While Lance, Javan, Lucas, Gigi (Marilyn), and Papa (Monty) all spent the evening watching Professional Bull Riders, I got to enjoy the evening with the little girlies.

This is them:

This is us: 

Ok, ok.. Truth is ... this the pictures above were from the other day when Javan dressed them up as "fairy princesses" in their blankies. 

The girls are in bed and I'm sitting in a quiet house so why not post some pics!

Now you can get a sneak peak of the things I text to Lance during the day. 

 Javan working hard on the dishes. He's got to earn his keep somehow. We work him pretty hard around here... 

The kids have decided they love hard boiled eggs. 

Like we don't already eat enough eggs around here. haha

Oh she's just being cute cuddling a penguin

 
its not unusual to find strange selfies of Javan on my phone. What a goofball.

 I took this picture when we were making cookies. I was helping them use the cookie cutters and then I had to step away to help Violet. I came back to Cosette making her own cookie. See my two (the heart and the gingerbread man) and hers... the blob. 

These three would happily spend all morning in the tub together.

This was at a coding class Javan took last weekend. I think this kid helped Javan more than the mentors there. haha. BUT either way he learned how to play around with the coding game "scratch"

Aunt Shana sent some cute jewelry for the girls for valentines day and mustaches for Javan. 

Violet took all of the jewelry and Cosette and Javan shared the mustaches :-)

We have been working on preschool during the day when I do school with Javan. She is practicing tracing her letters.

 
 

 

 

We really didn't get much snow this year. But they enjoyed the snow we did get!

We went on a field trip to Science City and Kaleidoscope 

 Tuckered out!

 

Yeah, Violet got into a bottle of coconut oil... Good thing we were heading to the pool!

The little mermaid

*****

Field trip to the zoo!

 Violet loves a spoon full of honey!

Can't go to Costco without trying out the couch's

We got the kids a pool pass for Christmas. All three just LOVE swimming

For Violet's birthday we made some kind of dessert. I can't even remember what it was but I do know they enjoyed it! Violet helped make it while wearing her birthday suit.

 They love to sleep together.

This was our last day with my parents before they went back home from their visit in January

Ok, times up. They are home and its time for bed!!

Cosette is 3!!!

Grandpa and Gigi came down for Cosette's birthday. We made some strawberry shortcake for breakfast, put some candles in it and sang her happy birthday.

She was pretty excited!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Cosette: http://youtu.be/DRo6xp67DE0

Hey River

We had a nice Thanksgiving Day at Shane and Shana's house. Cosette and Violet had a hard time getting used to thier dog, River.

You couldn't tell from this video, though

Oops

Sorry about this picture that was On my last post.



My phone decided all on its own that it wanted to share a picture of Lance with his birthday presents from my parents...

To make up for it, here is a better picture.



Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Starting Christmas a little early

I figured it will take me a will to actually decorate for Christmas so I might as well start early. Today we got the train set up....

On the potty train

Over the past months violet has definitely showed interest in going potty and even surprised me a few times and went on the potty but never consistently enough to feel she is ready for potty training....

Until yesterday....





She just suddenly decided she was going to go on the potty. She isn't "potty trained" yet but she now goes whenever I take her...she hasn't started telling me when she needs to go but as long as I take her frequently she stays dry!!!

We had 2 accidents yesterday and just 1 accident today.

Woo hoo for no more diapers during the day!

The girls are into play dough and Javan is into baking so I thought I would put the two together and make pretzels




This is violets face when I told her not to eat the dough...I guess it's better than eating play dough but I'll have to tell lance not to eat our pretzels #slobberpretzels

Ms. Determination

Cosette learned to pedal her bike about a month ago but Javan's Razer 360 is too big for her....of course that doesn't stop her!!!

Check out this video....

http://youtu.be/pDSziM0_cg8

Trick or treat!

Update!

The past few months have been of WHIRLWIND of fun activities. It has been an amazing couple of months... and I recently realized I have not been good about documenting them !

My sister in law recently put the photo's she took of our trip to TN in our dropbox (an online tool that multiple people can store and view documents)

.....and it made me realize I do not take nearly enough pictures of our kids :-) I'm going to work on that. In the meantime here is the 6 MONTH SUM UP....

In June we celebrated Javan's 8th birthday! We invited some friends to the park and had a water gun party! It was a blast, even though it rained a little...

Of course, Lance's mom went above and beyond with an awesome bullseye cake

Then we had a little "water gun fight" at home later...

Javan's big present from us was his own bow and arrow set. 

I think Cosette would make a good "Merida" from the movie "Brave". 

She acts like a redhead anyway ;-) 

Then in August we had a 1/2 birthday celebration for Cosette and Violet. We went to Deanna Rose first and then invited family to the pool 

One time Lance and his family took us to a beautiful place near where he grew up. 

Pillsbury crossing.

and of course endless pictures of the kids on the tractor at Lance's parent's house. 

I can't get enough of those bouncy pigtails!!

TIMES UP....and I hear little munchkins waking from naps.... 

Stay tuned for part 2 of the 6 month sum up :-)