Sacramento Children's Museum

Last week we went to The Sacramento Children's Museum with Grandma and Paka. They offered to take the girls when if first opened but we had to take a rain check, so we went on Tuesday and had a great time. Allie loved dressing up, and Paige loved getting soaked in the water table. Next time I will come better prepared with extra dry clothes!!

Concord Fam

The other day we made the trek to Concord to see all of the bay area fam. All of the cousins had a blast playing out side and picking oranges. My Uncle Dick and Aunt Jeannie have the best oranges in the world and Paige loved picking them! Geoff loves to eat them, and they were not quite ripe but he and Paige got their fill of vitamin C while we were there. I wanted to get a pic of all of the cousins, but didn't get it done. Maybe next time!

Words With Friends

This is what happens when you let the girls have a free for all with the markers...while their DORKY parents had a mad game of words with friends.....can you say parents of the year!! We were watching them the whole time, so I guess we are not totally terrible!! The girls looked like they had gang tattoos. They had marker on every inch of their body, face, neck, you name it - they were marked and had a blast!!

Visit with Great Grandpa Ron

Every year, around this time my Grandma Rosie and Grandpa Ron used to make the trek to Cali and Arizona for a little Vitamin D and break from the Oregon weather, and visit family along the way. This weekend Gramps made the trek solo and we had a nice visit. We sure do miss Grandma Rosie....just seems like yesterday she was here. When Gramps pulls up in the driveway, it is weird to not have her with him. When we walked to Rob and Georgeanne's for dinner on Friday night, Allie saw the brightest star in the sky and said "that one is Grandma Rosie right mom?" Yep...that is her, she is watching over us! Things sure are not the same without her. I still miss her everyday. She would love to see the girls and all the craziness they are into. I don't think Gramps could believe how busy the girls are. They are on the go NON STOP and Allie's imagination and brain never stops working!

The girls were showing Grandpa Ron how they could climb on the climber

Paige liked Grandpa Ron's hat..she thought she was pretty silly

Allie and Paige built a library so Grandpa could check out books

Then Allie transformed the library into a hotel room for Gramps. She got some food out of the pantry and said his cleaning was included in the hotel room. She got out the duster and dusted for him...it was pretty cute!

Kindermusik with Miss Sunny

Paige has been taking Kindermusik since she was 6 months old and I am just posting about it! Maybe I did one before...who knows. But the deal is, you can only take pictures on the last day of class and I always forget my camera. When we drive into the parking lot Paige kicks her feet and says "Miss Sunny, fun" "like it"....and she does. She loves it! We thought we might take a little break since it is not the most convenient time, but Paige loves it, so we will continue with next semester! Allie had the same Kindermusik teacher (Miss Sunny) since she was 6 months old until she was 3 and both girls (and all kids) love her!! Allie does not take it anymore, but would love to! It is just too hard to get to Sac twice a week with school, tap and working! Here are lots of pics of our last day of class for the session.

On the last day of class Miss Sunny does a run through of all of the favorite songs and activites for the whole semester. Egg shakers, scarves and drums are always a favorite.

A big huge hug for Miss Sunny!!

Paige Kaitlyn's Broken Finger

Our little Paigee girl is almost 20 months. I can not believe how much she has grown and changed since she was born. I sometimes wish we could just stop time....



She is a feisty little one and knows what she wants. She loves her big sister and tries to do everything "Alla" does. She talks up a storm and loves to stay busy. I mentioned a while ago in a post that she broke her little finger and never posted about it. She had her all clear check up the other day and her finger is back to normal. When my parents flew into town right before Christmas we were all excited to go get them at the airport. Allie was holding the heavy, self-closing (slamming) door and thought Paige was through the door. Well she was not, and I was too far from her to stop the door from slamming. It was awful. Paige was hysterical, I thought for sure her pinky finger was going to be laying on the floor when I opened the door and Allison felt horrible. I was in a panic and of course, I did what every great mother does, and yelled at Allie. Which it clearly was an accident and not her fault. I then had to console Allie too. Poor girls...it was not a good way to start the day! Once we got straightened out and got my parents from the airport, we took her to Kaiser and it was broken.



The first couple of days she would say "finger owie" or "finger hurts" but after that she did not complain too much. I am sure this is our first of many injuries but our little PK is a trooper. We are all healed and have a fully functioning pinkey!!

Our Little Baker

Allie loves baking with Grandma Ganne and really wanted Santa to bring her the Easy Bake Oven. I was not sure if she would really be all that into it, or if she just liked the idea of it on the commercials. Well, our little baker and her dad have been baking up a storm. They have made sugar cookies, cupcakes and chocolate chip cookies. Needless to say, the Easy Bake Oven is a hit! We have another little baker on our hands!!

Whatever your ❤ Desires

I really can't believe it is already 2012! Seems crazy how fast the time files by these days. We had a nice New Year's Day dinner at Rob and Georgeanne's and Allie baked a special heart shaped cake. When she was making the cake she wanted to lick the batter off the mixer and I said "whatever your heart desires" and that became the name of the cake. She was sooo excited to take her "Whatever your heart desires, New Year's cake" to share with everyone. When it was time for dessert she had everyone gather around the table and said "here is my speech about the cake". I was thinking Oh my, where is she going with this??? So she told all of us, that "you have to go around the room and everyone has to tell the cake what your heart desires!" I don't know where she comes up with this stuff. It is sometimes hard to believe she is only 4! She has such a sweet little heart and hope she always keeps it through life. Everyone actually had fun going around and telling what our heart desired at that moment. It was a great way to start the New Year off and I think it might be our new little tradition!

❤❤❤Hope you all have a Happy New Year, and do "whatever your heart desires" ❤❤❤

PS..I didn't get a picture of the cake but it was a pink heart shaped with tons of sprinkles!! While Allie and Geoff were baking Paige was bouncing with her "tail" on her pink Howdy Cow!!