Little Girls and Snow!!!

My girls have the cutest little friends that live around the corner. They're in the military and their time was up last month unless their father got into some type of medical program that would let them live here at least 2 more years. I was so happy when Emily told me that he got in and they're staying!!! Here's a few pictures of the girls and their friends when we had the big snow storm a couple weeks back.

Cookies and friends!

I like to create fun memories for my kids. It usually involves a lot of work mainly clean-up, but I'm happy to do it. I invited some friends and their kids over last month for a Christmas sugar cookie docorating day. The kids had a blast and I was sweeping up green sugar sprinkles for the next week!

Beautiful picture of Crystal :) and emma's B-day!!!

Well Emma turned 5 only about a month ago...oh well. We had just a family party this year with a you guessed it, fairy theme. The girls dressed up as fairies and we played pictionary with a fairy theme and then watched Tinkerbell. SUCH a darling movie! Earlier in the day Emma got to choose what we did and since Dave got the day off we went to see Madagascar 2 as a family. We don't do that often - in fact when asked what Emma wanted to do on her birthday her only request was a movie with the family and then McDonalds. Shows how much we do either of those things! It was a great day though and I actually got through it without too many tears...

Ahhh, and a beautiful pic of my friend that I promised her...

Public apology to Crystal

I hereby apologize for the oh so attractive picture of my friend (hopefully!) Crystal at my Halloween party. It was Halloween! You're supposed to look silly!!! Love ya my friend!

More ghostly pics!

Those darn missing Halloween pics!!!

Here are those stinkin' Halloween pics that I never posted!!!

I forgot to put in the Halloween pictures!

Sorry, really stinking here with the blogging thing. The two pictures of Emma and Claire with chocolate mustaches are from when we made Frankenstein's monster pops. We were goofing off...obviously. I'll put in the Halloween pictures in a bit - I hear Hallie upstairs crying!

Wow I'm behind...here's a late Halloween update!!!

We had such a fun Halloween this year! The girls decided to be Disney princesses. I really wanted them to be something more baby but my mom bought Snow White for Claire (very appropriate - she looked just like her!) and there was no going back. So then Hallie became Tinker Bell and Emma was Cinderella. I had a Halloween party with friends from the ward so that entire week was spent cleaning. Good grief what a pain in the booty it was but it turned out really nice! I think everyone had a good time (except poor Dave who ate something at lunch that made his stomach upset the whole night!)
Emma had her Harvest Party at Preschool and then I took all the girls to Dave's office for trick-or-treating. Laura came down with Crystal and bless their hearts took the girls to the Trunk-or Treat at church and then back to help me set up the playroom for the kids. The party was fun although the only adults that dressed up were me, mom, Laura and Crystal. What a bunch of party poopers adults can be!!! :)

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden...

Growing up, my mom did really cute things with us such as memorizing poems. We'd lay in bed (she had an awesome water bed) and read poem after poem. One of these poems is called "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden." It talks about a little girl who one night steals away into her garden and sees fairies and animals about. To this day I love fairies! Emma's room has a fairy theme and she's also in love with them. Well last week I was trying to find something for them to do when I thought up fairy houses. We searched for sticks and grasses and leaves and built the fairies in our garden their very own home. The girls picked tomatoes and berries and left them for the fairies to eat. I snuck out the next morning and got rid of the food and left a "fairy" note. You should have seen Emma's face! the next few days we repeated the gathering of food and note the following morning. I finally was tired so I left a note that the fairies were visiting their grandma's house and would be back in 9 days.

I love this time in their lives. I love that they believe in magic. Not once did Emma ask if I had anything to do with the notes - the belief that fairies actually exist is real for now. Who knows how much longer she'll believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and that her dollies really do come to life when she leaves the room, but I'm enjoying this time as much as I can. I understand fully why Christ said we should be like little children - they are a joy and a wonder to have in my life.

FINALLY potty trained!!!

I know I haven't been the best lately at keeping up with things and I've heard many complaints. Sorry! I am happy to announce however, that Claire is FINALLY potty trained! Completely! No more waking up wet, having oops through out the day...nothing! Yay! The only hang up is that she refuses to wear underwear so she either goes commando (yes I know, yuck) or wants to still wear diapers. She won't go potty in them but she claims that when she wears undies she wets in them. Go figure.