The Little Drummer Girl

Christmas came early for us this year. Chloe was surprised with a new drum set just like daddy's. She absolutely loves it! She sat and played on it all day, we couldn't get her to open up any other presents. Even Aaron enjoyed playing her drums.

Getting ready for Christmas!

We are flying out to Utah this week so we are having our family Christmas early. The girls and I had lots of fun getting ready for Christmas. We made an awesome gingerbread house, which everytime I look at it has more candy's missing. Then we made cookies for Santa. Chloe loved playing in the flour. She would grab handfuls of it and rub it all over her face, but her favorite part was the frosting. Yummy! So now we will leave them out for Santa and see if he likes them.

Our Little Mary

Emma was so excited when she got to be Mary in our ward's nativity play! For her costume I just cut 3 holes in a sheet and slipped it over her head....who needs a sewing machine!! We got a kick out of the picture where Joseph is picking his nose and Emma is leaning on the Shepherd with his arm around her. The audience couldn't stop laughing because the Shepherd had his arm around Emma the whole play and everyone was calling him the backup Joseph. We had a good time!

Silly girls!

Chloe has just recently gotten into wearing play shoes, I think she looks so cute!

Giddy up horsey!

This is Chloes silly face, I think she has been watching too much Yo Gabba Gabba.

Mom this one's for you!

We had a great Thanksgiving! We watched the Macy's Parade and put up our Christmas decorations, and thanks to my Mom we had the cutest hallmark ornaments and decorations for the house. Thanks Mom, your the best!
After I attempted and failed with yams last year Aaron is now the yam man and man does he make good yams!
I on the other baked semi-homemade rolls, thanks for the recipe Mom they were a hit! They tasted like I slaved away all day...

Naked baby in a box

Who knew playing in a box could be so much fun?

Chloe kept throwing up her hands and yelling "Surprise!"

We have another drummer in the family!

Our Sweet Emma.

This is 4 months worth of needles from the insulin shots Aaron has had to give himself for his diabetes. I am sure proud of him for how far he has come and all that he has to deal with.

Halloween Fun!

We had a fun Halloween! We carved some pretty cool pumpkins and the girls dressed up as tigers to go trick or treating. Emma loved her tiger costume from Grandma. She wore it for 5 days straight and wouldn't take it off. She slept in and went to the store in it and it still looked good enough to go trick or treating in. Chloe on the other hand didn't like it as much. She loved the tail but hated the hat.

Halloween Carnival!

We took the girls to a carnival that Aarons school put together and Emma and Chloe stole the hearts of the judges and won the costume contest!


I have never been on a hay ride and always wanted to go. It was lots of fun!
Chloe loves pumpkins and they had a field full of them. We let the girls go and pick out what ones they wanted and when Chloe spotted the biggest one there she was ecsatic!

Then she had to show it she loved it by giving the pumpkin a kiss.
And then she thought she could just pick it up and take it home with us. What a cutie!
Our niece had a halloween birthday party and we dressed up. Aaron is just scary and I am the Angel of Darkness. I got to wear these huge eyelashes, they were awesome, and I am seriously considering dying my hair black! What do you think?

The girls with their cousin Myree and her new birthday house!

Talent Show!

Aaron and his sister Cheree and her husband Michael have been playing together in a band for a few years now. They played for our ward talent show and had a blast and when we found out that our city was having a talent show we sent in a tape with some of our music. They loved it and asked us to go first and play a couple of songs. Aaron got to do a drum solo and did awesome! They are going to call us with the results to let us know if we won and if we did we will advance to the next stage of the competition. We are keeping our fingers crossed!

Halloween craft with the girls

I got this cute idea from a friend of mine in our ward. It was easy and the girls had so much fun dipping their hands and feet in the paint.


Chloe didn't like getting all messy with the paint, but she thought it was interesting to pick it off of Emma's feet.


And here is the finished product, now their feet and palm prints are frozen in time.

Our New Blog!

Everybody has been telling us we should set up a blog, so here it is and we hope y'all enjoy it. We are excited for the holiday season, but we had a great summer here in Texas. Last weekend we took the girls to the Texas State Fair here in Dallas and it was awesome! The Texas fair is ranked number one in the U.S. and it is no wonder, it is huge! You can easily spend a whole day there and not get bored. Emma loved playing the fair games and she adores the puppy she won, she takes it everywhere with her.

Emma and her cousin Myree made this whale ride look like so much fun I wish I had gone on it.

Chloe got to go on a ride and it was hilarious to watch, she was the only kid not freakin' out and crying, she loved every minute of it! That's our lil' dare devil!

Our Texan girl.