valentines preschool party

I was so proud of Sydney. She wrote every single Valentine herself.

Sydney has been lucky to have such awesome preschool teachers. They have these fun parties for every holiday. Delivering their Valentines.

The Feast.
There is always so much food.

All the parents are so amazing and so involved! Look-heart shaped sandwhiches. So cute.

Happy Valentines!

WOW these 2 look alike.

Nick and Syd.

Hair do's ( or don'ts)

This baby has hair. Sorry Bells.

Blessed

We finally blessed Little Chummy this weekend in Palm Springs. We were sad Josh's family wasn't able to be there. It was a very special day and Josh gave a beautiful blessing.

My Mom bought Elle this beautiful dress.
Paulette took these beautiful pictures.
Thank you both!!

Ellie Adelai
4 months old
We are so blessed to have her in our family

My Sydney... AKA Beast

Josh is big on nick names and is always coming up with some totally weird or random thing to call my girls. Sydney grew up as Gums (cause of the whole no teeth thing when your a baby) among many others. At some point during the years, (yes years!) when Sydney was in the terrible 2 stage, she got the nick name "Beast." It stuck and is now her official nick name but it's meant to be endearing now. So if you hear us call our sweet little girl "Beast," you know it's with love. So my little Beast is growing up so fast. She LOVES her baby and we have so much fun with her.

She is learning how to read and loves to practice reading to Ellie.

Her new thing is to make her own food. That means anything she can
get her hands on in the kitchen goes into one bowl of yumminess.

Okay, maybe not so yummy, but so fun. This turned in to ...

this.

She even baked it. Yay! It made the house smell wonderful for hours.
(She put a bunch of different spices in there...) Thanks Beast!

I decided to help her make something edible. We made Josh's favorite,
Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Aunt Victoria's recipe.
(FYI, we don't usually bake in the nude. just on special occasions)

Every night after she brushes her teeth she gets mine
and Josh's toothbrushes and mouthwash all ready for us. Such a sweetie.

She is no longer a beast, but she's our Beast and we love her.

A New Year

We brought in the New Year watching the Trojans of course. Well most of it. The girls and I snuck off and went to a movie. We saw Bedtime Stories and loved it. Josh's brother Adam and friend Jeff were in town to watch the rest of it with Josh. We missed the Rose Parade, that was down the street. How lame is that? But we managed to make it to Saladang's and Squeeze and Scoop the next day. You can't visit us without getting frozen yogurt with us there. It's our fav.

Christmas in Palm Springs

So this is pretty typical for me. I'm over a month behind. What are you gonna do? We had an awesome Christmas at my parents in Palm Springs. Well besides the sickness. Christmas day my mom and two sisters ( Jes and Amanda) threw up all day. Sad. I didn't get alot of pictures and now I look back on it and think there was so much more I could have gotten pics of. Like maybe a family pic by the tree. Duh. But here is what I did get.

Sydney with her stocking. Her favorite part of the morning.
Santa brought her doll! The only thing she asked for, but it was missing a shoe. It was the only doll left. That's what happens when you procrastinate :)

The twins on Christmas morn.

My mom got us this really cool dish/bowl thing.
(I just put this in cuz it's such a random picture. I don't know why he posed like that)

Sydney got this "thing" for her dad. I call it a thing cause I have no idea what the purpose of it is. It's a blue plastic shark...? It was so sweet though. She wrapped it herself and put it under the tree for him. She loves him so much.

Ellie took a nap with Grandpa on Nicki's new bean bag. So sweet.

Sydney and Mckenna helped Jacob open his present,
and then played with it for him. Such big helpers. (Poor Jacob)

Ellie slept through all the festivites and appeared to be very sad about it.
I love how her stocking is as big as she is.

Tired baby

This was as good as our Christmas pics got...pathetic, I know. (Ellie agrees)

So when we got home I tried to get another pic of the girls by the tree...as you can see this was a complete disaster. No one was working with me. Not even my camera. At least I tried, right?

Daddy and his girls
Merry Chrismas!...until next year.