Mr. Snow man

Today we finally got to play out in the snow since it was 5 degree's and of course the girls loved it!! Gerald i think enjoyed it also. He made a HUGE snow man. When he makes a snow man he goes to the extreme to make it very worth while. The girls thought it was so cool cause mom has never made a snow man that big. Thank goodness for strong daddy's.

Kenedi and Maddy had lots of fun sledding and making snow angels and playing with the little neighbor boy.

Lilly even enjoyed getting out of the house and running around. Holy smokes she ran and ran and ran like crazy i think she will be excited when summer is here.

I love this man!!!!

Just wanted to tell everyone that i have the greatest most awesomest husband in the whole world!! I am so thankful for all that he does for me and the girls and always being there for me!!! I love you Gerald!!!

Fun Saturday

Today the girls and i had some fun!! Just about every year that i can remember my mom has always made us suckers at Christmas time so now i have to bug her every year when are we going to make suckers!!! Today was the lucky day. My girls love being the taste tester's and this year helped stuff suckers in bags for us and mark their flavors. I think i will have to make it a tradition with my girls to make suckers every year now. After we made suckers and had some lunch my mom and sister and I loaded the girls up and took them to see the new movie Tangled. It was soooo cute!!! Kenedi loved it!!! Maddy i had to take potty about every half hour but i think she still liked it. We might have to take daddy and go see it again.

Can you tell she loves the 3d glasses??

Hansel and Gretal

This year my little Maddy started ballet class and she absolutely loves it. She was lucky enough to get to perform in Hansel and Gretal which was amazing. We had so many practices and dress rehearsal and the poor girl was getting so grouchy and tired that by the end of the last night of practice she wouldn't even go out and dance i was very worried that when performance time came she would see all the people and not dance but with a lot of bribing with McDonald's and ice cream she went out and danced her little heart out. I was so proud of my little shy girl and she did awesome!!! Isn't she just the cutest little lollipop you ever saw??

She had to have her hair all slicked back in a bun for this which totally sucked because she has such short hair and not a lot of hair. So we used tons of gel and hair spray and it worked pretty good. The poor thing also had to have on eye liner and mascara and i tell you what that's not the easiest thing to put on a 3 year old but we survived.

This is her in the bath after everything was all over with we had to wash her hair 3 times to get all the junk out of it!!!

Snow bunnies

We finally had our first snow fall of the year yay!!!! The girls we sooo excited they just couldn't wait to go out and play in the snow. So we bundled them up and out they went. They had so much fun throwing snow, making snow angels, and just being outside running around instead of couped up in the house. They look so cute all bundled up!!! I just love my little stinkers!!!

Girl Scouts

Well its official!!! Kenedi had now dedicated herself to be a brownie girl scout for the next year!!! She is super excited and already enjoying everything. She had been bugging me for a while to join and i kind of just shrugged it off so I finally got her signed up and she just absolutely loves it!! She is learning all kinds of new things and having lots of get together's and she just cant wait to sell COOKIES!!!! I am so proud of Kenedi and all her ambition and will to want to do anything and everything. She is growing into such a sweet young lady and i just love my little Kenedi to pieces!!! Keep it up sis!!!!

Shoshone falls

Of course every year we have to make a trip to Shoshone falls and play. When we went this year there wasn't much water going over but its still awesome. The girls went swimming at the lake up there while Gerald and I relaxed. And here is proof again of Maddy not liking her picture taken.

Wel love the water

My girls just LOVE the water Maddy not so much but she is getting better. They beg all summer to go swimming and i hate going to the public pool i just don't like them and i just cant bring myself to buy a big pool for our back yard for the fear that one will escape and drown in the pool so my kids are stuck with the sprinklers and our little tiny blue $10 pool for now. I love these pictures of Kenedi jumping in the sprinklers!!

Trying to get a good picture of Maddy is just about impossible as you can tell in this picture she is yelling don't take my picture!!

Summer fun

Every year Gerald's work summer party is at this place here in Burley called Harris pond or as Kenedi calls it Herald pond. The kids all just love it there. There is something for them all to do. When we got there this year Kenedi just couldn't hardly contain herself she had to get in the water ASAP!!! This is one of my favorite pictures of her!!!

Maddy liked going for canoe rides.

Kenedi and Nikki really liked this swing. You had to push them really hard to get them out over the water.

Maddy turns 3

Its so hard to believe that my baby is 3 years old now. I still remember the day we brought her home it just seems like yesterday. She was so excited for her birthday this year that for the last 3 months she has been telling us every day that it was her birthday and that she wanted a Dora cake. So of course we had to have a Dora party. We decided to have a barbecue with family and friends and let the kids play in the water and have a water balloon fight. She was so excited that it was finally HER birthday. Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated with us and made the day special for our little baby girl!!

She was so excited about her cake she got into it before her party.

She is our little "girly girl." Happy Birthday Maddy girl we love you so much!!!!

Swim lesson's

Of course we cant go through the summer with out having to go to swimming lessons. It's Kenedi's favorite part of summer!! She has learned so much this summer. She is treading water in the deep end swimming laps and of course her all time favorite swimming on her back!! I was kind of nervous to put Maddy in because she is terrified of the water but i think it did her some good. She did so much better than i thought she would. We made it through one session and i don't think I am going to get away with out another one Kenedi reminds me daily that she needs to go again.

Maddy

These are just a few of the picture's that my friend Sarah took of Maddy for her 3rd birthday. They all turned out so cute!!

Nice day

Well we finally had a nice day today after having days of wind blowing 30 mph, snow, and rain so out the door the girls went. Well after about half an hour the neighbor girl was here playing with Kenedi and Maddy and they kinda got quiet so Nikki and i went to see what was going on. Kenedi and her friend were jumping and this is where Maddy was. She told me "mom its so fun." What happened to my little prissy girl?? (Don't look how horrible my yard looks wow!!!)

How does she do it??

I was folding laundry one day and Kenedi came in and asked if she could help. Sure why not so i gave her all the socks to fold. Well this is how she folds socks. How she does it so perfectly is still a mystery to me.

Cell phone pictures

These are just a few pictures off my cell phone that i like. Look how cute my little Kenedi is!!!

Then there is silly little Maddy moo moo. If you don't call her Maddy moo moo she will correct you.
Then crazy Nikki taking pictures of herself ha ha. Love it!!! If she knew i put this on here she would be so mad at me.

Maddy decided one day to make herself a bed on the kitchen floor with dish towels. She was very proud of herself.