!

I can hardly believe that Lilly is old enough to go to kindergarten! Today was her very first day of school. We are lucky enough to have her enrolled in an excellent school in the area.

Lilly was soooooooooo excited this morning to go to school. Mike made her a breakfast burrito and gave her a very special father's blessing.

I made Lilly a little sign wishing her a great time at school and also put together a little surprise for her to open after school. It had bubbles, post-its, smarties, bubble gum and a tootsie pop :)

Lilly's first day of Kindergarten: August 17, 2011

Weight: 41 Pounds
Height: 44 Inches Tall

and just for fun....Lilly's first day of Pre-school: September 1, 2010

Weight: 31 Pounds
Height: 41 Inches Tall

Lilly has changed so much this past year, I am so excited to see how she grows and develops this year. This summer Lilly has read 4 chapter books and continues to love science and isn't afraid of much. She loves, bugs, snakes, plants and her favorite book that she read this summer was Magic School Bus Tornado Twister. She also really enjoys dancing and is really good at making up her own songs. One of her favorite activities this summer was going on hiking adventures and trying to catch lizards in the hills above our home.

Here is a cute picture if Lilly and her new teacher. I think the other girl in the photo is a new classmate. (she snuck in the picture) :)
Lilly is going to do awesome in school, I will miss her terribly while she is at school, but I am also looking forward to spending a little one-on-one time with Emma. Lilly is such a bright and social girl, school is going to be a wonderful experience for her.

Gone Fishing :)

We went fishing this week at Strawberry Reservoir with my parents on Thursday and had a great time! Everyone caught a fish and we all enjoyed spending time on the water in my parents boat.

Lilly is a natural born fisher, she caught a HUGE Cutthroat Trout, it was 23 inches long! Almost as long as her Barbie Fishing Pole :) Lilly has been begging to catch a fish and eat it, so we kept this huge trout and Mike grilled it up for her on Friday, she ate half of the fish! She loved it!

Emma enjoyed riding in the boat and at one point fell asleep while we were scoping out different fishing locations around the lake. I think her favorite part was eating goldfish crackers on the boat, while fishing.
The two very best fishers in the family :) Grandpa Y. and Lilly :)

These two love the outdoors soooooooo much! I am glad, they keep me on my toes and remind me every day how great it is to be outside!

Camping Girls :)

We just got home from a 3 day 2 night camping/boating trip, every 2-years my Mom organizes a family reunion with my parents, my siblings and their families. It is so fun to see everyone! At the final night of the camp out, my Mom puts together a luau, that's why we have the flowers :)

Emma really loved being outside too. We took lots of walks around the campsite and took breaks in the shade. I had to put her in her playpen so I could sit and cool down.
My girls are so cute! I couldn't keep Lilly clean for more than 5-minutes :) She LOVED playing with her cousins and being outside. We had to make her sit in the shade to cool down, if not she would of just played and played and played.

I love that my girls enjoy the outdoors! There are more pictures to come, but I had to post these, they are too cute :) I need to figure out out to post the pictures off of my ipod too... there are some cute boating ones on that.

Dress Rehearsal

Last Saturday Lilly had her first ballet performance on a real stage :) She loved it!
This picture was taken when Lilly went on the stage at the dress rehearsal for the first time. I just love the look on Lilly's face, she is in total awe.
Lilly is the cute blonde next to the boy :) Look at how good she has her toe pointed!
I took a couple of pictures of Lilly before her show, I just love this one!
The costumes for her performance were so bright and colorful. I will try and post more pictures of the actual day of the performance. Unfortunately, the theatre they performed in did not allow photos during the actual performance. I am defiantly going to put Lilly back in dance in the fall.

better late than never :)

So I am wayyyy behind on blogging.... here are a couple of pictures from last Month when Mike's Brother and his family came to visit.
We went to the Bean Museum....

We went to the BYU Dinosaur Museum...

We played in the backyard. Sophie and Emma loved playing in the playhouse in our backyard.

Lilly and Belle loved jumping on the trampoline :) We really enjoyed our visit and look forward to seeing them again this summer.