Yahoo No more training wheels!

Today was the perfect day to take the training wheel off for William. He was THRILLED! He just needed a bit of help to get started and then off he went.

Ready

KEEP pedaling

And he was riding!

Now we just need to work on the stopping...

Pinkalicious

WOW! Annabel is THREE!

I can not believe my girl is three! The Lord blessed us with an amazing beautiful daughter who is funny, sweet, smart, chatty and girly!

Her favorite colors are: purple, pink and chocolate. So of course we HAD to have a PINKALICIOUS party for her. This year she totally 'got' that it was HER birthday. She woke up on her birthday morning shouting "Good Morning, It's my birthday!"

She was tickled pink over her special day!

PINK PINK and more PINK

Waiting for our guests to arrive

Craft table: decorate your own wand and color a cupcake

The artists

Game: Pin the Star on the wand

This was hilarious watching 3 year old do this. They wore a blind fold and were spun once and helped get to the wall.

Friends

Grammy read Pinkalicious

Lunch time- the food was...

PINK of course

PB& J sandwiches, strawberry yogurt, berries and pink lemonade

PINK velvet cupcakes

The Birthday Girl

Annabel and Morgan

Reagan

Luke

Hailey

Morgan, Hailey and the Birthday Girl

Happy Family

Peas...

Does he like peas?I'm thinking about it
NO!

But he loves the swings!

December In a nutshell

Merry Christmas!!

Our 3 joys!
William's class at their performance
Ryan and I prepping the gingerbread houses
Annabel LOVED creating her own house
Coleson hanging out Ta Da

A trip to Bass Pro Shop

Not the best picture AND no one is crying. Is it bad that I was bummed that there were no tears? I always think the tears are classic.

And we are off to California

quick layover so we ran the ramps to get the wiggles out
BEAUTIFUL day at Moss LandingColeson's first trip to the beachWe were SO happy to be at the beachrunning from the wavesChristmas MorningThis will keep her busyAnd William busyUncle Brian, Caelyn and Coleson
So happy to be in California with familyCrazy CousinsUncle Ryan keeping the kids busyYummy dinner time
and cookie decoratingAnd the adults playing with their new ipads
The cousins put on a play for the adults- the story of Jesus. Can I say HILARIOUS from their perspective?!Uncle D

A quick trip to Truckee- we were disappointed with lack of snow. BUT, we still had a blast: we made mini snowmen, had snow ball fights, skied and had lots of fun with cousins.

Tahoe Donner Ski Resort was lacking snow and only offering lessons for kids. William was so bummed. But was thrilled to ride the chair lift and hike down. He loved riding the chairlift and finding patches of snow to play in.
Family hike

Cousins- we love watching these cousins play together. They love each other and have so much fun playing. We missed Beka and Kira. We can't wait to play this summer.