Easter 2013

Easter this year was a lot of fun as usual.  My favorite part was how adorable my girls looked in their matching dresses!!  Loved it!  We had some great Easter baskets, went to church, had an easter egg hunt at home, went to Grandma Jones' for dinner, and had another easter egg hunt there with some of our cousins.  We also tried to teach our girls about the real reason for Easter.  Emma was able to tell us that Christ died for us and after 3 days he was resurrected.  Small steps!!

Love this pic of MB and Kenna....it shows her scowl perfectly!!

Honor Roll

 Emma with her teacher, Ms. Duran, and principal, Mr. Warren

We were really blessed this year with a great Kindergarten teacher, Ms. Duran.  Emma has learned so much from her and we are really proud of what she has accomplished.  We were especially pleased when we found out that she had made the Honor Roll for Trimester 2!  Kindergarten has standards that are a little different than the rest of the grade levels.  They have one set of standards for the whole year that they have to learn by the end of the year.  So for Trimester 1, no student made the honor roll because they were just starting to learn everything.  For trimester 2, only a small handful of students had mastered all of the standards already to be able to receive the honor roll award so it was extra special.  We are so proud of Emma!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

As a working mother from home, I don't always get to do the super great things that I wish I had time to do with my girls.  But, I get to stay home and take care of them, and I do try to squeeze in some fun things.  One of those things is our St. Patrick's Day treasure hunt!  I did this last year for the girls and when it hit March 1st Emma wouldn't stop talking about how she was so excited for the treasure hunt on March 17th!  So I decided it would have to be a tradition.  Since it was on a Sunday this year we had to wake up extra early to find what the little Leprechaun left us.  I was also so proud of Emma because she was able to read the clues all by herself with just a little help on the big words. 

Princess for a Day!

Our good friend Courtney is going to the Paul Mitchell school and as a fundraiser they did a "Princess for a Day" for little girls.  So I of course took Emma and Maddie and they loved it!!  They got their make-up done, their fingernails painted, and their hair done.  It was so cute!!

Christmas Day 2012

Christmas Day is always a day that we really look forward to.  We love Christmas!!!  Jacob got home around 8 and I was able to keep the girls upstairs so we could both watch them come down the stairs.  Then, before presents, we had the missionaries come over for a yummy breakfast.  After they left, we were finally able to open presents.  The girls loved this part, of course, but we really enjoyed seeing Makenna figuring out that presents were fun to open and she tried to open a lot of them.  There were a lot of pictures of opening presents so here are just a few of them.  After that, we were able to go to Grandma's house for dinner with the rest of the family.  The dinner was one of the best that I can remember and it just turned out to be a really wonderful Christmas!!

Christmas Eve 2012

We spent Christmas Eve the way we do every year, at MB and Nathan's house.  We love to go and enjoy family but we really just go for the yummy brisket and cinnamon rolls that Nathan makes.  :)  When we got home, the girls opened their new pajamas and Jacob read them "The Night Before Christmas".  Then, they put out the letters they wrote to Santa and went to bed!! (I love the letters so much!!  I will be keeping these ones!)