Pretty Girls

I swear they just get prettier everyday.

Stats on Sammy: loves Mario Party (as of late), great little eater and still LOVES noodles, loves preschool and playing the friends and Maddie, sings songs that she makes up all the time, loves doing puzzles still, wants to have pretend birthday parties all the time for everyone, gets so excited for FHE, loves primary, loves to cuddle up and watch movies, loves to be outside, even in the cold!

Stats on Maddie: still sucks her thumb when she is tired, fighting her naps (and winning a lot of the time), loves oatmeal and fruit, loves to pick toe jam out of her and others toes and calls it "toe jammies", loves to watch Beauty and the Beast as well as Diego, loves Mommy and Daddy to sing her songs before bed and says "Twinkle me" meaning twinkle twinkle little star, loves her grandpas, loves to be held and cuddled, says funny things like this morning Sammy was being grumpy and Maddie said "you grumpy pants Sammy"

Looking so old these days!!!

Scrapfest

Last Fri and Sat I went and scrapped with my friends in Salt Lake and we had a blast. It was a fun break and I got lots of pages done!!!! Yay!! We are planning to do this 2 more times during the year and it makes me so excited!!!

Catching up

Maddie lovin' climbing on the dinosaur bones!

Silly girl!

Aze & Sam

Already catching up you ask? I know. I promised I would blog almost all my pictures....and I am already a little behind. The weather here has been cold and dreary and so we mostly have been inside. My friend and I have been walking in the mornings at the mall after we drop the girls off at preschool, but last week there was no preschool!! So yeah, it was kind of a long week but we survived. One of the days we walked, the kids played at the treehouse and had icecream cones. Gotta love the cell phone pics!!

Sammy's first

time skiing. We just took her to Sundance to the tow rope (so it was free) and luckily Jake's parents had some little skis from when they were little that we used for her. She did pretty good. But after about 4 times down, she was done!! She said she was too tired and couldn't do it anymore. So that is probably it for this season, hopefully next year she will like it better.

New Year and so new messes!!

It started out while I was making dinner. I saw Maddie and her partner in crime, Ryder go upstairs. No biggie. They were quiet and being good or so I thought. A few minutes later I found them doing this!!

Maddie decorating Rye's face, and then he would do hers (with some play lipstick Sammy got for Christmas so luckily it came off easily)

What mischevious little faces!

Cute smile and nice face by the way!

I like Maddie's smile and that Rye was checking himself out in the mirror!! Seriously, it was hard to get mad at them, they were too cute!!!

Christmas Part 2- Christmas day

Well late on Christmas Eve we drove back home from my parents so the girls could wake up at our house on Christmas day. The funny thing was Maddie is the one who always wakes up early at our house and we were actually all awake by 7:15 and were waiting for her to wake up!!!

Santa brought Sammy a beauty salon and Maddie a little car. He also brought them games, movies, playdoh, puzzles, and blocks. They loved it all and Maddie was totally into opening the presents!!!

We then played for a bit and then got ready and were to my parents house by ten. We then had a yummy breakfast there with the traditional sticky buns and omlet casserole. We then went downstairs to open presents.

My mom got spoiled by my dad this year who got her a nice camera and a Silhouette (which we helped guide him to)

Krissy opening her presents

Riley being silly and putting things on his head and climbing in boxes!

Sammy in love with the pillow pet Tay got her!!

Sammy got a big Pet Shop set from my parents along with a cute outfit and puzzle. I tried to get pictures of Maddie but she was just running around everywhere. She got a Little People set, outfit, and puzzle too.

Jake and I and the Hendricks got a really cool electric fireplace from my parents. We already put ours in the basement and it looks awesome and heats up our downstairs too!!

Emmy and Wes made it up for Christmas and it was a lot of fun with them there. They received a really nice headboard set and dresser from my parents for Christmas. We played games all the time including Just Dance and the boys played basketball on the Xbox. I am sad they had to go back to Cedar City but me and the girls are planning a trip there at the end of January when Jake goes out of town and so are excited already for that!!

Christmas came and went in a flash!!

Well the Sunday before Christmas, we spent the night with Jake's parents. They cooked a yummy ham for dinner and Trent & Shireece and kids were there too. It was fun. Jake's parents spoiled us and got Jake and I each a Kindle for Christmas which I had really been wanting. I have already read quite a few books on it already!!! Sammy received some pretty princess dresses for the princess Tangled and her really long hair. It looks really cute on her. Maddie received a fun block toy as well as them both receiving the Little People Nativity set which I really wanted for them. They played with it all week long, moving around baby Jesus so different people were watching Him be born.

On Christmas Eve, we went up to my parents house early in the afternoon. We had snacks, played games, and enjoyed the night. We read the passage from Luke while the kids acted it out. Unfortunately, Taylor wasn't there and so Scott had to fill in and be Joseph-what a good sport!!!

Sad that this is the best picture of Maddie!

I love how serious Sam was as the passage was being read.

Joseph and Mary (aka Scott and Sammy)

We also had the regular gingerbread house contest. The teams consisted of me and Krissy, Scott and Jake, Emmy and Wes, and Mom and Dad. Sammy and Maddie were constantly switching teams and eating the candy although Sammy would keep asking during the contest "Who would like my help making their house" to which everyone demanded her!!

Jake was struggling a little with his frosting

Great grandma and grandpa were our judges. We all got nominated for different things so I am not quite sure who really won.