Caydence's Birthday Party

Caydence had her very first birthday party on March 19th.  We are so lucky to have 4 girls in our ward that have birthdays within a month of each other; 3 of them are within 5 days!    We decided to have a big joint birthday party for all 4 of them.  It was GREAT!  The four moms split up the work so it was super easy, and then we hired some special visitors to run the party, so we just got to enjoy the party!

I decided the night before the party to make Caydence an Elsa dress.  It was a little crazy, but compared to the $1200 people were selling them for on Ebay, it wasn't too bad!  I just kind of altered a dress pattern that looked similar.  It's not perfect, but I thought it turned out pretty cute.

All the cute girls started out by coloring Frozen pictures.

And then our special visitors showed up at the door!

 I LOVE this picture of the girls' reaction to them walking in the door!

Anna and Elsa came in and told their story to a very captive audience.

 Then they crowned each of the birthday girls.

 And brought them each a present (from the moms)

 Love these cute girls!

 The princesses even painted faces and played games.

 This Anna was AMAZING!  She was so cute with the girls!

The birthday girls.

 Janessa made adorable snowflake cupcakes.

Best birthday party ever!  I'm not sure how we are going to top this one next time!

Girls' weekend

My cousin returned from his mission last week and the girls decided to make a trip to St. George for the homecoming (and a little vacation on the side).  The weather was amazing and it was so good to get away and re-charge!

We spent Saturday in Zions.  I have never been, except a quick pass through when we hiked the Subway years ago.  It was just beautiful.

 We left Grandma in the lodge for a few hours and hiked Angels Landing.  It was quite a hike!  This is looking down when we were part way up.

 "Walter's wiggles"

 When you get to Scout Lookout (2 miles up) there is this sign before you do the last 1/2 mile.

 Unfortunately, my mom and I couldn't go any further, but Nicki and Paige made it all the way!

 We waited below and took lots of pictures.

It was so much fun and I can't wait to take the kids back some time!

Olympic speed skating trials

Danny's mom got VIP passes for the speed skating Olympic trials and we were lucky enough to be invited to tag along.  We arrived and were met with a delicious buffet and this awesome ice sculpture.

We watched some fun races.

And them we were seated right behind the awards ceremony.

We tried a few of those photo prop cutouts.  This one cracks me up.

And tried sitting in the bobsled (it's MUCH harder than it looks).

I didn't get any pictures, but we were also able to go out and skate in the ice, which was pretty cool!  It was such a fun day, brought back a lot of great memories of the Olympics in SLC.  I'm really excited for the Olympics to start!  Go USA!

Christmas 2013

Christmas dress clothes

Our church is at 9 AM, so we were rushing and these were the best pictures I got of the kids.  They were so cute!