Other December Events

I got to hang out with SOME of my favorite people.
Kayleigh and I attened our town's Annual Tree Lighting Festival.

Kayleigh and Zoe spent time with Grandma and Grandpa Tobkin working on their new old house.

At a local mall they make it Snow. We met up with Dave's dad and his nephews for snow and dinner.

The girls celebrated their birthdays with Grandma and Grandpa Acorn with birthday sundaes. They were very excited.

Twenty Ten

When I say Twenty Ten you may be thinking that I'm talking about the New Year, but I'm really talking about is: It takes me 20 minutes to clean something and it takes the girls 10 minutes to mess it up. ;o) Poof in the below photo.

So far in the year 2010 we have been busy cleaning, organizing, and playing with new toys. Kayleigh even gave up a trip to Grandma's house to stay home and play (which has NEVER happened before).

Today the girls played school a lot. Kayleigh was the teacher (because she's bossy) and Zoe was the new girl in class. It was her birthday so she dressed up like a princess. They had playtime, storytime, snacktime, but they didn't get to show and share. "That's for tomorrow. We didn't get to it today."

When that picture was taken Kayleigh told Zoe to "stand here honey and say cheese."

Zoe took a nap in her toddler bed today for the first time. No such luck getting her to sleep in it for bedtime though. Z and K have been sleeping in the same bed for a few weeks now...

Zoe's First Real Haircut

Oh boy, my baby was not a happy camper! She cried for me the entire time she was getting her hair cut. Didn't move an inch just sat there and cried. We didn't cut much off the bottom, just evened it all out so she didn't have such a fem-mullet.

You can kid of see how long it is when it's straight-it's past her shoulders.

Kayleigh got her hair cut that day too. She did much better. :)

Gymnastics

On December 17th Kayleigh got to show off her stuff at her Gymnastics class to me, Shana, my mom, and Zoe.

Kayleigh's Birthday Party

Kayleigh had a cupcake themed birthday party. I made jumbo cupcakes, a ton of butter cream frosting, set out assorted toppings and let the kids go to town. When they were done we put them in little white boxes and tied them up with ribbon. The party favor was a little wire whisk. The kids dined on juice boxes, orange slices and chicken nuggets. I also served up some cake which I made. The kids seemed to have a good time. They even treated us to an impromtu performance. We nicknamed them the "Cupcake Cuties." A few days later Kayleigh said it was the best birthday party ever. yay!

Zoe's Birthday Party

For Zoe's birthday Dave took the day off and we drove up to Phoenix with my mom. We started out with lunch at IKEA (you must try the princess cake), met Shana at the Children's Museum of Phoenix, then ended the day at my Grandparents house for cake first then pizza. It was a good day! :)

Oh, and I must not forget... Kayleigh wanted to make pancake faces for Zoe's birthday breakfast. It was a cute/easy/fun/yummy thing to do!

Happy Birthday to Kayleigh

Our little girl turned 5 years old on Dec. 16th. Just 5 days after her sister turned 2. Kayleigh is such a neat kid. She loves all things animals, doesn't like to get dirty, loves to dance, amazes us with her ability to learn the lyrics to songs, loves Taylor Swift, her favorite cartoon is Caillou (like her sister), She has a hard time sitting still, she's not a picky eater, doesn't like to snuggle but she'll always tell you she loves you, and she likes to have books read to her.