Christmas Eve (early)

Family

Cousins


Mother found a new friend -- Dustin

Strawberries -- Katie's favorite food

This says it all

Merry Christmas

We're getting into Christmas!

Grammie's 87!

We were very late with the celebration.

Her birthday was Sept 6thShe just weighed herself upstairs. 94.6 lbs with shoes and clothes

A 3 lb gain
Visiting after lunch

Blowing out the candles

She needed help from Kailyn and Kalissa

Dig in

Kailyn & Stuart Celebrated their Birthdays at Disneyland

New Water Slides at Disneyland Hotel
Lunch at Ariel's Grotto


Belle took a picture with Katie who slept through most meals

Mickey's teddy bear Duffy

Main Street

Tomorrow Land with R2D2

Critter Breakfast at Hotel California

Stuart's teaching Katie to be a Street Performer and float in the air in Downtown Disney which is outside of the theme park

Kalissa takes a look at her Rock Star hair done at 365 in Downtown Disney

Both girls are now Rock Stars complete with glitter

Kailyn's 1st Competition

She won 2 trophies

Day at our house

Both Kailyn and Kalissa now have ukuleles. Kailyn has her finger on the C chord and is playing Are You Sleeping Brother JohnCome get us wave!
Lots more people than usual

On their way back to the house

Bar-B-Que time (kids' style)

Katie sneaks off for some golf time while the other girls are still eating

Katie is 2!

It was a Wonder Pets theme (her favorite show)
However she slept through it and didn't wake up till the guests left

We had Bar-B-Que for lunch

Once she woke up she opened her presents with lots of help from her big sister

Then she got her cupcake

"This is yummy"

Kailyn has finished Pre K

She is saying the 7th of the 10 Commandments

(She attends a Christian school and will go there again for Kindergarden)

Birthday Celebrations

Last Thursday afternoon Kailyn celebrated her early 5th birthday at Pump It Up with many of her classmates. I've never seen so many giant things to climb and jump on. The kids sure had fun. Yes, that's Kailyn coming down and Katie going up to come down by herself.

They had pizza and then Kailyn went on the throne to open gifts while a staff member wrote down the gifts and who they were from.

Can you believe Kathy and Stuart made the cake and the topper? Even Kailyn and her friend helped.

On Saturday, Kalissa had a tea party birthday at Oliva's Dollhouse with 6 of her best friends.

That's Queen Kalissa and her royal court of Princesses

Katie loved the tea (strawberry lemonade)

Afterwards we went to Pup and Papa's (Kalissa's grandparents) for more fun and food

Katie and friend

Memorial Day Weekend

We went to Bob & Karen's in ValenciaKalissa and Kailyn had a private table

Katie in the "ball"

Kalissa's in the "ball" now

Play time with Grammie

The girls are giving her a new hairstyle