Happy Birthday Blake and Sydni!

My baby is now 5!!!! I can't believe how time has flown by. I have really enjoyed having her home as my little buddy. I think I will go through withdrawls when she starts kindergarten next year. I always looked forward to this time but now I realize how fast it has gone and it makes me sad. Sydni was going to have a party with friends at Build-a-Bear but all three of my girls had strep throat and the flu. Needless to say, we have postponed her party for Feb.24th. I'll post pictures of the event then. Sydni's cake was leftover from our Young women's New Beginnings. It was the cake topper. Our theme was "Daughter of a Heavenly King" I was so glad to have it left over for Syd. She thought it was the greatest Princess Cake ever.

Syd really wanted Barbie Diamond Castle stuff. I don't think she realizes that the barbie has a nice "tan". It was the only barbie left.

These are the gifts that Syd picked out from the money that Grandma Wendee sent. She is our future rock star. I thought the pants were fabulous at first until I found feathers all over the house.

Blake is now 38! I can't believe how old we are getting. At least life is getting better with age.

I just thought you would want to see a picture of the girls at christmas time.

Hailee and her friend Maureen are in the Chandler Elementary School talent show on Feb. 26th. They are doing a dance and a cheer. Hailee is really nervous now that she made the tryouts. I am proud of her for trying. Good Luck Hailee!

After much anticipation and excitement, Emily got her top braces on! She was so glad to be like the rest of the kids her age. This was about a month ago and she now realizes that she has a long two year road ahead of her.

Sydni sleeps in her princess castle

Sydni got this princess tent last christmas. She has just re-discovered it and loves to have us put it over her every night to sleep. We are glad that she will sleep in her own bed finally. What ever works!

It's Christmas Time!

The reason for the season. I love my nativity. It is so fun to have our home decorated for the Holidays. I'm sure you all feel the same way. We are of course really looking forward to spending our Christmas with family and friends in Utah. We will see you all when we are there on Dec. 21st. Merry Christmas!

The stockings in the back ground were knitted by my awsome mom while she was on her mission. They are just like the stockings we had as children. It is fun to have them personalized.

Here is the tree. (And Syd of course!)

Emily plays the flute in her middle school band. The band here is HUGE! She is really good at it and it is fun to see and hear them play together.

We had to wrap Hailee's cast in bubble wrap so that she could play in her soccer tournament. Her team came in second place. They played a really hard team and lost 1-0. Despite the cast, Hailee was really aggressive and played well.

I took the girls to the Dallas Galaria mall over Thanksgiving break. We found these awsome massage chairs at Brookestone. I couldn't get the girls to get out!

The big green monster is gone! It is nice to have the cast off but she still can't straighten her arm out all the way.

Fun fall stuff!

I was able to go on a field trip with Sydni's preschool class to a pumpkin patch. They had a great time feeding the goats and cows, going on a hay ride and choosing a pumpkin. I think Sydni's favorite part was riding on the school bus. She was so amazed that the bus has "nails in the roof." Next time you are on a school bus you will know what she means.

Here is the Pumpkin that

Sydni picked on her

field trip to the pumpkin

patch. We always have

fun carving the pumpkins

before Halloween.

As you can see,

the girls are crazy!

Here are our trick-or -treaters! Emily actually went to

a party with her friends and the went trick-or-treating together. The girls had a great time and, we have far too much candy.

Do you remember that awsome backhandspring that Hailee can do? Well, she broke her arm at tumbling last tuesday night doing it!
It only took us a week to figure it out! I took her to the doctor last wednesday after school and they thought that it was only a sprain. It was still bothering her a week later and the Orthepedic doctor told us that she has a buckle break. The cast can be her new weapon in her soccer tournament this weekend.

Poor Hailee!

Our busy week

We did our usual Sunday at the park. The weather is finally beautiful and not too hot so we try to ride our bikes to the park each week. Emily and I bribed Hailee with $10.00 if she would do her roundoff back handspring on the grass. (she is used to doing it at the gym with mats.) We were so excited to see her do it. Hopefully this experience gave her more self confidence. If so, it was worth $10.00. We also fed the ducks and just messed around. I love times like this when there is no pressure or meetings to go to.

Hailee is a budding photographer. She took this picture of Me and Blake and did pretty good.

I thought the goose would chase the girls away but to my surprise, it didn't . The girls were acting like they have never done this before. I'll admit, it has been a while since we have been to Barnes park to feed the ducks, but, it wasn't the first time.

Blake brought home the new Indiana Jones movie for the family to watch together. As you can imagine, it was too scary for Sydni. We put a movie on for her in our room to watch. After we were finished watching Indiana Jones, this is where we found Sydni. It was so cute but kind of sad too.

Blake and I made the trek down to Fort Worth for the BYU game. It was most definately a sad night for Blake. He was not happy about the game as I'm sure many of you felt the same way.

I had to show you that Provo is not the only place to find CRAZY BYU fans. The guy with the painted helmet head was priceless

Notice Blake's happy smiling face! He told me to remind him to NEVER do that again! There were a lot of BYU fans there.

Conference Weekend

I love conference weeked for many reasons. I think this is the first year that all of my girls listened and tried to pay attention. Who ever invented the "conference packet" is a genius! My kids had fun answering questions from the packet and playing the games. This picture of them is really what they were doing, I didn't have them pose for this.

It was really nice to be able to sit and listen as a family to our prophet and apostles. We had a great time and we look forward to April when we can do it again.