A 4 year olds Birthday Party

She couldn't wait for her birthday party! Everyday she'd ask me how many days left. Finally the princess party came and she was in heaven! They were all princesses (except for one of her boy friends who was a dragon of course).

After 3 hrs the chandelier was finally ready to hang.

She looked vaguely interested.
Party with her friends:

She told me exactly how she wanted the cake to look.

And I made it with fondant! So fun!

Pretty much how Emmett's been acting for the last 2 weeks.

Getting ready for the party.

Emmett's not into dressing up -

except if it includes something to do with baseball hats.

She didn't know WHAT to do when they sang to her at Applebees. It is her favorite restaurant. She calls it Appleberries.

Christmas

Matching Pjs. You can see why Emmett outweighs her. She has little chicken legs! A beautiful canvas painting by Greg Olsen that my parents gave us for Christmas.

Hammock swing in our basement. It actually can hold Alex AND the kids without breaking.

Emmett loving the rocking horse.

And of course the basketball hoop.

Yes I know these pics are waaaaaaaay past due.

4th Birthday

My beautiful little girl turned 4! She has been such a blessing in my life and constantly makes me laugh. She has such a quirky personality and bursts with life. I can't wait to see what this year will bring for her! She had a princess birthday party with a few friends and couldn't contain herself she was soooooo excited!!

Anxiously awaiting Christmas

Since I'm a slacker and I've been busy, I'm just getting around to posting pics of Christmas. Before I do THAT, I have to post pics of us waiting it out in the bitter cold of Wyoming.

Notice Zoë's snow baby she's holding. Don't we all look comfy?

The before launch:




After:


The effects from too much snow fun

Snow drifts actually got more than 1/2 way up our 6' fence line!

Muggin' for the Camera

Dance Recital

Zoë L O V E S to dance. This is her practicing her moves before the recital:

As you notice, she is more excited than all her fellow dancers.

Emmett did great because he was juiced up on Fruit Snacks.

She was SOOOOooo cute down there. She's so tall and is one of the youngest in the class! She's the furthest to the left.

Christmas at Temple Square

Christmas at the Temple Square in Salt Lake City is one of my earliest memories. It's so amazing to see the lights and to see the nativity. It just overflows with the Christmas spirit for me and I really wanted to take the kids (plus Alex has never been).

The Christus statue is at the visitor's center and is just incredible. Emmett was enjoying himself - especially when two girls sat by him. He did NOT know what to do and looked back and forth at them. Funny kid.

Alex's brother Brannen and his roommate Kelson came down and met us. It was SOOOOoooo cold so it was nice to have some help with the kids while I tried to warm my hands up.

Alex and I cuddling the kids. Did I mention cold?

Amazing white paper bags lined up with the words joy or peace in dozens of different languages.

Love this

Something added since I was a child: Different nativities - I loved this one.

She was so happy!

Amazing! I have no idea how the string lights on every single branch. We can't even get them on our house this year!

This is the Assembly hall. Such a cool building.

Thanksgiving Awesomeness

Pictures to come later!

We had such a fun time this Thanksgiving with my cousins and brother and sister. Whoop came from Utah State, Eric flew in from Oregon, Joey, Mary and Ray-so came from Provo. I laughed SO hard making this video. Yes - we made them do this video during forced family time - but it was WORTH IT!