Christmas

Here we go, lots of pictures of Christmas morning.

The kids' new princess tent. This is Emma in defiance mode after we said "smile!" Of course we found out later she had a high fever. Poor kid has been sick all week.

Opening presents

Bert's new hat


We had cute matching pajamas for the girls but Kaylie managed to have a blowout in them the night before.


Bert's pride and joy, he made an apple pie which was delish! I think I'll have some of the leftovers for lunch.

Paint projects

The nice thing about having a school teacher/painter husband is that he gets two weeks off for Christmas and can work on projects like this:

Finally, Emma has her cute little girl room.

First Snow

Well, a snowstorm the day before Thanksgiving canceled our vacation plans and dumped a ton of snow. So we bundled up the girls to go out and play

"I can't move my arms!" Name that movie. My 15 month old is lost inside her 12 month snow suit.


Dad and the girls

And back after only 10 minutes. It was only about 15 degrees outside!


Kaylie was not very happy with the whole experience. I don't think she can walk in those pants.

Happy Halloween!

We had two days of some Halloween fun this year.

On Friday, Emma went to preschool as a Utah cheerleader and had a great little class party with lots of treats.

Saturday night we had a ward trunk or treat and Halloween party, Emma loved her fairy princess costume.

Kaylie went as a "buzzy bee" as Emma called it. She would not sit still for pictures, this is the best I got.

And my two girls.


Daddy usually goes all out, this year was no exception. For some reason this picture makes him look kinda creepy. The kids at the party loved him, although it took a while for Emma to warm up. And of course Kaylie managed to get into a chocolate bar.

I just had to include this one. She had a hard time with so many people in crazy costumes packed into the church house. This was the look most people got while she was trick-or-treating.

And Bert's favorite moment, the first time he made chili and he won second place in the chili cook-off!

Halloween fun

We took advantage of a break in the rain on Saturday and went to the pumpkin patch. The girls loved it. Well, Kaylie loved it as long as she could climb on a tractor and was not happy when I strapped her into the stroller to go looking for pumpkins, it was nap time. So we didn't stay too long.

And Emma sporting her new winter coat we bought that day. It seriously went from 70 degree days to 40 degrees in about 2 days. I'm not sure I'm ready for this.

And tonight we carved pumpkins. It's all Emma has talked about for days. I told her to smile and got this face instead. I think she's competing with the pumpkin for the scary face award.