Fun Times!

I am off track again...for 5 weeks!!! That means that I get some much needed time with my girlies and time to relax!

All three in our bed ready for church and waiting nicely while I try to get dressed as fast as I can while they are distracted by Dora.

We headed today to The Wildlife Experience. This is one of our favorites when we are off. The girls love it and my friend Kasey gets us in with her family pass, so a nice cheap morning out.

Look at my big girl!

Trying to get everyone in a picture...minus Keller, Knox's new little brother.

Mallory was more excited about the drawers that hold kids' shoes than playing with the actually toys.

Rolling down the "hill"

Cookies and milk break

Kasey gave the girls their Christmas presents; these cute purses with jewerly and chapstick inside...what could be better?!?!?!

Our big 3 year old! I posted about her party, but her actually birthday was yesterday and we went to Mt. Fugi for dinner. The girls loved it! They were a bit worried when the cook would do big fire things (not sure what to call them) and then we ended dinner with a delicious ice cream sundae. A great birthday with her family!

Emma's 3rd Birthday!

This year for Emma's birthday we decided to do it at Little Monkey Bizness. Emma loves it there and was so excited to have her party there. She talked about "her party" for about a month before hand. Also, how it was a princess party....specifically Cinderella. She told EVERYONE about it. So cute! Now that she is in preschool she has some little friends who we invited as well.

Poor Emma was sick the whole weekend of her party. The day of we dosed her up with Ibuprofen and hoped she would make it through and have fun.

The first hour we just played. We were one of two parties that was there, so not crowded at all just the birthday parties!

Emma has been asking for a Cinderella cake for months....she finally got it! She loved it and was so excited about her cake.

Two friends from school

Katy and Connor

Kristin with two of her kiddos, Autumn and Dalton...not sure what happened to Easton

Aidan

Abby, Aedan, and Ashton

Essence and Hope

While opening up gifts, Kaylee was feeling a bit left out, so she came and sat on my lap. She wanted a part of the action and Emma let her!

One of several princess dresses that she got. A Rapunzel dress! This was definitely a year for princess stuff. Just to name a few gifts....a princess camera, a Belle, a Cinderella, and a Tiana princess doll, a baby Cinderella, princess puzzles, princess outfits, and princess barbies!

What a great 3rd birthday for our Princess!!! She is growing up too quickly and becoming such a smart little girl. She is one amazing kiddo!

Holiday Happenings!

We are having so much fun getting ready for Christmas this year. Emma really understands what is going on and Kaylee just goes along with what her Big Sis is doing. We did our tree and the girls could actually hang the ornaments this year. We also started "Elf on a Shelf". Many of my friends do this as well. It has been so much fun! Each morning the girls wake up looking for "Jay" (that is our elf).

The girls also had Christmas programs at daycare so Emma has been singing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Rudolf" (those were the songs from her class) also she has been saying "Merry Christmas Everyone!" everywhere we go; Walmart, the Dr's office, Target, church....basically wherever we are that has people around, and of course everyone loves her. She is pretty cute when she does it!

Here is the finished product...not the best picture! I have played around with my camera, but I just do not know how to make it actually look good...probably a better camera, or someone that knows something about cameras!

I had two great helpers this year!

Emma got to do the star!

Emma's favorite ornament (for that moment!)

Kaylee's favorite!

Taking a popcorn break!

Here is Jay! Emma named him. I kept asking her "Are you sure you want that to be his name?" Then I would keep asking "What is his name?" to make sure that is what she wanted it to be...and that she didn't change it. She never waivered it was always Jay!