Park Fun & 1/2 Marathon!

The weather has been great lately so we have been going out to the parks a lot to enjoy it. The girls love playing outside so it has been great!

Sweet sisters having a little snack out at the park.


Jayda loves to climb up on the playground equipment!


And Sydney loves to swing at the playground.


Up on the rock wall.


Waiting for their friends to arrive at the park after school on Friday afternoon.


Wishing they could go swimming at the pool.


Sydney loves her friend's dog Maggie!


Running around after Daddy at the school playground.


Trying to make it all the way across on the monkey bars.


Sydney took her barbies to the park the other day and had so much taking them down the slide, it was so cute!


Last week on Jayda's 4 1/2 B-day we went to Build-A-Bear and the girls each got to make their own teddy bear. They loved it and had so much fun! Sydney liked playing with these little stuffed puppy dogs.


Putting all the stuffing in her bear. Jayda was SO excited about this!


When the lady asked Sydney to give her bear a hug to see if it was stuffed enough she gave it a kiss instead, so sweet.


Jayda was also really excited about giving "Missy" a bath.


Sydney enjoyed giving "Missy 2" a bath also. Daddy even stopped by to say hi!


Sweet Sydney pushing the swing at the park. Sydney loves to be pushed in the swing or push the swings herself. Lately she has been taking her baby dolls and barbies and pushing them at the park. So cute!


Jayda got the courage up to get back on her big bike and has been riding it around a lot lately. She really likes riding around at the tennis courts where it is smooth ground and she can go really fast.


Little sister likes taking the scooter out while Jayda rides her bike.


On sunday I ran in my 2nd Half Marathon. I felt really good running and was even able to beat my time from last year by 10 minutes! I was so excited because my goal was to set a personal record. I also got 1st place in my age group so that was really neat. The weather could not have been more perfect this year, especially compared to last year's race when it was raining and cold the entire time. My mom, Jacob and the girls all came out to support me so that was super sweet. Thank y'all so much!!

Love my little family!


So glad my mom came out to the race too!


Getting a nice leg massage and stretch out after the race. That was awesome because my hamstrings were sure hurting!


The girls were dancing to the music at the post race party.


Getting my 1st place award, yay!

January Fun!

It has been so nice being home the past couple weeks and getting back into the swing of things now that the holidays are over. Jayda has started back to school and is having a great time, as usual. The girls have been playing with all their new toys from Christmas and loving them. Couldn't get much better!

Painting on their new easel with paintbrushes for the first time. They love this!


Jayda absolutely loves painting!


Sydney thought it was so fun too! This was her first time to use a paintbrush. But, it didn't take long for Jayda to show her how to "fingerpaint".


We had another "almost sleepover" the other night and the girls had lots of fun dressing up and getting their nails painted.


Singing a silly song, too cute!


The girls made some delicious chocolate chip cookies this weekend, yummo!


All ready for church, love those dresses!


I went in the playroom the other day and heard Sydney laughing so hard...this is what I found!


And sister was singing up on the storage bench, silly girl.


Sydney loves fixing Jayda's hair, and sometimes Jayda actually lets her.


My little cowgirl...a little precursor to her birthday party.


Jayda had to get dressed up as a "cowgirl" too, pretty funny. She had a miniature Tinkerbell in her hand that she was carrying around like a baby, so cute.


Two pretty little cowgirls!


We went out to the park yesterday and the girls had lots of fun playing, and I was able to catch some really cute pictures. Sydney loves spinning around and around on this thing.


Jayda wanted me to take her picture so I was more than happy to. :)


Can't believe how grown up she looks!


Little miss wasn't so into taking pictures.


Fruit snacks at the park, YAY!


Jayda was on a roll, love these pics of her. It's not often she actually wants her picture taken, so I had to take advantage.


My little monkey climbing up.


Well, actually we have 2 little monkeys.


All ready for the Tedddy Bear Breakfast at Jayda's school this morning! They were so excited to wear pj's to school and take their favorite teddy bear.


Jayda with her friend Lexi this morning. They made little teddy bear hats and placemats for the breakfast, so fun!

Welcome 2012!

On New Years Eve Jacob got the girls a few fireworks to have fun with. They had a blast with the sparklers, and enjoyed watching daddy pop some off in the front yard.


Sydney thought the sparklers were so fun!


Uh-oh, look who broke one of the sparklers in half.


After we had a little fun with the girls on New Years Eve, we went out with Justin and Lourdes for a yummy dinner at Vic and Anthony's. HUGE thank you to Oma for babysitting the girls so that we could go out for the night!


Justin and Lourdes out at dinner with us!


The boys ready to ring in the New Year!


The girls ready for midnight! Woo-hoo!


The 4 of us after dinner, Happy New Year!!


The next day we celebrated the start of the new year and Suzie's birthday. Happy Birthday Nana!


On New Years afternoon we also went over to a park in our neighborhood to play for a while. Lourdes was helping Jayda do a back flip on the monkey bars.


Jayda also did the monkey bars all by herself, all the way across, that same afternoon. She was SO proud and has been trying to do that for quite some time.


The girls got to fingerpaint on their new easel the other day for the first time and had so much fun!


Yay for fingerpainting!


So cool!