Dance, Dance, Dance!

Payton

Nutcracker 12/14/12

 Avery & Payton

 Some of the dance class.

 Payton's dance studio did a Nutcracker performance. It was really a great night. She did AWESOME! She is so good at memorizing her dances. It amazes me!!

She was a little nervous before hand, but you would never know.

She looks WAY to grown up with all this makeup on. What a beautiful girl we have!!

 Payton loves that her BFF Avery is in her dance class.

 Kennedy

12/15/12

Kennedy did a dance to Up on the Housetop.

She also did such a GREAT job! I was a little nervous, at her dress rehearsal she didn't want to dance. But today she did the whole thing beautifully!!

She loves dance and has always walks on her tip toes :)

 Kaya and Kennedy

It was a little stressful having the girls in different studios doing dress rehearsals and performances on the same night at different places. Luckily I have awesome friends that are always helping me out! Now for a little break from dance to enjoy our Holidays!!



Carriage Parade

Saturday December 8th Parker had a Carriage Parade.

It was really cute seeing all the ponies and humongous Horses.

We decided to not ride in the Wells carriage, we heard its quite the process and lots of waiting around. So Ted did it for us:)

 We hadn't had any snow at this point.

 I think the girls had fun playing in the warmer weather!

NO more DIAPERS!

The Anderson house is a DIAPER FREE HOUSE!!

Oaklee is a CHAMP!!!

I have to say that I was a little nervous to start potty training this time around. Oaklee is definitely a strong willed little gal and if its not HER idea its not going to happen!

So when she said "Mom, I want unner-wears" I jumped on it. It took a total of 3 DAYS!!!

Yes, that's it 3 DAYS!!

Day 1 she had one poopy accident and absolutely HATED it. She didn't poop for a whole day after that. Day 2 we had one wet accident and again she HATED it. So after that we worked on getting her to finally poop in the toilet and she has told us ever since!

It's been a week and now she is dry at night and naps!!

Oh how SWEET it is to not change diapers after almost 4 years straight of it!!!

WE LOVE YOU BIG GIRL!!!!

Gingerbread House!!

This year for our annual Gingerbread House Extravaganza we found the BEST house ever!

This Barbie Gingerbread house is so cute and the girls thought it was beyond cool!

 They each contribute in their own way.

Whether it be placing candy on it or eating it:)

We LOVE us some BARBIE!!

Denver Light Parade

Some friends of ours from the Ward invited us to go downtown to the Light Parade last weekend. It was SO WARM, 65* at 8:00! So to say the least it was Super Crowded. We ended up getting stuck in traffic and getting there as it was starting. Next year we will get there early and stay late to avoid traffic!

Breakfast with Santa

Last saturday our ward had Breakfast with Santa.

 It was really cute, and pretty yummy!

 

Here are the girls all ready to go!

 Playing with their Tree.

 

 I was 100% expecting this reaction!

WE HAD A GREAT TIME!

O Christmas Tree....

This year decorating the tree didn't quite happen as usual. We normally like to put it up the day after Thanksgiving, but with the girls being so sick we had to hold off.

So here they are decorating, still recovering and not quite as spunky as normal :(

I LOVE having a fireplace to hang the stockings from!

The girls were always so worried about how Santa got in our house.... not this year!

THANKSgiving 2012

THANKSGIVING 2012

 I am so grateful for these cute faces. They are what makes my world go round and every day is an adventure with them! I feel so blessed to have 3 wonderful daughters of my own, and a husband that I am more in love with today than ever!!

 These are the girls hairdo's for Thanksgiving this year.

 So this year we decided to stay in Colorado and have our own little Thanksgiving dinner. I was actually really excited to make dinner with Justin. We love to cook together, so this was a good test!

A first for both of us was cooking a Turkey. And it turned out PERFECT! Score :)

 This was our little spread. I loved it!

Payton made this cute Turkey for us while we were cooking.

 Even Jax had a Turkey feast!

After dinner we take the girls to a movie and this year we saw Rise of the Guardians. It was cute and the girls had a good time.

Now after the movie is when the horrible madness began. But that will be another post.

I am so grateful for my family, extended and ward family. We have been so lucky with this move to meet such wonderful people that have been amazing. It was a bitter sweet day not being with our family in Utah. It was harder than I thought. We miss them all very much!

GO Cougars!!

 

Look at these AWESOME COUGAR shirts we found!

They were so excited to wear them and match Dad. They all have matching pom poms too.

Oaklee will instantly yell GO FOOTBALL when she sees it come on the TV.

Justin is one lucky guy to have all girls and still have Football fans!

I think he is in heaven, even with all girls we LOVE football at our house!!

I love my little cougar fans!