Trip to Washington

For Christmas, I got the girls and I plane tickets to go to Washington in January. It was their first ever plane ride and it was a great vacation! We had a lot of fun! Here are a few highlights from our trip!

Layla, Seryn, & Lylli at the airport waiting impatiently for our plane! Although, they did like the moving sidewalks at DIA!

They were so excited! And we hadn't even started moving yet!

There was plenty to do and you'd think they had done this a hundred times! They were so well behaved!

The kids on the ferry. We got to take the ferry a couple different times, and every time, my kids loved it! Unfortunately, it was too foggy to see much.

Lylli stole my sweatshirt and was hanging out on the couch. I think this was the night she wasn't feeling very spunky.

Most nights, the floor was covered with kids wrestling each other! They thought that was great fun!

Pizza in Seattle before the Science Center. YUM! Joe, Layla, Lylli, Julianna, Seryn.

I don't care what age you are or how often you've seen this, it is a cool building!

They had a train exhibit at the Science Center that was pretty neat.

Lylli and Joe really liked the space exhibit! This is inside a spaceship. Lylli is doing a project on NASA this week and so she LOVED this!  

Seryn climbed up this and kept slipping off several times and was so proud of herself when she finally sat on top of his head! Silly kid. The kids really liked the butterfly exhibit. I had my camera out ready to take pictures, and a butterfly came and landed right on my camera and hand. So I couldn't get a picture! But it was cool!

This is always a cool place to get pictures!

The girls though this was pretty cool to!

One day, Brian took us to see the navy ships. They were pretty neat.  He actually spent almost a year on a ship like this, though his ship isn't either of these. (His was one over.)

Yes, this is everyone's backs, but it was hard to get them to want to pose for more pictures.

Christmas

Christmas was lots of fun for us this year. I had to work until 2 on Christmas Eve, but then I met the girls at my parents' and we had homemade pizza for dinner. Then some family came over and we did some singing and made (and ate) homemade doughnuts. They are, of course, amazing!!

This year, instead of getting pajamas on Christmas Eve, the girls got robes, which they love

Which they love, obviously! In fact, Lylli would now like to be Obewan-ka-lylli for Halloween! Silly kid!
Seryn and Layla loved the sing-a-long. Lylli was off crocheting somewhere. I taught her to crochet that night. She loves it.

Santa even stopped by our house this year. Lucky us!

And it should be known that Santa and I coordinated gifts this year. So mine was the first to be opened so that Santa's would make sense. For Christmas this year, I bought all four of us plane tickets to Seattle Washington. My brother, Dean, lives out there as well as my boyfriend, Brian. The girls were VERY excited to learn they would be seeing everyone AND flying on an airplane!
Here is Seryn putting togethe her Kinex with Grandpa. (Brian got all the girls Kinex, which they love.)

Layla got some beautiful earrings. I think they're too big, but she loves them! Of course!

And this is the ferris wheel Lylli made with her Kinex.

Of course, I can't begin to name all the wonderful gifts we received this year. Harry Potter wands, a mini food processor, suitcase, jewelry. Well, you saw the pile of gifts. I could go on for a while. But what's most important is that we had a nice time. I made dinner and my parents joined us. It was laid back and really nice.

Santa's Lap!

We weren't excited to see Santa at all! Can't you tell?

Bed Spread

This is my new bedspread Lenay got for a me a couple months back and it just came in. I LOVE it!! And I painted my room gray and white to match and will be putting some teal accents in my room too.  It's so much fun to decorate! I wish I had more money to do it!

I Am His Daughter

I sang this for the stake Young Women in Excellence tonight.

Halloween Party

Friday night was our ward Halloween party. I don't really know anyone in the ward well, but parties are a good chance to socialize, and the girls had a great time.

Lylli is Taylor Swift, Seryn is a witch, and Layla is a Cat-rina (Cat/ballerina)

This is Seryn with one of her favorite babysitters.

This is just a guy from the ward. Don't know who he is, but his costume made me laugh.

Pumpkins and Apples

It's the end of October, so that means it's time for our October traditions. Namely getting pumpkins and making caramel apples!!

Seryn found her pumpkin first. That's not terribly surprising. She always knows just what she wants.

Lylli found hers next. I told the girls they had to be able to carry the pumpkin they got. So naturally, Lylli chooses the biggest pumpkin she can. She can hardly carry the thing!

Layla searched for her pumpkin forever. She wanted someone else to help her choose one, but I wanted her to find one that she liked. She did finally find one and I think she picked a great one!

Making caramel apples is another thing we love to do every year. Obviously!