Birthday Lunch!

Right after Alyssa's Birthday is Shelby's.

This year she made the 8th grade cheer squad.

The weekend of her birthday she had her first camp she couldn't miss.

So we had to postpone her party for a week.

So as a surprise.

We checked her out early for a birthday lunch at Red Robin!

HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY BEAN!

Nolan, Alyssa, Xander and Valerie

Shelby and Nickerdoodles

Shelby and her favorite sister.

Valerie and Shelby

Cheeks does not like lemons! LOL

YUMMY! Happy Birthday Girls!

SCAR FACE

Poor baby Cheeks. Or should we call her scar face?

This little girl has been nothing but accident prone for the last month.

First, she got to take her first trip in the ambulance.

 Because of a febrile seizure on March 7th.

Next this adorable child of mine decided to pull her sisters mirror on her head.

Resulting in a luckily small but deep little cut on her forehead.

Fast Forward to Easter Dinner!

Coming down the slide at Grandma's she was going way to fast.

Guess what took the fall?

Her face!!

MEET SCAR FACE!!!

Still Pretty Darn Cute Though!

Alyssa's Party

Alyssa's party was so much fun this year.

We went to Jack and Jill's bowling in Lehi for laser tag and bowling.

I let Alyssa invite a few more friends than normal, because it was Easter weekend.

Thinking that most would be out of town.

Boy was I wrong.

We had 15 kids show up and it was a blast.

Cake!

She's still a Daddy's Girl.

Alyssa, Maryanna and Ashley.

Kira and baby Lincoln

Madison, Alyia, Maleah, Maryanna

Jessica, Angel, and Maryanna

Alyssa and Emily!

Mommy and Cheeks

A few arcade games.

Laser tag crew!

Alyssa and her birthday posse!

The whole crew!!

Ashley and Jessica

These two secretly love each other.

Alyssa with her aunt and uncles and Grandma!

Cade and Cale, coolest uncles on the planet!

Bowling and Pizza! Happy Birthday ALYSSA!

Nine Years Old!

I can't believe my baby girl is 9!

Where did the time go?

Just yesterday she was learning to walk and talk.

Now she is in 3rd grade and more beautiful than ever.

She loves music and is always putting something new on her MP3 player.

She has a cell phone. Which makes her extremely cool!

She loves to draw and create. She always has a little project.

She's turned into quite the little swimmer and looks forward to lessons.

We did a little photoshoot for her birthday invitations today.

She loves the camera!

 

Her VIP Pass invitation for her party. They went on laynards.

Briella is 18 Months!

I can't believe my baby is 18 months. She's getting so big. She's so much fun. She loves to dance, play, and try and keep up with her brother. Her favorite word is DoggieLeo. Which she uses for EVERYTHING. She runs it together really fast too. She loves to go to her Grandma's. She squeeks all day long. I wish she'd learn to talk better. She refuses to use words. She's getting so big and she's beautiful and always can make me smile. It's bitter sweet ot see my baby growing up so fast!

Her stats are
Height 30.5 Inches
Weight 21.4 lbs
Head Cir. 47.8.

She's in the 10th percentile for everything. She's a tiny little thing. Still in most her 9-12 month clothes. She's extremely bull legged which is hilarious. I love how she runs on her toes belly out. She's tiny with a huge personality. It's amazing to watch her grow into such a little person. So independent and smart. I love this little girl.

Christmas Time!

Santa stopped by to see the kids last night. They were so excited. Luckily they slept in till 8:30 and then Alyssa got up and woke everyone else up. They dove into there presents. Dominic was so excited to get his DS but the thing he loved most was the little ninja's from the vending machine at the movie theatre. He loves those little things. Alyssa was really excited to get her friendship bracelet making kit. I told her it was all sold out and that she wasn't going to be getting it because I couldn't find it anywhere. So I wrapped it up in a huge box and when she opened it she was so excited.

Afterward we went to Grandma's for yummy frenchtoast breakfast and opened more presents. She spoiled the kids rotten as always. Cale gave them fun presents too! It was a good Christmas.

The gifts santa left.

The tree after santa finished wrapping.

Cheeks was so excited and tired.

Dominic got his blue DS!

Briella just kept hitting the presents. We've been telling her to not touch the presents. So when we handed it to her to open she just kept looking at me, like ya right mom i'll just get in trouble.

Alyssa got her Udraw for the Wii.

Her Glow dome!

Huge art kit from Grandma

Her friendship bracelet making kit!

Dominic helping Briella with her new toy.

We got Shelby and new camera from us and Cale. She was so happy with it and her Ipod.

I told Cheeks to Smile!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Eve

Usually for Christmas Eve we go to Jose's aunts. But, this year Alyssa asked to stay home. So we stayed home and made cookies for Santa. The kids opened one present each and put on their Christmas pajamas. It was nice to stay home and just hang out as a family.

I told cheeks to sit down and say cheese! Oh how fast they learn.


Dominic and Alyssa saying cheese.

All three kids

Alyssa helping cheeks open her Christmas PJ's.