The BEST of 2009

1. Spencer started Medical School

2. We bought a new home in Vegas...warm...great...wonderful..

3. We went on an awesome cruise to the Caribbean with great friends.

4. We celebrated our 5 yr wedding anniversary.

5. Ella turned 3...she is a Princess...She became potty trained (hip hip hooray!) She also started Pre-School...she loves it. She knows her alphabet and can write her name. She enjoys learning and has a wonderful memory. She likes to quote movies too...really funny!

6. Molly had her 1st birthday in August. She is a doll and loves to mimic anything Ella does. It is quite musing sometimes to watch! She loves dolls and handles them with great care..also musing to watch. She really likes dogs...that was the first animal noise she made..

7. I am a stay at home mommy...I get to enjoy my girls! We have lots of fun! We get together with friends for play group and really have a good time. I have mastered the skill of cooking (not really but I am making progress with great help from friends and phone calls to my mother). I just need to master the art of bread making!!!

8. We are taking up biking again...Ella has her training wheels and helmet...Molly rides with me!

9. Spencer got to play some sweet golf...

10. We were able to be together as a family...that is what is most important to me.

We have had a wonderful year. Vacationing...playing...moving...learning...growing. We really have so much to be grateful for. We have wonderful family who support us 100% and do anything they can to help out where needed. We are blessed with great friendships as well.

Hope you all had a wonderful year. Lets make 2010 even better!

The M Resort

M Resort Christmas Tree

At the M Resort here in Las Vegas they had a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Saturday. The M Resort's 2009 Christmas Tree stands 109-feet tall, making it the tallest cut Christmas tree in the country. It took them 7 days to get the tree to Las Vegas. The 11 ton, White Fur Tree came from a Resort in Oregon.
Oh What fun it is to ride....the escalator!

Those lights behind me are decorating a Palm Tree...that is a different look for Christmas..but hey...large...beautiful Pine Trees don't grow so well in Vegas!

We bundled the girls up and went out for a fun evening! The girls shared some Hot Chocolate...saw some reindeer... & loved the Christmas Tree!
Did I fail to mention that it finally feels like Christmas!

Fun..Fabulous..Festive

GinGerBreaD HoUSe PaRTy!!

Our friends all got together this weekend for a Christmas party. Thanks to Lindsay and Melynda for making the GinGerBread Houses...and thanks to Kendrick and Hailey for letting us party at their cute home!

...We call this Our "Farm Castle"...

The girls...well they ate more candy than we put on the Gingerbread House...yikes!!

So...our friends are great...watch out for some competition from Lindsay and Melissa!

Ella and her friends...they got their very own Gingerbread House to decorate!

To top off the night..the kiddos watched a Christmas movie...Ella likes her friends!

We had a blast!

Fun with Frosty

*** Meet FROSTY***
Ella helped me cut snowflakes out!

So I had my friends and their children over to our house this week for playgroup! I thought it would be fun to do something festive that the kiddos would like...I came up with making rice crispies...cut them into circles...add some mini M&M's and call him FROSTY!

Bucket List #1

So I was watching the movie "The Bucket List" the other night and I thought long a hard about what I would like to do in this life...

Bucket List #1

So, I am very afraid of heights...but I would love to go on a Hot Air Balloon Ride...that is of course if Spencer will go with me..!

My day in a NUT--Shell

I used to wonder what a stay at home mom did all day...

So...we are off to a good start...the girls wake me up at 7 (that is sleeping in now...back in highschool I used to dread waking up that early...welcome to parenthood)

We have breakfast...clean up the girls and the floor oh and the table oh and me...wow! What a mess!

We play all day have fun...fold laundry...fold more laundry...do the dishes...do more dishes...watch Dora the Explorer...watch the Disney Princess movie of the day (usually Snow White or Sleeping Beauty)...call Nanny or an Auntie to tell them of Ella's wonderful experience of going peepee on the toilet...lol...find the dolly that Molly lost in a battle against Ella...

We make lunch..clean up...vacuum...scrub toilets...stop the girls from arguing...play with dolls...stop the girls from pulling hair...read books...stop the girls from taking each others toys...go play at the park...stop the girls from whining in the stroller because "she is breathing on me...what really??...have a tickle party...pillow fight...build a fort with 23 blankets...play with puzzles...have a snack...stop the girls from smushing their crackers on the floor...(why is it that everything tastes better once it has been crumbled, smushed, stepped on and left on the floor??)

Dinner time...oh wait what is for dinner?? question?? Why is it so hard to plan a meal??
Well, the day isn't over....we have dinner...play with daddy...take a bath...oh and I may shower for the day now...wait the day isnt over...wow!...bed time...my favorite! The girls are asleep...I get to read a book..blog...watch a show or GO to BED!

I love being a mom...Life really is the BESTwith two wonderful little girls and a great supportive husband who is so wonderful to me and our children.

Presents All Around!

Ella Jane had a BIRTHDAY in November and turned 3!!

Ella is our new Fairy...she was so excited to get this from her cute little friends Olivia and Aida...
I made a birthday dinner for Ella and I (since we share the same birthday month!) Ella's favorite meal is Chicken roll ups...and we had to have chocolate cake! Ella of course got to blow out the candles.

So....Ella was READY to go for a spin on her new bike! She had her horn, basket for her bike, knee pads, elbow pads and helmet....She is only missing one thing...CLOTHES!

I am sporting my new apron Spencer and the girls gave me for my b-day!...I love it!

My wonderful girl friends took me to the OLIVE GARDEN (my favorite) for a birthday dinner.

(Left..Hailey,Melynda,Loraine,Tandy..Right..Me, Melissa, Lindsay, Shannon)

I had a great time...who doesn't with great friends, food and a night out with adults....