Update from the last few weeks

 Our new (to us) car. 

We have named it FW (for fart wagon...of course that was Mark and Dylan's idea :)).

The kids love it and I am thankful to have more space with a 3rd row for the kids

 Time for the dentist for the girls. Cadence did amazing and it was Isabelle's first time and she was not too happy about it. She wouldn't sit in the chair so we ended up having her lay across my and the technician lady's legs and I had to hold her hands down. She calmed down after a bit...I'm hoping next time will be better. No cavities for either!

 

Earlier this month we celebrated Maggie's birthday by taking her out so she could pick out whatever gift she wanted and go have lunch wherever she wanted. She knew right away that she wanted to go to the Disney store to get a fairy from the Tinkerbell movie and then go to Peter Piper Pizza for lunch. They had a great time together. The afternoon ended with some icecream. :) Happy 6th Birthday to Maggie!

 Cadence is just so cute in the new jacket from Aunt Michelle. She picked out this whole outfit by herself. :)

 Cadence also had her 5  year old check up and immunization shots (oops, I forgot so they were a little late). She weights 46 pounds which puts her in the 70% for her age and is 47" tall which puts her in the 97% for her height. She is going to be a tall girl.

 The kids had fun with all the rain in the last weeks. Dylan built a "contraption" in his words. He was collecting the water that was running from the edge of the roof. While exploring and digging around he found a huge worm...which was fed to the chickens. :)

Isabelle somehow has started writing mom. She has no idea that the letters are when I ask her but she remembers how to write it. I now get pictures all the time with my name. I love it. :)

Zinnia's at Melrose

 

 

 

January 1st I moved into a new vendor space at Zinnia's at Melrose. here is the before picture of my room. Bright, bright, bright! So I made some changes with some gray paint and made it a little more my style. :)

 

 Here is how it looked after I moved in! I love the new space and am so thankful to have found a much better fit for our business. The business is growing and we are excited to see where it will take us!

 



Ditch Day with Dad

 A couple weeks ago we let Dylan ditch school on Wednesday and Mark and Dylan went up the mountain to do some skiing / snowboarding.

 When getting on the lift one of the times, Mark didn't make it on so it was Dylan's first time riding all by himself. He didn't mind...I think Mark was more worried about it than he was. :)

They had a great time together!

Snow!!

This weekend we headed to the snow, stayed the night in Flagstaff. It was a perfect snow play day, the sun was out and no wind. The kids had a great time and it was fun to have them all old enough to just enjoy playing...no complaining. :)

 

 

 

 

Love this one, Isabelle is so excited about him eating snow!

Snowman making

 

 

 

 

 

It was a great weekend get away. Love my family!!

Way to live life...

Love what this says and hope to be this person one day...

I hope you've met at least one Kingdom person in your life. They are surrendered people. You sense that life is OK at their core. They have given control to another and are at peace. A Kingdom person lives for what matters, for life in its deepest sense. There's a kind of gentle absolutism about their lifestyle, a kind of calm-freedom. Kingdom people feel like grounded yet spacious people. Whatever they are after, they already seem to be enjoying it-and seeing it in unlikely places. Kingdom people make you want to be like them. Kingdom people are anchored by their awareness of God's love deep within. [Richard Rohr]

Fun Pictures

 I found a hammock at a yard sale this last week. The kids have loved playing on it, the one morning they cuddled up and Dylan read books to Cadence. :)

 Being silly...

We were really happy to have Aunt Michelle with us for a few days. The kids always love having her full attention and another person to play with. :)

 

 For my birthday Mark bought me a vintage cruiser bike and made me a wood basket (along with Dylan's help). I love it. It was the perfect gift!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning I woke up with strep throat and felt awful. I was awake long enough to see the kids open their gifts and was back to bed...bummer

The kids had a great morning opening gifts!

New rolller skates for Cadence and a large cardboard color rocket ship for Isabelle

Dylan got a new BMX bike!

Hula hoop!

 

 We headed over to Mark's parents house for dinner and Christmas. I still wasn't feeling good but didn't want to miss out so I curled up on the sofa for most of the evening. Needless to say that since I wasn't feeling well...and Mark isn't a fan of taking lots of pictures there weren't any of them opening gifts :(. But it was a nice evening and the kids got lots more of great stuff!