Sunday, March 18, 2012

Thanksgiving 2011

 Our first stop on our way into Utah Valley was at our good friend Ari's 4th birthday party.
 It was a superhero party, and Hannah did such a good job with it! She made capes for all the kids,
had activities ranging from a bounce house to face painting, delicious food (I'm limiting the pictures I'm posting since I'm 4 months behind...) and the cake was darling.
 The best part, though, was the stunt right after cake and before presents. A "bad guy" held up the party at gunpoint and stole all of Ari's presents...until Spiderman came down from the rafters and saved the day!
 One little boy was scared and had a meltdown, but the birthday boy was all smiles (:

The rest of the week was nice, in spite of the bad colds that we all had. There were cousin baths
 and matching pajama parties.
 We visited my Grandma and Grandpa Heiner.
 We went sledding...
Rylee and Ava loved it, but Cailyn wasn't so sure.
{Cailyn never really did warm up to the whole sledding thing...}
Snow Thugs


 The whole gang...(Quinn was too sick to come).
Cailyn, me, Rachel, Mike, Rylee, Katie, Josh, Ava, Cassie, Colin
 Rachel flew out for the week to spend time with her big sister (: This picture is the first one I took on this trip that was used as a Christmas Card picture.
 Thanksgiving itself was everything it should be - food, family, love, laughter, gratitude, and turkey cookies.
 Unfortunately, I was feeling under the weather and didn't really take any pictures. In fact, I believe the turkey cookie ones were snapped by someone who grabbed my camera while I was napping. I did manage to take a few pictures after dinner though of the cousins playing duck duck goose - they sure had fun together!
 Love this "Little Turkey"!
 Before we left I snapped a few pictures of the cute Bergs - here's the second Christmas Card picture I took on this trip. Just call me a professional (:
Gobble Gobble.
{I don't know. It seemed like an appropriate sign-off line.}

Saturday, March 17, 2012

A cute way to ease back into this...

 OK...I think I'm about ready to tackle the beast of catching up on documenting our little family's life. I'd be lying if I said that prospect wasn't a bit overwhelming, considering today is St. Patrick's Day and I haven't really posted since before Thanksgiving. (Life has been, well, crazy lately.) But because I want to remember, here goes!
I found this cute little series of my silly little Cailyn to start with - a cute girl in ladybug jammies on her purple blankie in a morning-sun-lit kitchen pulling silly faces. Doesn't require much narrative.
Easy peasy post. If only they could all be this quick...

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Two Things

I have a lot of catching up to do here. But I had to write this down now so I don't forget it, because it sure made me giggle...
Just now, Rylee was laying in bed talking to her Grandma Mac on the phone. Before she hung up, she said,
"Grandma, I just want to tell you two things. The first one is I really, really love you so much. And the second one is I super duper hope you find my Cheer Bear some day."
(Cheer Bear got packed by a mover last summer and hasn't been seen since...)

Oh, how I love that girl...

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pilgrim and Indian

 Rylee and Lainey had a feast at preschool today and came home with traditional headpieces:




 If the original Pilgrims and Indians loved each other like these two BFFs do, it's no wonder we have Thanksgiving (:

 Rylee preferred the Pilgrim hat and Lainey the Indian headdress, but I coaxed Rylee into sporting her feathers for a bit
 so I could document their "Indian Names."

Makeover

 I recently redid the letters for the girls' names to match their new room...

 The girls have had fun counting the letters in their names; Cailyn is proud that she has more letters than Rylee.
 However, I claim the title of the most letters in the family (:

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Curlers

 Lately the girls have been into sleeping with braids in their hair for a waivy 'do the next day. So, I decided to give them another option and introduced them to one of my favorite things as a child: foam curlers.

 I was kind of surprised at how well they worked on their stick straight hair! (And not so surprised at Rylee's goony faces and hair chewing...)




 This series of pictures makes me laugh; these silly expressions are signature Cailyn faces...




I tried to get a picture of them together, but this was the best I could do...
...Grandpa Mac was in town, and they were a bit preoccupied with his phone.