A Beautiful Day at the Park & Our Princess

Jack on the tractor ride at the park.

I love my new camera. This is a great picture of Jack.

Emma holding the soccer ball on the slide.

Emma on the slide.

My smiley little girl.

Jack having fun with daddy.

Jack wanting to climb on the monkey bars.

Jack having fun on the playground.

Jack playing with the leaves.

Emma playing soccer.

My sweet little soccer player. I had no idea how good she was. Bobby told me that Emma could dribble the soccer ball at Dick's sporting goods, but I had no idea how good she really is. I think I might have to sign her up for soccer lessons too!

Having fun at North Park.

Chloe just hangin out.

Our princess

Good thing her new favorite color is pink. Her entire room is pink!

Our beautiful daughter! She loves her new princess dresses that Mimi and Pa got her for Christmas. She would not take it off to go to bed. She immediately put it back on after her bath!

Emma and her princess wand!

Today was so beautiful outside. The high was 66. Bobby had the day off so we took the kids to the park. We had so much fun with the kids. We brought the soccer ball and football. Emma dribbled the soccer ball up and down the baseball field. Jack tried a bit too, but he did not have the control as Emma. My mom got Emma a box of princess dresses for Christmas and we opened it the other night. She loves dressing up as a princess. She loves to wear the dresses, crowns, necklaces, and wand. She even tried to put one of the dresses on her brother! He did not want anything to do with it. He just wants to play with his Lightening McQueen car.

Cookies for Santa, Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

Angel sugar cookie for Santa
(still not quite as good as Jenn's!)

Sneak peek for Jack. Yummy!!

Jack, Davis, Laney, Grace & Emma all working together to make cookies for Santa. Emma & Jack love their cousins so much!

Laney & Grace getting the sprinkles just right!

Jack, Laney, Grace & Emma putting on the final touches.

At my parents house for Christmas Eve. Jack & Davis ate 1/3 of those chips and dip. They were so cute feeding each other chips.

Yummy!! Pa's dip is so good!

Uncle Greg & Aunt Danna getting the brisket ready.

The girls sing Ring Around the Rosie. They had so much fun together!

Beautiful cousin Laney!

Emma giving daddy a kiss. How sweet. She loves her dad so much!

Aunt Shannon handing out the presents.

Jack and Davis checkin out Pa's dinner.

Best Buddies

Our handsome nephew Davis

Jack & Davis playing with their new Caterpillar trucks

Grandma Penny & Mimi watching Davis digging into his truck.

Grandpa Jim helping Davis open his present. Why do they make toys so hard to get into??

Aunt Shannon helping Emma and Grace with their Polly Pockets.

Mac & Grandpa Jim taking it all in.

We spent Christmas Day at Bobby's parents house. Jack eating M & M's out of Emma's new Princess tea cup!

Jack must have had a hard night sleeping. His hair is so funny. He loves the new Mac Truck that Santa brought him.

Emma hugging on her new Aurora Princess baby doll that Santa brought her. She loves her so much!

Emma being the princess that she is. Daddy was helping her put on her new crown and earrings.

My sweet princess.

Emma looking very tired in her Grandpa's lap.

Emma wiped out from all the fun taking a nap on Grandpa's couch with her new Aurora doll.

Santa brought Emma some new sparkle shoes just like her red ones. She does not like to take her shoes off (even when she sleeps!)

Daddy with Jack. How adorable. I love my two guys!

Mommy with Jack. Can you tell that I just recently woke up. Yikes!

We had such a wonderful two days of Christmas. We went to my brother's house to load some pictures of our kids on the new digital picture frame that we got my parents. While we were loading the pictures, Danna was helping the kids make cookies to leave for Santa. Then the kids played and played. They had so much fun together. It is so awesome that God put the kids in order 3 girls in a row and 3 boys (one still in my belly) in a row. They play together so well. The boys play with the trucks or cars of any sort while the girls are running around playing with dolls and such.
We later went to my parents house. Uncle Greg, Aunt Danna and all the cousins were there as well as Danna's parents, Grandpa John, Grandma Penny, Aunt Shannon & Matt, and Grandpa Jim. So we had a pretty packed house. My parents made most of the food. Like we do every year, we had way too much food. My parents will be having leftovers for several days! The boys were so funny. Jack and Davis hung around the chip and dip part of the table for a long time chowing down on their chips dipped in the veggie dip. They next moved to the fruit. Jack especially liked the red grapes. Jim said that he saw Jack take a bite of a green grape, spit it out and then put it on Grandpa John's plate. How funny. The girls pretty much ate all the blackberries & raspberries. Then they went and played Ring around the Rosie. After they were done with that they were having fun jumping off my parents fireplace. We had a great time. After all that fun, we went to Grandpa Jim's house and spent the night so that Santa could visit us there.
Emma slept in the bed with us and woke up at 6:40. Jack slept with Grandpa and did not wake up until 8am. Bobby and I went downstairs with Emma to check out what Santa brought her. She was so excited that she got so much princess stuff (with the pink dress of course!). Her new favorite color is PINK! Anything and everything pink. Jack got up and immediately saw his Mac Truck that Santa brought him. He also got a GeoTrax train track. We still have not put it together though. It looks pretty fun! We spent most of the day at Grandpa Jim's then went to my parents house for dinner. It was a beautiful day outside. The kids even got to go outside and swing on the swing set. We again had way too much food!
We had a wonderful Christmas and are so thankful for all of our family!
Emma's favorite presents were her Princess Aurora baby doll and her Barbie computer that she got from her Aunt Marilyn. Jack's favorite toys were his Mac Truck and the CAT tractor that he got from Mimi and Pa.

New Camera, Art Project & Funny Story

Jack saying Cheese!

Emma in her Princess dress. She would wear this outfit everyday if we let her.

I love this picture of her. She actually has a real smile.

Emma and her blanket. She has had this blanket since she was born. My mom's friend Delma gave it to us.

Cute picture of Emma!

See how she never looks at the camera. At least she is smiling!

Can you believe that Emma's bangs have still not completely grown out since she whacked them off last April.

So beautiful. I just love her so much!

This is why I love my new camera. I used to only get shots like this. Now I get shots like the one below.

Smile!

Jack playing with Tow Mater in the tub.

I love this picture of Jack.

He is concentrating so hard on his Tow Mater.

Jack having fun in the tub.

Emma and her Belle crown. She really thinks she is a princess. She insists that we call her Princess Emma. I guess it does not help that her daddy calls her Princess Emma all the time. She loves anything princess. She likes the princess with the pink dress.

Ornaments that the Jack and Emma made.

Jack made this one. I put glue in the bottom and the glitter on top and had them shake them up. I glued a ribbon to the top. They had so much fun!

Emma made this one. She had so much fun.

For Christmas Bobby got me a new camera. I am so excited and I love it so much. It is a Nikon D-40 slr. So I can take 2.5 pictures per second. This helps when you have 2 active children. I have only had it for not quite a week, but I am loving it so far. My pictures look so nice. Even when the light is low!
Funny Story
This past week we went to McD's with a friend and her kids. All our kids were all playing in the play area. Well my friend's child pooped in their diaper, but she had been giving her child a stool softener so it went out the bottom of the diaper and all down the pants. So she went and changed the child's dirty clothes. I had an extra pair of pants in my car from Jack's school clothes that we are required to bring each week so her child borrowed them. Well she asked me if she should report it to the people at McD's but I said no since to me it looked like it was contained in the child pants. So once her child was cleaned we all ate lunch and the kids played a little more. There was a mom that we were later talking to and she was there with her 3 kids. Well her youngest daughter came down the slide and had a clump of poop on her shoe! The lady came up to us and said that he daughter just got poop on her shoe and to make sure that our children had no poop on them. So I acted like I had no idea who it was that pooped and wiped off my kids hands and legs. The lady went and reported it to the staff so that they could clean it off and we all left. Emma has a semi-phobia of poop. Back in the summer she stepped in dog poop while we were at the park. She STILL talks about the day that she stepped in the poop. A few months ago she was in the bath with Jack and Jack pooped in the tub. I quickly got them both out, drained the tub and cleaned it out. Bobby put them in the other tub and cleaned them both off. So now every time I put them in the tub Emma says that she wants to take a bath in our room cause Jack poopied in the other tub! So after this event this week, she keeps saying that her friend got poop on her shoe and that it looks like a meatball! Not sure where she came up with the meatball statement, but I think it is pretty funny. It was not on her at all!!