Annabelle's 12th Birthday

I was trying to pose Emma before leaving for Annabelle's birthday. Desiree sent her this cute outfit in the mail.

 I can't believe how fast these kids are growing up! Annabelle will be a teenager next year, crazy. I think I met her back when Katie was 1 or 2.

 Someone exploded out of her diaper and needed to be changed =/ Thank goodness I had an extra outfit in the diaper bag. Poor Michael had to hold her while I ran to the car to get it, because David would NOT! =/

 Happy Birthday Annabelle! We wish you the very best! You're such a sweet girl!

 Emma is getting to only like me. Kind of a bummer! She will not go with anyone else and that makes things so hard for me. I think it's the breastfeeding. Not quite sure I like it! She's hard for people to handle, forget about getting a baby-sitter =/

Katie's First Grade Christmas Party

David was nice enough to watch Emma for me while I went to Katie's Christmas party at school. They had some fun activities planned, like decorating parents up like trees, haha. Each row was assigned a job, Katie's row made ornaments out of pipe cleaners for the tree.

 Ta-Da! Great trees!

 They had a "photo booth" in the back of the room while everything else was going on. Each kid was able to pick a friend to take a picture with. Abby chose Katie.

 Their special snack they made.

 Austin chose Katie to take a picture with too =)

 My Mom wanted to come surprise Katie too, before she had to go do a visit at work.

 Mrs. O took a picture with each student. The photos were a neat idea! Very cute! I ended up helping with the photos, so I'm glad I didn't have Emma with me, that would have been hard.

I hope I'm always able to go to Katie's events! Even the little ones!

Happy 4th Birthday Sam!

Sam celebrated his 4th birthday at Gee Gee's. His Mom was moving their stuff from New Mexico to their new base in Northern California, so she wasn't able to be there with us. They're very excited to be moving back to California, closer to their family now.

 David likes Emma.

 Katie was excited to give Sam Olaf.

He got some cool presents including a new scooter =) Happy Birthday Sam, I hope you have a great year in your new house!

Girl Scout Christmas

Katie's Girl Scout troop had their Christmas party today, since the school is closing for the holiday and won't be open again until January. They made reindeer candy cane crafts, had lots of snacks, and did a gift exchange. Really fun for the girls.

Katie got lip gloss and lotion from her gift exchange, and a mug for her hot chocolate from the leader.

3 Months!

Someone is 3 months old today! Time is going so quickly! I can't believe how big she's getting. She's so precious.

I love you Emma Riley.

Katie's First Lost Tooth

Katie finally lost her first tooth! And I mean "lost" literally. We went to Lowe's Build and Grow class this morning and when we went to Gee Gee's after, I noticed Katie didn't have her loose tooth in her mouth anymore! I asked her what happened to it, but she had no idea. Oh well! I had to tell her the Tooth Fairy would be able to find it and still bring her a dollar, she was sad about it. The Tooth Fairy did leave her a nice surprise though! 5 balloons with a dollar in each, and a special tiny letter =)

Katie was soooo happy and excited!

Mission Inn Festival Of Lights

Lauryn and I found this cool Christmas place online and we wanted to go so bad! There were supposedly millions of Christmas lights all over and we wanted to go see. We invited Sam since he was down visiting. The problem? We went on a Friday night. Wooo, it was so miserably crowded! It took us 40 minutes just to get off the off ramp for the freeway. Then trying to find parking was a complete nightmare. Meanwhile, Emma is crying the whole time =/

 After we finally parked and walked over, we saw a reindeer which was pretty cool.

 We also got in line to see Santa, but they wouldn't let us use our camera =/

 Snack time!

 It was pretty. I just wish it wasn't so crowded. Also, there wasn't much for the kids to do. It was mostly just walking around, probably a good dinner spot too, but we didn't eat at a restaurant.

 To try to make the night a little more fun for the kids, we got a carriage ride. They were on every street corner and the kids thought they were pretty. Lauryn and I wanted to go on too! Haha.

 We ended the night with a trip to the toy store. They each got a light up saber/sword.

What a long night! I will never go back!! Haha. At least not with kids. It was cool to do it once, but no more until the girls are teenagers and can go ice skating and have dinner and stuff there, then it will hopefully be more fun!