Merry Christmas!

This is in really random order..

In November Reese recieved the great reader award for the kindergarten class.

Here is the kindergarten class performing their Thanksgiving song

Reese took this picture of Saylor cause she said she looks like Justin Beiber (oh geez)

I can't convince this girl that diaper rash cream isn't chapstick.

She makes me laugh so much.

We took the kids on a hike to Holy Jim Falls on Veteren's day.

The girls love their dolls, they rock them, feed them, kiss and hug them. I love it!

Reese ended a great Soccer season with the Pink Angels. She had so much fun with the best coaches. She had 3 coaches and only 1 of them had a daughter on the team. The other 2 were just the coaches military friends who loved kids. They made practices so fun, and had no problem running around the field flapping their arms in the air like angels flying to get the girls pumped and ready for their big game.

Reese is such a good sister. She loves these girls and plays so well with them.

They equally love her just as much. They get so excited everyday when we pick her up from school and follow her around. I don't know how long it will last but for now she doesn't get bothered by them at all. Every time Saylor sees a picture of her she says "A Reesey, so cute".

Saylor is occupying the bathtub that Ruby wants so badly. Look at that gloating face.

We went to Disneyland lots and it was especially fun when all our family was in town

from AZ for fall break.

Aladdin

Reese, her friend Aleexia and her teacher at the Monster Mash

Reese and Grandma Holloway at the Monster Mash

Playing games

Ruby can count to 12!

Halloween 2011

The girls in their costumes. Reese is a Rockstar and the twins are 50's girls.

We had fun at Reese's school party, Ward Party and of course Halloween night. Kevin took the night off from School to join us in trick or treating.

Reese wanted to stay up and count her candy. when I came in she had it all organized.

I was so proud!

Reese's Christmas List

Kevin encouraged Reese to start her Christmas list. It's only funny to me because he used to always tease me about starting my Christmas shopping early and now he is wanting it all done by Thanksgiving so we can spend more family time on his winter break. We'll see how far we get because these holidays are just around the corner!
Reese has been looking at the sunday ads for a few weeks and writing down toys (ok, everything!) she see's and likes. Then Kevin saved the link to toysrus.com and she gets on there and writes down exactly the wording she sees next to her item of choice. She did pretty good!
I especially like:
#12. "Prices vary by store"
#17. "View all Products"
#18. "View all products" again!

She's so dang cute!

Back to School

Reese started Kindergarten today. I will admit when Kevin gave her a father's blessing last night I bawled like a baby. I can't believe she is going to be gone all day. This morning I pulled myself together (I actually showered and got ready by 7am) so we can escort her as a family to her first big day. She was all smiles and couldn't wait.

This is her class. There are only 6 students in her class. We are so excited for her to have Mrs. Loomis this year. Mrs. Loomis is like the DREAM teacher you only see in movies nowadays. Her classroom is adorable and she is so positive and happy. We love her. Last year Reese would always come home talking about Mrs. Loomis and how she wanted to be in her class. Since Kevin's mom Sandi works at the school she would keep Reese after class for a little bit on days I was running late and Reese got to do P.E. with Mrs. Loomis on those days. This morning she woke up and said how excited she was for P.E. everyday with her. I love how happy she is with her teacher. Mrs. Loomis told us she had been so anxious to get Reese her in class and was equally excited. It's going to be a great year!

She is getting so big! Makes me tear up again.

On Saturday we celebrated this little girl's 5th Birthday.

We have been to many birthday parties this year for her classmates, so there has been talk the whole school year about her own. Every party we left she wanted hers to be exactly the same. Until we went to a local carnival and then she decided she wanted it there. Since we were sure a carnival probably wouldn't be going on the same weekend of her birthday we created our own in our backyard. It was a super fun theme to plan. Every kid that came got a gift bag with their tickets in them and something to put their prizes in.

Our backyard. The weather was perfect.

I really wanted to do a ping pong fish game but Kevin didn't want to get left with 2 dozen goldfish so we just picked up a few for centerpieces.

The Party.

Thanks to my Aunt Sylvia we got a real carnival treat with her popcorn machine, cotton candy machine and bounce house. We had 4 booths. The first was a photo booth. The kids got dressed up and took silly pictures with eachother.

The bounce house.

We picked up the carnival equipment early and it was a great babysitter for

Reese the week before her party.

We had a dart throwing game to pop waterballoons.

Thanks to Megan we had some cute signs. We also had a game to shoot a
ping pong ball off a milk carton using a water gun.


and ring toss
After lunch a silly clown came to do a magic show and balloon animals.



the guests






Thanks to everyone who helped with the twins. They slept through the first half of the party. and woke up to a big suprise. They joined right in and had lots of fun.








Thanks to McKenzie for decorating this cute cake!



She was spoiled with presents

My parents got her a tetherball court and put all 3 girls handprints and

footprints in the cement. So fun!



A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this a special day!

Happy Birthday Reese!
We love you!