Christmas morning 2010

Christmas was good. The girls had loads of fun during Christmas vacation. Mom didn't wanna run away from the girls even once during Christmas vacation. It was joyous and keen.





Christmas morning in new jammies. I told Mads that I didn't think I was going to buy pajamas for them this year since they really didn't need any. She got a little irate about that news, something about it being tradition.... blah blah blah. Fine. New JAMMIES.



And a new warm (and cute) robe for mom.

They DO love each other?

Just love that face.

Ruby didn't really ask for any presents. Oh except for a make-up kit. Not the play ones in the actual toy aisle, the ones that Wal-mart has around Christmas and are a 3 foot tall box full of cheap awful make-up. I told her that Santa and I talked and it wasn't gonna happen. It didn't... she was fine.

A Daisy for Christmas. She's more thrilled than this picture shows.

Maddy asked for Tie Dye duct tape. She got "tie dye" AND "peace dude". Spoiled.

This is Ruby's real actual face when they opened the Wii. Maddy had a good one too but switched when she saw the camera.

Daisy was super excited about the Wii too. She's just holding it inside.

I am NOT a Hoarder....

The other day, I asked Ruby to clean up her craft mess. The girls had made paper flowers from cut out pages. She picked up the cut out leftovers and started heading to her room.

She said "I wanna keep these"

Before I could say anything she said "I AM NOT A HOARDER"

Also, we were at SAVERS, the thrift store, the other day and she asked why there was some random thing to buy (I think a bookcase) I told her that someone didn't need it so they gave it to Savers.

She said "yeah, prolly cause they're not a hoarder anymore".

Ruby gets her wisdom and funny from her Mom.

THE END

PS I didn't color her hair again, just old pictures.

Snow Day 2010.....

On the last day of school before Christmas break (Tuesday Dec 21st) Santaquin got about 20ish inches of snow. FIRST the schools cancelled the bus route---(hmm if the bus can't get to school, how are the kids going to get there?) and said that parents could choose weather or not to send their children to school---then they cancelled school all together. Those people are smarties.

The girls and the Dad spend the day sledding down the MOUNTAIN across from our house.

Who cares if it's freezing and snowing on me and my hair looks like I just stepped out of the shower.... IT'S A SNOW DAY!!!

Not that I don't love my garbage can and want a picture of it on our blog... I'm just trying to show the full effect of the snow heaped at our house. Also, that's only ONE of our heaps.

Plus, 2 days earlier there wasn't a spec of snow on the ground.

Max and Ru got plastered with snow going down the sledding run.... Ruby came in to tell me all about her whoa is me......then the clod of snow fell of her head and landed on her foot.

This is the face I got next. From pitiful to goofy in 1.3 seconds. That's my Ru.

Before we knew that school was cancelled, Max started shoveling... I think he started at 5:30 am. He pretty much was sledding or shoveling all dang day. He was a pooped Dad by the end of the day. See how there's already an inch of snow where he just shoveled? Good times.

It's hard work having fun.

Hi there Mama.

The END

P S, the day before the Snow Day 2010, Ruby had a special "Polar Express" activity at school where they got to make their own train car (at home) and wear their pajamas to school. They invited anyone who wanted to come see all the Kindergarten classes walk around the school. her poor teacher, Miss Halter, was so sick that day. She said, "But you can't miss Polar Express day."

This is Ruby's car. It was not the most glamorous or fancy, but she decorated it EXACTLY how she wanted it (despite Maddy's suggestions). She was super cute.

The END again.

Daisy then and now...

I figured I'd post a quick picture or 2 of baby Daisy then and now.

Daisy Renee at zero days old. November 11th 2010-- 9 lbs 9 oz 20.5 inches.

Daisy Renee at 6.5 weeks old. December 27th, 2010. 10 lbs 14 oz -- height unknown but definitely taller :)

The end.

Our Darling Little Daisy -- 7 weeks

I can't believe Daisy is 7 weeks already! Why oh why doesn't pregnancy go by this fast?

This month, Daisy --USUALLY-- sleeps from 10pm until 3 or 4 am. And then is up again to eat at 6 or 7am. She makes her parents so happy when she does that business. She weighs 10 pounds 14 ounces which is as much as Ruby weighed the minute she was born! She has blue blue eyes and dark hair (but only a little bit).

She's awake much more now and doesn't think she needs to be eating every minute that she is awake. How happy for mom. Big yawn. (picture by Maddy)

She SMILES and coos bunches. (especially for her Mother) In fact I've been taking a few video's of her and her jibber jabbering, just with my camera. Who knew I could do that?

Christmas morning. She does NOT want to suffer for beauty. Sporting some leg warmers from Santa. Mostly she just wanted to be put down for a nap. Maybe next year she will be more interested in what Santa brought.

A little smile for Maddy. Maddy takes A LOT of pictures of Daisy. Mostly I never know about them until I download them to the computer.

Daisy is so fun to have in our family. We're all super happy she's here to party with us.

Ruby's Christmas Dance Recital 2010

The cutest girl had the cutest dance recital on December 14th. The recital lasted 45 whole minutes, it was during her normal class time, there were a total of 4! costume changes, and they danced about 325 dances...... Maybe not that many, but it sure seemed like it.

.....and was 100% worth all the trouble.

Showing off their mad "bar" skills.

Mostly this picture is about the eyelashes.

Mostly this one is about her photogenic abilities.

More mad dance skills.

This little angel dance really and truly made me cry, it was such a sweet little dance with all those cute little girls. (And we all know, I NEVER cry ;)

Mad dance skills....just not the right ones. Arms UP. Arms UP.

The end.

KENNON!......

Kennon came to visit us last Saturday. She came to Utah for some work business but who cares about that? Pretty much we took pictures and visited and Kennon, the girls and Max played "Wig Out" while I fed Daisy. I did take a leave and went to Bunko, but in my defense it wasn't suppose to be on Saturday night, it was suppose to be on Thursday night. And since there were only 6 ladies there that night, I actually won one of the 5 prizes! Whu hoo!

Then, on Sunday we went to dinner at Max's parents house. Probably it's Kennon's parents house too. Anyway, we went to dinner and besides it being yummy, we did more sitting around and visiting. Daisy did what she LOVES best, and got held the entire night.

Grandfahr and his newest great granddaughter. I think he likes her.

Kennon getting her Daisy fix before she had to go back to Indiana.

LOVE this picture. Pretty sure Kennon LOVES this baby too.

Plus, there were MANY video clips taken of all three girls. Apparently Chris was very bugged that she was missing out. I know we were missing her. Kennon told us that Chris was very sad but being very grown up about her not getting to come out for a visit too......UNTIL she realized that there was a new baby Daisy to see. Then she wasn't so grown up about it anymore. It was my favorite story. We love that Chris loads and loads.

One Happy Baby. Kennon, we already miss you.

The end.