You would think that with my last few weeks of student teaching, my last two solo weeks (of teaching) and also all the preparations for Christmas I wouldn't have taken any pictures or done anything but a las I did. Horay for me! We did the Cornish Christmas up in Grass Valley, had my dad, sister and brother for the holidays and also watched the girls do an amazing performance during the Christmas dance program. Busy Christmas!
HAPPY NEW YEAR - FIRST SNOW TRIP
Our annual trip to the snow! Emma was a huge shocker for us! She acutally likes the snow! This is very unusual in our family....at this age the other two girlies wanted me to lug them around and didn't want anything to do with touching the snow. Emma however was trying to throw snow balls at people and go down on the sled on her own. She was hilarious! Kinda her personality though. She really thinks she is much older than she is. Our little snow bunny!
GOLD MINE DAYS-
Coloma has an annual gold rush days where they have living history demonstrations. The girls loved LOVED seing everyone dressed up "funny". Kylee and Sarah got to pan for gold and make ropes as well as play with old toys and talk to little "pioneer" girls. I told them we had gone back in time...hee hee....it was such a fun time and I think its going to become an annual thing for us. Plus it was all FREE...can't beat free!
TRAIN MUSEUM-
What do you do on a cold winter day in Sacramento? Head down to the train museum with some friends. It was the busiest I have EVER seen the train museum but still fun. Girls loved climbing in all the full size trains and engines.
SARAH SCARE!!
During this first month of January we also had a little bit of a scare with Miss Sarah. One day when Susanne was over at my house Sarah was complaining that her toe hurt. And like a good Aunt that she is she took a look at it (since somehow I must have brushed it aside...nice huh!). Anyways...this is what she saw:
Sarah has a bad habit of...biting her toenails....anyways she bit too far and it got infected. She had to go to the doctor and get two very large shots of some antibiotic in her leg and an oral dose of antibiotics. The doctor told me later he almost admitted her to the hospital because it looked so bad. But luckily the shots and meds worked and hopefully Sarah has learned her lesson!
OREO VISITS -
Kylee's class pet Oreo came to our house for a visit. It was a very old guinea pig. Luckily we made it throug the weekend!
RANDOME CUTENESS -
Not really anything specific just having fun twirling with the blossoms in poofy skirts....thats all.
DAY TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO -
Thou we live pretty close to the bay area we hardly ever go down there....just not a priority and its hard to take strollers into the city. But since we had some time during "President's week" (where our school district took the week off) we had some time. The girls LOVED it! I was suprised how much they loved it actually. We went to the Exploritorium museum (which was awesome!) and then headed into downtown to do the Pier 39 and Ghiradeli square. Then we took a charter boat out around Alcatraz...it was such a fun time we didn't want to go home!
Patriotic Performance -
Kylee had the cutest performance at school where they learned patriotic songs and memorized facts about the US. It made me so proud to be an American and so glad that we live in a place that celebrates that to its fullest!
SNOW DAY #2-
Another fun day in the snow but this time with some good friends. We had a blast....and Emma really is a little snow bunny!!
EASTER ACTIVITIES-
Our community put on an Easter egg hunt, luncheon and face painter. The kids had so much fun doing the Egg Hunt (or race...it was mass choas!). Greg stayed home with Emma for this one which was nice cause it usually is me thats at home. Loved the face painting!
PRESCHOOL EASTER HUNT
YUP...more Easter...annual Easter Egg hunt through preschool. Easter bunny terrified all my kids (well, Kylee finally sat on his lap because she wanted the treat). At this point we have more candy than we know what to do with.
EASTER -
Last Easter....I promise!! Woke up to our lawn being covered in the front with Easter eggs. I thought the kids were joking when they came in and said the Easter bunny had come and decorated our lawn. I can honestly say that it was like a Christmas morning with snow kinda feeling. It was awesome that someone...ah I mean the Easter bunny did that for us!;)!
KIM & ROB's WEDDING
Well, we got to go out to Utah for my baby sister's wedding. It was really nice to see everyone and get to see such a beuatiful ceremony. Here are a few pics that we snapped but if you want to see more you got to go to the photographers site (my other sis) they are some beautiful photots: www.susanneashby.com
Kylee Turn's 6!!!
Kylee wanted a Magic themed party this year. She is very much into Harry Potter (randomely) and wanted a wizard party. So, greg broke out his wand and performed for about 15 6 year olds. It was awesome! The kids were laughing and really into it. We made wands and adorned them with capes and had a blast. I love kids parties!
MOTHER'S DAY PERFORMANCE
For Mother's day Sarah's preschool did a cute little rendition of BROWN BEAR...each student was a different character and they had to come out and say who they "saw". Sarah was a chick...it was too adorable! And we each got a home made book of the poem by each of our kids! So sweet! I loved it!
SARAH'S "GRADUATION" from Pre pre-school...
I know this seems kinda silly maybe but they had a little ceremony to commemorate the end of the school year for Sarah. Next year she will be in pre-k preschool and will be going three times a week so it is a moving on for her. It was so CUTE to hear what they said about her because I really feel like she came into her own this year. Up until this point she was kinda shadowed by her big sis Kylee who has a very BIG personality. Don't get me wrong we love Kylee to pieces and Sarah too but it was really hard to tell before this year what kind of personality Sarah was going to have other than being the sweet little sister of Kylee. And WOW, what a personality she has. Pretty much all the boys in her preschool want to marry her and all the kiddos fight over playing with her. Its funny to see that she is little miss "popular" at such a very young age. If you didn't know she just tried out for a cheerleading squad this spring as well and now I understand where her drive to do that is coming from. As said by her preschool teacher - Sarah was born to be a cheerleader. Too funny!
RODEO
Went to our first Rodeo as a family. Both Greg and I had been to some when we were younger but the kids have never been to them. We went with a group of friends and cheered on the cowboys! We had such a fun time!!
KYLEE GRADUATES FROM KINDER
I can't believe that i'm old enough to have a Kindergartener at all and then she goes and graduates on me! It was so adorable to see her up there with her classmates. They sang a lot of cute songs for us and gave us some really sweet memorabilia including a scrapbook and tile with their handprint. I cried! I thought I was bad at the beginning of the year with the tearing but this was full on stream of tears going on! I was not prepared for that either! I was so happy that she had a wonderful year and really greatful that this little firecracker is my daughter! She really takes life 'by the horns' so to speak and dives into everything she does. Its amazing for me to see her growing up and becomming such a wonderful little lady! It makes me tear now just typing this! So here's to Kylee this year!
CAR FESTIVAL
Lincoln has the coolest old car festival and Greg being a lover of old cars had to go and check it out. So we made a Saturday morning of it and took some friends with us too. It was fun but a las no '57 Chevy pickup for Greg to drool over....we got pretty close though.
DANCE RECITAL - SUMMER
The girls did a great job on their dance recital this year. We have officially ended out dancing days for now since Sarah is moving on to Cheer and Kylee is pursuing more soccer stuff but it was adorable to see them up on stage one last time. And who knows it might be a short lived break from dance. Sarah did "Route 66" from cars...a tap number. And Kylee did "Tommorrow" from the movie Annie. They both did a great job and we were so proud of them!
VISIT FROM FAMILY
Instead of going on vacation this year we had a lot of family come to see us, which was a nice break from our typical routine. Plus, Greg had a ton of business trips to go on this summer so it left little time to actually go anywhere. Don't worry the girls and I bussied ourselves by doing little trips to the library, movie theatre and of course the pool (the pool too much actually). Anyways, here are some pictures of when Greg's parents and brother Thomas were in town. My sister Kim and her hubby came too as well as my Dad and brother Tyler but I think those will come later when I did pool pictures.
My B-DAY/WICKED
For my 30th (yes I can't believe its true either!) Greg totally suprised me! This was in payback for the suprise b-day party I threw for him last minute at our house with our friends. Thanks friends! He said we were going to go to a movie and out to eat for our birthdays (Greg's is only 10 days before mine). Anyways, he tells me to dress up since we never do and I didn't even think anything funny was going on! In hindsight though Greg, you should probably put a heavy jacket in the car if we are going to SF! Just a thought. Anyways, when we started to head toward Davis I knew that this wasn't going to be a typical evening. I didn't think we would be going out to eat in SF and then catching WICKED though! It was awesome! VERY VERY cold but AWESOME! My sweet Mother in law watched the kids for us...we didn't get home til almost 2 in the morning! It was such a fun b-day. I think I should turn 30 every year....:)
COUNTY FAIR/4th Celebration
We got to go the County Fair...it was free one night and we thought that it would be fun. And it was! We went with some friends and had such a good time. After that we went and caught a Forth of July celebration that was put on by a church in our town. It was such an amazing and spiritual event. You could really feel the Pride of everthing America stands for and how we are so blessed! I love where we live!!
Ok...I know i'm not completely caught up but since I am almost to the 4th of July I figure i've done a pretty good post! Right?! So the next post will say...Summer! I can't believe i've made it this far....
Talk to you soon!
END OF SUMMER FUN
LAST SUMMER DAY TRIP - AUBURN 
KYLEE STARTS SOCCER!!
SARAH STARTS PRESCHOOL!!! Sarah was equally happy about starting preschool. I wasn't there to see her off since I had already started my student teaching stuff but Greg was there....I don't think he cried though.
TO BE CONTINUED.....
