Look Mom... no training wheels!!!

Alyssa made a New Year's resolution to ride her bike without training wheels. I wanted to wait until she was at least 5... she insisted on the first semi-warm day. Before....
Dad taking off her training wheels... mom screaming NOOOOOO!!! I am way over protective!
Keria learning to ride for the first time too. Alyssa said she's doing good since she's only on three wheels.
This is our friend Chris Keefe. Shane hurt his back and couldn't run and I wouldn't let go of Alyssa so she got mad and didn't want to ride anymore. Then Chris came to our rescue and thankfully took over. Chris's son Gavyn learned the same day! I wanted to borrow his Spiderman costume so Alyssa's would have even more padding. He said no. =(

She did it! Two hours of riding & she doesn't need any help!!! Amazing!!!

Dress Up!!

Just a few of my favorite dress up pics. We do this about once a day... everyday! I can't get Alyssa to wear normal clothes!

Our friends the Ashton's visited from PA.. Abby & Alyssa loved dressing up!!
Jessica's son Tyler was too cool to dress up and said no thank you for a picture. This is the best shot I could get!

Jessica & her newest addition to the family... Kayla Alyssa just told me, "I miss seeing Abby's cute baby sister... Maybe Jessica can put them on a plane and we'll have a play date today." I love that!!!

Best Friends of Best Friends!!!

Mini Best Friends of Best Friends! Kayla & Keira. Awwwww!

This is how Keira plays dress up on her own. Can you say chocking hazard!?! She scares me!

Alyssa's pre-school teachers kids are so good at play dates! This is a blackmail picture of her son playing dress up. He tugged at Lily's dress until she finally put it on him. Happy little Jefferson!

Alyssa in her Enchanted wedding dress.

Alyssa getting into Mom's make-up.

Keira feel asleep after a long play date of dressing up during her lunch.

My girls after Church in their matching dresses. I'm going to be sad when they are too old to dress alike. They are so cute!

Christmas... 3 months late!

Ok, I am really lame about blogging. So here are a few of our favorite pics over the past months since Christmas!

Alyssa's showing her "Santa's Magical Key" that he used to let himself in our front door. He left big footprints in our house too! Alyssa was amazed!

Cute kids & Daddy Christmas morning!

As Alyssa would say... "Hanna Montana Rocks!" I'm wearing Alyssa's wig from Christmas & Alyssa took this picture. I know, hot babe. That $1 microphone is the most popular Christmas gift and our girls fight over it.

Gifts... gifts... gifts. Keira like the paper more than the gift!

Alyssa's art... she loves making up drawings! So adorable!

Shane & Keira pulling a face for the picture.

Christmas was fun this year. I love it with kids! So much fun to live it through them!

Merry Christmas!

Making a Christmas Ginger Bread House!!!

1st Snow fall of the season!

Christmas matching dresses... Keira didn't want to pose.
Alyssa's first dance performance! She was front & center! What a cutie!!

Trip to Temple Square for Christmas!

Christmas was calm this year. I took Alyssa skiing with Jessica & Mike for her first time. She went sledding with her Dad the day before & loves being outside ALL DAY! Shane thought she was done and brought her home. She surprised him and made him go out for more sledding! We made our first snowman together. We took the city train & visited Temple Square this week. Then we visited my family on Christmas Eve and Shane's family the night of Christmas. Shane spoiled us, as always and the kids were troopers the whole day! Keira liked the boxes just as much as the gifts. Alyssa stayed up until 11pm to watch Santa on the local news to see where he was on the radar. Then she rushed into bed and heard his Christmas bells outside her window. =) We played Disney Scene-It and had good food and fun! Hope your Christmas was great! I've added a ton of pics to get you caught up! These are for December.

Halloween

Hi All, thought it was time to add a little something to my blog! I am bad at this, I know. Ok, this was the best Halloween I've ever had! Shane's parents came over and cooked a yummy chili dinner for us while Shane and I took our girls out around the neighborhood & met up with some good friends! Alyssa really understood Halloween for the first time. She said, "Mommy, Let's Run... the more houses we knock at, the more candy I have to eat!" OH BOY! She wouldn't stop for hours! Then when it got too cold, we came home for some hot chili, homemade rootbeer and pumpkin pie! YUMMY! We had a blast!! I am still learning how to do this blog thing and it's 2:31am and I have to watch a friends baby in the morning.... so I am not fighting the poor layout of these pics!! =) Enjoy my messy blog!

Girls having fun

Keira loves having Alyssa push her around on their rocking horse! This makes us laugh all day long! Alyssa will push her with lightning speed and terrify us! The faster Alyssa goes, the happier Keira is!

They are so fast!

Alyssa thought her face would look better with lip gloss all over it. See what happens when I focus on cleaning a room vs. playing with the kids. She did this in about 3 mins!! YICKS! They are so fast!!!