Winter Happenings

We had a fun, but busy January and February this year. This post is a hodge-podge of the last 2 months.

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For Christmas, Camryn and Kendra got make-up sets. They have been practicing their application skills often.I think they may need to keep practicing.

Corinne has been watching her sisters, and wants to be just like them. Corinne didn't get any make-up though, so she uses markers instead.I'm not sure how many times I've had to wash marker off Corinne's face.
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Our girls sure love each other, which makes us happy. Lately, they all ask to sleep together on Kendra's bed. We have let them do it a few times.

This is just a cute picture I had to throw in.

You may notice the TV is on Nick. Corinne has fallen in love with 3 particular shows. Her absolute favorite has been MVP:Most Valuable Primate. It is a show about a Chimpanzee that finds a family and ends up playing ice hockey with their son. She would sit mesmerized as she watched this show. Monkeys of any type are definitely her favorite animal.

While she still loves this show, it has been surpassed by The Fresh Beat Band as her favorite. She calls it "Hey Hey" because her favorite song they sing has the phrase "...hey, hey, hey!" It is a show filled with singing and dancing. She also loved "Guppies," which is Bubble Guppies on Nick Jr. I think she is currently the biggest TV addict in our family.

Corinne does have many loves besides TV. She loves to play outside, and absolutely loves the snow. We have had a few snowy days here in Twin.

Corinne is ready to go.

Camryn and Kendra love to play in the snow just as much. They have wanted to build a big snowman for a long time, but if you don't get out the day it snows you miss your chance. The snow melts to quickly.

They finally got their chance and Kent took them out to build a HUGE snowman.

They made an awesome snowman!

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Corinne goes out in the snow any chance she gets. She likes to eat the snow. We just hope she doesn't eat too much dirt along with it.

When there's no snow, Camryn and Kendra have loved riding the new scooters they got for Christmas.

We sure have 3 cute girls!

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For Valentine's Day, the girls helped me make one of Daddy's favorite treats, a homemade apple pie with fresh apples.

At school, Camryn got to write about 2 people that she loves.What she wrote means a lot to me.

If you can't read all it, here is what it says:

"A person I love is Uncle Dane. I love him because he ust to give me a pigy back ride, he ust to play video games. I love him just the way he is. Wy I sed ust to is becas he past away a cuple munths ugow. I will allwase renember him."

The other side says this:

"A person I love is my grandmuther becas she is sweet and kined, and I Love her just the way she is. I don't see her very much becas she lives in Blackfoot. I love my grandmuther."

This valentine is very special to me. I knew nothing about it until Camryn brought it home. While I really wanted to keep it, I suggested that we give it to Grandma. Camryn loved that idea. We were headed to Blackfoot the next weekend, so Camryn was able to give it to her.

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When we got to my parents house, we were surprised that Nicole and her family were there too!

Our girls got busy playing right away.

Marley and Corinne were dancing away in the living room.

Kendra and Kaydence were all smiles.

Nicole laughed at the way Corinne eats her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She asks me, "Did you know that Corinne eats her sandwich like an oreo?" I hadn't thought of it that way, but she does. She opens it up and licks out the inside. Then eats a little of the bread.

All of our girls had fun playing outside.

Corinne and Kendra loved the horses.

Kaydence did too, until a horse tried to nibble on her hair. She kept telling everyone about the horrible injustice. It was pretty cute hearing her tell us how bad it was.

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Camryn was trying to dig to find a snake. Grandpa told her that one lived in his greenhouse last year. She was determined to find a snake, but I think it was a little too early in the year.

Grandpa was happy, Kendra was happy, Camryn was digging for a snake, and Kaydence was traumatized by the horse.

Kendra and Kaydence found some carrots in the dirt.

Later that night we relaxed inside.

Travis is such a great uncle.

Grandma and her girls.

Kendra fell asleep on her later that night.

Part of the purpose of this trip was to look at houses. We looked in both Blackfoot and Pocatello. We found a house that we love, and made an offer. Our offer was accepted and we will be closing soon. We are one step closer to moving. Now we just need everything else to fall into place.

Our baby is growing and is active as ever. My doctor said that activity in-utero doesn't correlate to later activity levels. I sure hope he's right, or we are going to have our hands full. We are now less than 2 months from my due date and can't wait to meet our new baby boy.

Visitors From Far Far Away

From the land of Utah

Back in January, Grandma and Grandpa Lincoln came up to visit us for a late Christmas celebration.The girls got to open presents again!

(I love grandma and grandpa in the background in that one)

Camryn and Kendra were very excited about their Hex bugs!

What are Hex bugs? They are little battery operated bugs that move around like they're real. Our girls love them!

It was so wonderful for grandma and grandpa to come see us. Life has been so crazy for us, that we haven't been able to fit in a trip down there. Thanks for showing us how much we mean to you Grandma and Grandpa Lincoln.

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Then, later in the month, we got more AWESOME visitors from Utah. Kent has been friends with Jason since high school. Now they are both all grown up and married with kids. I am so glad they have stayed in touch, because we have so much fun with their family.

Usually we go do something with them when we are down in Utah, but they wanted to come see us in Idaho. We are so happy that they did, it was a BLAST!

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They have 2 girls, whom our girls absolutely LOVE!

Getting them together means lots of silly fun, with dancing, and make-up, and dress-up, and all sorts of other girly things.

Julie is so good, she wanted to get a work-out in on Saturday. I have a Jillian Michaels work-out DVD that Julie broke in for me. All the girls wanted to join the fun.

Later that day, we decorated sugar cookies.

I don't think you can help but notice the beautiful make-up that covered our girls faces.

Corinne globed the frosting on, then resorted to just trying to eat it out of the bag.

We played games one night, then got a babysitter and went out the next night. We showed them the happening town of Twin Falls. These two had never eaten at Johnny Carino's, ever. We took them there, then to the exciting Magic Valley Mall. It was the most fun I have had at that mall. It's all about the company.

We finished our evening with Cold Stone Ice cream.

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Thanks so much, Jason and Julie, for making the trip up to see us. It really was our treat. We love you guys!