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December 14, 2011: 
Note to self: When making the home remedy or apple cider vinegar, honey and water, a little vinegar is good...more is DEFINATELY not better!


December 27:
Lacey: Mommy what are you eating?

Me: it's stuffing
Lacey: It wooks wike puke! Are you eating puke?
Me: It's not puke
Kylie: Lacey when you were sick last week did you see mommy eat your puke? No! Mommy doesn't eat puke!


I found this little interaction so funny. I don't know what was funnier the fact that Lacey thought I was eating puke or Kylie finding the need to explain to her that I DON'T eat puke!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to  yours!

Gingerbread Village

The girls decorated their gingerbread village

I really thought they would have fun doing it for quite a while

I was wrong...

They decorated for about 10 minutes

before telling me they were done

They did, however, get a lot done in that 10 minutes

All in all they houses they decorated turned out cute.  I guess the main thing is they had fun!

Christmas Parties!

All three girls had their Christmas parties today.  It was so nice to be able to be at all 3 parties.

Kylie's was first, they each colored a puzzle piece and then all the kids put it together to see the 'secret message'.

Then they did a candy cane race, Kylie's team came in first!  And then of course there were treats and gifts to open.  I think all the kids had a great time.

Then Kylie and I were on to the little girls Christmas party at their daycare.  It was nice that the timing worked out so well!

Katie and her friends enjoyed some juice and muffins!  Then they were off playing with all of the parent that came into see them.  They had lots of fun enjoying the extra attention!

Kylie mostly stayed in Lacey's class enjoying the treats they had (theirs were better than Katies :)).  After Lacey's class enjoyed their treats they sang 2 songs for the parents that were there.  They had lots of fun opening their books that they exchanged.  Although some knew which books they brought and didn't quite understand the 'exchange' concept....their only 3, I guess that's what you'd expect!

All in all each of the girls had a great time, and so did Mommy!

11 Months!

Look who's 11 months old already!  It's hard to believe that in a month's time this little sweetheart is going to be 1 YEAR old!  Seems like she should still be the tiny helpless baby, but she is anything but helpless.  She tries very hard to keep up with her sisters and does an amazingly good job at it!  She took her first steps earlier this month but has not yet REALLY taken off.  Everyday I see her try to take more and more steps, won't be long now!  :)

Stripes

Check out the stripes on her belt!  Kylie earned her first stripes tonight at Karate!  She has only been going to Karate for 2 weeks!  They had a group of kids leveling up and those that are not getting another belt are able to earn stripes.  She was so proud of herself.

To earn the stripes she had to break a board with her fist.  She was able to do it on the second try!  She said afterward, 'Mom do you see how purple my fist is?  That is HARD work to break that board!'

We are so proud of her!  She LOVES going to Karate!

Random things heard around my house today

Kylie: Lacey do you even know what jail is?
Lacey: Uh, yeah
Kylie: Really, then what is it?
Lacey: Uh, it's kinda like a time out.

Lacey: Kylie did you write one this thing (foam magic wand)
Kylie: Yes, I did
Lacey: O.M.G!
Then when Kylie and I were laughing she looked at both of us and said 'was I silly?' Too funny!

Lacey: Mommy you've been very good, you get one skittle!

Traditional Christmas Pictures of all the girls together

The 3 girls together, the did a beautiful job.

Kylie and Katie...Lacey was having a bit of a hard time at that moment ;-)

Katie's First Christmas pictures!

Katie did such a good job getting her picture taken!

I really thought she was going to be the one that was the hardest to take since she is so busy crawling these days.  She did great, my only complaint?  She looks so much older that 10 months!!!

Kylie's Christmas Pictures

Kylie lost her two front teeth a couple of weeks ago so now she's sportin' the 'all I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth' look!

Love her, she is a great job as usual :-)

Lacey's Christmas Pictures

Lacey's Christmas, 2011

Katie's 10 Month's Old already!

It's hard to believe our youngest daughter is already 10 months old.

She fits in perfectly with our family.  And soon she will be walking!  Right now is practices standing unassisted for long periods of time.  One of her FAVORITE past times is to push all of the kitchen chairs as far as she can until she runs into something.  She has a toddler toy for walking but very much prefers the chairs and the garbage can!

Lacey's 3 Year Birthday Pictures

I had orginally planned to take Lacey's pictures myself, but the weather just would NOT cooperate!

So we opted for the tried and true Portrait Innovations.  I love that place, I always get WAY more pictures that I need and almost always LOVE all of the pictures.

I think they did a great job capturing Lacey's personality!  Fiesty, spunky, and sweet indeed!

The tope 3 pictures are the ones that I ended up selecting.  She did a great job!

Love you Lacey!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful day with family.  The only downside is Greg had to leave on Thanksgiving Day to work early on Friday.  Bummer!

Happy 3rd Birthday To Lacey!

Our loveable, laughable, lively little Lacey turns 3 today!!!

She is such a smart, sweet, yet sassy, spunky, and silly little girl.  We wouldn't want her any other way.

Dear Lacey,

Mommy and Daddy love you so much.  We love the fact that your eyes are always sparkling.  It is you that keeps us on our toes at all times.  Not just because we wonder what you could be getting into but also because we wonder what you are going to think to say next!  You have such a way with your words even at only 3.  Lots of people have a hard time beliving you are just turning 3!

At 3 years old you can spell and recognize your name in print.  You are obsesessed with Dora and the Disney Princesses.  You Love the letter 'L'.  Your favorite colors are pink and purple.  You can count to 16 and know pretty much all of your colors.  Your teachers at daycare tell me you are almost the first one to shout out the letter when they print them on the board.

We are so proud of you Lacey.  Mommy and Daddy cannot wait to see what your future holds, one thing we know is it will be bright!  We will always be there to support you no matter what.

Love you,
Mommy and Daddy

Halloween!

The girls had so much fun for halloween this year.

I was able to visit all three girls' parties at their school.

Kylie's had a parade at hers, the junior high marching band led the way.  I'll post that video tomorrow!

Kylie decided that she want to be a bumble bee this year, which was a surprise because all year she wanted to be an indian girl and at the last minute changed her mind which is SO unlike her.

Lacey and Katie's daycare did a parade too.  Its was cute, as soon as the little ones came around the corner and saw their parents....parade was over!  

Katie was carried in the parade by 'thing 2' 

Evidence of kids breaking away from the parade...namely Lacey!  Although it looks like she was the only one in this picture, you will notice all the other parents standing around too, that's because their kid already came and go them. 

Lacey loved being a princess this year...she told everyone she could how pretty she was.  I thought she looked pretty cute too! 

My little Katiebug Ladybug!  She is the second one of my daughters to be a lady bug, Kylie was first and hated her costume.  So much so that the next year for halloween I didn't even get her a costume.  Katie didn't mind hers at all!

A rare photo of Lacey and Katie together.  I love that they are both looking at me...doesn't happen very often! 

Lacey being...well...Lacey :-) 

Katie loved the party too, she had so much fun playing in Lacey's classroom.  She's looking very mischevious in this picture!

Tough Day

Please say a prayer for my family today. 

Today we said our final goodbyes to 2 of the most wonderful people in the world, Nana and Papa.

We love and miss them terribly.

Kylie

My beautiful oldest daughter...

Kylie loves to have her picture taken.  During our family photo shoot this past weekend all of the girls got to do some individual shots.  They enjoyed their 'special' time.

Silly Little Lacey

Miss Lacey is less than one month away from being 3!

Where does the time go?

She is such a silly little girl. She has us laughing at various times most of the day.  You never really know what is going to come out of her mouth.

The above picture definately shows off her personality to a tee!

My hubby and I

Two of my sister's and one of my nephews came to visit us this weekend.  While they were here I asked my sister Shawna if she would be willing to take our family pictures.  She does a really great job, and it is so much less stressful than going to a studio.  Thankfully she agreed!  This is one of the many pictures she took.  She did a great job!