Abby's Dance Recital

Abby had her dance recital just before Christmas.  She did awesome!  They danced to "Do You Hear What I Hear"

My neighbor across the street helped me do her makeup, and I thought she looked so super cute!

American Fork Canyon

One day we decided to go up American Fork Canyon and drive up to Tibble Fork and then go for a little walk.  The kids loved it, especially Colton.

I'm not sure what's with the granny glasses look...

Playing in the snow

The kids love playing in the snow, and luckily we've had several snow storms so there has been plenty of opportunities to play.

First snow storm:

Photo Dump

These are a bunch of photos from my phone.

I made those tiara's for the girls out of some pipe cleaners, they loved them.  Lexi is so cute, doing a curtsy. 

Bath time!

We had to go to the Riverton Hospital to get Lexi's glasses fixed, and they had this Lorax display in the lobby.  Colton LOVES the Lorax, so we had to get a picture.

I took the girls across the street, and my neighbor cut their hair.  She did such an awesome job, and the girls love any photo opportunity;)

Colton had to get in on the photo fun!

Walk around the lake at Daybreak

Wow!  It's been forever since I posted.  So that means there is going to be several posts so I can get caught up on the busy last couple months.

Back in November we invited some of the girls friends over to spend the night, and on the way to taking them back home we stopped at Daybreak and went for a little walk.

The ducks and geese that are there must be very used to people feeding them cause as soon as they would see us coming, they would start to waddle over, and follow us.  It was so funny, and the kids thought it was hilarious.

There is a bridge that we walked across, then there is this little "track" at the top that the kids ran around and around.

Colton, 18 months

Colton is 18 months old!

These too and their blankies :/  Birds of a feather flock together...

He had his checkup today:

Weight:  25.2 lbs-25%
Length:  33.5 in-75%
Head: 48.5cm-75%

The last 18 months have just flown by.  I can't believe he is old enough to go to nursery (but actually getting him to go might be another story...).  

What's he up to?

• Talks a lot.  He's learned so many words, especially "NO!"  So fun;)
• He loves to wrestle with Daddy
• He is still attached to his little blanket.
• Right now baths are his favorite time of day.  He cries every time he has to get out.
• Thomas the Train is still his favorite, but he also likes Elmo, Batman, Firetrucks, and I'm sure there's more
• He likes to color with the girls.  But it's my least favorite thing of mine that he does, cause I end up cleaning crayon off the walls and furniture almost every single time he gets a hold of a crayon.  He also likes to put crayons in the toilet.  So the number of colors we have are slowly diminishing.
• He loves to play outside.
• He's perfected the art of throwing a fit.  We are talking throwing himself on the floor, kicking and screaming, drama, he does it all.
• He's still pretty attached to me, and gravitates my way almost always.  But he also does really good with other people.  I've had to rely on friends and family to babysit a lot, and he goes with pretty much anybody that's willing to hold him.

Halloween

This year, we kept Halloween pretty low key, and pretty much only celebrated on Halloween day.

When we picked the pumpkins from our garden and put them out front

My Mom gave the kids a "Pin the nose on the pumpkin" game to play

We invited my friend Marci and her kids over to make caramel apples one day

Lexi, Abby, Dani

Marci, Jordan, Colton

Colton wouldn't wear the mask/cape for his costume, so Abby put it on

Lexi was a ballerina

Colton was Batman

 Abby was Merida (the princess from the movie "Brave)

Abby in her costume parade at school.  So very reverent:)

The kids had a blast trick-or-treating.  Colton's little legs just couldn't get him from house to house as fast as he would have liked.