Paige turns 5!!

Paige turned the big 5 on Oct. 24. It's so crazy to think she's already here. She is 41 inches tall and weighs 36lbs. She is such a smarty and can read books kindergartners are just finishing. She can do very basic math and is still pretty musically inclined. She loves playing on the computer and loves playing her cousins wii. She has such a strong personality and is going to be a leader some day. Love this girl and all her snuggly hugs!!
This year we wanted to let her have a friend birthday party and of course she picked a princess theme. Thank goodness these girls are only 5 and everything is fun for them. They all came in princess dresses. We started out decorating wands. Note to everyone- glitter needs to be controlled by the adult. We had glitter in every nook and cranny for weeks on end. Next we decorated what were supposed to be butterfly cookies and they each got to pick their own color of frosting. They looked a little more like mishapen blobs but the girls didn't care and they ate it all up. Paige is still asking to make "butterfly" cookies. On to the best part, presents. She got alot of fun stuff and Paige was so good to say thank you for each gift. (After a firm coaching session at the beginning of the party!) Next was the big face painting activity. I have nooooo artistic blood so I gave the girls two choices, a flower or butterfly. I figured I could pull those off. The girls played in Paige's room until I was ready for each individual girl. It was such a fun day and Paige had lots of fun with her friends.

Here are some fun pics:

Random pics!

I love these girls!!!

Paige's dancing endeavor

Paige is such a dancer. She is constantly twirling, leaping and dancing. She has such a dancers body and I wonder if she'll have a talent for it. This year, we decided to stretch the budget and enroll her in a dance class with Energy Dance (just down the street from us). To start off her dancing debut, she took a little day camp dance class with her "best friend", Clara. The class was done by the Weber State dancers. They danced at a half time during a WSU football game. Paige was over the moon. She was so cute.












Now she's going to dance class every week. While I observe, I realize that she's kind of in her own little world and a little spacy. It's kind of funny to watch her but I know she loves it so we'll see where it goes. Here are some pics from the half time show as well as Paige's first day at dance. Ashley likes to immitate her.

Brett is 4 months!!

The time has flown by. Two months ago I was thinking about doing a blog update on him turning two months. That didn't happen. Now Brett is 4 months old and has grown so much. I just took him in for his checkup and he's 13lb 5oz and is 24? inches tall. Such a cutie.
Brett is such a happy little guy and talks (coos) all the time. He's now starting to grab at his toys when he's sitting in the bouncer and he'll reach for my phone when I'm holding it in front of him. He laughs at everything and is particularly taken with his sisters.
They both love Brett so much but Ashley has more of a fixation on him. She is always aware of where he's at. She'll sit by him, climb on him, kiss him, hug him, crawl on him and LOOOOOOOVE him!!! Wherever Brett is, Ashley is. Sometimes it drives me crazy and I'm constantly telling him to leave him alone. Other times, I'm telling her to go make him laugh and keep him entertained. Poor kid is probably confused. His daycare providers, Shanette and Shanel, think he is the happiest and easiest baby. They are constantly wishing all of their babies were like him. Pretty awesome compliment.
One thing I wish was that Brett would sleep completely through the night. The girls slept from 8 to 7 by two months. He will go to bed really good at 8 and then we'll "dream feed" him around 11. He'll then go back to sleep until 4-6. So early. We'll see if we can change those hours to stretch out a little bit!! He's trying really hard to sit up and roll over but those aren't happening yet. We will also start him on solids soon so an update to come. Just glad to have this little guy as part of our family.

Scott's twin

For October, Scott and his coworkers are growing out their beards. I don't like it. It's scratchy when I kiss him and it's starting to get a little grisly. Tomorrow's the big day when he cuts it. Yeah!!! The funny thing is that with his full beard, he looks just like Jesse Tyler Ferguson from Modern Family. They share a great sense of humor. Scott now has a Celebrity twin.

Fun summer stuff

We've had a great summer filled with lots of fun events which of course I did not capture with my camera. Paige took swim lessons at the Ogden Athletic club but could not pass the basic level class because of her fear of putting her face in the water so Scott took her out to our pool to practice. She was much better but is still pretty hesitant with it.

Ashley on the other hand is quite the daredevil in the water. She jumps in with no fear and will dunk her head in the water all the time. It makes me laugh how much of a water bug she is. She got the hang of putting her body upright in the pool with her lifevest on and can do so much. I have to watch her like a hawk and she is no longer allowed to take off her lifevest during meal times if we are by the pool. She jumped in without it and luckily my brother-in-law was there to prevent a drowning. She was reprimanded pretty heavily for that one. (My personal fear of having a swimming pool!!) We've had a few family and neighborhood parties in the pool along with some playdates as well!

We had a family reunion with my mom's family. It was fun to see my two aunts and my two cousins and their families. We wish we could see them more frequently but we had a great time anyways.

We've been pretty busy with Brett but hopefully had a little bit of fun through this summer. Here are a bunch of random and fun pictures.


Paige's into wearing her boots with her shorts (with Ashley usually following suit)




Paige's personal photography

Tents and more tents

Paige has a recent obsession with making tents. When I say obsession, I'm not exaggerating. She wakes up in the morning and the first thing she does is gather the free blankets and pillows along with any other object that could be part of the construction. This obsession is okay because it promotes creativity and ingenuity. The problem with it is Ashley who is not allowed into her tents. Paige will sometimes build a much smaller tent for Ashley but it becomes a problem when Ashley wants to join her sister in her tent. The fighting and screaming at Ashley then begins so extremely you'd think she was losing a body part. A little too obsessed!! The tents change throughout the day and are made in different rooms ranging in Bretts (which we had to stop due to his napping) to their bedroom and the green room downstairs. I've become a little tired of folding the large amount of blankets she uses and have narrowed her choices of blankets down considerably. Here are a few of her tents.