I still don't remember her funny from the other day but she provided us a laugh during dinner last night....
"Mommy, do I have any allergies?"
"No"
"Oh, I wish I did" (said with a very sad face")
"Why?" (said with a big smile at daddy!)
"Because some of my friends at school have allergies and I wished I had some, too"
:)
Here's the last of the Christmas pictures for now...enjoy!
We did an improptu family picture at my sisters house...it turned out great considering a lack of planning!!!! :) Thanks again little Bro! (click on the picture for a much better view...my sister and her family are on the right, my little bro's wife is next to me and their little baby is growing in her tummy and my little bro is right behind her)
Isn't she beautiful! Great job again little bro!
M at Kangaroo Zoo - we went with my whole family and everyone had fun!!!
Daddy chasing E down the slide!
Yes, even the big boys had fun! There was an obstacle course and my husband and little bro just had to race...I understand my bro was winning until here at the end when my husband bounced him off the ladder and claimed a last minute victory! (and somehow the only two to come home with burns on their arms were the big boys...go figure!!!)
The girls in their matching Christmas dresses - thanks mom!!
little A. Marie with Great Grandma Marie :)
Daddy's parents finished their movie theater room while we were there!
Hooray for homework time!! Since we left a week early we had lots of independent study work to do...and a mother in law who is a teacher and had fun helping them!! Thanks Grandma!
New Year's Eve party
So here are some more pictures from Christmas...our little A's first pictures smiling (taken shortly before we left)
We got to see Sister Sun while we were in Utah!!!! (She was a senior missionary who served in Davis her entire mission teaching the Chinese people)
I love this picture...sweet E has alsways enjoyed just sitting and looking at her scriptures and she has been so thrilled that she got new ones for Christmas and now she can even start to read them with us!
These two are such great friends!!
Mg with her cousin - Daddy's youngest sister's daughter (did you follow that?). The little girls all got Tinker Bell costumes and had so much fun!
Off to take care of my little baby - she is sick and miserable and it is so sad!!!!! Look for more to come soon!
I've been formulating a post for the last few days, mostly funny quotables by my kids, but now I've forgotten the one that started my thinking by E!! A couple of entertaining things....
Daddy had a great time playing ultimate frisbee with the guys from church Saturday morning. He told me that he had some fabulous dives and didn't even hurt anyone! Apparently he has a habit of going after frisbees without paying attention to who is around him and has really banged up some people (now I know why we couldn't play raquetball when we were first married!). He pointed out that he doesn't hurt his friends when they play computer games. Talk about rationalizing!
I was changing Mg poopy diaper. She told me it was stinky and that it was her poop...not M's but Mg's poop. No idea where that came from but I'm glad we clarified!
I asked M what she had for a snack at school and she told me crackers. I thought she was going to take peaches so when I asked her about it she told me that "the peaches had changed in the little oranges so I decided on crackers instead." If I put myself in the cupboard can I change things on me too? I love magic cupboards!
I wish I could remember E's funny!!! She is loving being back at school and loves to read and is really starting to take off on her reading. It is exciting!
A. continues to need WD40. She loves to squeak when she is really excited...it is adorable! She gets this big grin (which with her big cheeks takes a lot of work!) and just squeaks away! She can roll over and actually likes to be on her tummy and is just too cute. Her sisters still really enjoy her.
I got the house clean. Every year we come back from Christmas and I have to reorganize at least one area of the house. This year I pretty much rearranged everything in the girls room, the playroom, one of our closets and a portion of the kitchen. Of course the rearranging is the fun part, the cleaning up afterwards is not. But Daddy took the girls on a 2 hour bike ride Saturday afternoon while A slept and I finished everything (without being interrupted - it was WONDERFUL!!!), we ate dinner and while Daddy gave the girls their baths I swept and vacuumed upstairs, after they went to bed I finished the downstairs and then went to bed. Of course Sunday morning things were already messed up but at least all the deep cleaning was done and life is good. We're so blessed to have a great life!
It was So wonderful to relax and spend time together!! Here are a few highlights...
My girls were introduced to "High School Musical" They had several fun parties with their cousins and LOTs of playtime together!!
Gotta love the chocolate fountain
My parents got a Wii as an early Christmas present to themselves (so we would have time to play it all together). We all had SO much fun! Who would have thought that I would be playing video games with my parents! And getting beat!! Or that I would BEAT my husband!!!! (that was the best part!). My parents play a mean game of tennis...I'm warning you!!
Daddy of course loved playing his parents xbox 360 - he and his dad even beat one of the games together!! (we were told we could all sleep much better since they saved the universe for us).
It's not a real trip to Grandma's without plenty of beauty time!
Hooray for family time!!! (Little A is crying...more to come later!)
The girls were SO excited to get to play in the snow!! They had fun as much as possible!!
Their first snowman at Grandma Ahlstrom's
Grandma Ahlstrom has a sledding hill in her back yard - the girls helped Daddy and Uncle Mark most of one morning forming a hill that turned at the bottom and had a jump in the middle - it was lots of fun!!!
E going down
"I'm going to get you!" a snowball fight with Grandma Mosher and Aunt Sara (who was so excited to see snow, too!)
E's snow angels
Mg and cousin Alli going for a ride - thanks Daddy!We had such a wonderful trip! It is great to be with family. We drove back on a Monday and sent Jon and the girls back on Tuesday so it has been a long rough week...I was SO happy when I could finally vacuum and sweep my house after everything FINALLY got put away!!! It's the little things in life! Not being one that likes to talk much :) I thought I'd share our trip with you with tons of pictures. I'm still missing a bunch of pictures that are on other family member's cameras but there's still plenty..hope you enjoy over the next few days!
Okay, I wish it was warmer... :) But we are loving every minute with our families. We ended up leaving a week earlier than anticipated due to upcoming storms that we didn't want to drive in. Luckily the kids teachers were WONDERFUL and came up with a last minute independent study plan for the girls and Jon has tons of writing to do which can be done anywhere thanks to the wonderful invention of laptops! The bad part is that we came here at the tail end of a cold, traded cold bugs with my sister's family and then picked up another one...I AM SO TIRED OF HEARING COUGHING!!!!!!!!! Even daddy has been sick most of this vacation :( But we had a wonderful Christmas and we're safe and happy with family. We'll be staying here until Monday so we can be here when daddy's new little niece is blessed this Sunday. I'll get pictures up when I get back...we love you all and hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!!!!!
