Birthday Celebration @ K-Fams

We love being back close to family particularly for events like birthdays and holidays.  Anna and Kjersti share their birthday celebration when we go to the Kinnersleys. Auntie is a favorite over at Grandma’s so it’s special to share a cake with her.  I was too exhausted from the holidays and from making cookies for various things so my mom bought a cake. It was nice to not worry about it.  As the family continues to grow the table just gets longer.  Grandpa engineered his own table extension and we try to keep with the Sunday Dinner tradition and all sit together.  One day we’ll be too big, but it is fun for now. I especially love the conversations and being able to sit and eat a meal together, something I think gets lost nowadays.

Anna enjoyed the party, the presents, but mostly being with her cousins.  She got Cinderella  and Slips and Ladders from Great- Grandma, a cute homemade skirt from Auntie Holly, some clothes,new books and Tinkerbelle set from Grandma and Grandpa. What a great celebration!

 

Temple square lights 2012

Utah Tradition.  Have to go see the lights at Temple Square.  December is always crazy and finding a free night to drive down and worry about parking is always hard to come by. This year it took us until 4 days before Christmas to fit it in! But we had a good time. Temperatures were freezing, so we tried to bundle up, seems like there are never enough layers for little ones though and I think they still froze.   We thought the girls would like the experience of taking the train down, so we planned a frontrunner/trax trip.  It turns out the neatness factor quickly faded as it took us an hour to get downtown and we had to be out in the cold.  On the way home we walked for a while then had to wait for the late train to get there, our girls were freezing.  So we chalked it up to “an experience” and won’t be trying that anytime soon.  We went to the food court and accidently ran into the Curtis family.  Anna and Maddie were excited about that especially since our friends couldn’t end up making it.  They played in the Dinosaur play land for a while until it was time to go.  The rest of the night it was just us four, which was nice to have our own family time when there are so many other events going on.  I love our girls, the lights were beautiful and it was a great memory!

Whiney girl…

A little bribery Doesn’t hurt. Right?

Christmas Cookies

I was busy this Christmas trying to make some fun cookies for neighbors. I have been wanting to practice my royal icing skills. I have to say I love it, but I don’t know how people do these all the time! They are time consuming and too yummy not to eat more than my fair share! I Loved creating something fun and unique. I learned a lot, especially to make sure my water is fully mixed when I add more or they turn out drying with swirls like my Gingerbread man.

Christmas Cuties

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my girlies! I love that I can dress them to match, and even more I love when I get hand me downs from my awesome sister and nieces.  I love these Christmas dresses and the girls looked so pretty with their hair all done, I had to snap a few photos. Anna was being such a ham.

A photo shoot of sorts…

I keep wanting to get some good photos of my girls and keep putting it off. One day perhaps….

We went downtown to the “Dinosaur Mall” as Anna so lovingly calls it, aka City Creek Center and their Dinosaur play land in the food court, to meet cousins, Aunties and Grandma for Maddie and Lily’s birthdays.  We had a great time.  Even got a picture of all the Grandkids with Santa. Priceless.  On our way out we went to look out over the bridge and Auntie Natalie snapped a few photos on her “fancy” (that is what I call any phone other than mine dinosaur phone) phone. It took a little bribery (a sucker from Auntie), but they turned out pretty cute! We even used some on our Christmas card.  I’m thankful they had their hair curled and almost were matching.  Thanks Nat!

 

Voting Day

Some days outfits come together and work well, other days they don’t and my girls end up looking like “rag a muffins.” Today was a good day. Anna went to preschool and I was off to the voting booth, not really a big day, but wanted to be more presentable.  I wanted to put MJ in her new steal of a deal red pants, ($3), and then saw the blue sweater.  It worked for voting day, right?  She looked pretty cute with her hair curled and red, white and Blue ribbon. I wish it was enough to get Romney re-elected….

This was Maddie’s response to the announcement of the re-election….
Okay she really was in bed by then, but I’m sure many felt this way when Romney lost. ):

Anna's best quote about the election...
"Mom, wouldn't Jesus make a great President? REALLY Great President? But he can't be, because he is our Savior!" I just love this girl and her heavenly insight. (: