Party Girl

We celebrated DD1's birthday yesterday. We started out the morning with a birthday party. It was our first "friend" party and it went pretty well. She invited all the girls in her kindergarten class (8) and 6 girls came so it was just the right size. We decorated the living room with pink hearts and balloons. The theme of the party was 'princess' so the girls made pink foam crowns and jewel necklaces. Then we played 'kiss the frog' and 'don't eat pete'. After cake and ice cream and presents, we finished it off with painting fingernails. The whole party was 90 minutes so it was pretty quick and painless.
Later that night my sister and her family came over to celebrate with us. DD1 blew the candles out again and opened her presents from the family. The hit of the evening had to be...ZhuZhu Pets! She really wanted them for Christmas but they were impossible to get so we planned to get them for her birthday. It was a group effort because my friend in SL picked up the hamsters for us, my sister bought the tunnels in Logan, and I ordered the main playset online. They are cute but kinda a pain to put together.

I think that she had a fun birthday and I'm glad it only comes once a year! HB kiddo!

Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday to my sweet girl. I can't believe that she is 6! I tried to talk her into skipping her birthday this year, but she has been counting down the days. She is a true joy to our family, a great sister, and very silly. We love her so much! We had a fun birthday party this morning with her friends and we are having a little party tonight with my sister and her family. I'll post pictures of the festivities tomorrow!

Resolutions and catch up

Among my New Year's Resolutions this year is to be a better blogger. Not only for all of you 'faithful followers' but for our own family journal. I decided to start with a reasonable goal so I plan to blog once a week. (Feel free to send me hate mail if I fail to keep up with my goal.) My girls are at such fun ages where they do and say hilarious things so hopefully that will give me plenty of material! Let's see...Halloween was fun, Thanksgiving was great too, and that brings us to Christmas.
We got the girls their own little tree to decorate for Christmas. They had a blast decorating it and it left our big tree for me to decorate- I am kinda a control freak that way.
(I like how it looks like our dog is laughing in this picture:)Every year we take a few pictures of the girls in their Chrismas dresses in front of the Christmas tree. They turned out very cute this year. It doesn't hurt that both kids love to pose for the camera!
Both of the girls got scooters for Christmas this year. DD1 really wanted one, and little sister wants to be just like her big sister, so that's what they asked Santa to bring. Other favorite gifts for DD1 were a boom box complete with cds, and a leapster from Grandma. DD2 was happy for her Littlest Pet Shop house and a new Webkinz pet. BBVD (my hubby) and I decided to keep it simple this year since we headed off for a trip the day after Christmas!
(Pictures from the trip are coming up in the next post)

St. George

We took a fun mini-vacation to St. George over the fall break. We didn't have school on Thursday or Friday so we drove down on Thurs. and came back on Sunday. My mom and sister and her 2 kids came too so the van was packed full, but it was lots of fun. The kids actually did really well on the drive there and back. We hit a traffic jam on the way down so it actually took 1.5 hours longer to get there than it did to get home! We missed daddy and grandpa, but enjoyed the fun in the sun. Thanks mom!Best friends!

The kids wanted to stay in the pool all the time! It was an outdoor pool so it got a little chilly when the sun when down.

While we were there we took the 2 older kids miniature golfing. The next day we went to a bounce house that was full of blow up toys. The kids had a blast!