Impromptu Chuck E Cheese

The first Friday in January I took the girls to Chuck E Cheese.  I was surprised to see that Kaitlyn has gotten pretty good at some of the games.  She really likes the shooting games.  I guess that is from her field trips at the Village over the summer

 

Happy New Year

We had the whole crew over for New Year's Eve.  It was the end of weeks of activities so I think the girls were all pretty tired.  But we still had some good times. Oh... and I got a selfie stick!

Mommy, take my picture!  The girls can be quite the hams these days.  Here are a few cute photos.

Hailey enjoyed putting this puzzle together at Aria and Kinzie's.  She is all about the puzzles these days and she is very good at it!

 Cute pigtail braids from the teachers at Rainbow.
 

 

They colored this together.  Both of them have also been into coloring these days.

 

And sitting by the masterpiece - H helped me put together this Shopkins Lego set.

Christmas Morning and Christmas Eve

Santa was good to the girls this year.  The girls slept super late (at least they let us sleep super late!).  Here was the before picture.  We still had quite a few other gifts under the tree for friends.  The piles out to the front are for the girls. 

 



 

The Gecko Mobile she asked Santa for!

Grandma and Aunt Deanna came over on Christmas Eve (Grandpa had to work).  Look at this sweet photo of Deanna and K playing catch!
 

 

The girls were super excited to open the presents! Lots of games, Elena of Avalor, and Shopkins.

 

And here they are later that evening playing with these cool drawing pad/tablets that Grandma got them. 

 

Sea World Lights

We went to Sea World this year to see the lights with Aria and Kinzie.  We always have a good time and wonder why we don't go more.  We renewed out passes so we will have to go more this spring/summer!  Here's a pic of us right when we got there.  H was feeling a little timid still and didn't want to get in.

 

 

Here the girls are riding the train.

 

They enjoyed feeding the ducks.

And the highlight of the evening was the "Street Party" with the Sesame Street characters.  It was a little chaotic with the characters dancing and all of the kids.  But you just had to jump in there to snap a photo.  Hailey liked Big Bird.  He was so tall!

And I promise that Hailey was in there somewhere!  Elmo loved to give big hugs.

And here's Kaitlyn getting her hug too.

Hailey with the twins. (Aria is just as tall as her!)

We had a bit of a problem when we went to leave.  K wasn't ready to go and she made sure we knew it... but all in all it was a good time.

Dance Recital

Hailey had her second dance recital in December.  They danced to Carly Rae Jepson's Good Time.  The setup was different for this one.  On one hand it was nice because you could just come and go.  On the other hand, it was a little more chaotic!  This was her posed picture.  They just took one this time and I had to laugh because she gave them this half smile! 

 

 

Shy girl accepts her flowers!

 

Here is a shot of her during the performance.  She loved waving her hands in the air!  So cute!

The Reindeer Say Merry Christmas!