December is always a crazy month for us as it is for everyone but we get to throw three birthday into the mix which adds a whole other craziness to the month. But we always come out a live, happy and ready for the new year!

Mckaela turned 9 on the 18th. So to celebrate we took her and 10 of her friends to the Gateway discovery children's museum. It was a lot of fun!


And than she got pampered by getting her first pedicure and Mani. Of course I had to join her:)

Went to our friends house for a Christmas party in our "best" sweaters:)We had good food, great company and lots of laughs! (can't even go into the white elephant gift:)



Christmas morning...
Ryan and I were so excited because the kids have been on us for so long about wanting the itouch. So this year we decided to finally get them. After they had opened all there gifts we pulled one last gift out from under the tree and gave them one. They were sooooo excited!





Addisons favorite thing was her Dora house.

Birthday Boy

Brendan was so excited this morning that he tried to wake us up at TWO am to open presents...I sent him right back to bed! Than he was back down at 6:30 and we couldn't make him wait any longer. This is a sign of how early he will be up for Christmas!
I can't believe he is 7!!! Happy Birthday buddy! We sure love you!
He finally got his ripstik! We decorated his room with streamers, balloons and signs all over the house...he got a kick out of all that just because it was all for him! Made him his special breakfast and off to school he went. I'm also going to surprise him and take him to lunch:) Hope he will have a fun day!

Halloween

The week of Halloween marked our one year living in the neighborhood and we have loved every minute of it. We have truly met some wonderful people, made some great friends and made some lasting memories.
Addison as Minnie Mouse
G.I Joe
Mad hatter

How long have I live in West/South Jordan? 8 years and this was the first year I have gone to witches night out at Garden Village! Five of us got all dressed up and headed over for a night of laughs, shopping and waiting FOREVER for some yummy food. It was a fun girls night out. So thanks ladies for showing me what I have been missing!

Angela, Erica, Melissa, Jolynn and me.

So the kids had crazy hair day in school! They loved having bright red hair! Just wasn't fun getting it out of the hair and their clothes. They are also off track for the next three weeks and I'm actually looking forward to hanging out and doing lots of fun things for Halloween!


I have to add these few pictures of Addison. Since it's just her and I all day...let's just say there is never a dull moment around here! I say that with a big smile on my face:) Because like right now she is in a time out for writing with PEN on our TAN couch. AHHHHHHHHH.
But look at that adorable smile...How can you really stay mad!

We took a little mommy and me art class. She loved it!
What an artist!
Yes she is the best dressed child in our house according to her. Brendan's shorts, Mckaela's underwear and Addison sun glasses. What a match! The tucking of the shirt in the underwear was an added touch by mom:)
This is what I say when I looked in the rear view mirror one afternoon! Yes I laughed so hard and she started to cry and said I was mean! I can NEVER leave her alone with a pen. It ends up everywhere else but paper! But I sure do love this little ball of energy! Never know what kind of a day it is going to be:) Now how do I get pen out of a couch???

Catching up!

Just trying to catch up a little bit here!
We went to the state fair with Ryan's family, we actually go every year with all of them. It's something we look forward to every year. The kids of course just want to play games and ride rides and I LOVE to people watch so it's the best of both worlds at the fair:)

Mckaela had her first piano recital and did such a great job. She played three songs and two of them she got to play with dad. We are so proud of how well she is picking it up and that she actually likes to practice and play.



Brendan is playing soccer for the first time and so far has loved it! I'm so happy that he might have found a sport he will want to stick with, guess it's still early but he is having fun.


GNO:)
We had a much needed girls night out on Saturday. Seven of us got tickets to this GNO party that was down in Lehi. So we got in our jammies and headed down. They had everything you could think of that women would love to do. We had to pay $35 and it included...a massage...that's a whole other story, (let's just say I ended up with the creepy guy in a tee pee), dinner from Costa Vida, make-overs, waxing, chocolate sampling, laser hair removal...(yep I am so excited for this one)yoga, and shopping. It was a night filled with yummy food, lots of laughs and great friends!

My baby girl is 3...THREE! It's just crazy that this little girl is our baby and will always be the baby of the family and yet she is growing up to way to fast. She had a very busy birthday. Started out with a little friend party, wasn't going to have one since three is a little young to be planning parties but I decided to rent a princess bounce house for the family party because now their are finally enough cousins to enjoy it but we got to have the bounce house all day so I thought why not get full use out of it. Addison had 6 little friends over to play, made little princess crowns, lots of jumping, played dress up and than had cupcakes. Over all I think it was a fun little party. Than the family came for a BBQ and continued the celebration into the night. Needless to say this little baby girl of ours was very spoiled and enjoyed every minute of it.



We gave her this little set. It came with a guitar, microphone with a stand and than plays music. She is our little rock star so she has been playing with this 24/7.


Her cupcake tower.

Addison's friends.



We sure love you baby girl!
Now on to potty training and she is just soooo not interested! What do I do???