Just Dance III on NYE...

Starting our evening with a snack bar for dinner...
then the party started with Just Dance 3

Kadyn, Mia, and Kenni rockin' out...

My little dancing queen

Kenni has some moves for a 23 mo. old.

Mia just moves... everywhere!

Yes, you are never too old to bust some moves!

dancing peanut was getting tired...

Kenni was our MC for the night...

Our new table...

After 5 years of not having a dining room table, we arranged our daycare space, again so we could eat together as a family.

This is such a huge deal... in the past, Dustin and I (and Gaby and Kadyn) sat in the kitchen eating, then we added Mia in her high chair. Then when Mia and Kendal needed big girl chairs, we begun to eat in 2 different rooms. The kids ate at the daycare table in the dining room and Dustin and I ate in the kitchen.

When we told Gaby we had a table, she replied, "So we can eat together like we used to". Yikes, that broke my heart!

Our first pictures at the table...

View from the living room... I love our new table...

Yep! I still love it.

This is pretty much what I looked like for the past 4 days... hence Dustin snapping this picture and I didn't even realize it!



Yep! I still love my Kindle Fire.

Kenni's ears...

After our trip to the zoo we headed to the mall to get Kenni's ears pierced. All of the girls have had their ears pierced between 12-18 months.

It was nap time, she was not wanting to sit down.

Kenni had a sucker and she was super happy.

Getting ready...

All done... and no tears...

Then she realized what happen...

After we left...she was still not happy... not even lunch helped her. Kendal crashed on the way home. She was a tired girl.

But looks so cute... My little peanut!

Trip to the zoo...

Today it was over 60 degrees... we took advantage of the awesome weather and went to the zoo.
Dustin was back to work so it was a fun time with me and the peanuts.

It was fun to walk around... all the peanuts had a blast.

They loved using the maps to see where we were...

the "Stuffed" animals

We watched the hippo for a long time... they were playing around.

I hate the rainforest... however, seeing how much Kenni loved it made it all worth while. She loved the flamingos. She stood watching for over 8 minutes. She did not want to leave...

She was talking to the flamingo, laughing at it, and pointing to it.

Kadyn and Mia

The petting zoo...

Kadyn's almost 7 year old pictures...

During Christmas vacation I tried to get Kadyn's 7 year old pictures taken. I wanted to snap a few myself to document that she is 7. Here are a few of the better ones... I had fun messing around and taking her pictures. One January kid down... one to go.

Kadyn Denise

One of my favorites...

Saw the idea of using scrabble letters on Pinterest...

Our good ol' chair

After we put our Christmas decorations up this year- we got rid of a family favorite of a chair. It was broken and it took up lots of space. We bought in the Mother's day after Gaby was born- this chair was almost 10 years old.
Sad to see it go- it has held all of our babies, sick kids, nursing children, and lazy tv watching mom. It has had a great life.

Christmas Night...
One tired little peanut

Christmas Morning...

Christmas morning came bright and early... it was at 8am that the kids started getting up. We had to wake Kenni up...

Gaby and her Pokemon cards...

I love her expression... she finally figuring out what she got. Kadyn got one big thing- her American Girl doll. I was scared that she would be mad that she didn't have have as many gifts under the tree- she didn't care. She loved her doll- and named her Lucy.

My little Mia...

My sassy Kadyn... so happy.

Mia figuring out her new toy...

Rock Chalk Gaby Goo...