I have a FOUR YEAR OLD! and she's the baby?

Olivia has been telling people her birthday 'is coming up' since October. When people ask her age I always say 'she's almost four' which she MUST think is an exact age because the other day she told me she was four.. and I said 'no you're still three' and she got these geat big tears in her eyes and said 'NO, mama I'm almost four'


She got some small toys, a doll, and a dress up Thumbalina dress and shoes...she calls them bumbalinas



She insisted on wearing her gymnastics suit everywhere we went today (its amayas old one, jordyns old one). She doesn't do gymnastics but told everyone today 'my mom is getting ready to hang me up' I couldn't figure out what the heck she was talking about until she said, 'right mama? you're gonna hang me up for gymnastics?" OHHHHHHH, she means, 'sign me up'...I hadn't signed her up yet but will for next month


And the last and most hilarious thing that she's said recently was that she has recently discovered two moles (beauty marks) that she has on her body. One is on her hand and one on her tummy...She was sooooo proud when she came in the other day and posed with one hand straight up in the air and her tummy wayyy out and said very seriously, "Mama, look at the pimples I got...Santa Claus brought them for me!!!"

Work

Like you Don't need the Money

LOVE

Like you've Never Been Hurt

DANCE

Like Nobody is Watching

Christmas

We went to Temple Square to see the lights

My kids ADORE playing with the Christmas village we have for a decoration. I don't mind glueing pieces together and heads back on because it keeps them occupied for hours.This is our Christmas dinner. Small but special...
Adam and Amaya and their new snow hats..
Olivia was sooo Excited for her new kitchen set and 'crab hands'

On the 24th we went sledding with the cousins and made gingerbread houses

This is Cade eating the snow....

This is why he is eating the snow...

Jordy and Amaya going down together...

Awwwww, Court and Jen

Olivia and her oohhh so small snow suit...

Edgar and Olivia took the dogs out for a snow run...

Feeling like I needed this Today....

Things turn out the Best for the People who make the Best of the Way things Turn Out....

Halloween

This was our third annual Halloween Party. My kids always beg for one because of those cute little magazines at the store that show you how to make the special food for parties. We had:
Bat Wings- Black Tortilla Chips
Halloweenies- Cocktail sized pigs in blankets wrapped like mummies with mustard eyes
Monster Toes- Green dyed sugar cookies with red colored almoned slivered toenails
Witch's Brew- Ginger Ale and Ice Cream served with gummy worms
Snake- A salami wrap cut into a slithering snake thing
I should have taken pictures of the food...Sorry...

Here we have Indiana Jones, a cute little witch, Belle, and Cleopatra.

This is the annual dance off. Napoleon Dynamite was quite entertaining.

We bobbed for apples, and we had a costume contest and two pinatas. I love Halloween!
I Trick or Treated every year including my senior year. My kids are not as intense about it as I was. Not yet anyways...

So I came up to Olivia today and gave her a big hug and said, "Hey Sweet Pea!" She said, "Mama, I don't like potty talk." ;)

My Family Picture

Please vote and let me know which picture you think I should make big and put in my Living Room. Maybe its just me, but I think its the wrong lighting in #6 that makes my butt look big.

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