Girl's Christmas pictures

Story time with Daddy

Our gluten free ginger bread house

Lana's 2 year old birthday!

Lana is trying to keep her hands clean while eating her birthday cupcake

Trip to Tennessee

We had a wonderful time with family last week and are already looking forward to our next family reunion!

Wonderful visit with Grandma

We love you Grandma and look forward to a Christmas together!

Pajama girls and more snow

This picture has the same tree in the background as the first picture I posted below with the yellow leaves. Only a few weeks later and now it is covered in snow. Notice the kids picnic table buried as well.

More Fall fun outside

A beautiful fall day

Changing seasons

I have been looking forward to experiencing the seasons this year since this is my first year away from California. Gary and I have been so excited about the concept of fall and the changing colors and the children have been talking about leaping in giant leaf piles for weeks. These are pictures taken last week of our backyard encased in snow. What a surprise to see snow the first week of October. Sadly, the leaves are now quickly falling from the trees. We will need to get some big leaf piles together quickly so the kids can have some fall fun before another snow. I hear that Colorado weather is different every year and not easy to predict.

Kayla and Mommy

Our sweet little Kayla has begun to have a huge mommy addiction that the normal amount of mommy time just cannot seem to satisfy. I was feeling really stumped in trying to come up with a way to squeeze in more time holding Kayla and still get stuff done around house, or with the other children, when I remembered the snuggly. I am now putting Kayla in the snuggly while I clean the kitchen or play outside with the kids. She loves to be attached to me and sings and kicks her legs with joy during these times together.

Kayla's birthday party

We always try to make birthdays a time of fun for the kids, unfortunately Kayla had a round of shots the day before her party and was feeling very emotional. When Lana started crying during cake time the birthday girl lost it as well. Even during presents Kayla had several rounds of tears. Hopefully on Kayla's next birthday she will be able to enjoy the celebration a little more, I will need to keep shots far away from birthdays in the future!

Dress up

Little buddies at the zoo

Bryant and Lana are so cute walking together! When we go to the zoo there is a lot of walking and they love to hold hands. Bryant leads Lana to whatever he wants to see and she is very happy to be right beside him. I watched Bryant take Lana into a dark cave (I was behind them) and I was so amazed to see Lana completely trusting her big brother to take care of her. There was no fear in her face even though there were strangers all around and it was very dark.