Thursday, January 19, 2012

Cousins

Linda Lee, Lydia and Eli came and visited us for a few days this week. We had so much fun and it made the beginning of the week go by so fast! Adam is gone for two weeks in a row right now and Ben is always working away from his family during the week right now, so it was so fun for us to get together. The kids played so well together. It was freezing outside. Like 10 degrees. So the kids played inside most of the time, but had fun coloring, watching movies, and playing dress-up. It was really fun to spend some time with Linda Lee. We got a couple good work-outs in and had fun cooking and visiting. Here are a few pictures of the kids. 
Eden, Lydia, Eli, and Montanna sitting on the bed watching a movie.

Picture on the couch. Isn't Eli so cute! He is so much fun to watch play. He would get right in there and play with the girls. He had a baby doll that he put in a high chair and was pretending to feed. He loved getting the girls attention by bonking his head and saying Ouch! The girls would laugh at him and he would do it over and over until he bonked it so hard it actually hurt.

Montanna and Lydia coloring. Lydia loves to pretend she is a princess and she and Montanna had fun trying on all of Montanna's church dresses and wearing bracelets and necklaces. She taught the girls how do play dress-up. So fun!

Eden and Eli. I love this picture of Eli.

Here Eli is trying to say "cheese" for the camera.

Sparkly Princess Shoes

Love these shoes. I also love the Pinching your Pennies website my sister got me hooked on. Google it and sign up for the emails and you will receive a daily email with all kinds of deals. These shoes were $4.60 a pair with free shipping. What a deal! The girls love them and I have a feeling we will wear them out. It is the go-to pair when we need to go anywhere. Such small things make these girls so happy!



Sunday Dress-up



Haystack Pictures

We went for a walk... and played on a haystack. Love these pictures.






Grandma's Aprons and Playdough

My mom made the girls these darling aprons they are wearing here while eating their popsicles. I LOVE them! They look so cute one the girls and they save their clothes from stains. The love wearing them ALL the time. No more bins for these girls, they want their aprons from Grandma. 
Here they are eating popsicles. They both wanted the red one, so we had to cut it in 1/2 and have a red and a yellow. Thank goodness it was a twin pop and we didn't have a meltdown because of it!

Montanna working hard on her playdough project.

Eden, just as focused. These girls love playing with playdough!

Riding Bikes

The girls got new bikes for Christmas from Grandpa Bob and Grandpa Phyllis. They love them! Eden is still a little too short to ride, but she sure wants to be just like her big sister. Montanna loved it from the moment she saw it and spent all Christmas Day afternoon teaching herself how to ride it around the house. We went outside and let her ride in the driveway of the Salmon house and then later they tried riding when we got home. The gravel was a little hard for Montanna to pedal through, and Eden doesn't even reach the pedals. :) We went up on the deck of the vacant house next to ours and Montanna had fun riding in circles. We gave Eden a few spins around the deck too. This was such a fun present!
Montanna on her new bike.

Eden

Montanna pedaling around

Eden having fun watching.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Right after Christmas

After church Christmas Day we headed up to Salmon to spend some time with Adam's grandparents, Aunt and Cousins. I have no idea why I ended up with no pictures from this trip. I know there were pictures taken, so I will have to post them later. 
The day after Christmas we left Salmon and met most of my family in Ogden, Utah where Lesley and Cameron live. Ben and Linda Lee live in Salt Lake and met us there. Lauren and Brian just had their second little girl the beginning of December and didn't feel like traveling with a three week old baby, and I don't blame them, but we missed having them with us. As you can see, we did nothing but have fun! It was a busy couple days, but the kids had so much fun playing with each other. We love getting together with cousins! 

We went to a place called Kangaroo Zoo and let the kids jump and slide down the blow up toys. My kids would have stayed there all day. They were crying when we finally left 30 minutes after everyone else. They look happy! The top picture is Eli, Lydia and Eden.

Montanna going down a slide

Eden probably had the most fun! She climbed and climbed and totally surprised us with how brave she was going on all the big slides!

The cutest grandson, and the only one, Eli.

Lydia in the jaws of a dinosaur and Adam holding baby Ada

Smiley Aubrey

Aubrey opening a Christmas present

Baby Ada loves the water!

Ben and Eli swimming

Cameron and Ada

Grandma and Ada in the swimming pool

5 of the kids in their jammies from Papa and Grandma

Linda Lee and Eli

Me and Eden

Montanna and Lydia in the pool. What a fun trip!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

I don't know why I haven't felt like blogging lately. Too many other things going on, I guess, but I need to stay updated! We had such a great Christmas week! We loved spending time with family and the girls could not have had a better time. My mom and dad were able to come down and spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with us. We had such a fun day, taking walks, reading stories and eating good food. We all had a good time getting ready for the next morning when the girls went to bed and loved watching their excitement when they woke up Christmas morning.

 Reading stories with Grandma

Reading stories with Papa

Opening jammies on Christmas Eve

The scene Christmas Eve night. Montanna woke up the next morning and was upset because Santa didn't put the presents "under" the tree. He put them all over the place! 
Eden and Montanna Christmas Morning ready for church in their new dresses from Grandma and Papa.