Triple the Love: Winter Fun and SKIING!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Winter Fun and SKIING!

Ry and I kicked off the New Year hosting a "Mustache Bash" party. :) It was hilarious and super fun seeing everyone in different assortments of mustaches. :) Some were even natural! :) If you push Ry's
nose, his mustache and eyebrows would wiggle. Awesome. :) Here was our favorite guest. Baby Eloise sportin' a stache as well. :)

We had a bunch of celebrity stache's that people had to guess...here Ryan is revealing who was who. :)

And, a big change starting this year is that I started taking care of Baby Brie! :) Brie's parents go to our church and they needed someone to watch Brie from 2 -5 two days one week and then one day the next! I MISS having babies around and thought it would be fun for the girls to see all that is involved with having a baby around. They are all about it. I have lots of helpers taking turns feeding and keeping her happy. It's so cute hearing them talk to her too! :) Brie is a sweetie! :) Here's Hailey and Brie..

Addy and Brie

Then one day a couple weeks ago, I said the girls could each pick a friend to have over for a playdate. They loved it and had a ball with their little friends. Oh to be 5 again. :) Emily, Addison, Julia, Abby, Emily, and Lydia. :)

And, my baby Em is growing up SOOO FAST!!!! She lost her first tooth!!!!! A few weeks ago, she told me she had a loose tooth and I didn't really believe her but sure enough it was loose! Very loose! So I pulled it out....which was an adventure...but we did it and afterwards Em was so excited! Her sisters don't even have any loose teeth yet so she felt pretty cool being the first one to go through the whole tooth fairy experience and everything. So I don't forget :) , her tooth fairy gave her $5 and a pack of gum. :) Addison said "I wish I was Emily!" :) So cute.

Also this winter, the girls have been playing indoor soccer with their friend Isabelle. They absolutely love it. They keep saying they never want to stop and they want to do every session possible. Oh my! I may just be a soccer mom after all! But they are already improving which is pretty cool to see and they have so much fun running around and sweating. Here's Josie (Isabelle's little sister), Isabelle, Emily, Hailey, and Addy. :)

All ready to go to soccer right after I pulled Em's tooth out. :)

Here's Emily and Baba Brie

Then one weekend in January, Ryan and his dad were both out of town for work so my mother in law and I took the girls up to the lake! We hadn't been there in the winter and it was super fun! The lake was frozen over! Tons of people were ice fishing, playing broomball, ice skating, etc. We just had fun walking across! Here the girls are doing snow angels on the lake...

Then another weekend Ryan and I decided to take the girls skiing and teach them ourselves! Wowee is that a lot of work teaching 3 girls to ski! We were wiped but we all had a ton of fun! My little ski bunnies...

Getting ready to hit the slopes..

Have to go to Culver's after a hard day skiing. :) (Addy and Hailey)

Em and Dad

Me and Em...

Then last weekend, we went 4 1/2 hours north to a ski resort with the whole Dooyema clan. :) Even though temps were in the negatives, we all had a great time!!

Here we took a sleigh ride to a BBQ at a lodge...

ERIN is getting so big!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE SKIING with my family!!! The girls already improved so much since the few weekends before when Ryan and I took them!

Addy! She was the first to go on the chairlift with me!! I was SO SO proud of her! They all did it four times and no one fell at all! I was shocked! I thought they'd be afraid of heights a little bit but nope! Addison was like "Look at the view Mom!" So proud of them!

Hailey

Hailey and I...

It was HUGE having Grandma there to help us (the others left a day early)....just so nice to have one on one help! :) Here's Grandma, Em, Ry, and Addison on the bunny hill..