Fall Happenings

I cannot believe how fast time is flying by. The girls have grown SO much and I know I am going to thank myself one day for keeping up a blog and taking photos (even if I am several months behind)

No we are into Fall of 2014! First up is Lydia started her second year of preschool in September! We found a friend in the new ward when we first moved in during the early spring and got her registered. She got to pick out her very own backpack and I'm not too surprised to chose the Sophia Princess School one. :)  Like the year before, she was very EAGER to go to school and had no reservations about going.

At the beginning of October Daniele (Adam's sister) and her husband, Steve, were about to have their first baby boy so we drove up to Orem and while I took some maternity photos Adam took the girls for a walk around the park! They sure love their daddy :)

The girls love playing in the tub so I needed to catch a few memories in there :)

AND  I'm wrapping up this post with Halloween with just ONE photo. That's not my most favorite holiday in the world so I wasn't very good at taking photos. I took a few with my phone, but my blog is just for my photos with my big girl camera! Lydia dressed up as Rapunzel this year and Devin and Brittney came with Savannah and Carter so we went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. The one photo I got was Claire in her Zebra costume!

Pre School Graduation & Birthday Party #1

Lydia did SO well in Pre School this year. I was on the fence about putting her in and it's been the best thing ever for her. She went in basically counting to 20 and knowing her ABC's and she came out knowing how to count to 100, reading, and writing. I'm so proud of her. She is a smart little cookie.

In May that had a big graduation for all the little people! She won the Jr Valedictorian award!

Lydia's 4th birthday was the week after and she had a total of 3 birthday parties! I was ready to be done partying by the 3rd one. She's a special little girl and she enjoyed every bit of it! The first one was a few days before son a Sunday because Adam and I had to talk in church so we had family come over to the house anyways. 

Since last summer she has told me she wanted a Princess cake and I had it set in my mind that I would just buy because I am NOT a cake decorator. Well, about a week before I still hadn't ordered a cake so I just decided to do it myself. She requested a strawberry one so I used one my sister, Natalie, had on her website. It was DELICIOUS and Lydia loved it! 

That morning before church she knew we were going to be having a birthday party with her cake so she requested that she leaves and then comes back so we can yell "surprise!". One of her favorite things to do is to have pretend birthday parties so having a real one was a dream come true for her.

She got spoiled in the present department as usual :). One thing she got was a new princess bike from my parents. She loves it, but even today we are STILL working on learning to use the brakes. The concept just seems to be hard for her to grasp!

Thank you for everyone that came! She just loves her family and get so excited she gets to see everyone!

One last thing is a little random tid bit... I took a picture of Claire around this time and it was very similar to one I took of Lydia so I had to compare :)

You can definitely tell they are sisters! (Left Claire, Right Lydia)

Birthdays #2 and #3 coming up!