Birthday Update

Day at the beach in September 2015:




First day of Kindergarten!!




First soccer season.  Her team was called the Red Unicorns.





School field trip to the pumpkin patch

Searching for the perfect Christmas tree.

Christmas cookie baking day with cousins.

Visit to see Santa at our local firestation:




We spent Christmas in Utah this year with Nathan's family.  The girls were so excited to have a white Christmas!!

Grandma made these princess dress-up dresses for the girls.

Christmas morning!

All she wanted was an Elsa snow globe.  Santa came through!

Waiting to go see what Santa brought.

So excited to go play in the snow!

Easter!

All dressed up and ready for church on Easter Sunday.

Beautiful girl!

Birthday time!!

Grace's 3rd Birthday

For Grace's third birthday, we did a party at the park with friends, similar to her second birthday.  We had five other friends with May birthdays, so we had a party for all six of them together!  It was a pretty hot day for May, so everyone has pink, sweaty cheeks!

 Grace loves her friends!

On her actual birthday, we did a little "selfie" photo shoot, Mommy and Gracie.

 Love this girl!

 Then, that night, we had cake and invited cousins over to play in her new swimming pool

Grace loves cousins!

She got a Lallaloopsy from Grandma!  She loved it!

January - April 2013

Trying to play a Candy Land with baby sister. 

Grace is super imaginative and into pretending.  She has all these little figurine animals and dolls that she loves to play with.  I think in this picture she had built a bunch of beds out of legos and was putting her animals to bed.

Silly girl!

Stickers!

Gracie, Leah and Daddy.

Ready for the rain in her boots!

Just trying on Daddy's shoes.

Cooking up something good in her play kitchen.

We went camping at the beach in the Spring.  It was windy!

I think Grace was most excited about roasting marshmallows.  She carried the bag around with her all day!

Grace loves books!  I found her like this one night when I went in to check on her before going to bed.

We had an OMSI pass that year and loved going with friends.

Uh oh, someone got into Mommy's makeup!

In April of 2013, we went to Utah to celebrate Nathan's Grandpa's 90th birthday.  The girls loved staying in the hotel on the way there.

Family picture taken at the birthday party.

It snowed a little the day we were leaving Utah.  Grace made these little snowmen outside her Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Cute girls!

Grace loves to help cook!

We went to an Easter egg hunt at the elementary school near our house.  Grace was so proud of herself that she wasn't scared of the Easter bunny.  (She's usually pretty nervous about anyone in costumes for some reason.)  

Just out for a walk at some nearby gardens.