Little H helping me to pick out the Mighty Pumpkin for halloween. Clearly she wasn’t up for getting dressed that day.

Here are some actually from LAST year!  2010  Found them on my little camera….

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Mommy, after winning at the matching game. “I am more proud of you for being a good sport than if you won.” K, “I know. I never cry when I lose with my friends because I know it will make them feel bad and they will let me win.” WOW.

One of my favorite things is Katie’s TUESDAY folder.  It contains all the goodies she has done in school that week.  My absolute favorite is the read her writings.  Here are a few of my favorites and two from her best friend in class.

I thought this was so funny.  Here are the texts I got from Katie’s friends Mom on her first sleepover.  It was a while back but I have been saving it in my phone to post when I had time.  Too funny!

My friend who is so kind to share her baby chics with us for a photoshoot when she gets them allowed us to come over again this year.   The kids had a ball as usual then went to play on the swings afterwards.  It made for a great afternoon!

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Isn’t she just precious.  And she has learned to copy Katie’s modeling poses. Cracks me up!  But isn’t she just beautiful.  I know I am prejudice. Can’t help it…

They had field day at Katie’s school.  How much fun.  They had so many cool games and they would switch them out.  Hannah and I popped in to watch and loved watching.  Turns out Katie has some speed too!

Finally spring is here!  March madness…

I just LOVE seeing Katie’s art work and notes.  I have many more I need to post but here are a few for now.  :  )  A couple are Hannah too.

I am catching up on my blogging.  Cold in January Hannah & I made it out at least once to the museum.  This is absolutely Hannah’s favorite museum. She could probably go everyday if you let her.  She calls it the Boo Boo Dinosaur museum because there is a big TRex and Diploducas and they show a film where the TRex bites the Diploducas’ leg.  Hence the boo boo dinosaur.

I had explained to Hannah that morning all the different holidays and what we do on them.  Of course I explained St. Patrick’s Day and told her it would be the next holiday we would celebrate.  In this discussion I also told her that you MUST wear green or you will get pinched.  Poor baby, after she woke up from her nap the first thing she did is start pulling out all her clothes going “I can’t find anything green! I’m gonna get pinched!”  Don’t worry. Mommy found her something green.

It is the wee hours of the morning as Hannah is still an early riser.  We are in the living room sitting on the couch trying to decide what to play and she looks at me and says with a little smirk, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”  My response.  “I don’t know.  What are you thinking?” Hannah, “I’m thinking let’s have a party!” And we did.  ;  )

Well Santa was good to the girls as usual.  It’s always so much fun to see what they get excited about.  Grandpa’s jeep was the biggest hit  and the 2nd biggest hit was the huge diamonds in their stockings.  But really it was a tough call.  They got a lot of fun things.  We LOVED the marshmellow guns we got from the cousins although I am not sure who liked them more the kids or the adults. But more on that on my next post.  For now it’s Christmas morning!

B’s Christmas party

We saw Santa at the fun factory but we determined he was actually an elf helping Santa as you will see the REAL Santa in a later post!!!

Katie has been wanting to have a slumber party since last year.   She was so excited.  She must have made her guest list a 100 times, hand wrote personal invitations (several times) and finally the big day came.  I have to actually work that morning.  And as luck would have it I worked with Santa that morning.  As it turns out Santa knows magic but disguises himself as a man named Jingles.  Well Jingles graced us with his presence at Katie’s birthday party.  I have never seen girls laugh so hard my whole life!  In the middle of his show Katie shouted out “This is the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!”.  Who knew?!

Oh my big girl.  They are just growing up too fast.  Little Hannah from the time she was 5 months old has LOVED horses.  I remember bringing a stuffed horse animal home for Katie and she cried that I hadn’t gotten the horse for her.  From then on she has picked out horse after horse after horse when given the option on toys.  Well for her 3rd birthday she got the real deal.  Unlike Katie she showed absolutely NO FEAR.  She was the first to get on and ride. And she didn’t want a pony either.  It had to be a REAL horse.  Here is my big girl on her special day…

Katie is of course her most talkative while laying in bed avoiding sleep.  Tonight was one of those nights.  Katie starting asking me questions about how I met Daddy.  I told her how we met at a conference and how I immediately thought Daddy was the nicest man I had ever met.  She got so tickled.  Then I told her I knew Daddy was the one when Daddy noticed I was cold just by seeing I had goosebumps in the car and how thoughtful and kind Daddy was… Of course using this opportunity to tell her to marry someone who is nice to her like Daddy.  Then she asked if I had ever broken up with anyone.  SO funny.  I said it had been so long I hardly remembered but that anyone I dated that was ever mean to me I broke up with them.  Then she starts throwing out names “Did you ever date a Tyler? Did you ever date an Aiden?” and so on through the list of boys in her class.  Then she ponders who she will marry.  She comes to the conclusion she hopes it is Tyler in her class. She LIKES Tyler.  Then she says she tries to KISS him in school!!  OH NO!  I think John fainted when I told him.