An early Christmas gift

Well we finally gave in and suprised the girls with a puppy for Christmas! His name is Bo and he is a Papillon and is 6 months old.  The girls love him and so will I once we get him potty trained.

Kaily will be playing with him and say

"Mom I still think that it's just a dream that we have a dog".



These are the pictures on our Christmas card just thought I would post them so you could view them uncropped, they are kinda small on our card.                

 

4th of July

Jadyn and Andy riding on the tube this past weekend at the Pom de Terr lake down by our grandparents house. Andy would grab Jadyn like he was going to throw her in, then set her down. Then he lost his balance and fell in, but Jadyn stayed on the tube!! Jadyn thought it was the greatest thing ever, she says that she "bucked him in" !!!

Below is a picture of them just floating in the lake. It was a perfect weekend the weather was so nice. We got there soon enough to watch the fire works over the lake, it was a beautiful show.  I will down load some pictures of Alyssa's bithday soon!! I warned you all that i was not going to be to good at this!!!

I told the girls I would make them smoothies while they picked up their rooms. They did then started arguing about who was going to pick up the last toy?? So after sitting in thier rooms for a while they came down to get their snack...and WOW I have never heard so many Thank You's & this is so Yummy, I might have to send them to thier rooms more often!!!   Oh and check out the strawberries they were Huge!

Kaily at her preschool Graduation, with her teacher Miss. Lindasy. Kaily was very nervous, and kept asking if we could sit in the front row so she could see us.  Can't belive our baby is going to Kindergarten :(

Jadyn's Kindergarten program. She didn't smile through the whole thing? Later she told me that she didn't smile on purpose..Why? Because she didn't want to!! So much for cute pictures!! But check out the jeans we found out a way to wear her skinny jeans in the summer, don't know if I will ever be able to get rid of them?

Look closely Jadyn lost her first tooth, and her responce "hu guess it's out" I think I was more excited than she was.
But the reason for this picture is the outfit... She came down stairs this morning and I gave her a look and she said "what  Katie wears it like this"   Thanks Aunt Katie!!!   Jadyn can never just put on a simple outfit, or play clothes, it all has to match. One day we were getting ready to go and she wanted to wear her skinny jeans, but not flip flops, but none of her shoes matched!!! OMGosh do I need to remind her that she is only 6??? Boy am I going to really have my hands full in a few years!!!

Alyssa and her friend Nicole, hanging out after their 6th grade music program.  Its hard to belive they are getting so big, 6th grade is almost over :( I'm not ready for her to grow up any more!!

Braylee

Braylee came for a visit this week so we all got to play with her, she is already getting so big! The girls had alot of fun with her holding her, trying to get her to smile and laugh. It is probable a good thing she doesn't live to close or they would have her compleatly spoiled!!

Jadyn trying to steal the spotlight!

Jadyn and I left Thursday afternoon to go to the Omaha Zoo to spend the night, with the Girl Scouts. We got to go on a night hike to see the animals. Then we slept in the aquarium by the fishes. We got to get up at 6am to get a tour of the zoo.  We had alot of fun!!! Here is Jadyn with a couple of her friends, ready for bed.

Some days I wonder if I am to strict with my kids, not letting them be creative.  Today they proved me wrong. Jadyn and Cameron were playing with a big bandage, from the doctor kit. They played doctor, mummy, ninga and my favorite Giant Sling Shot!!!! They started out small with stuffed animals, then they filled it with dress up clothes, then they tried themselves!! (It was not quite elastic enough to do anything , they would just run and jump onto the floor) they were laughing so hard, it was so much fun to watch!!! Next they went to get the little 1 year old baby I watch to sling shot her! That would be were I drew the line!!

Kaily had crazy sock day at school, here is the outfit we picked out the night before.  About 10min before Grandma Kim came to pick her up she decided that the socks made her itch and she tried rolling them down?? Did not look to good! So we called Grandma and she brought over 4 other pairs of socks, none of which were quite right, she wanted Grandma's socks, so like any Wonderful Grandma would she gave her socks, off her own feet. What a nice Grandma!!!

Well I don't have a picture but I thought I would just give a weelky update.  Earlier this week Alyssa and Kaily got their hair cut, they both prefer it short, but Thomas does not.  I will get a picture of them.  Kaily has been complaining of a really bad headace and sore throat the past couple of days, so I took her in to the doctor today and she has strep throat.  So we get to start an antibiotic, and just to let you know Kaily does NOT like medicine, so for the next 5 days we get to attempt to give it to her, which she will in turn cough back up and spit out!!!! And for all of you who are thinking 'just hide it in her food' ya I have tried about everyting and she can taste it. But Spring Break is next week, the girls are looking forward to it, hopefully we will have some spring weather so we can spend some time outside!!

Jadyn & Kaily are usually best friends, key word being usually!! Today we are having a good day they are playing Littlest Pet Shop.  Jadyn is in Kindergarden and is loving it!! We just signed her up for soccer this spring. It will be her first year and Alyssa's last year to play. Jadyn is learning to read so quite often she is wanting to read one of her little books to us. If she can't find an audience she reads out loud, teacher style to her imaginary class. It is quite cute.  Kaily, otherwise known as Jo-jo, is in Preschool she will go to Kindergarden in the fall. For the most part she likes school, but we have our mornings that she would rather stay home in her pjs. But she has always been content staying home with Mom. Next year could be interesting when she has to go to school every day? She loves watching TV, Spongebob being her favorite. These two little girls keep me on my toes!!

Here is Alyssa at her last compotition of the season. They had Nationals in KC, they had to preform two days so we got to spend the night and swim in the Hotel! The little girls got to come down with Grandma Kim and Papa, and they all had a blast swimming. Alyssa's team took 4th, out of 4 teams:( mainly beacuse they came out of one of their lifts wrong. But their preformance the second day was the best they have ever done!!!

Alyssa

For my first couple of blogs I am going to give a little update on our 3 girls. Here is Alyssa, she is now in 6th grade. She has been doing gymnastics for a couple of years and we decided to try compitition cheer this year, WOW if we only knew what we were getting in to!! All and all it has been fun and a good experience for Alyssa, we are very proud of her! They have about a 3min routine and have to do it in front of a huge croud and they get judged on their preformance among otherthings like if their hair and outfits match, smiling ect.. Here she is with her sparkly makeup, hair piece (no I did not spend 2hours curling it!!)  and outfit. Maybe someday I can figure out how to downloade a vidio of their routine??

Hello everyone, I have decided to join the digital world and try out this blogging thing. Just to give you a heads up I am going to be really bad at this and probably won't update it as much as I should.