O Christmas Tree 2010

We got our tree and all of the other decorations up a few days early this year. The weather has been quite a bit warmer these past couple of days (above zero!) and so we figured we would get the outdoor lights up now. Since we had to dig them out, we just brought it all up. The girls kept asking if it was Christmas tomorrow. Olivia really loves all of the lights and decorations, the balls especially. She was only about 4 months old last Christmas, so this is all quite new to her!

Chloe Loves The Scriptures

Chloe found this old Book Of Mormon in our house a couple of weeks ago and she has been carrying it around with her ever since. Every night when she goes to bed she says, "Mom, I need my scriptures, where are my scriptures?" She loves to "read" them, but mostly look at the pictures in them. I asked her what picture was her favourite, and she said, "The one with Samuel on the wall with the bad guys trying to shoot him with their guns." It is pretty cute.

Oh Summer, how we miss you already....

A couple of weeks ago, we woke up to this:

It has been snowy and cold for many days now. Today the temperature was -30 degrees, and the news said it felt like -40 with the windchill! The girls are embracing it, though. Bundling up, and playing outside for as long as they can stand it!

Chloe has really started printing her name out a lot. She does such a good job, and does it all on her own. The older girls were a bit older before they learned to print their names. I also included some photos of some great pictures she has drawn lately:

It was the girls' primary presentation on Sunday. They did such a great job. They all looked so good before church, I tried to get some pictures of them. It is really hard to get one of all of them looking. Here is the best I could do:

This silly girl can not sit still for half a second! Here are some shots I got of her:

You can see her two big molars that have come through. They have been the cause of many sleepless nights, poor girl. (And poor parents!)

Finally I get one of her looking, and of course, the flash is too bright. Oh well....

Izzy and her "fancy" hair, she wanted me to take a picture of it:

And here are Chloe and Lily:

It's definitely beginning to feel more like Christmas!

Halloween 2010

For dance:

Chloe's Cute Quips

Chloe picked some weed "flowers" and put them in a little basket in her room for safe keeping. The next morning they were, of course, wilted and dead. She brought them to me with a sad face and said, "Mommy, my flowers melted."

There was a whole bunch of fliers/newspapers on our front porch. I went outside to get the mail and Chloe saw all of them there, and excitedly shouted out, "Look Mom! Good news! Look at all the good news we have!"

Piano and Irish Dance

The girls have started taking Irish dance together and they love it! They practise all the time around the house. I constantly hear, "1-2-3, 2-2-3, 3-2-3 and point your toe, 4-2-3, 5-2-3, 6-2-3 and off you go!" and away they go skipping all over the house and everywhere else we go!

It is fun they get to be in the same class. I am happy they like it.

They have also started up piano lessons. This is Izzy's second year, and Lily's first. Lily wanted to take it so badly. They are really loving it as well and are both so eager to learn.

Take The Bus Together

Every other Friday Lily goes to kindergarten in the AM and gets to take the bus with Isabelle to school! They love riding on the bus together. Here are some pictures of their first day riding the bus together.

At the stop:
Walking to the stop, (it was garbage day):

Here it comes!