Big 5 Year Old

My Little Princess is 5! This girl has brought so much joy into my life! I miss not being able to be home with her while she is not in school, for I will never be able to get that time back. But I have so much fun with her when I am with her and make time to do things with my children. 

Keira Loves:

Ariel (the Little Mermaid)

Hello Kitty

Strawberry Shortcake

Coloring and stickers

School

Board games

Doing ANYTHING with me

Reading stories with me

Taking baths with Cambria

Dancing

Taking "piano lessons" from me (she is doing an amazing job and can play a few songs like "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" by knowing her fingering)

Here's are pretty birthday girl!

Here's the other birthday girl this month

Of course, a goofy one. She loves those

The rest of the family has been to the Provo Beach Resort, but we have never been, so we thought we would try it out. We played croquet

   

...and played in the Mega Playground, which they loved! They could have stayed there all night,

She wanted to make pizzas for dinner, so we had a little pizza party

Now presents time:

The Little Mermaid, her favorite

cute pants from Grammy and Papa (Thank you!)

                                      

 Hello Kitty lunch box

And a cute Tinkerbell place-setting. These are just a few of the fun things she got.

One of the nice things about Keira's birthday being right after Cambria's is I get to steal all the cute decorations Natalie uses. Cambria's theme was Minnie Mouse. We just left it up for Keira so she could enjoy it too. Natalie did a great job!

 "Happy Birthday to You"

Love you, Keira!

Merry Christmas to All!

Merry Christmas everyone! We have enjoyed this Christmas and having a special visit from Steve and Ellie, and Jennifer. Wish we could have see you all but hope you had a marvelous Christmas!

These pictures are a little backwards but that's ok:) Thomas woke everyone up this morning at 7:30. He was so excited to see what Santa brought. He got one of those electric globes like we used to have growing...this one is a definite mini but he thinks it cool!

We made a big mess in the piano room

Keira got noise putty

And a cute bank

Thomas before the gift opening party

 Oh my boy and Sonic. What to do?

This would be cowgirl Pocahantas going to see Santa

 We made gingerbread houses

We had our white Christmas

 One of his presents from Santa. He really wanted to keep Chris's so now he has his own

I may already have these on my last blog, but if so, you can enjoy these again! So cute!

We love our gifts, but most of all we love the time with family, the spirit of giving, and love this time of year that we get to celebrate the birth of our Savior! Because of Him, we have so much to be grateful for! He is what we should be focusing on more during Christmas, and every day! We love you all!

Baptism Day

I can't believe my son is 8. The time has sure flown. Thomas has made the decision to be baptized, which happened yesterday. He has made me a very proud mama.:) Thomas was so excited to get baptized, and would count down the days. I feel he was also prepared and understood the importance of it. It was a good morning and he said he was feeling good inside too. Thomas had some of Mike's family come up and support him, Charissa and Dustin came, and of course the family here, so thank you all for coming, or for the cards, gifts, or phone calls to him!

Here is our baptism boy: (and someone else got a good picture of him and his dad all in white)

Fall Festivities

I love fall! The kids and I have had our fun at Cornbellys, the pumpkin patch, and Gardner's Village, and trick-or-treating. The holidays are the best!

A walk up Mapleton Canyon to see the colors. Of course, it looked better in person

Pumpkin Patch

Gardener Village (sorry the pictures are sideways. I must have forgotten to rotate them)

Halloween Night: my ninja and princess

(Keira was also a black cat for a ward party)

Happy Halloween!

Oh, and also we celebrated Thomas 8th Birthday.

With his friend, Tommy

Twister was funny- Keira really tried but couldn't keep her body off the mat

 We ended up going to Sonic so he could get a chili dog (Coney), one of his favorite meals. 

I believe he had a good day:)

And Cornbelly's

Happy Fall everyone!