February

I love February! It has Valentine's day and my birthday!

At the beginning of the month, I lost my mind. I almost adopted this ugly-cute dog.

Luckily (for me) he was a sprayer- and in the 15 minutes we walked him around he peed at least 20 times. Sometime within that 15 minutes my brain also came back, and we handed him back over. I am not an animal person. And I clean enough pee off the floor with Aimee.

I took the girls to the river. We hung out on the dock for a while.

so cute together

 Then it was Valentine's Day! I helped at Katie's school, and it was really fun. I loved those parties when I was in elementary school.

look at that huge pile of sprinkles!

I made the girls matching heart headbands, and they were pretty cute if I say so myself. I got the idea HERE, but just hot glued the felt hearts to ribbon. (And it took like 10 min to make both of them)

A cute one of Aimee, just because.

wearing a preschool noodle necklace

Katie had her 100th day of school. She got to wear a crown! And this is the project we did. A centipede! With 100 toothpick legs! And we had to look at some really disgusting pictures to see what they look like, but that's what she really wanted to do!

at school, sharing her project

she looks so old in this picture!

 The girls like to read together.

Katie is reading her school book to Aimee

It's really cute.

January

Hiking with Claire and Lisa. This was the new years resolution hike. Hike more! (and already abandoned, like all NYRs)

They're all smiling at the same time!

Then it snowed!

This is kind of a terrible picture, but they're having so much fun!

Aimee's first snowman, I'm pretty sure.

Updates

For the next few days I'm going to try to catch up on all my old posts I was supposed to do. I think I'm going to date them as they were supposed to be written, instead of when I really write them. So if you feel like it, you can scroll back and look at them. I'll be going back to Katie's birthday, so end of October.

Merry Christmas!

Aimee is 4!

We had Aimee's party at Papa's Pizza this year. Easy, and she loved it. She wants it there again next year.

Check out that awesome cake I made!

I love her face in this one. Concentration!

 I can't believe my baby is four. She still has a cute little baby face, but she is so not a baby anymore. So sad! And also so happy, because let's face it, she was a pain in the rear for a long while. 

And while we're at it, about 4 years ago, she was in here:

My only shirt that fit, and it didn't even cover my whole belly by then!

I know this is a terrible picture of me, but look at how far my stomach sticks out! It's like she was trying to come out my belly button! And that's why my stomach will never be the same. 

Thanks Aimee. Happy Birthday! You'll be seeing this picture every year to remind you to be grateful to your mommy!

Aimee Dancing

This is Aimee at her finest!

Thanksgiving

This was a fun Thanksgiving!

As a kid, there was always a group of runners that went past our house on Thanksgiving. Ours was the kind of family that laughed at how crazy those people were. And now, we have become them! Lisa, Natalie and I did the Turkeython 5k!

Here we are in action!

Probably the worst picture of me ever! Natalie looks awesome though!

 Then I promptly ate way too much and undid any good I did by running. But I did make this cute guy:

And I think it will be a tradition, because it is awesome! I am very proud of my turkey. And very glad Kelsey took a picture of it, because it was annihilated very soon after this was taken!


And since it wouldn't be Thanksgiving unless I said something I am thankful for (thanks for that Dad!) I will say, I am so grateful for all of my family, including my in-laws. I love all of them! And I am also thankful it's the last Thanksgiving without my parents here! They'll be back in March, and I'm so excited!

Halloween

For some reason, every year Katie ends up with more than one Halloween costume. I only buy her one, and plan on the one, but she always picks something else (we already have). So this year she decided to be a witch. She went to a couple things as a witch, but on actual Halloween she decided she wanted to be a cheerleader. We already had the outfit (thanks to Erica!) so whatever. Aimee picked her costume (skunk) months in advance and wore it like 5 times. They are so different! On to the pics!

Katie is making a goofy face in every pic. With cousins Jessica, Kristen and Emily.

Love that face

And the one pic of Katie as a witch, sans hat and broom. She looks like Elvira!

First Day of Kindergarten!

Katie started her fist day of Kindergarten on Sept 9th. Half the class went on the 8th, and half on the 9th to get the basic routine down before throwing 21 kids all together! The parents were invited for the first half hour of class. So I put Katie on the bus for her first ride ever, and then drove to school. She was the only kid on the bus that day! 

Waiting at the end of our street

Sister hug!

Ane was nice enough to get one of me in there!

She looks so tiny on the bus!

The lone bus rider

She saw me!

in her classroom

silly face!

She loves kindergarten, and I do too!

Annual Beach Trip

Every year I like to take the girls to the coast sometime during the summer. This year we didn't make it out until the week before school, but the weather was awesome and we had so much fun!

Katie drew lots of sand pictures

A very Aimee face

Katie is posing!

A rare Jon picture

The water was freezing!

Aimee made a friend

Goodbye beach!

We can't wait to do it again next year!