These are a few of their favorite things!

At 3 1/2 years and 9 1/2 months this is what our girls are up to:

Gabrie loves preschool and playing with other kids. She thinks her cousins and friends from school are the best people in the world. She often threatens to tell on me to her cousins or if she sees a movie where someone is in trouble she says she and her cousins will help them (or the Wonder Pets). She loves to run, dance, color, paint, play with playdough, create all sorts of house/forts or traps, and of course dress up! She is sweet and caring and loves to share!

Gabrieisms:
Can-tark= guitar
Lovin' sack= love sac
sal-suf- salsa
Fancy Fancy pick up your nose- Fancy Nancy's book of fancy words
Probably a ton more, I'll add them when I remember them!

Livvy loves to crawl around and find what we left on the floor, get in the middle of what ever Gabrie is playing with, being with or in view of Mommy at all times, dancing with Daddy, banging objects together or hitting them on different surface to hear the different sounds they make.
She has 6 teeth and 2 more almost out! She has been army crawling (the wounded soldier as we call it) since she was 8 months she can crawl normal now to but seems to prefer the first method. She started to pull herself up to things at about 9 months, the first time being on the bath tub. She says mama, dada, nahnah (which we think means food and/or mama), she can sign "more." And at her 9 month doctor appointment she was in the 90% for height and 50% for weight.

Pretty in Pink

Frilly and pink skirts, what could be better!


I love Gabrie's face!

Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Gabrie's preschool class went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch and Livvy and I came along.



We made sugar cookies the other day, pumpkins of course, but Gabrie chose purple for the frosting so we had purple pumpkins! This was her first time licking the beaters, she loved it!

Gabrie watched Barbie "A Fashion Fairytale" and loved it! So that night I went in to tell her goodnight and this is what I found. She had Disney songs on and said she was having a fashion show! She had every item of dress up clothes she has on and all of her shoes lined up.

Then she fell asleep!

Fun at the Farm

Livvy has learned how to pull herself up to standing, so now she likes to do that instead of sleeping!

Cute pigtails!


Last weekend was beautiful so we went to Wheeler farm. We had a great time and got lots of cute pictures!





Then David and Connie's family meet us there.
Sydney and Livvy

Sydney and Gabrie

The Helmet, the End of an Era

Livvy is done wearing her helmet, hooray! She only had to wear it for 2 months (the hottest 2 of the year of course!), orginally they said it could be 3 to 4, so we were extremely excited to be done early. She actually handled it really well and it wasn't that hard to take care of, just clean everynight- the helmet and her head both got pretty stinky! But it has been so fun to have her crazy hair back, be able to cuddle better and kiss her all over, we missed that! Here are some of the looks she rocked with the helmet-








Look at those cheeks!

First Day of Preschool (sort of)

Last week Gabrie had her first day of 3 year-old preschool, well sort of. She had gone a couple times at the day care last year but it was her first time at her "new school" which I made the mistake of telling her about in June! So for the past two months she has asked about her new school and when she was going to go! She was very excited to go. But that night she was playing with her various animal toys and I heard her say something like "It's their first day of school and they have to go by themselveses, but their not scared cause Heavenly Father is their to protect them." Then she picked up the rubber duck and said "This is Heavenly Father." So cute!

She got to bring Show and Tell for the first day, she wanted to bring lots of things but finally decided on her stuffed hippo.

This is her mean face, she wanted to me to take a picture of it!

Such a big girl, I can't believe it!

Summer Pictures

Here are some pictures from this summer that I never had a chance to post!


Fourth of July- Gabrie and Ben

Gabrie and Livvy



Evan, Gabrie and Sydney watching smoke bombs.

Aunt Laurie and Livvy

Sparklers

Mommy and the girls

Kiley, Parker and Gabrie. Parker kept asking "is hot?"

Gabrie was a little scared of the fireworks and spent most of the time under a blanket by Ashlyn and Uncle Corbin.

Livvy liked them!


Having a break from the helmet, she got one hour each day!


We went swimming with Parker (and Dianne)on his birthday.