Week 19: Favorite Toy

I'm a little behind on posting pictures because we have been working on moving but I will get caught up soon. I like the posts when I have the girls pick out something because it's always interesting to see what they come up with, I was surprised this week when they actually picked something that made sense. For their favorite toys both of the girls picked Zhu Zhu pets, they both got some for Christmas and love them. For some reason when i took their pictures both of the girls did something weird, these were the best pictures I could get.


Deacon's favorite toy is his ugly doll puppy that he got for Christmas from his Uncle Jayson.

Week 18: Ringing in New Year/Emily Dance

So the picture for this week is supposed to be ringing in the New Year, but new years was the day we came back from Oklahoma and we were all so exhausted and were asleep by 9, so needless to say I didn't get any pictures of us sleeping. So instead for this week I am putting a video of Emily in her dance class. She loves going. My favorite part is in the first video, that anytime she sees us watching her she will wave and blow kisses over and over.

Oklahoma

This year for Christmas we went to Oklahoma. We were pretty nervous to fly with 3 little kids but overall it was much better than we anticipated. The plane ride there was pretty exhausting because the kids needed to be constantly entertained. The plane ride back though was nice because Annie and Deacon almost slept the whole way. Here are some pictures of the kids, this is Annie and Deacon's first plane rides and Emily's third.

For some reason this is how Annie usually smiles lately.

We spent Christmas Eve at my Uncle's house and the kids had so much fun playing outside and at the pond, playing with the horses and riding 4 wheelers. After Christmas we went to a lake house that my sister rented for all of us to stay together for a few days, it was very relaxing and the weather was so nice that the kids played outside tons. We went for walks, to skip rocks at the lake, had a Just Dance tournament, watched sports, played games, and ate LOTS of food.

When we were out on a drive one day Emily got really excited when she saw this and yelled, "The Eiffel Tower!"

Deacon at the lake

The girls throwing rocks in the lake
And for some reason Ben wanted to jump in the lake while we were there, so he did and convinced a lot of the kids to do it with him. Annie did but not on purpose.


Our last night there we went on a hayride through a park to look at Christmas lights, it was a lot of fun.

Overall, it was a good trip and our kids had a LOT of fun, but we were so exhausted by the time we got home, it was nice to have a couple days to recover before Ben had to go back to work.

Week 17: your child's bedroom

Deacon's room isn't very exciting, it's also our spare bedroom so it's really just his crib. We're also in the middle of moving so there are tubs in there packed getting ready to move.

This is Annie's princess bed covered in stuffed animals
This is Emily's Tinkerbell bed...

And what all 2 and 3 year old girls need in their room, a poster of Jimmer. Emily actually asked to put this up all by herself. And since this post isn't very exciting...here's a picture of Deacon that I think is cute.

Just Dance

I'm going to post more about our trip to Oklahoma but wanted to post this video of Emily playing Just Dance. I like that at the end of the song she looks like she is exhausted.

Week 16: opening gifts on christmas morning

Since we went to Oklahoma for Christmas, Santa came to our house a little early. Christmas was a lot of fun this year because the girls, especially Emily really understood about Santa and wanted to make sure that she was a good girl so he would come to our house. They also made cookies for Santa. Ben tried to convince them that Santa actually likes Oreo's but they didn't go for that and wanted to make him some.
The pajama elf comes to our house on Christmas Eve and brings us all pajamas to wear for Christmas morning.

Here they are Christmas morning getting ready to open presents...Emily went to bed that night around 8 and woke up at 10 wanting to know if Santa had come yet. She stayed up until 1230 to keep coming out and check if Santa had come.
All Emily wanted for Christmas was a dollhouse and princess castle and she and Annie were good girls and Santa brought them a dollhouse. They love it!
Santa also came to Oklahoma for the kids too, here are a couple pictures of them with some presents

Later that day the made Christmas trees out of ice cream cones and frosting with their cousins. Emily took it pretty seriously and did a good job
and Annie ate the frosting.
Overall, it was a great Christmas and we had a lot of fun and got to spend a lot of time together, which was really nice.
And last, here is a video of the girls opening their dollhouse.