Monday, January 28, 2013

Christmas 2013

We had a nice Christmas at our home. It is always fun seeing the happy faces of the children. My favorite part is always seeing them open their stockings and Santa gifts. 


Tera got a tetherball set from Christmas. She is very into tether ball right now! 

 Mazzi got a princess castle from Santa
Ryder was super excited about his stocking! Isn't he the cutest little guy ever!? 

Tera loves to sing so she got this karakoe machine for Christmas. As soon as the girls began to sing loudly into the mics, we questioned the brilliance of getting this gift for them! 


The day after Christmas we head to Redding to spend the rest of the vacation with our families  The kids had a great time there. Here they are collecting pine cones for a bon fire. 




Mazzi's Four!


 Our sweet, sassy, feisty little girl is four years old! Can't believe how big she is! She is so fun to be around lately  Such a happy, funny, giggly little girl! She is always saying things like "your so silly mom."
Her latest trick is to say "Mom, whats that over there?" and then run away and hide as fast as she can so I don't see her when I turn back around. (She obviously learned this from tv) If I turn around too quickly she gets upset and tells me "not yet mom!" She loves to play with her friends. She is a good big sister to Ryder and a good little sister to Ashton and Tera. She is always coloring pictures for friends and family and putting out snacks for them as well. She loves to dance, sing, color, cut and torment our cat.  She is enjoying preschool.

We had a low-key birthday at chickfila. My friend Rachel made her this fabulous and also very yummy cake!


I have to put these pictures on here to remember. I came out to her coloring our family on her legs. She happily pointed out each member of our family (after she realized she wasn't in trouble)
I will often know when she has done something naughty because she will say "don't look mom." Like when I ask if she has cleaned her room she will say "Yes mom, but don't look." An instant clue that she did not clean her room. Silly goose! Also she gets several words confused right now and I find it adorable!
She calls sprinkles "sparkles", pine cones "pumpkins, and polka dots "coconuts" just to say a few. Love this darling, headstrong, happy little girl!




St. George Girls Trip 2012

Had such a great time on our fourth annual girls trip to St. George. I am so glad I decided to go, even with a three week old baby it was still a blast! We had a great time eating, shopping and chatting.

We pigged out one night... getting several deserts and sharing them all. I think we each gained a few pounds in one night. Eating several cupcakes and other yummy pastries. 




 And here is my little shopping and snuggle buddy.... just love this guy. He got plenty of snuggles from all of us :)





We survived another year of family photos!