Spring Break!!

This year my parents went down to St. George for spring break. I decided to take the girls and drive down with my parents. Tyler couldn't get off work to come with us. We went down on Wednesday and stayed until Friday. My uncle owns a house there and let us stay for the week. It was so nice to have sunshine and warm weather for a change. My brother and sister in law came down with their kids as well. We had fun hiking and playing in the sand and just enjoying the sunshine. Of course the girls couldn't go to St. George and not go to the outlets and shop. It was fun to get away and enjoy spending time with my family and girls.

Easter 2010

This year we had so much fun for Easter. It went on all week long. We had an Easter egg hunt with the neighbors on Monday...that is the only one I took pictures at...the girls had so much fun, despite Brooke being a little sick. On Easter Saturday my family had a picnic, Easter egg hunt/scavenger hunt where the kids had to find 3 eggs of every color like 3 yellow eggs, 3 pink eggs, etc. This way all the kids of every age get the same amount of eggs and the older kids don't take all of them. The kids also got a cute cuddly bunny. Chloee and Brooke had fun. After the egg hunt we have a tradition of decorating chocolate marshmallow eggs that my aunt K'Ann makes from scratch. The kids really get into decorating with every color of frosting and sugar decorations, I think I ate most of the chocolate eggs. This year at Easter it was general conference. The boys went to priesthood session and the girls got together at my mom's house and made pizza a decorated sugar cookies. I think we all were on a sugar high. Easter Sunday was the Sunday session of general conference. We went to my parent's house for lunch and to watch the last session of conference then we headed over to Tyler's parents and had another Easter egg hunt with the cousins and had dinner. The girls had so much fun opening all the eggs filled with candy. All Brooke could say was candy candy. She was so sick or at least I was for her. Here are some pictures from the first Easter egg hunt....

Sunday Best!

After we got ready for church today, I thought the girls looked extra cute, so I took some pictures. Chloee has a new dress and Brooke is wearing one of Chloee's old ones. I love that I can put the outfits that I loved on Chloee on Brooke. This dress was one of my favorites!!

Fairy Tea Party!!!!

Chloee and I had the opportunity to go to the Fairy Tea at the local city Library on Friday night. We invited Grandma Gae, Emma and her dad and my friend Joni, her little girl Skyler and Joni's mother in law came too. We had so much fun. When we got there we found our table and opened a special present-a cute necklace. Chloee wanted mine and Grandma Gae's so we gave them to her. When it was time to start 2 fairies started to sing and then this pretty white fairy came and was like the host.

After she introduced the program the Fairy King came in with his court.

Then four dancers from the sponsoring ballet company danced individually to music. They were good.

Then they fed us and all the little girls who were there were able to participate in the fairy promenade. Chloee of course chose not to participate, surprise surprise, maybe someday she won't be so shy. After the promenade they let the girls go up and get their picture with the Fairy King and his court and all the dancers and other fairies at the tea. Chloee and I had a good time and would like to thank Tyler for getting the tickets for us, he's the best!! Here are a few more pictures from the night.

Chloee and Skyler

Brooke is a "Big Girl"

I wanted to keep Brooke in the crib as long as I could, thinking it would be until she was closer to 3, not 2. So the other day she decided to climb out after I put her in bed for the night. The first time it was cute, after the 3rd, 4th up to the 6th time I was done. Tyler and I thought maybe it is just tonight, but the next day she did it again over and over again. I finally had had it and told Tyler to take the front part of the crib off and turn it into a big girl bed. We figured we were putting her back in the crib so why not make it easier on ourselves and put her in the bed, plus now she won't hurt herself climbing in and out. The first few nights were hard, but she's gotten better. She still gets out of bed so we shut her door and let her play until she is tired. Some nights it takes 2 hours, some nights it takes 30 minutes. She looks so cute, next step is potty training right (not sure we're ready for that yet, maybe in a couple of months after she turns 2).

She loves it!!!

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.