A week ago, Molly called me on the phone and wondered if she could plan a sleepover for the girls at my house.  I told her if she wanted to organize it, I would be glad to host it.  She called all the girls, and made a plan. Our 6 big girls all spent the night on Friday.  

What a fun time we had!

We made homemade mac and cheese, which is their favorite.  Some of them like potato chips on top, and some like the crunchy onion rings on top, so we did half and half.  After dinner we watched a fun Barbie movie, then the little girls slept upstairs in the nursery, and the big girls slept in the sleepover room.

At about 7:30 in the morning I could tell the big girls were awake, so I went down to see what they were up to.  They were all piled on one of the beds reading Fancy Nancy.  

What cute girls!!!!

They played for a while, then while the little girls were still playing, the big girls came and helped me get the table set for breakfast.  It is so nice to have helpers!

We had yummy crepes for breakfast.

After breakfast, we did a little painting project.  They painted wooden hearts.

 Abbie got more paint on the paper, than on the heart!

Here's one all painted

Then we glued a plug cover on the back to make a Valentine outlet cover.

Here's mine that Lani gave me years ago that I got the idea from.

They also painted some little tiny heart fridge magnets.

I forgot to take pictures of them, but here are mine, (theirs were much fancier than mine!)

I had a brilliant inspiration to have their moms pack the girls snow clothes, so after breakfast, they put them on and went outside to make a snowman.

It was obvious, they had done this before.

 I couldn't believe how fast they put this Snow Lady together!

They had to cut branches from our tree for arms 

 With a little teamwork

 They made a whole snow family!

Mom, dad and 3 kids!

Before long it was time to go,  we sure had a great time.  Thanks Molly for getting it all organized!

I loved this picture of Gabbie and Kelsi inside my fridge looking for a snack for the ride home!

Sophie turns one

 Today is Sophie's 1st birthday! She is such a sweet little girl.  

Krista invited all the family to her house on Saturday to help celebrate.

She made a beautiful cake and cupcakes.

Sophie got a darling wooden rocking horse.

Gabbie had to try out the rocking horse too!

What a fun party!

Christmas 2013

Jamie and Emily invited us to their house to spend Christmas Eve with their sweet family.  Emily's parents and her brother Zack were there too. She made a delicious dinner, then they read the story of Christ's birth from the scriptures, and the girls acted out the Nativity.  What a great way to spend Christmas Eve!

The next morning we went to their house to see what Santa brought to them.

After visiting Jamie's family, we went to Josh's and saw their Christmas.

Then we went to Paula and Bob's and had a delicious Indian meal.  Bob is a great cook!  (I can't believe I forgot to take any pictures of the amazing meal.)  It was really fun to spend time with them.  Then we headed over to mom and dad's for a little Christmas Open house.  I hired Hailey to be my photographer, since I had failed at our last stop.  She did a great job.  I think the only ones she missed were my dad, and Sophie who was sleeping. (Josh and Jamie's families had already left before I thought to hire Hailey, so luckily I had taken pictures of them in the morning.

Here's mom and Paige

Here's me and Devin and Aunt Marie and Mike

Here's a cute picture of Lani and Simon.

Krista, Aida and Matt

Jeff and Jen

Elycia and Chip came with their cute family

                                            

 Here's Taylor

Kathy, Lucy and Carissa

Ric and Uncle Bud even came for Christmas

And here's my great photographer who came home with us for a sleepover.

Their short trip is over!

The past four days went way too fast!  

We had so much fun watching Logan practice his sitting skills.

                                           

Playing with one of his new cars.

Being a big boy sitting in a high chair to eat.

They were able to go visit Josh's family at their new house and check out their awesome snowman. 

They surprised the great grandparents, by dropping in on them when they didn't even know they were coming to town.   

They met Chip, Elycia, and their three kids at In and Out Burger.  (Future Best Buddies!)

Logan is as big as his 2 cousins that are 3 months younger than him, what a guy!!!!!

Here are the 4 babies, (after eating candy canes)  So fun to have 4 babies in 15 months!

Jordan's favorite Primary teacher stopped by for a visit and brought Logan this cozy winter baby snow suit.

All too soon, it was time to pack it up and head off to California for Christmas.  

Jamie made Logan this cute Going to Grandmas shirt.  We are going to miss them, but I am happy to think how much fun Jamie's family is going to have with them.  Thanks so much for taking a detour to Utah!!!!

They made it to Jamie's parent's house in about 12 hours and Logan did GREAT!!!