Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's everyone. This year we had a good Valentine's day. The girls woke up and found that Cupid had been to visit. They got fun balloons and books. Chloee and Brooke definitely love books. For breakfast I attempted to make heart shaped pancakes. I think they turned out pretty good for an amateur, the girls liked them. After breakfast we got ready for church and since the girls looked so cute I decided to take their pictures. I hope everyone had a good Valentine's day filled with lots of love!

Cute Chloee!

Beautiful Brooke!

Better late than never...

So Christmas has come and gone now and I'm now just barley updating my blog. I'm such a slacker or have just been realy busy, probably the first. Christmas this year was really fun. My mom's family had their usual christmas party, but this year we had an ugly sweater contest. My cousins really got into it. Kirsten had snowman overalls, with a snowman turtleneck and a snowman sweater, to top it off she had jingle bells that jingled when she danced and boy did she dance. She won the prize. My uncle Stan and his family showed up in Utah Utes sweat shirts only to be upstaged by Elliot and his family in all of their Utah sweat shirts. We had a blast. Santa came to visit and bring a pre Christmas gift for all of the kids. Both Chloee and Brooke weren't sure about him.

Christmas Eve we went to Grandpa Grunander's house for a party and to see how he was doing. After his party we went to my aunt Cyndi's for my families traditional Christmas eve party. We had good food and fun thanks to every one. After Cyndi's we went to Grandma Jane's and Papa Tom's house. There we opened white elephants and boy do Chad and Natalie get into that game. We saw white trash hot tubs and briefcases made out of boxers and safety pins. You had to be there for the rest. After the game Grandma had made sugar cookies and hot chocolate. Brooke had more fun feeding uncle Scotty-Do than eating them herself.

Christmas morning was really fun. The girls got everything they asked for thanks to Santa and Mom and Dad. Chloee got a barbie camper with four barbies to play with, a playdo ice cream maker and a polly pocket disney princess castle with all of her favorite princesses. Brooke got a princess powerwheels car that she quickly learned how to drive by watching her big sister, and she got a new baby doll with stroller, high chair and bassenet all to herself. She no longer has to share her sister's. Tyler got exactly what he wanted, his remote control rock crawler and was just like a little kid. He took his toy everywhere and tried out every obstecle he could create on Christmas. Thanks to Tyler I got a bike stand for my bike to exercise on and socks just like I asked for. This year Christmas was really fun and we have been so blessed this past year. We hope this up coming year will be as good as the last.

Frogs and Hippos!

Last week we took the girls to see Disney's "The Princess and the Frog." It was very cute. Chloee loved it. She had been wanting to see the movie ever since the previews came out in the summer. Brooke was not such a good sport. I don't know why I try to try to take her to movies because all she wants to do is eat popcorn and play on the stairs. Tyler ended up taking her home early and my parents brought Chloee and I home.

Last Saturday Chloee had her Christmas dance recital. Now last year she didn't dance on stage, but she did at the Spring concert so I was hopeful she would dance this year. We went to the dress rehearsal in the morning and when it was her turn to go up on stage she wanted me right there with her. I sat down in front on the steps to watch, but that wasn't good enough, the tears started to come. I ended up on stage behind the curtain with a tear stained face Chloee.

(Chloee's the one wiping her eyes)

When it was time to take her back to the room for the girls to wait, Chloee didn't want to let me go. Finally after much persuation she let me go to my seat. As the show started Tyler's mom asked what I bribed her with this show and I said nothing. When it was her turn to go on stage I headed to the hall to see how she was and her teacher said she was good. I went back to my seat to watch. The girls started filling out on stage and Chloee stood on her "X". The music started and Chloee had a tearified look on her face and she started crying then ran to her teacher in front who was helping the girls dance. Chloee stayed their until the dance was over and then went off stage with the rest of the girls. After the dance she told me she liked the other stage better when she had her fancy dance (the Regan Theatre at UVU). Tyler said it's probably because she can't see the audience on the bigger stage because of all the lights. At least she went out on stage, right! We'll have to see how the spring recital goes this coming year. Wish us luck!

Pictures!!!!

Thanks to my sister in law Tasha for taking the girls pictures. Pictures are always fun, especially with an almost 2 year old. Brooke was not having fun and not cooperating either. She didn't want to smile and wouldn't take her picture with her sister. Chloee on the other hand was quite the little model. She had fun taking pictures in her Christmas dress and loved every minute of it. All in all I think we got some cute shots of the girls.

Their beautiful Christmas dresses thanks to Grandma Jane!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

This year for thanksgiving I ended up working in the morning until noon and then was able to come home and spend the rest of the day with my family. We went to Tyler's parents house for dinner and had all the yummy thanksgiving foods, thanks to Grandma Gae and everyone else. The kids had fun playing with their cousins and driving Papa Tony crazy. The next day we spent all day cleaning the house from top to bottom, Tyler helped wash the baseboards and vacuum the floors,he's amazing. We also were able to put up the Christmas decorations and our new Christmas tree. For the past 6 years we have put each branch on the tree post and then had to spread them out and then string the lights. Tyler and I would always end up fighting about the lights so this year we bought a prelite tree from Tia Pan Trading. Tyler took a whole 10 minutes to put the tree up and was so excited. I love it! The best part was there was no fighting or yelling at each other. Chloee and Brooke had fun playing in the box, shutting each other in, I love that they so well together. We hope that everyone had a yummy and enjoyable Thanksgiving this year.

Horsey rides

The other night the girls had fun playing horse with Tyler. I couldn't pass up the opportunity for pictures. I'm so thankful my girls love playing with each other and their dad.

Happy Halloween...

or should I say Happy Thanksgiving since it's only a few days away. I thought since Thanksgiving was so close I should post some pictures from Halloween. This year we were able to spend Halloween with Tyler's family up in Park City at the Marriot Mountainside Resort. We had a ton of fun. We took the kids trick or treating on Old Main and boy was that crazy. There were so many people, kids, adults and dogs. I've never seen so many adults dress up. It was kind of fun. The girls had a good time and thankfully didn't get too much candy. Chloee was Arial, of course, and Brooke was Tinkerbell, her wings didn't stay on very well with all of the people.

(can't you tell she's having fun!)

After trick or treating we went back to the hotel and Heather had put together a fun scavenger hunt for the kids. They all had a blast. Thanks Heather. I have to say this year our family had fun up in Park City just relaxing and spending time with the family.

(Chloee didn't want to put her hand in the pot of goo.)

(Papa Tony read one of the clues)

(I made eye balls for a yummy treat after trick or treating)