Kaylee and Makenna

Kaylee and Makenna- the two greatest things in Dan and I's lives! There are so many little moments that we can't help but just smile at their sweetness and all the cute little things they do. Here are some random moments in their little lives.

Kaylee was so excited for the first snow- all she wanted to do was get out and make a snow angel! She has been asking about making a snow angel since last winter. She had a blast helping dad shovel the snow and make her first snow angel. Kenna had a lot of fun in the snow too, but as you can see only lasted a few minutes until she was too cold and headed inside to cuddle up in her rocking chair for some good old Barney!







Kaylee has been very into playing with friends lately. She loves her school friends, her dance friends, and her church friends. Her two best friends are her cousin Emily and our next door neighbor Lauren. She is definitely our little social butterfly.

Kaylee and Emily are in dance class together and have a blast seeing eachother every week at dance. Emily's mom had a girl in her ward that is a cheerleader at Cottonwood High School. They were doing a fundraiser for their squad where they teach little girls some of the cheers and a dance. Then the girls got to perform at a Cottonwood basketball game at half time. They had so much fun and Kaylee thought it was so cool to be a little cheerleader for the day. She still practices her cheers on a regular basis at home! "Let's Get FIred Up!!!"


Here is Kaylee and Emily at their first sleepover. Kaylee was so excited for her first sleepover. They did pretty well- watched a couple movies, played some barbies, made some snacks. colored some pictures, and then actually made it to bed at a pretty decent hour. Kenna even joined in to the fun for a bit- she thinks she is just as big as Kaylee!


Here is the girls with our neighbors Lauren and Taylor. Kaylee just loves Lauren and wants to go over and ask her to play every chance she gets. This day they were having a very cute little tea party together with the little sisters. We are very sad that they are soon moving to Georgia:-( I don't know what Kaylee will do with herself all summer without her best friend Lauren!


Theses pics are a little old but random so I thought they would fit right in with this post! A while back we made a trip over to the Living Planet Aquarium. The girls had a blast. Kaylee especially liked the sting rays. They have a little petting pond where you can reach in and pet them. Kaylee was definitely braver than me. There was no way I was going to reach in and touch one of them!!! We went with my mom and sisters Nicole and Janessa and it was a fun little outing for all us girls!











Again an old random pic, but I love how cute Kaylee looks in this picture! We went over the women's expo and she had her face painted like a cat. She thought it was so neat- I had to drag her to the bath finally that night to wash it off. She probably would have kept it on forever if she could have:-)

Merry Christmas 2009!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! It was so fun to see how excited Kaylee was about Christmas, Santa, and all that goes along with the Christmas season. We counted down the days with watching some Christmas movie classics, a couple of hot chocolate parties. present shopping for family, reading some favorite Christmas books, some hunting for Christmas lights drives, and of course decorating the trees. Kaylee thought this was all so exciting this year and it made Christmas come alive once again for us adults to see the twinkle in her little eyes!

Kaylee and Makenna were both too excited to sleep the night of Christmas eve, so we put on some Elmo Counts Down to Christmas and they cuddled up in their new Christmas blankie and jammies and ate some yummy snacks until they tired out!



Both girls got some cuddly new PJ's for Christmas eve. This is a family tradition that I always loved and so we have extended it into our own little family. I tried to get Makenna to pose for a quick pic, but she was very uninterested!

Our girls love to sleep in! No matter how excited Kaylee was the night before, we actually had to wake her up to come open presents! Here she is patiently waiting to head downstairs to see if Santa made it to her house this year!

Kaylee was so excited with all of her presents this year! She had a very specific list for Santa this year and through letters and a trip to see Santa at the mall she was SURE she was going to get everything she had asked for! However, there was one present that was at the top of her list- An American Girl Doll! She was so worried that Santa was going to forget and as she waited to come downstairs on Christmas morning- this was definitely at the front of her mind. We have the tradition of opening one present at a time and taking turns back and forth. We let Kaylee go first so that she could show her little sister how it was done. Santa had very meticulously placed the American Girl box at the back of the presents- this however did NOT fool our little Kaylee! She scanned the presents very carefully and after a few moments of contemplation pushed the presents in the front to the side and grabbed the box in the very back. I don't know how she knew this was the one but Dan and I had to laugh as she so surely grabbed this one first. She tore it open and her face lit up as she saw her American Girl doll that looked just like her peeking at her from the box. She was so excited! She named her Virginia and they are now best friends!

Makenna was most concerned with talking on her new cell phone! She got some elmo stuff that Santa thought she would love- however, she was completely terrified by the laughing, shaking, Tickle Me Elmo!!!


Both girls got a new purse filled with girlie purse stuff for Christmas. Here they are all set to go to Nana's- purses in tow. Oh how they take after their mother! To daddy's dismay he now has three purse obsessed girls to take care of:-)
Merry Christmas!

December

The month of December started off with Kaylee's dance recital! Kaylee LOVES her dance class and was so excited to be able to do her dance up on the big stage!
Kaylee has been in a class with her cousins Ian and Emily. She loves seeing them every week at class and it has been so fun seeing them all dance together!
Here Kaylee is at dance class a few weeks before her show. It was costume check so they let the parents come in and watch the class. We got a copy of her dance so she could practice at home. She probably did her dance 10 times every day she was so excited. The cute thing was she did it so much for us that Makenna started to pick it up to and join in on parts. I will have to post a video of that too- it was so cute to see Makenna mimicking some of Kaylee's movements. She sure looks up to her big sis!


Shuffle step! Shuffle hop!

Kaylee was so excited for her show! She loves getting ready, putting on her costume, doing her hair and makeup, and of course spraying on all the glitter possible! She felt so beautiful and she was! She made sure we knew days in advance that we should not forget to bring her flowers:-) Daddy made sure she had a pretty bouquet of pink flowers waiting for her after the show! She did so awesome and of course was the cutest one up there:-)

The three little dancers- Ian, Emily, and Kaylee!

Kaylee with her very proud mommy and daddy!


Here is Kaylee's performance of "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"!!! (She is the second one in on the front row!)

November

November is always a special month because it is Kaylee's Birthday!! She was very excited this year to be 5 years old! It is so amazing that she is already five!!! She has grown into such a sweet little girl with quite a personality. She loves to be the center of attention- she will sing and dance for you at the drop of a hat. She loves to draw and color and Nana is teaching her to read. Her favorite books are the Dick and Jane series and she has a couple of those book she can read from cover to cover! Kaylee is very social and loves her preschool at Mrs. Bascom's. She is quite the social butterfly there and loves playing with her friends at school. She also loves to set up playdates with her school friends. Here favorite restaurant is Noodles and Company. She asks to go there all the time- I think it is the cool kids chopsticks they have there! She wanted to go there for her birthday but then realized they didn't sing "Happy Birthday" to you there so she changed her mind to Applebee's (here second favorite place-she loves to go visit daddy's UVSC running picture there!) Kaylee loves to watch her movies and to stay up as late as possible. Both our girls have turned out to be quite the night-owls. Kaylee also loves here little sister Makenna. She loves to take care of her and play with her. Kaylee is a very loving girl who enjoys surrounding herself with all the people she loves. We don't know how we were so blessed to get her as our little girl, but we are so thankful every day of these last five years that we get to share every day together with her in our family!

Here is our little birthday princess all ready to open all her presents! She had to wait all day until her party at Nana's that night, so by the time the party rolled around she was about ready to pop with excitement!!!

Kaylee wanted a Barbie party this year. But, not just any Barbie party- Barbie and the Three Muskateers party. She calls it Barbie and the three MOUSEKATEERS- so cute! She was so excited when she saw here cake with the Barbie Muskateers on it.

Kaylee and Makenna- our two little angels!

Our little family with our birthday princess.

Kaylee had quite the party with lots of guests! Nana and Papa, Aunt Nicole and Janessa, Grandma and Grandpa D, Aunt Tami, and Cousins Ian, Emily, and Zoey. Kaylee was in heaven to have so many people who love her there!



Here is Kaylee with all of her presents after the party. She got lots of Barbies and Barbie clothes! She got the Barbie Muskateers barbies she wanted along with the DVD to watch. Her favorite though was her huge Barbie dollhouse! Dan had quite the project the next morning to put together! The dollhouse is beautiful. It is made of wood so it hopefully last through Kaylee and Makenna. It has the cutest wood furniture, including a baby grand piano which I love! Kaylee an Makenna have been playing Barbies together so much since we put the dollhouse together. They absolutely love it an I hope to see many more years of Barbie playing going on with it!

Another favorite present- her own bean bag chair from Nana and Papa! She now has her own lounging spot to sit and watch movies. The only problem will be not having a matching one for Makenna!

October

For Halloween this year Kaylee decided she wanted to be a witch. Originally she told me that she wanted me to paint her all green! I eventually talked her into being a pretty witch. She wasn't quite convinced at first, but after she saw her glittery makeup she was sold! I also have to add that I am quite proud that I designed and made her costume and makeup all myself this year!



Here are our two cute girls! They are becoming such good friends!

Kenna's grumpy face. We see this a lot:-) You can't help but smile at it though!

Our two little witches all ready to go out trick-or-treating! Definitely the two cutest witches you ever did see!

I had to take a picture of our pumpkins. We did some carving from some of those patterns you buy and tape on to your pumpkin. They looked much easier on paper! Mine did not turn out too well, but Dan did an awesome job on his mummy! I found these lights to put in the pumpkins instead of candles. They were really neat as they changed colors!



Here is just a cute picture of Makenna before we put her costume on. She was just getting good at walking and just starting to say a few words (although of course she never wants to perform on cue!)