Kassidy Turns 4

Well Kass turned 4 today! She is getting so big, I cannot believe that it was 4 years ago that I was a brand new mom, not really sure of what to do with a newborn. I have learned a great deal over the past 4 years from being a mom. I can even tell a will go right back to sleep cry and a I really need something cry in the middle of the night, as well as a low fever verses a major fever with just a touch instead of breaking out the thermometer just to check like I did when Kass was a baby.

However one thing never changes the fear of something happening to them. Today I revisited the hospital that saved both of my girls and it still hits me just as hard every time I go there. Today's trip was to support my dear friends Amber and Ryan while Madi, their daughter had her 3rd surgery to remove more tumor from her little body. We are hoping this will be her last surgery, the surgeons were very pleased with the surgery and expect her recovery to be short (only 2-3 days).
There are many people who are praying for her but she could always use more.

If you would like to learn her story her mommy has been keeping a blog:
http://madmadammadeleine.blogspot.com/

The girls are doing great, they are enjoying school as well as our play days on Fridays and they are super excited to start dance class. They will be in the same class on Sat. mornings (daddy will be taking them since it is the same time as my training sessions with Team in Training). Kassidy had a great birthday on Saturday, even if it was raining ALL day. She was surrounded by 30+ family and friends and was spoiled with gifts as usual. Here are a few pics from the last month:

Dance Class trial day


Audrey on her favorite activity at the park

Kassidy all grown up

Present time


The frosting of the cupcakes

Tucker (Rich and Jenn's youngest)

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!!

I FOUND THE COMPUTER CORD!!! YEAH!!!

Here some photos from the last couple of months.

Audrey's Birthday:



a ride on the zebra:

Girls' Christmas Program

Welcome to the new site. This host is easier for me to manage (it is the same site where I have my personal blog). It will be easier for me to keep up with blogging on both sites.


The girls' school has had their annual christmas program (they attend a christian preschool so it accaully is a christmas program). This years theme was the manager scene. Each class was a different type of animal from the scence and it was super cute.Kassidy's class was the donkeys and Audrey's class was the cows. They were both super cute and of course stole the show from their class. This was very different than last year when all Audrey did was stand there and stare at the crowd. This year she danced her little heart out. Kassidyalso stole the show by stealing the mic from the pastor during their song. Grandma got some viedos of both of the girls' classes. Here are a couple

Camera Crd still missing

So I have yet to find my every ellusive camera cord, so I still have a camera full of pics that I can't download. I am going to really hunt for it this weekend. We are all excited for the Christmas season this year. The girls really understand about Santa this year and have already seen him and told him what they want for Christmas. We are going to get our tree today and will decorate the house tomorrow.

We had the girls pics taken at Sears recently her are a few shots from their session. I can't believe that they were just babies a few years ago.

Dentist Trip

Wow so I have been a slacker on posting lately, sorry. Well a great deal has been happening this last month with the non profit company I work with, so life has been a roller coaster. We went from having sites at 4 schools to having those schools tell us there would be no room for us this year (they are undergoing construction to update the schools). We decided to look into renting a commercial space across the street from our main school, which is a huge uptaking due to now having to pay an overhead which we have never had in the past.

As for the family, we have decided to move into a new house now that our lease is up at our current one and we are paying to much for a large house that we don't need now that Stefen is no longer living with us.

The girls went to the dentist with me and they both sat in the chair and Kass even let the hygenist look at her teeth, Audrey sat in the chair long enough for the ride.




We spent Labor Day weekend at the cabin. We found a new toy store that carries old school toys. They girls had a blast with their new barrel full of monkeys game.


And yes that is a black eye on Audrey. She tripped on her own two feet and knocked her eye on the arm of the chair. It bruised instantly :(

Our little Artists:

The girls love to paint and we have discovered that Audrey has the Artist manerisms. She looks at her papers from different angles and is very picky on her colors and brushes.

GIRL'S 1ST DISNEYLAND TRIP

So we went to Disneyland on Sunday, with our friends and their son, we all had a magical day (of course I had to use those words LOL). We really did have a great time. The girls were pretty well behaved (as well as a toddler can be in Disneyland) We rode a few rides, the Dumbo ride, the storybook boat ride, Alice and Wonderland, Roger Rabbit crazy cars. We spend most of our time playing in Toon town, where the kids meet Goofie, Pluto, Minnie Mouse and got to run around and play in all the character's houses (which are completely interactive) they really loved it there:






And of course they had to get ear hats with their names on them: