Totally Random

Awhile ago it was our friend Cooper's Birthday party.  He had a Transformers party, and I think that that girls really dug it.  I left thinking that I need to start buying them boy toys instead of the girl toys that they don't play with.  Cooper had these big Optimus Prime masks that made your voice go strange.  They had a blast.

The weather has also been touch and go lately.  The kids are loving it when we can play outside. 

The craziness sure comes out when they have been cooped up from rainy weather.

Ali has also lost another tooth.  

Competition Season Highlights

There are so many pictures that I could post of all of the girls' dance competitions this year, but that would be too hard to post them all, so here is a sampling of some of the highlights.

Emily's Tiny Tot team performed a "Rocky" medley with the "Rocky"  theme song

and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot."

Emily had such a great time at dance this year, and felt so big like her big sister.  She is excited to dance again this year.  Hopefully we can work on getting some more smiles out of her.  She was so serious this year.

Ali was on the Junior team this year.  One of their dances was "Fembots."  They dressed up like little rag dolls, and this was probably our favorite dance of the three they did this year.

Their next dance was "Mmmm"  it was their Lyrical dance. 

And last, but certainly not least was Hip Hop.  They did a "Baseball Mix" to a couple different hip hop songs.  She gets so into the Hip Hop that it cracks us up.  She has all the faces and moves for it.



A Day At The Park!

Our last day in St. George we met some friends at a really neat park.  The weather was perfect and the girls had a blast.  The park was the neatest one that I had ever been to.  All around the perimeter of the playground they had porch swings for the adults.  I would move there just for that park.

 They had this neat little cave that led the kids down of rope bridge and into the playground.  Emily thought that it was so cool!

They even had spinny buckets.

Ali is really into the monkey bars and climbing things.  This is pretty much what she spent her time doing.

Emily was so happy to be in the sun and able to play outside.  It was glorious.

Olivia, Ali and Emily.

The girls just chillin' and cooling off in this neat swing.

HaHa!  Matt was trying to climb this wall.  He tried and tried, and finally made it up after watching a bunch of little kids do it.  He had to watch to see what path they took.   It was actually really hard in a lot of places.

St. George - April 2011

In April we got to go St. George again for a dance competition.  It was so nice to get away and enjoy the sun for a few days.  We made it an extended vacation and stayed Thursday through Monday.  We all really want to go back with the crappy weather that we are having here.

 Emily says "Oh Yeah!  Pool Time Baby!"

 She was wild.  She did not stop moving, and was being so brave. 

 She would jump in the pool without anyone catching her, go under the water, swim back up, then swim to the edge of the pool and do it all again over and over.

 Ali was tickled pink with her new goggles and snorkel that we found her at TJ Maxx. 

 One of the days was really hot, so we had some fun tube action in the pool since no one wanted to get out of the nice water.  Matt would pick the girls up in their tubes, spin them and then throw them and they would skip across the top of the water.  They had a blast.  Ali is now wishing that we lived there.  I will be too if we don't start getting some sunshine.



My Little Artist

 Ali loves to draw.  She says that when she grows up she wants to be an artist and a dance teacher.

 She will spend hours drawing pictures on this dry erase board, one right after another.  She even takes it with her in the car for some amusement. 

Rec Center Fun

 Ali always loves to start her trip out to the rec center with a  quick climb on the wall.  She is actually getting pretty good, and can make it a good ways up the wall. 

 Ali's swimming skills came right back to her and she was off and swimming like a little fish the minute we got into the pool.  I think Emily is going to have it down pat after a couple more trips to the pool.  She was doing excellent and can totally float on her back now, and do the back stroke. 

 As usual, the girls love the slide and spend most of their time on it.  Emily can not wait for the day that she can go on it by herself.  The girl has no fear.



Best Buds!

One day during nap time Emily really wanted Sophia to lay by her, Emily logged out and Sophia just chilled right next to her for a good long while while she was sleeping.  

Soldier Hollow

 This year we tried the Soldier Hollow tubing hill.  Lets just say it was pretty awesome, and definately the only way to go sledding.  The girls and Matt had a blast, they had permanent grins on their faces.  The ride up the hill was just as fun as the ride down.

 Emily all ready to get pulled up the hill.  She went more the relaxing route.

 Matt and Ali on the other hand enjoyed throwing snowballs at each other.

 Pure excitement on the way down.

 The tubing gang, Lex, Ali, Isabel, Marianne, Shane, Matt and Emily.

It was such a beautiful day that we had to top the day off with a trip to the outlet malls and play on the snow covered play ground.