*SNOW*

Sleepy Annie

i always see that other kids will fall asleep either eating or doing something random and my kids never have until Annie decided that she was too tired to keep coloring.
I picked her up and she had drooled all over her paper.

Emily and Annie

While my mom was here for Thanksgiving she made the girls towels with hoods and they love them. They play with them and Emily is the Princess and she makes Annie be the Pauper.


My mom has also made them things with candy on them to count down until Christmas and Annie climbed into my bag that was hanging on the doorknob to try and get more. You'll notice that there is only one hanging because I had to take Emily's down for eating more than 1 a day.

Halloween

The girls had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween this year. Emily was Tinkerbell, since it rain we had to modify her costume some, and Annie was a bumble bee.

For work Ben dressed up as the Stay Puft Marshmallow man from Ghost Busters.

Emily was so good at saying "trick-or-treat" and "thank you" but usually didn't understand she needed to leave the house and just stood there.
Annie loved it, she was so cute. She also tried to get into everyone's houses.
At Ben's work, someone had their dog there and Annie wouldn't leave it alone. It was easily 3 times her size but she kept going back to the office yelling, "puppy, puppy!"
Growing up my mom would make chocolate suckers around Christmas and this year the girls loved making Halloween suckers.
On actual Halloween we celebrated by making Shepherd's Pie with mashed potato ghosts and pumpkin cookies.

pumpkins

we decided to carve pumpkins with the girls and have them paint theirs, it was a lot of fun.

annie didn't quite understand to put the paint on the pumpkin
Emily loved it!

Emily's finished project, she was so proud of herself.

Silly girls!

The girls were being a little too quiet in their room and I looked to see what they were doing and this is what I found.

Emily swinging on the rod in their closet....

and Annie sitting in the top drawer trying to put on socks.

Bridal Veil Falls

Here are some picture of us and the girls yesterday at Bridal Veil Falls.




The girls were a little unsure of the water but we finally got them to walk in it...
Unfortunately, emily fell and got soaked!
Then on the walk back she didn't want to ride in the stroller but wanted to ride under it. She is getting to where she says and does the funniest things.

emily found a wig

Emily!

Emily is super skinny so when she eats a lot of food it's really easy to tell. Her belly gets big and sticks out, I took these pictures last night after she ate a lot of pizza.


She's pushing her tummy out a little in this one but it shows you how big it gets.

what does an elephant say?

I'm not sure where Emily learned this but anytime you ask her what an elephant says, she'll cover her ear, close her eyes and make the noise. i think it's so cute and ask her to do it all the time.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Our girls favorite show is the Mickey Mouse Club House. They would watch it all day if we let them. This is how they act when we turn it on...I especially love how excited Annie gets.

i love this picture!

A few nights ago the girls fell asleep together on the couch like this.

Here are a few pictures of our last day at Sea World, it was so much fun, Emily keeps asking to go see Shamu again.

This is the boat at the Sesame Street, Bay of Play that kids can play on and that characters come out and dance on.

Ben and Emily on the Abby ride.
Emily touching a star fish.
This dolphin was so close to us and just sat and stared at us, it was cool.
The Sea Lion show was one of our favorites.

This video is of Emily playing at the splash pad with the Sesame Street stuff

San Diego Part 2

Before we went to Sea World, we went to The Mormon Battalion Museum and it was really neat. Emily was freaked out some by the movies but when the tour was over they let her pan for gold it was really cool.



They also took this picture of our family for us, we're really glad we took the time to go and we learned some interesting stuff.

Our first day at Sea World we didn't get much done but we went to the Shamu show and Emily loved it, she is obsessed with Shamu now. We bought her a doll and she plays with him and talks to him all the time.
Before we planned this trip we had no idea that they had so much Sesame Street stuff, but we were so happy when we found out. Our girls love Elmo and loved getting to see him, they even got to have their picture taken with him.
This is a picture of when the Sesame Street characters come out on a boat and perform a little show.
Me and Emily on the Oscar the Grouch ride.

Ben and Emily of the Elmo flying fish ride, she's in there, even though you can't see her.

We also went to the Pets Rule! show and it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of dogs, cats, bird, pigs doing a show and tricks. They let everyone meet the animals after, Emily was in heaven!

The last thing we did the first day was go to an Elmo 4-D show which was really cool. This is Emily in her glasses getting ready for the show.
It freaked the girls out because water would shoot out from the seats in front of us.
By the end of the day the girls were exhausted, they fell asleep at 4 and didn't wake up until the morning, it was so nice.

San Diego Part 1

We just got back from a trip to San Diego and it was a lot of fun, on the first day we went to the beach. Emily didn't really like the ocean, which we were happy about so we didn't have to keep chasing after her, but she did love building sand castles. Annie loved eating the sand. Here are a few pictures of our day.



Later that day we went up to the San Diego Temple, since I have never seen it and when we got there, this is what it looked like...

We weren't sure what they were doing, but the whole thing looked like this.





Even though we couldn't see anything there, it was a great start to our vacation.