Strike a pose!!

Okay, I love these pictures of Madison. Not because they're the best pictures ever, but because I think Madi is so stinkin' cute!! (Yeah, I know I'm partial.) Every picture I have of Madi, she has one of these quirky poses in it. I don't know where she came up with the idea of this particular pose, but, it's in every one. I don't know where we picked her up??

Kylie turns eight!!

Kylie turned 8 on January 24th. I can't believe I actually have a child this old already. Where has our time gone? She had a pretty fun party. We let her invite a few girls from school and we took them to Hop 2 It. They loved it! Afterwards we came home and had pizza and cake and icecream. These girls she invited are adorable and I'm thankful she has made such good choices in friends.

Yearly ornaments from Grandma Esther and Grandpa Dave

Every year my parents give us a new Hallmark ornament. The girls look forward to this every year, well, I do too. They always pick out adorable ornaments for the girls. Here they are from this year........



This is Madi's. There is a button on the chimney so that when you push it, it sings, "I want a Hippopatamus for Christmas..."

I love this one too!! This little drummer boy beats his drum to the beat of 5 different Christmas songs. Kylie is the proud owner of this one.

This is Bailey's. Can you guess what this one does? It plays the Chicken Dance. Sooooo cute!!

All of us got one of these from Grandma and Grandpa this year. My maiden name is Horton, so we all got one of these and a stuffed animal of Horton which is adorable.

Christmas

Okay, looking back at this I can't believe I didn't take more pictures of Christmas. How sad that we don't have more!

We made a gingerbread house before Christmas. It was fun to make with
the girls. They really enjoyed it too. If you look close enough I'm sure you
can tell which one each of the girls made.

Kylie was invited to her good friend Megan Buckley's house for her annual Christmas party.
This is Kylie's creation of her first gingerbread house. I thought it was a fun idea
for Megan to have this little party and thrilled she invited Kylie.

Better late than never!!! Halloween!

Here are the girls during Halloween! Kylie decided to be Sacagawea..sorry about the spelling...Bailey was Ariel and Madison was Spongebob! I made the Spongebob costume for Madi and she loved it. I kept asking her, "are you having fun Madi?" She would look at me and say, "I'm not Madi today, I am Spongebob Squarepants!" She even did a head stand and said, "Mom, look what Spongebob is doing." She is a crack up! Kylie and Bailey had fun as well. Bailey was finished, and Kylie kept pleading, "Just one more house!" I love Halloween!

Young Women Manual 3 Lesson #40: Loving Ourselves and Others

Well, today I had the opportunity of teaching this lesson. I thought it was a little difficult. Teaching the girls about the self esteem you need for yourself so you are better able to esteem others. Of course, I spent the majority of my time on my handout. I found these cute...no...adorable scarecrows at http://www.skiptomylou.org/. I had to use them! When I found out I was teaching this lesson, I figured I could make the scarecrows....YAY!!!....and relate it to the lesson. I talked to the girls about gardening and the things we need to do to nourish it and make sure it grows so you get the harvest from it you would like. I also talked to them about the things that could destroy it...weeds, bugs, birds, etc... So, I related this to Satan's war on us...to forget who we really are, daughters of God. We talked about the things we could set up in our lives....like a scarecrow....that would help ward off these negative thoughts. We had a really quick lesson....15 minutes because we had to set apart one of the girls, then announcements took forever this week. But, I think the girls were receptive to what I shared with them. They were even more excited about these fun handouts I gave them. I attached a small piece of cardstock that had a quote on it from Sherry Dew...from her talk at a BYU Women's Conference. The title of her talk is, "Knowing Who You Are and Who You Have Always Been". I made a copy of this talk for each of the girls. It's amazing. I hope they take the time to read it. Anyway...hope you enjoy.

Family Pictures

Kylie, Madison, and Bailey

We got family pictures a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't figure out how to upload them. Yeah, I know....I did it once before, why couldn't I just do it like I did last time? Good question. I'm still trying to figure it out. My niece, Whitney took these pictures. I think she does a great job. You can check out her blog at http://www.whitneycurzon.blogspot.com/ . This is my favorite picture of the girls together.

Madi

Whitney captured some great pictures of Madi. I love almost every picture that was taken of her. Her quirky little smiles, her attitude...all the things that make me just want to squeeze her to pieces.

Bailey

Bailey took some great pictures too. We only got one of her infamous face that she makes. I can't say I'm dissappointed about that though. Every picture from our trip to NY this summer had THAT FACE in it....so a few without works for me.

Kylie

Oh my goodness! Kylie would run to a spot and strike a pose, then say, "this would be a great spot to take some pictures". I'll have to upload the picture when we're all falling in the stream, not Kylie...she's striking a pose over on a rock by the side....completely oblivious of the commotion from us falling in the ice cold water up at Cherry Springs. She is such a goof!


The Family 2008


Well...here we are. Whit you did a great job...Thanks!