Sunday, February 9, 2014

two months ago... it was december

remember how i said i would update decemeber/christmas a tad late?? ya well here we are almost at valentines day.. better late than never is my favorite phrase ;) okay so hopefully my super awesome (insert sarcasm here) mommy brain can remember all the crazy stuff that went on that month.

okay so soon after thanksgiving we got the house all decorated for the season with full on traditional christmas tree! but kyland made sure that i still had my charlie brown tree also ( love how that guy thinks). kyland was so excited for christmas lights and he did a perfect job hanging them, he's already thinking about what we can do next year. our ward party was polar express themed which the girls loved because they totally got into that movie this year, they got to ride the polar express all the way to the north pole and got to say hi to santa. a&r were over the moon to be able to see the big guy, stella was less than thrilled. We went to the live nativity which is my fave fave part of the christmas season! i wish i could make it each night ;) the girls LOVED getting to see baby jesus and when it was over allyson was clapping and said "hooray hooray for baby jesus!!! BRAVO!!" so she kinda loved it. We also had lots of performances we go to go to, Uncle Kole had his orchestra concert, uncle bubba sang at town square, and auntie K had her dance performance! We also went and saw all the fun lights at the cactus garden, over at ethel M. The girls thought it was the most perfect night! normally looking at cacti is not at the top of my list but all decorated they looked really pretty! we are going to make that an every year thing! Stella turned ONE in december. Her actually birthday fell on a Monday so that night we drove around neighborhoods looking at all the beautiful christmas lights. The big girls loved getting to point out all of the Olaf's (snowmen). We spent Christmas Eve over at the Jones' and had a fabulous yummy dinner! (go H for cooking such a delish brisket). that night the girls were so excited for "santa" to come. Kyland and I totally woke up christmas morning before all of the girls so we woke them up and they all were really excited to open their presents. They had been itching to do it since i had wrapped them. Which by the way who came up with the idea that we should wrap up a bunch of presents?? i can tell you it was someone who didn't have 3 little girls all ages 3 and under, because let me tell you... nobody has time for that ;) i got to open my present form kyland last and can i just tell you that the boy totally went crazy?? I'm typing on my gift as we read... did you guess what it is?? a MAC computer!! mostly i just stare at its beauty in awe, but i am getting the hang of some of it! after we opened prezzies we headed to my parents house to have the traditional monkey bread and loco hot coco breakie feast! and we(the girls) also had a mound of prezzies to open up there! we finished up our year by seeing the movie frozen with nan and the kids and bebe, which allyson and ruby loved! all i hear is "mommy can we buy the frozen movie yeeeeeeeetttttt." We had a an awesome december and since i am a lame loser and did not get christmas cards out i wish all of our friends and family a happy healthy wonderfully fabulous 2014, i think its going to be one of the best years yet! xoxo

                decorations!! so fun
        the night of the polar express
         kylands christmas party for work!
          time to make (and eat) cookies
        my little who's
 looking at the goods from santa
     guys its way to early for pictures
 hmmmm maybe this kinda cool

     just two days before christmas i was the meanest mom EVER because i promised she could have this book. id say she was pretty stoked about it
         roobs openign her doc mcstuffens dr bag, we've had the greatest dr ever since christmas day
i promise i wasn't smothering my sweet baby, but christmas is exhausting ;)

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Allyson Lucille is FOUR!!

I'm not to sure how I have a four year old, but I do! Allyson is still filled with spirit, independence, and tons of LOVE. As strong willed as she is, she's just as loving. Ally( as she prefers to be called) is growing up to be my BFF and a huge helper with her sisters. Allyson made me a mommy and of course I love ruby and Stella with all that I am, but Allyson and I went through all of our firsts together, and we have a special bond because of that. Allyson went through a thousand themes for her birthday party (batman, frozen, Sofia,) but she decided on Ariel! The Friday before her family party we went to the disney store and she picked out and Ariel costume which I think has been worn by either her or ruby everyday since we bought it. She also got to pick out her own bundtlet( a jones bday tradition) and she chose red velvet. (All on her own.) she had so much fun having all eyes on her, ( which who could blame her ;) 

Allyson-isms at 4 years 
* she can write her name but prefers to just write ally 
* she loves the mall
* one morning I was gathering things for kyland and I hadn't gotten breakfast on the table, so she gave her sisters their breakfast and was feeding Stella. 
* when she hears the dryer stop she will unload it and transfer the washer to dryer 
* when she is counting instead of saying eleven she says eleventeen 
* her favorite shoes are her red glitter Jessie boots which she gets compliments on whenever we are out. 
* we were at church and she was playing with toy cars and jumped one off of a book and exclaimed " I've wanted to do that my entire life!!!" 
* she's obsessed with the new disney movie frozen ( she got the Anna costume for her birthday) and she knows every song & sings them quite well. 
 
Allyson, you drive me bonkers when you think you know everything. You test my patience. But I wouldn't change one thing about you. I love watching you play pretend your imagination is incredible! I love watching you interact with your sisters and I hope your bond is always so strong. I love how much you are like daddy. I love love hearing you sing, you learn songs so quickly and sing them so well! I love the you are so sweet and you don't want anyone to be sad. I love you to the titanic and back xoxo

I'm so sad Stella was sleeping during these pictures 

Such a diva 

Monday, January 20, 2014

Stella's 1 year pictures

At the beginning of December I got some  one year old pictures done of Stella! I'm obsessed with all of them! 
Grey & Stella= BFF
I love these! 
My sweet sweet Stella Mae!

the best of 2013

( my holiday posts are going to be a bit mixed up, I have to upload pictures from the camera from Christmas) 

I can't even believe that I wrote best of 2013?? So crazy how fast the year flew! 
 
January 
Allyson turned 3!

February 
Stella learned mommy is a freak about holidays ;) 

March 
Allyson busted open her eyebrow

April
Kyland and I celebrated 4 years of marriage 

May 
This handsome guy turned 24 

June 

We swam A LOT. 

July 
Ruby Roobs turned TWO! And we headed to California (ruby also started using the potty and sleeping in a big girl bed!) 

August 
I turned 24! 
And stelly started standing 

September 
We all channeled our inner models and embraced "selfies"

October 
Halloween month which is prob my favorite (Allyson was also In her first primary program) 

November 
Ruby got her 1st big girl hair cut 

December 
This cutie turned ONE!!

Were ready for ya 2014 :)