Happy Birthday!

Kyra just turned 4 years old!  Where did the time go?!?!

Well our little Kyra is 4, and she's a princess to the very center. What kind of decoration did she want? Princess. What kind of presents did she want? Princess. We don't play house, we play 'castle'. She wants a 'pretty dress' every day, and then dress-up clothes on top of that. Jon must have been the princess as a child because she didn't get it from me! :)

 

The day of her birthday we spent decorating the house (yes, Kyra, cleaning up is part of decorating...) and she was wired the whole time. We did a small family birthday party (she hasn't yet asked for a 'friends' birthday party yet, and so I didn't mention it) and she loved it. 

 A princess cake, princess puzzles, princess dress-ups and accessories and slippers ....it was ... um... princess-y... and just the way she wanted it. 

Oh, and Zoe was too cute in the party hat :) 

Happy Birthday Kyra!!!    

Grandparents!

So much fun to have grandparents visit!
The girls had so much fun with grandma and grandpa. They don't get to see them much so it was a whole weekend filled with nothing but going, going, going (and also trying, trying, trying to get out of the house to go, go, go). Library, mall, popcorn shop, park, movie night (oh wait... that was me b/c I had babysitters!) shopping, carousel, eating out, a birthday celebration.... We didn't take many pics but we love the ones we have.

Kyra's Room

So, here are the pics of Kyra's finished room. (Finally).  Zoe's room is next.... ha! just kidding....

Photography

Kyra has figured out how easy it is to take pictures with my phone.

Her new favorite thing is to walk around the house and snap 20-30 pics of whatever she sees.  When she's done she browses through, and makes comments about what she's seen.

I especially love the pics with her little feet in them.  She cracks me up!  I also get to take consolation from the fact that the pictures wouldn't be nearly as interesting if my house wasn't so cluttery... :)

Sister Pics!

We wanted to take some pictures of the girls.

We hadn't really taken many pics (that weren't on a cell phone) of Zoe since she was born, so we tried it.















Kyra loved the idea of taking pictures (we just told her it was a princess dress, with a princess clip for her princess pictures.... don't know where the princess thing came from... I certainly didn't encourage it! )



















Zoe did a great job too! She's such a good baby... hardly fusses at all.














Ok... so this was reality. Zoe cried, Kyra really did NOT want to hold her sister or be in a picture with her (mostly because of the crying), and the pics she took on her own she "cheesed" so big that her eyes are squinted shut. Not to mention the man who was supposed to be holding up the background :) .... ah the joy of family pictures.

Snow Day!

We had an unexpected (-and huge-) snow day!

Kyra had so much fun last year in the snow in Utah, and she missed it. She couldn't have been happier when it snowed in her very own backyard.

My friend in CA knitted these matching hats for the girls... too cute!
















Eating the snow (of course)















Snowball fights with Daddy (all day.. I might add)















Kyra's new friend, Frosty...





















"Give frosty a kiss" we told her (or a lick I guess)

Doin' a Little Catch-up

As you may have noticed I'm not a 'regular' blogger. This causes frustration for many, which is understandable because I'm also not really a phone person... or an email-er... or a letter sender. So, in the spirit of catching you up, I'm sending pics of a few bigger events from last year (i.e. the events that people other than me were involved in so I was asked to bring a camera).

I know that you all would like to see more blog so this year I promise that I'll try harder-ish

Kyra's Room

Last year many of you may know that I painted Kyra's room. For those of you who haven't seen it, here it is right after I finished it. We have since put in furniture and drapes but taking a picture of the whole thing totally finished is asking a little much, don't you think?













It's a mural. A really big one. Kyra calls it her "bery own hundred acre woods," so that's what it is. I figure it will grow with her.


Merry Go Round and Round

Kyra also went on the merry-go-round last year for the first time. She went with Daddy, Grandpa Randy, and Grandma Jill. She was delighted!
















November at the Pun'kin Farm














Feeding animals, a hay ride, a tractor pulled "train", picking a pumpkin all by yourself, and a big red truck... any toddlers paradise.














Kyra loves her petting zoo animals, and she has no fear.














And she's definitely not a germaphobe...














In case you were out of the loop... tractors are cool, even little broke down ones are fun to pretend with.














The hay ride was fun (it was pulled by a tractor).














Plus, she loves anything that is like a train (including 50 gal water barrels sawed in half, strung together, and then pulled by a tractor).














So when you are 2-1/2 and you get to sit on a tractor just your size, and then you get pulled by a tractor twice in one day...it was a good day.














Kyra and the big red truck. I love this picture.








All Hallows Eve














Halloween was the other post I never posted. We went out with friends this year, and Kyra dressed up as Winnie the Pooh the Super Sleuth (from a new Disney show that she loves).














She thought that was cool, but didn't really want to dress up to leave the house. Once we got to our friends house and she saw that everyone else had dressed up she was all over that. This was the little group of kids that went. Too cute!














She was very independent this year, and wanted to keep up with the older kids. She did everything herself (with the exception of the houses with scary noises and strobe lights... despite her maturity she still has instincts).














You may wonder what Jon and I dressed up as... well he has his Waste Management shirt on, and I am a bag of garbage.... ha ha.