Christmas!!!

Christmas Jammies

Maxwell won the prize for best reaction. Every present he opened was followed by "This is just what I wanted!"

Reading her new book

Merry Christmas!!

 

Pre-Christmas Magic

Decorating the Christmas Tree

All Done

Maxwell's Christmas concert

 

I honestly thought that he would get up there and freeze. Instead he stood right in front of the microphone and sung his heart out. It was awesome!

 

Happy Halloween!

Meet the characters of Toy Story: Jesse, Little Green Alien and Buzz Lightyear

To Infinity and Beyond!

 

Mallory was not up for a individual photo

We met Woody at the Ward Trunk or Treat

and Mini Jesse

First day of School

 

This girl was SO excited for kindergarten. We had been talking about it for months and months.

Maxwell is going to preschool 2 days a week.

 

They both have had a rough time with the adjustment to school. I think we are finally getting the routine down and are actually excited to go to school.

Big Birthday Bash

The original idea for Lucy's birthday party was to make use of our huge backyard. We were going to set up the pools and have water and games and a good time. Of course, the weather decided to put us to the test and give a slight chance of rain. The morning of I finally had to move it to the church as I couldn't risk having to fit all these people inside my little house. And of course my text messages didn't work so people showed up to the house.... Anyways the morning was a bit of a mess. But finally everyone arrived and we had a good time.

My friend let me borrow her bounce house when we had to move it inside. The kids loved it. Most of my planned games couldn't be moved inside as they involved water.

We ate lots of good food. I tried to stick with a rainbow theme. We had hot dogs, rainbow goldfish, fruit loops, rainbow licorice...And a rainbow fruit and veggie platter.

 

 

Lucy requested a Princess Luna birthday party. I was quite sure what to do with that request so...she got a Princess Luna piñata.

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Singing Happy Birthday

Her cake had a special rainbow surprise in it.

 

And of course she was spoiled with presents.

 

Long overdue

I spent the last month looking for these pictures.... Only to find they were still on the camera! Oops.

Lucy was thrilled with her birthday, which makes mommy very happy too. Lucy and Mallory's birthday's are only 5 days apart so we had a combo birthday party. We had a couple family friends join us for the festivities.

Lucy isn't a big fan of cake; she just eats the frosting. So rather than make a cake we had a donut cake. Give this girl a donut and its gone in 10 seconds flat. She loved her Donut cake.

Singing "Happy Birthday" and getting a little giddy and bashful.

Delicious!

 

We had to do a good old cake smash for Mallory's first birthday.

 

Look, no hands!

Waiting for the sugar rush

Just going for it

 

Loving her cookie monster.

 

 

Daddy testing out the new toys.

And this little cutie was there too. Love is beautiful smile.

 

A Couple Random Tidbits...

Our new favorite game... Empty the DVD case

A trip to the DC Temple

Smelling the flowers

Isn't it beautiful?

We left Daddy some pictures for Father's Day and for him to treasure while we were gone for SO long in Canada.

Thanks Daddy for letting us leave for so long.