whitefish 2012

Whitefish this year was a blast as always. We took our kids for their annual sledding experience. ha ha I always feel bad we don't take them more...I'm just not that into snow. 

The kids had a blast tho...when they weren't crying. I don't know if I have mentioned this before, Chloe can be slightly dramatic. And if she is cold....aint nobody happy!! 

Ash was content to be pulled around the top of the hill, which was fine by me cause neither of the kids could climb up the hill and had to be carried. good times.

Definitely a job for dad. 

Hello cute little family. 

I don't know why, but i have exactly 4 pictures from the entire week....I suck. 

But how cute is this of the kids watching something on the ipad?? They all had so much fun together, cousins really are the best! 

WE pretty much lived in the hot tub, that is like 10 steps from the condo. The adults would just take turns watching them for hours on end. 

I dont' even remember what else we did, I know there were multiple trips to target (of course). Lots of shopping, eating, and fun! We hung out in the Lodge while everyone else went skiing again. It was fun, minus the time I lost Ashley for a good 5 min. it was terrifying there were hundreds of people! The other day they went skiing I kept all the kids and we played in the snow for hours making snowmen and tag and sledding, it was a blast. We don't get to see those cute boys very often, they are so adorable! 

Christmas 2012

Yup, I'm doing it, Christmas post in April. Feel free to skip the next few posts as they are real old and none too exciting.  Except for making this gingerbread house, look at how excited she was!! 

They had so much fun making this, Ashley just ate all the candy. Chloe was bossing Ashley around telling her where to put the candy....good times. 

Loving the intensity Chlo.

They are pretty much professionals. 

Chloe's first Christmas program, which was just a huge gong show. They brought in the preschool kids right in the middle of the program and instead of putting them on the front row, they were squeezed into the middle of all the kids, with no mikes so we could barely see them and no one could  hear them at all! I am pretty sure Chloe was the only one singing as the song was pretty difficult to learn! Instead of just having them sing Jingle Bells or something they already knew, her teacher MADE UP a song about the Preschool, like the Christmas song..."C is for the blah blah..." Anyway it was really strange and none of the kids knew the song. We were all pretty dissapointed. Can you see her up there? about 4th from the left of one of her teachers. Oh well they still had fun right? 

We spent Christmas Eve at Holts and Santa paid us a visit bringing everyone Christmas jammies.

Cute cousins, I can't believe how big they are getting. STOP IT!!!

Then we had our white elephant gift exchange, which was fun. At the end of the game we added about 30 more presents and started another game with all the presents. It was a game we played at my moms house where you roll the dice and if you get a 6 or a 1, you get to steal a present. It is timed but you have no idea how much time is on the clock so you just go as fast as you can stealing presents. It was SO much fun!!! Me and Suzanne were battling over the ihome but in the end I was victorious!! ;)

I made everyone get together for a picture, pretty good looking group I would say!

Then we had Christmas morning at our house where the kids got spoiled rotten. 

Chloe got her water bottle! ha ha Everytime anyone asked what she wanted for Christmas she told them a water bottle...easiest Christmas ever! lol

Ash got a little people house and barn and they have loved playing with them ever since. 

I made them some mermaid tail costumes. I would have died to have one when I was little....and I still kinda want one! ha a

We surprised Reeg with a chair massager, he loved it!

We headed back to Holts for Christmas morning fondue, we can't miss it....its too delicious. 

 The girls got scooters from Nana and Papa, they are well loved!!

We gave them a book we made of the whole family. I took new pics of everyone and threw in some old ones as well. It was alot of fun to make, and I think they really liked it. 

We were at my parents house on Christmas day also to hang out with Tina and Hen...although i have no pictures of it....except this gem. These were our awesome jammies that Sam picked out, Regan took the picture and just assumed he got a good one?? ha ha I had a crazy sinus infection all through Christmas and was so stuffed up my face was killing me...luckily we caught it on camera! ha ha

more cousins...picture totally out of order.

Chlo mo got this vanity and is in  LOVE with it!! she was pretty sad that Santa didn't bring her one, good thing for Gramma!

Pretty excited about her new sheets, I was just happy to get rid of  those hideous Princess sheets. 

Ash got this guitar and it is by far the most fought over toy in my whole house. Also the loudest....but ash is insanely cute when she plays it so I'll allow it :)

We did take jammie pics but I don't know where they are, so here is a real blurry one of the kids in their matching jammies, they have bears and a BUM FLAP!! adorable!

Cute girls in their new Christmas duds from Gramma. 

Oh and Chloe asked for a wedding dress for her doll (angela) so I made her one to match. ha ha the veil needs some serious help but they LOVE playing wedding in it. I can hear them all day "ok your turn go to the temple and get married" ha ha 

Ballet X2

 Chloe has been in Ballet since September and before Christmas we got to go see her "perform" again and see what they have been learning. But since she is in a 3-4 yr old class, she is learning the exact same dances as she did last year. While she had really improved and is still as adorable as ever, I was feeling bad for her, she seems a little bored, which is totally understandable. But she loved having us come watch, she loves to be the center of attention :)

She does a mean First position! 

She made sure her doll "Angela" was there watching, wearing her ballet outfit too! 

How cute are they??? I love watching her have so much fun learning something new, but I think we will try out gymnastics next year. 

All the pictures are pretty serious, but I promise she does love it! I had 3 little kids sitting with me while I was trading back and forth between taking pictures and videoing! I probably looked like the crazy mom...

So that was the first half of ballet for the year, They are doing a big performance this year with all the ballet students at the University. It is turning out to be a BIG deal! I volunteered to be the costume mom and did some sewing on 20 of the ugliest little ballet costumes I've ever seen. ha ha The kids look cute in them of course, but man they are terrible.  They are doing the performance at the beginning of May so more pictures of that to come! I tried to load some video's but they just wouldn't work, and I can't remember what I did before to make them work. Too bad cause they are so adorable!!!