Thursday, April 26, 2012

I'm 30!

The big 3-0! That's right, I turned 30 this year. It has always sounded like an "old" number to me but I honestly don't feel old! But that is what all the "old" people say, and it's not such an "old" number now!
Happy Birthday with Eric and the kids! We caught a late movie that night and had just gotten back from a trip the day before.

We got to celebrate my birthday in Puerto Rico with my parents and siblings! We had such a great "adult only" trip! Thanks for my cake Erin!

That's a lot of candles!
Some friends in our ward at church had a pajama party for me for my 30th! It was so fun to get together and talk and eat some yummy food! We watched a movie and then hung out for a few hours and snacked on delicious treats!




Thanks for putting this together for me Tiffany and Jenina! I really loved it!


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Go Texan Day!

The girls had a parade and sung a few songs for the parents at their school on a Go Texan Day they had a their preschool. They had prepared for a few weeks making flags, belt buckles, vests, horses and practicing their songs! They were excited to have us there to see them!
Cowgirl Rachel during the parade!

Ellie and Colt enjoying the show! They loved watching all the kids marching by and all the commotion!

Peek a boo Livy!

Colt in his cowboy hat! He kept saying, "Yee-ha!"


Olivia in the parade on the way back around!


Ha! Poor kid didn't even see it coming!

During their performance.

I never knew Livy had this pose in her! Showing off her belt buckle!

Rachel's nice vest she made!

They did a few songs and were so fun to watch. The next song they had to do tons of hand motions and walk in a circle and they kids all did so good. Colt loved it and was mesmerised!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

March

Here is stuff from March around our house. It flew by with the girls birthday, a trip to Puerto Rico for Eric and I, and then my birthday! Here a just a few pictures from in between all of that!
Ellie is so fun and adorable and everyone loves playing with her. She is crawling all over trying to keep up with the big kids and now standing for a while without holding onto stuff. She has four teeth now and loves to eat anything. She smacks her lips at you when you have something she wants.



She loves bath time and the hot tub. She is usually always happy. She is really active and all over the place all the time, and she adds to the mess around here constantly by emptying drawers out onto the floor. She loves her walker and cruises around the house in it and hits all of our ankles. Colt stands on a chair when she is in it because she hurts him to much he says!
She claps and waves good bye and has a big smile! She changes her favorite "move" every few weeks. She does the one thing for a while and then stops it and picks up something else.  For a while she did the backwards mouth wave, she put the back of her hand over mouth and waves with it still touching her mouth and making a sound. I loved that one. So cute. Then she moved to this coughing clearing your throat sound that her and Colt would do back and forth to each other like a conversation. Pretty funny to watch them keep going back and forth. Now she is onto the scrunch face/nose move. I love this one too! All the time with the scrunch look! Rachel used to make the same face but not as often. I hope it sticks around!

The weather turned warm enough to swim for the kids, but the water is still really cold. My 5 year olds in their new swimsuits. They are such fun girls. I don't know that I am ready for them to be so old though! They have great imaginations and you can have real conversations with them. They are sweet and like to take care of Ellie a lot, and sometimes Colt!
They are doing good swimming and getting very brave. Livy swam across the whole pool the other day all by herself! And Rachel is not afraid to jump off the high rocks this year!
Colt is looking so old and big these days. He talks non stop. He cracks me up still. He says "excuse" all the time when he needs someone or something to move, excuse couch! It's so cute. He wants to go everywhere with everyone, to school with the girls or scouts with Eric, etc. He has a hard time not being able to go but is easily distracted with a piece of candy. He is scared of the dark now and when it is time to take a nap or go to bed he always says he wants to go home, aka the living room. It took me a while of telling him that we are home to figure that one out. Still loving lizards, squirrels and dogs. The neighbors have two dogs now that he watches from out of his bedroom window all the time.
Stuffed animals are still the favorite toy around our house!

Cutie pie! I love having a baby around the house.
More posts on March to follow!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Birthday Party

The girls had a great combine birthday party with their cousins Savannah and Kylie, whose birthday is just two weeks after theirs! Although a bit unconvetional, we went with the mermaid/puppy theme! Rachel and Livy chose puppies and Savannah and Kylie chose mermaids! It was quite the combination! Daddy surprised them with pony for rides and they had a great time with everyone!


After a few rides each they were off to eat pizza and jump in the bouncy house!



Even Ellie got a little turn!



After pizza and pinatas we had cake! The girls wanted me to make them a pupy cake so that's what we did! They enjoyed it!


I missed the picture of JJ just digging into the dogs feet with his hands as it sat un attended on the table! It was so funny!
The birthday girls! 6 year olds and 5 year olds! I can't believe how old all of you girls are. I can still remember when Aunt Jamie and I were hoping and praying to have you guys. It seems like yesterday!


Best Friends. I love these two pictures of them. Always looking out for one another .
Puppy baloons that lasted like a month blown up! We just got rid of those things!
The girls brought brownies to school for their birthday and here are their birthday hats! So old and so awesome! I love you Rachel and Olivia! Happy Birthday!