Alphabet Parade

Windermere Primary school has an alphabet parade every year and Jaeden decided she wanted to be the letter B. She wore all blue and has butterflies on her shirt. Her "B" poster has bananas and balloons all over it.

Happy 7th Anniversary Handsome!

December 27, 2002

Photography by Jaeden

Fun pics

Dominic checking himself out in Avery's mirror. I don't blame the handsome little man.

Rachel Murdock came to visit us one afternoon a couple days after Christmas. Jaeden put about 5 blankets ontop of her to make sure she was comfortable. My girls LOVE Rachey. She is the best and we miss her!
The girls love jumping and I love for them to do it!

Merry Christmas 2009

Jaeden yelling up to Santa for a new scooter

Avery asking for a pink guitar

Dominic's first time, very happy and I'm sure confused by the activity

Yay for some "boy" toys!!
Santa brought both girls new scooters

Avery was so happy she could "rock out the show"!

Cousins sent the girls cute crocs and new purses, very stylish!

We had a great Christmas together with our little family. We went out and rode scooters, Daddy spent a couple hours setting up the new trampoline Grandma and Grandpa Haynes got the kids and had fun playing the Wii Grandma and Grandpa Hanson got the family. We all were very spoiled and wiped out by the end of the day. We missed our other family members but felt their love on such a special day and hope they felt ours too.

Great Wolf Lodge

This was what it looked like outside while we were having some fun in the water, CRAZY cold!
We had to take a family photo on our way out.

CUTE, CUTE, CUTE

See how Avery is trying to sneakily pick off some of the treasure in the treasure chest

This is Santa's thrown but the girls had a good time climbing all over it
We took the kids to the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, TX a couple days before Christmas. We had the best time. We didn't tell the girls it was a water park hotel and when we showed up you could see part of a couple slides coming out of the building and they got so excited. It was so great having fun in the water when it was so cold outside. I definetly recommend this fun hotel and can't wait to go back.

Tradition!!

Jaeden is wearing a sombrero on the top row.

Jaeden and all of Windermere's Kindergarten classes put on a Christmas program all about the world's Traditions. Jaeden's class did a Puerto Rican Folk Song and sang Feliz Navidad. It was so fun to watch and all the Kindergartner's were so cute! It was especially fun to hold Dominic and try and video tape and take pictures so this was the best I got.

12 Days of Christmas

My mom, Grammie D to the kids sent us a large box before Christmas. There were 12 gifts wrapped with little instructions for each day. The girls absolutely LOVED walking up, getting ready very cooperatively so they could open their present and see what it was for the day. Below are just a few things Grammie D sent them to do. It made our Christmas wonderful with lots of fun things to do together as a family. Some other things I don't have pictures of are game night with cards like Crazy 8's, Old Maid and popcorn to eat. We made cookies one night and on the last night we opened a Gospel Art book all about the Savior. I can't thank you enough Mom for sending this to us, you are amazing!!

Jaeden and Avery making their beautiful sparkly snowflakes
Don't you want to just squeeze and kiss those wonderful cheeks??

Jaeden making her picture collage

The girls made white chocolate peppermint bark, Avery couldn't get enough of it

They got to cut (with my help) and tie all the sides to make this warm, soft blanket to give away to someone who was sick or didn't have a blanket

They decorated this Santa hat and then got to put their face, all greased up with vasaline in a bowl of cotton balls to be like Santa. After they yelled "HO HO Ho" as loud as they could. They had so much fun!

Avery was a little hesitant to do it at first but saw all the fun Jaeden was having so she jumped right in.

Cute Miss Santa

This was the totally fun laser game. We strung up yarn (lasers) all across the room onto everything so they had to get across the room without getting zapped. They did this for hours and still always ask to play it. It's really fun when mom needs to walk across the room over and over. :)