Family Pictures

Our friend Erin Langstraat (http://www.erinnoeldesigns.blogspot.com) is an awesome photographer and took our family pictures on Saturday. Despite Grace not wanting to hold still for more than 2 seconds and Hannah's aversion to looking at the camera, I think we got some great pictures.

Halloween 2010

We had the best Halloween this year. Ever since Jake and the Neverland Pirates came on the Disney channel Hannah has become enthralled with pirates so it was no surprise that Hannah wanted to be a pirate this year for Halloween.

We then thought it would be fun for the whole family to get in on the act.


There were lots of fun Halloween activities. Hannah and her preschool group had a Halloween party.

We carved pumpkins at Grandma and Grandpa Sawyer's house.

Hannah named her pumpkin 'moony".

We enjoyed the ward's trunk or treat especially since cousin Sydney came with us. As you can see she was a pirate as well.

Halloween itself brought trick or treating. We started out at Grandma and Grandpa Simmons' house (mostly to show off our costumes).

Then we met up with the girls' friends for trick or treating in our neighborhood.

After trick or treating, our friends came over for some games. We played bobbing for apples
and eating doughnuts of a string.

We love Halloween.

1 Year Old

Gracie turned one today!

I love this little girl and can't believe how fast this year has gone by. Here's a few facts about our little one year old:

• Grace is a momma's girl. She is attached to my hip and barely lets me out of her sight. I sometimes complain about this but really I love it.
  
• She loves carrots and cheese (really she likes most everything but these seem to be her favorites).
• She has a huge sugar tooth and loves chocolate ( I don't even think Hannah had chocolate before her first birthday but Grace seems to sniff it out).
  
• Grace is very strong and physical and has good coordination. However, she is just starting to walk and having a little bit of a hard time because her hips are turned in causing her to be pigeon toed. She also has huge feet, size 5 1/2 shoes, so because of the aforementioned pigeon toe problem, she is constantly tripping over her feet. (her doctor says she will most likely grow out of this)
• Not just her feet are big. Grace is 31 3/4 inches tall which puts her off the charts tall and weighs 21bl 9oz putting her in the 60% for weight.
  
• Grace loves music and always dances to the beat.
• Grace is almost always happy.
• Grace has started to try and play with Hannah. Unfortunately for Hannah, Grace's version of playing is to run at Hannah at full speed, knock her down, and once Hannah is on the ground, Grace lays on her laughing hysterically while Hannah cries.

I love these girls!!

To celebrate, we enjoyed chocolate cupcakes, yum!

St Patrick's Day

This year we decided to see if we could trap a Leprechaun so Hannah and I built this little trap. Leprechauns love to do naughty things and don't listen to signs so we knew that our Leprechaun would not be able to resist climbing up our twig ladder and then would be trapped.


Our little Leprechaun was too tricky for us. He escaped our trap but did leave us a little of his treasure.

He also left breakfast, Lucky Charms cereal of course, and turned our milk green.

All day long Hannah found other little tricks that the Leprechaun played on us (like moving her toys).

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Princess Hannah is 4

Hannah was very specific about the kind of party she wanted. It had to be princess themed, the colors had to be pink and purple (just like her friend Kayla's party), there had to be streamers, balloons and goodie bags and of course, a castle cake. Well, I think we were able to come through and pull off a pretty sweet party if I do say so myself.

I was a little worried about having ten three and four years olds running around but we had so much fun. Everyone came dressed in their best princess attire and Hannah looked beautiful as Princess Aurora.

We had great princess hats that the girls got to put their names on and decorate with princess stickers.

Check out these beautiful ladies......

I think the girls enjoyed our games. We played Princess, Princess where's your glass slipper; the princess version of doggy, doggy where's your bone.

We went to Belle's ball where the little princesses danced and then had to freeze when the music stopped.

We joined Ariel "Under the Sea"(all the girls held the edge of a blue sheet and then we lifted it up like a parachute and two girls traded places by running under the sheet).

Sleeping Beauty was a surprising hit. The girls just had to pretend to be Sleeping Beauty and see who could sleep the longest. I used this too calm everyone down and it worked amazingly well. It worked so well in fact, that after about 5 minutes I had to wake up the last 4 princesses by checking to see if they were still breathing causing them to erupt with laughter.

Hannah got her castle cake. I think it turned out pretty well.

Even Grandma was there to help pull everything off.