Happy Birthday Emma!

We celebrated Emma's birthday while we were in Little Rock. This was the first time that she has ever had interest in opening presents! She was really excited about her Minnie Mouse birthday cake, and even said Happy Birthday to everyone that had a piece of cake.

Funny Moments: Emma's favorite movie is The Swan Princess. She thinks Prince Derek is her daddy, and she is Princess Oddette. She always says the princess is sad because she wants her daddy. :)

Happy Birthday Emma!

Happy Birthday Jackson!

When we told Jackson his birthday was coming up he had two requests. First, he wanted to go to Little Rock. Second, he wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese in Little Rock. It worked out perfect because Chris had meetings in Little Rock the week of Jackson's birthday. As you can tell, Jackson had a great birthday!

Funny Moments: When Jackson realized that he was turning five he told everyone that he was going to be "a whole hand". When he was watching tv at my parents house he asked, "How come I still have my 4 year old baby voice?" Apparently he thought he was going to turn into a man overnight! :)

Happy Birthday Jackson!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

This year we had to celebrate Valentine's Day a day early. I LOVE Valentine's Day! I decorated the house with Valentine's decorations, and I did my annual "Heart Attack" in the kids rooms. They loved having hearts on their wall.

Emma actually liked her baby doll!

Jackson was excited to have some new legos!

Jackson and Emma were so excited to receive this package from Grandma Marge and Grandpa Joe. It made their day! :-)

Snow Storm 2011

We had a huge snow storm a few weeks ago. The meteorologist only predicted 4-6 inches, so we were shocked when we woke up to 20 inches of snow. Here are a few pictures!

Snow Days

We had our first real snow storm this week in Rogers. We thought we were going to get 9-12 inches of snow, but ended up with 6. We were so excited to play in the snow, but it was so cold. I think we spent more time bundling up than we actually spent playing outside. Preschool has been closed that past two days and is already canceled for tomorrow. The kids have actually had fun playing inside. Here are a few pictures.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We were thrilled to have a family here in Rogers do the 12 Days of Christmas for our family! It was the first time our family has been on the receiving end and our kids were thrilled! We also did the 12 Days of Christmas for some of our friends and we were caught on the third day! What makes it even worse is we delivered the first package to the wrong house! :) Oh well, it was still fun!

We went to Little Rock for a full week and it was wonderful! The kids had a great time seeing all their Uncles and Aunt Jen. We went out to eat, saw a few movies, played a lot of games. It was great to have the entire family together on Christmas.

Why not have two shirts that look exactly alike?

Opening their presents from Grandpa Joe and Grandma Marge

Emma and Papa

Making a gingerbread house with Mike and Jen

This was suppose to be a girls picture. Did not go over well with Jackson as you can see.

Jackson, Emma, and Dave at the movie theater

Two happy girls!

This was the surprise present from Uncle Dave! The kids were so excited!

Steve and Dave drove up to our house to put the trampoline together. Thanks guys!

Ta-da!!!

Visit from Grandma

Random picture with the beautiful flowers my brother Steve sent for my birthday! :)

Poor Emma

Emma and Grandma

My Mom came to visit the week of my birthday. We were so excited! Both kids could hardly contain their excitement when Grandma came to pick them up from play/preschool. We immediately headed over to Chuck E. Cheese! That night my Mom and I went shopping for a bit. The next day we were headed to Emma's big dance class and poor Emma got really sick with the flu. We spent the next 8 hours holding Emma on the couch. She slept most of the day and was pretty miserable. I was so glad my Mom was in town (even if it wasn't the trip we had planned). That night the Young Women came and delivered Christmas cookies to our family.