Late Thankgiving Post

I lost my camera for awhile so I am just now posting pictures from Thanksgiving!
These ones were actually a little while before. It was the one day we have had snow so far, but the girls had fun playing in it!

Thanksgiving
We had a fun and busy Thanksgiving this year. We did our usual Thanksgiving with Luke's side Wednesday night followed by football the next morning. Typically these football games end with Luke in the hospital but this year it was Kiley's turn to break his finger ): Then we had Thanksgiving with my side of the family later in the afternoon. The highlight was having Justus and Kyrsten's family here for the weekend, it was lots of fun. Here are some pictures.

Kids dance party, Sam doing her dance!

Max showing his skills!

Zachery showing how he can stand - and just being cute!

Ring around the Rosy

Darcy, Kellie, Stefanie, Dianne, Kyrsten,and Collette

Sam, Gabrie, Livvy, Ashlyn playing in Grandma's new ottoman.

Luke and Livvy

Christmas Dance Recital

Gabrie had her 2nd dance recital this weekend. Her class danced to "Run, Run, Rudolph!", it was very cute! We have lost our camera's battery charger so I am very thankful to my friend Leisa and Grandma for taking all these pictures!

Her class

Livvy wanted to be in the picture too!

Doing the dance, so cute! She is the one on your right (:

They had a surprise finale at the end of the recital but I guessed what it was when I saw her doing some sign language that I had never taught her. When I asked if that is what the surprise was she panicked and said, "It's okay that you know right?" I told her that I would act surprised (:

Updates

Here is an update on the girls now Livvy is 21 months and Gabrie is 4 1/2.

Livvy- She is talking a lot more, some of which we can understand but most we can't. She yells "TOW" instead of cow everytime we drive past horses, cows or big open fields. She still loves her "nay" (blankets) but now has 3 that have to be placed just right and in the correct order before she sleeps. Her new thing is climbing out of her crib and laying in front on the door, not my favorite! She is quite the copy cat and has do whatever anyone else is doing especially Gabrie. She love to go through my jewelry box to see what she can find and will stand in front of it and say "yip!" "yip!" meaning she wants my chapstick I keep on the top so she can't reach it. She loves to sing and trys to count. My favorite things she says are "tank too" for thank you, "tay" for okay, and "sawy" for sorry. Her favorite food is soup, canned soup! It is so funny, it has been her favorite for about a year, sometimes she'll even ask for it for breakfast!




Gabrie- Still loves to draw, design and decorate. She has new love for the Care Bears talks about them all the time, as well as, princess and superheroes (which she wants to be when she grows up). She has a great memory, and likes to learn about science. When I don't know the answer to a question she has asked she then asked "Well who know a lot about____?" I usually say Daddy or Grandpa. She still loves her cousins and friends and wants to be playing with someone all the time. She is learning her letters and sounds and trying to learn to read. She also likes to try to speak different languages, Sign Language, Spanish, Chinese and French! She is great helper and a wonderful big sister!

Halloween Activities

There are tons of pictures but oh well, we had lots of fun!

Gabriella's preschool field trip, it was really cold but fun!


Hayride- Gabrie and the boys


Ward Halloween Party
Gabrie as Genevieve Fairy Princess (the fairy version of Genevieve from Barbie's 12 Dancing Princess), her idea, of course!
Livvy as a cupcake!
Pretty Princess
I don't know what she is doing but she sure is cute!



The Cupcake covered in frosting!

City Halloween Party
Gabrie's dance group performed the Monster Mash, but I wasn't able to get a great picture ):



Family Halloween Party
Parker as "Jack"
Gabrie wearing Shane's wig, too funny!

A little... creepy (:

Darcy, Gabrie and Zachery
Bat Pinata
Super Stef and Sam
Look out!

Could never a good one of her straight on smiling, but still cute.
This was really funny to watch! Eating a donut with no hands!
Cheater (:

Grandma and the kids


Halloween
Us with Aaron


Gabrie loved that Kylie was Santa! And everykid we passed was in awe that Santa was trick or treating!
Harry Potter, Hermione, Cupcake, and Fairy Princess Genevieve
Trick or Treating

David, Dianne, and Parker
I love the yellow leaves, it was a perfect fall night!

Grandpa and Tigger- All you can see of Zachery is his cheeks!We had a great Halloween but Gabrie had to/got to dress up 5 of the 7 days in the week before Halloween so I was ready to be done with October and welcome in November!