Baby Shower

My friend Brandy threw me an awesome baby shower this weekend!!!! I am sooooo grateful that she did, there is A LOT that I gave away that now needed to be replaced. It was also nice to get together with good friends and celebrate baby shortcake. My mom flew in for it, which made it even more special. Here are some pictures.

Sofia's 1/2 Birthday

Sofia turned 4 and 1/2 today!!!!! I can't believe it! 5 years ago this week, I was just starting to tell people I was pregnant, and now I have a beautiful almost 5 year old. She brings absolute joy to my life. She is kind, sweet, funny, smart, and I feel absolutely blessed that she calls me mom! Happy 1/2 Birthday Little Girl.

On Saturday Night we went to "King's Crown," with friends. We surprised Sofia last minute and she was so excited to see her buddies Hank and Charlotte. We had pizza, played games and had cupcakes.



Sofia WON this out of the claw game! I couldn't believe it!!!!!!!! We all were shocked! Yes that is a sun burn on her face from being in our pool....I love January in Southern California!


Emily REALLY enjoyed the cupcakes, I mean really enjoyed them. She tried to eat anyone's left overs.



She couldn't believe how much fun she was having!

Then today she got to bring cookies to school to celebrate. She brought her favorite Chocolate Chip! We made them together last night.

Ballet Recital

Sofia had her dance recital last weekend. She was by far the most beautiful Ballerina, and the most talented tap dancer (I am not partial at all:)! I am so incredibly proud of her, and she had a great time.

Conversation with Emily

My conversation with Emily two minutes ago was HILARIOUS!

She came in with a Cinderella barbie and said, "Oh my goodness!......Fabulous!" To which I knew what she was saying and chuckled a little and said, "Yes she does look fabulous." To which she replied "Crack up." Again I knew what she meant and that I thought she was a crack up, and I said, "Yes you are a crack up Emmy." To which she then replied "Hilarious!" I do find everything she says hilarious and fabulous!

Toy Story on Ice

For Christmas the girls got tickets to Toy Story on Ice, so that is what we did on New Year's Eve. It was so much fun! The girls LOVED it, and had a great time. It was like watching them go to a famous Rock concert or something. From the moment the lights went down and the music played they were totally entranced! At the part where Barbie came out, Sofia could hardly contain her excitement and Emily was still, and silent the entire time...I mean really entranced! Here are a couple of cute pics of them in their matching Jessie outfits.


Sofia is a little annoyed with me in picture because she is worried about getting to her seat on time.


Again a little annoyed and would like me to sit down before the show starts....she was VERY excited!


Emily was just excited about EVERYTHING!


Sofia giving us a Jessie wink:)


My two little Jessies


Daddy on Emmy duty during intermission, she found the stairs.


The Barbie part!

Happy New Year

This year we had a great time ringing in the New Year! We spent New Year's Eve with Tim and Brandy and their cutie kids. We all had a good time. We hung out, had pizza, let the kids run wild, lit sparklers, did the hot tub and laughed a whole lot! We were all in bed asleep by 9:30, it was perfect:) (A little different New Year's Eve than 10 years ago:)
Here are a couple of pics from our great time:


Sofia and Addie getting ready to ring in the New Year

Just one of Emily's 5 costume changes that night

The Dads and the kids in the hot tub

New Year's Princess

Brandy and Tim lighting fireworks

Emily and Chad thoroughly enjoying lighting stuff on fire!

More fireworks. The kids loved writing their names with the fireworks.

Emily sporting the New Year's hat, and swim suit the next morning. I think she was hoping for a repeat of the night before.

Christmas 2011

This Christmas was SUPER fun! Both girls really celebrated the season this year. We talked a lot about Jesus's birth, but we also did Santa, and a lot of Christmas light viewing! Emily is still asking every night to go and see lights. We went light on gifts, and decorations, which actually turned out to be nice. Here are a couple of pictures from Christmas.

Christmas Eve, the girls in their dresses, and getting to open one gift from Mommy and Daddy, their Christmas ornament. This is the one gift they get from us, and this year we hit the jackpot! We got Emily a Gnomeo and Juliet ornament that she hasn't stopped carrying around yet, and Sofia a dancing Nutcracker ballerina, that she plays all the time and dances to.


Sofia setting out cookies for Santa and lettuce for the reindeer. Emily didn't make it, she was too tired.


Christmas morning, Santa came!


Sofia showing Emily her new Ariel dress. Emily loved this gift, and put it on immediately. However she didn't really like opening any other gifts. She just wanted to wear her costume and hat and play.


Here Emily is modeling her new get up:)


Sofia got a Jessie costume that also got put on immediately and is getting worn A LOT! In fact the one gift Santa did right was to get two new dress up outfits for the girls:) Sofia is excited to have the whole outfit on.


Sofia also got a violin, something she REALLY wanted.


Emily got a cupcake set that you can decorate, this kept us busy for a long time!


Another big hit was Big Baby...at least that is what Emily named her. She wrapped her up, sang to her, gave her a bottle. She loves Big baby.


Here Chad caught the look of shock on my face as Emily took Sofia's beloved Blue baby out of the new highchair that they got (thank you Aunt Mary Kay) to put Big Baby in it. Sofia had just left to go get baby food for Blue baby....there were tears following this photo on both ends.


And of course the big finale, we celebrated Jesus's birthday with a birthday cake. Chad accused me of using Jesus's birthday as an excuse to get a costco cake....I think my husband might know me, but we all enjoyed a GIANT slice of cake.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!