Family Night In

Tonight was so much fun. We had a night devoted to the girls. Whatever they wanted to do, we did. We ordered some pizza, bought some sugar cookies, I made some cream cheese frosting, and we had a party. I suggested that we decorate a few cookies for other people, maybe? Abbi and Reese thought it might be better to decorate a cookie a day for themselves, and do something else for neighbors. 

After pizza and cookies we played a little mother may I, or father may I (of coarse), red light green light, and some simon says. To top off the night the girls wanted to jump on daddy, and wrestle with him, and end it with a horsey ride. Even though Brynn can't walk, she crawled as fast as she could to be with her sisters, and when we played red light green light she got first class service being carried everywhere she went. Overall, this was a really fun night, and the girls felt pretty special being able to make all of the choices! 

Yeah, I know...My mouth is HUGE in this picture!

Lucky for us the Parnells come to Utah every few months because of family that Ricki has here. They have been great friends of ours for years, and it's so nice to be able to see them so often. Usually when they come out I don't take pictures, so I wanted to capture a few precious moments...
Its crazy how large my mouth is in this picture!!! Ricki was NOT wanting to be in a picture at all, but it has been way too long since I have taken a picture so here we have it. 

Abbi was looking through some old photos, and came across some pictures of Brig and her when they were tiny kids, and she was so happy to learn that she has been friends with him since birth. I know most of these are crazy pictures, but sometimes it's more fun that way...looks like Reese is in the middle of a blink in this picture. ha ha, love it.

Happy 3rd Birthday Reese

Reese wanted a princess party, but she doesn't care about princesses. That is very like Reese. She doesn't really want things yet, so when I asked her what she wants for her birthday she told me candy. So, I put as much candy on her cake as I could, and along with her gift from us we gave her 2 packs of her own gum. Gum is her favorite thing in the world right now. 

Reese invited 8 friends to her party, and they had a tea party, made pretty necklaces, decorated cupcakes, and played. It was a very fun party, and Reese's 1st friend party. We love you Reese!!

Reese's Favorite Things

1. Gum

2. Nilla (Soy milk vanilla)

3. cartoons in the morning

4. Reading books by herself or with 

mommy, daddy, or Abbi.

5. Playing pretend with her ponies 

and dolls.

6. Nursery

7. Sitting on laps and snuggling

8. Throwing fits!!!

CLIMBER

I haven't had a climber yet, but sure looks like Brynn is going to be my climber. She hangs out on the bottom step most of the time, or if anyone is on the ground she prefers climbing on or over that person. 

TWILIGHT OPENING NIGHT!!!

Yeah for Twilight!! I love these books, so I was really excited to go to the opening night of Twilight. What was even more fun was going all out for it. We got to the movie theater 6 hours early, oh yeah baby! That's getting there at 6:00 p.m. for a 12:05 a.m. movie!! There were actually 5 of us...jenny came later, and we had so much fun having a girls night. So I was planning on getting a shirt to wear to the movie for months in advance, and then a few days before I started waffling, but I am so happy I did because then Karen and Trisa went and bought some also. We ordered take out, and roamed the mall a little bit, and played games, and ate snacks...I loved it. Did I love the actual movie??? WELL...Love, no. Like, yes. I am a pretty big Twilight nerd, so I was REALLY hoping they would stick to the book hard core, and of coarse it didn't, and after the movie was done I was thinking, no seriously there could be another hour and a half and I don't think I would have noticed. But, it was fun, and I since I was expecting it to be horrible it was way better than what I was expecting. Yeah  for Twilight, and this super fun night!                                          Here's Julie pretend making out with Edward.
Oh Edward. Ha Ha ha. Surprisingly I thought he was way better looking than I originally thought. 
We had to book it out of the store after the store clerk told us we weren't allowed to take pictures inside their store. We thought she was going to call mall security on us!
                                      It was so fun to just be dumb, and have fun with this!


                                          Middle, Middle. Right where we wanted to be!
     Great picture of karen, not so great of me, but this reminds me of our Maui pics, so had to add it.

Abbi's New Hair

This was her first time getting her hair done professionally. Abbi is funny because she is very stubborn in some areas, and easily swayed in others. Her hair is something that she is very stubborn about. A headband is her idea of doing her hair, so when she wanted to get bangs like mine, and layers, like mine, I was unsure how that would end up looking on a regular basis. BUT...she promised that she would let me do her hair All the time, I love promises from 5 year olds. The really cute part was after the hair cute she turns to my friend Lynsey and says, "Okay, are you going to put highlights in now, I think I want it a little lighter like my moms." I love your new hair Abbi!

Artsy

The girls are really into coloring, and painting, and doing art projects. This was a cute picture Abbi made for Andy.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

      Reese really was happy today even though she looks pretty mad right here. Abbi was a super cute Hannah Montana. Reese was a dog, and Brynn was a kitty. We had almost NO trick or treaters...that's what we get for livin' in the boonies! Oh and notice the deflated pumpkins in the back, so sad for them:(
                                              
                                     This cat costume cracked me up! I love the round belly.

Crazy Hair Day

                                           Reese's very first pony tail, and she's almost 3.
 This month is red ribbon month, and this week was "it's crazy to do drugs" week. Today was crazy hair day, and I loved her hair after it was done. With a few tweeks I might actually send her to school normally like this.

Too Early

So we were so good and we went to a pumpkin patch early this year. Reese was hesitant to put her hands into the mushy guts, but eventually she daintily pulled out a few. Abbi loves pulling out the guts. ...Okay, here's the sad thing about carving pumpkins 11 days early... saggy, floppy, shriveled pumpkins on Halloween. But look how pretty they were when they started!

Does it GET any Cuter?

Okay, she is just the cutest thing ever, I can't help but kiss those cheeks every chance I get. She LOVES baths. The second I put Brynn in the bath she splashes and laughs, and talks, and plays with any toy that I give her, and she doesn't even get mad when I wash her hair... that will change I'm sure.   

Pumpkin Land

Abbi had her very first field trip last week to Pumpkinland. I am so happy that I volunteered because it was soo much fun!! It was Abbi's first time riding a bus, she thought it was awesome. She kept giggling (that is just like me to giggle when she likes something) because we didn't have to wear seat belts. The kids ran for 2 1/2 hours straight! They ran to the corn maze, and all the way through it. They ran around a small playground, and then there was a bigger playground that the kids really went crazy. Then they were all able to chose a pumpkin, and they ran to chose their own pumpkin, it was tiring just watching. on the bus ride back to the school I told Abbi that she could sit by a friend if she wanted to, but she said she would rather sit by me. Bink, bink... That made me feel good!! She is so adorable, it was a great time!

Park Day

It's so nice to have warm days in the fall, and a few weeks back we had two weeks of great weather, so while Abbi was at a friend's I had to get the other girls out of the house.

Lost Tooth

We were pretty surprised when Abbi showed us her loose tooth a few weeks ago. She's only 5 1/2, I don't remember losing my first tooth until I was almost 7 I think! But after a whole week it finally fell out on October 11th... I know a little late on the entry. Abbi was so sad because she was at her cousin's house when it fell out, and it was left there on accident. So we wrote the tooth fairy a letter hoping that she would understand, and the tooth fairy was extra understanding, and left her a dollar. Abbi was pumped about the dollar, but she really wanted the tooth fairy to have the tooth, so we made sure to get the tooth back, and she put it under her pillow for the tooth fairy to take, but Reese unfortunately got to it first, and now it is somewhere in the carpet... Abbi however, is really hoping that the tooth fairy has special eyes that can see teeth anywhere, and she got it even though it was lost. we are hoping the same thing. 

Abbi and Reese's friend Tallie came over to play a few weeks ago, and they were playing so well I had to get a picture. 

Brynners

Brynn is 7 months now and she is everywhere. She started crawling on September 1st, and now as you can see she gets into, or onto the craziest places. She does the army crawl for now, which isn't great for her clothes, so I'm hoping she figures out the regular crawl soon. Brynn is also a fan of tags, and will flip toys around to suck on the tag. She is so fun, I can't get enough!