Girls' Christmas Program

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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:

Friends and family weeknd

We had a wonderful weekend filled with family and friends 2 weeks ago. Aunt Lauren came down from SF to visit. We also had our friends from Sac were here too. The Families got together and had a great time at the zoo and hanging out all weekend. It is really great to be together with our friend s even if it is very different now that we all have little ones. It was pretty crazy when we were all sitting in our living room watching all 4 girls play together.



Audrey, Sofie, Madieline, Kassidy all together on the bench, yep it took a lot og work even to get this pic

5 YEARS !!!

I can't believe that it has been 5 years since Doug and I were married. We celebrated Friday at the Toby Keith and Montgomery Gentrey concert. It was a great concert. We really enjoyed it as well as our time together.

I am back at work for the month of July, running our summer program for a few of our students. I miss my girls for the afternoon however I am enjoying teaching again.

We had a great visit with Grandma Carol and her family, it is always great to see them.

We had a mellow 4th of July, we went swimming over at Teri, Jason and Andrew's. We have been riding our bikes, playing at local parks and swimming in our little pool a great deal this past couple weeks. The weather has been beautiful here and we have been enjoying every minute of it.

Of course I haven't been taking pictures but I will try to get some this weekend while Aunt Lauren is here, we are also looking forward to a visit from our friends the Dugans as well this weekend.

Madi has started chemo again check out her blog for more info.

Busy Busy

We have had a busy but fun couple of weeks. The girls and I have been packing in our adventures this month (I will be running a summer session for Momentum, the non profit tutoring center I am working with). We have been to the San Diego County Fair (aka the Del Mar Fair) with Papa. Where we had a wonderful time looking at all the animals as well as riding some of the kiddie rides.



The girls also make crowns:


We also finished swim lessons. We had an amazing visit and BBQ with the Baumbachs and the Hansards (who were down visiting from Nor Cal) . I am sad I didn't get the camera out when they were here.

We went to the beach today with grandma and grandpa, the girls had a blast playing in the water and rolling in the sand, yes I said rolling in the sand as well as making sand angles and castles. I of course being mom made sure the girls had sunscreen on but did I put it on myself nope so now I have a wonderful farmers tan going on. We have also discovered that our little redhead tans even more than her sissy does who would have guessed she would still have daddy's skin even with her red hair!!

Wonderful weekend

Well we had a terrific weekend. Kassidy was a beautiful flower girl and did wonderful during the wedding and pictures but she was ready to go to grandma's and grandpa's by the end. The girls had a nice night with them allowing Doug and I to have a great evening together with our friends.

I know I promised pictures but I completely forgot the memory card for the camera, I remembered the camera but didn't notice the card was not in it until I turned it on when we got there. I will post some as soon as some make it my way.

We had a great trip to the zoo with Amber, Ryan and Madi, It was great to see them and we all enjoyed the sights, although we decided that Madi was more interested in the people than the animals.