Spending time being silly!!!

Life has sort of takin on a much needed steady beat over the past week. We've been able to spend a little extra time takin life in, and appreciating our silly-hearted little girls! Who couldn't love these little "free-spirits"?

Happy 5th Birthday Katelin!!!

Can you believe it?? My Katy-bug is 5 years old! Wow!!

She insisted on having a clown party- because "clowns are silly, and I am silly, Mom!!"

My little reader!

The other night Nathaniel and I kept walking by Alecia's door and she was in bed reading to herself. So, I got Nathaniel to sneek in and video this little clip! It gets a little long, but it is totally cute!!

Happy Valentines!!!

It all started when I got home from school on Friday the 13th, the day before Valentines! Nathaniel was on his way to the Klondike with the scouts, so it was me and the kids. However, I was totally surprised to find this beautiful bouquet of tulips waiting for me on the table when I arrived!!

Then later that night before Valentines Day, we had David and Emma over to make Valentine cookies! They were so creative! Even Alecia wanted to get in on the action!

While the cookies were baking, naked cozy put on her imagination hat, Emma's boots, and was even carrying around a purse at one point! It was kind of cute to watch this naked butt in black boots!!

On Valentines morning, we had heart shaped-pancakes with Strawberry syrup!! Mmmmm good!

After Nathaniel got home from scouting, we let the girls open their Valentine gifts:

Next was Nathaniel:

It has been a great Valentines!

Yes! Katelin shows Nurturing Skills!!

Ever since Katelin was small, she hasn't really spent a whole lot of time nurturing her little dolls, and playing house. She'll play dress up and dance- but never really play's house. So I have worried, even when we brought Cozy home from the hospital, Katelin didn't seem interested. However, today, Katelin took over and decided she was going to help Alecia become Potty Trained! So here she is!!! I was so relieved!

Katelin's First "Fancy Nancy" Birthday Party!

This is Katelin all ready for her first Fancy Nancy birthday party! If you don't know Fancy Nancy books- you are missing out! They are so cute- everything is Fancy in little Nancy's world!

So, Brittney, who is in my Kindergarten class, had a Fancy Nancy party and invited Katelin!!

The First 22 Days of 2009!!!

The first little bit of 2009 has not been the most joyous! I know blogs are about sharing the good things, but I am going to share some crazy things!

To start of the year, on Jan.5th, the day school started back up, I took the day off because Alecia had two ear infections and bronchitis, yes a visit to the ER was necessary! That night, I went to Wal-mart and it had snowed earlier in the day, so the roads were very slick and icy, (little did I know.) So I was on my way home and slid off the new Cross Hollow Road on the highest part and ended up in a ravine. There was no valid reason that Katelin and I didn't flip over or roll, the only reason I know of is that someone was watching out for us. So, we were very lucky!

Then, over Martin Luther King, we had our nieces, Aspen and Cambria, both near Katelin and Alecia's age. So we got them Friday night for 3 nights, 3 days. Well on Saturday, Nathaniel with all good intentions of entertaining the older girls, took them sledding. The first injury happened when Nathaniel's sled hit a pointy rock and broke his Butt! He still has trouble walking! Then, the second injury happened when the two girls were coming down the hill on the following sled:

The sled took a wrong turn and the tree came out of know where. Both girls put their right legs out to stop, and that is when it happened!

That's right, Aspen broke her ankle. She has green stick fractures in both of the leg bones where it connects to the ankle! Just lovely! Poor thing- but she was a very brave 3 year old!! Katelin got away with a pulled ligament or something, but we made two separate ER visits to have the girls checked out!

As for the two 1 1/2 year olds, lets say that Alecia really did want to be Cambria's friend, see:

But I think she just ended up torturing the poor girl most of the time!!

This is what the night's were like as we put the girls to bed, then Alecia wanted to play Tea-Party and jumped in bed with Cambria!!

Needless to say, life has not been normal- Here's to the next 22 days of 2009 not being as hectic!