More recent fun...

Back in December, Grandma Kathy gave the girls their Christmas present - a trip to Chicago to the infamous American Girl doll store to pick out a doll!  The girls were SOOO excited and Ryan and I tagged along too!  It was such a fun day!!

 They were in awe and it was hard to decide which doll to pick!

 Addison ended up with Julie from 1974, Emily has Saige (the girl of the year), and Hailey picked Kit from 1934. They LOVE their dolls!

 Reading about their girls… (Em and Hailey)

 They even have a brunch there where you can eat with your dolls.  It is the cutest thing ever.

 I just love seeing Ry carry three American Girl doll bags through the Chicago train station. :)  He loves his little ladies. :)

 And they wear him out too! :)  So sweet….Ry with Emily...

 Every year we get the girls pajamas on Christmas Eve…this year…we surprised them and got them  pajamas that match their dolls!  They were SOOO excited about this! I really love MY three little dolls. :)

 Then here's another pic of our new niece Brielle meeting the girls for the first time! :) (AEH)

 One night in Denver, the girls got to have a highly anticipated SLEEPOVER with their cousin Kami.  Here they are doing Just Dance with the Wii.  I love that they are so close in age! Wish they lived closer!!

 Sleepover!

 And the guys trying out the Disney Dance :)

 COUSINS!!!  (Hailey, Addison, Brielle, Kamryn, Bryce, and Emily)

 Colorado cutie - sportin' Uncle Cory's Colorado fly fish in hat! :)

 And I seriously LOVE my only nephew.  He is the BEST and SUCH a cute little stinker. :)  GOO BRONCOS HUH??!!!

 Christmas!!

 Hailey, Addy, and Em with Grandma Gwen and Grandpa Joel!

 Then we went to the mountains to ski for a few days…on our drive up…I LOVE THE MOUNTAINS!

 Brielle - isn't she SOO CUTE??!!!

 Okay and sorry to scare you but we came home and went to a masquerade New Years Eve party!!

 Happy New Year!!

 The girls love shopping with me…especially when they actually have THREE kid carts available!! :)

 And here's a couple more pics from their Kindergarten class Christmas program.

 It was SOOO cute!!!

 Angels Addison, Emily, and Hailey :)

 At school, the kindergarteners are matched up with 4th grade buddies throughout the year.  Each week their buddies come and help them read.  They play with their buddies every day at recess.

 Bella and Hailey

 Emily and Adriana

 Danielle and Addison

 Christmas pic with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Kim and all of their granddaughters! (Jody is due with her second soon and we are DYING to find out if it's another girl or not!!) :)
And the other day, Addison got invited to a friend's house so I said Emily and Hailey could each ask someone to come over and play.  Who do they pick?  Two boys!! :)  They played walkie talkies, dance party, house, Battleship, and ended the date wrestling and doing karate moves on each other.  I may or may not have been eavesdropping a lot and laughing to myself.  They were tooo cute!! :)

It's been forever!

Hi!!!!! So apparently we have been busy!  I almost thought about stopping the blog…but then I also feel like I need to keep it up to remember stuff!  So here's a big old update with more to come once my computer stops being weird. :)  

I thought I'd have so much more time this year now that the girls are in school but I'm learning that life is just busy no matter what stage you are in.  I feel super busy now but it's a totally different kind of busy than when the girls were home all of the time.  They continue to love kindergarten and my latest challenge parenting three kindergarteners is how to handle the crazy/silly/girlie/hyperness that happens when they come home from school.  I should say MOST of the time this is Emily and Hailey…with Addison saying "Mom, I don't like it when my sisters get silly."  haha.  :)  I'm just not sure if I should just take a deep breath and handle the chaos and TOTAL silliness..or if I should tell them to stop and settle down or what!  I'm super thankful for the days they have soccer or basketball or when it's warmer than -8 so they can go play outside. :)  Here's a pic of the girls playing "school bus" in the kitchen.  

 And this was a while ago but one day I took Hailey out shopping and to Starbucks.  This one on one time doesn't happen NEAR enough.  I can't even tell you how much I love spending one on one time with my girls…it is just so great.  :)

 For Halloween - did I not even post this before??  Em chose to be Cleopatra, Addy a leopard..and Hailey a pink power ranger!  So random! :)

 Part of our Christmas present from Ryan's parents was for all of us adults to go to Chicago and see the Blue Man Group!   It was such a fun day!

 Taking the train to Chicago...

 The ladies :)

 We got a kick out of Grandpa and Grandma sitting in the back of the van. :)

 Could have been a Christmas card I suppose but we just never got around to sending them this year.  Sorry!!!  The girls were angels for their Kindergarten school Christmas program!  It was SOO cute!! (EAH)

 Emily, cousin Erin, Addison, and Hailey

 Getting a little big for Santa's lap!! Em told Santa she wanted new earrings, Hailey said she wanted an American Girl doll, and Addison said she wanted "something special." :)  

 The girls started basketball at their school!  Not sure what is cuter!!  LOVE watching them play!!  Here's Em..

 Addy lost a big front tooth! :)

 And then here we are skiing in Colorado!  My sis and I!  (this was probably a few runs before my brother in law Cory actually fell OFF of the chair lift).  It was the funniest thing I've seen in like 10 years. :)  Him falling almost sent the rest of us on the chair off as well.  He was pretty embarrassed and we literally laughed the entire way up the mountain.  He was okay - no worries. :)

 The girls did ski school one day and had a blast!  They were EXHAUSTED at the end though!!

 Here's some of my sibs on the top of Copper Mountain!  I can't even tell you how much I love Colorado - especially skiing there!!  It is so beautiful and SO. MUCH. FUN!

 We got to meet my new niece Brielle!!! She is the smiliest little thing and SOO SWEET!  Miss her tons!

 And earlier in December Ryan had to go to Seattle for work and then some of the wives came at the end of the week to go skiing!  We had so much fun!!  It was pretty snowy there!

 Ry and I at the original Starbucks! :)

Lots more to come - camera and computer are just not cooperating...