2013 RMEF banquet

A couple weeks ago we went to the annual Olympia Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation banquet.  Of course we all entered drawings, placed bids on stuff, etc.....but only Lauren actually won something.  This year she proudly walked away with her first Breyer Horse during a putt putt kids game.  She got a hole in one!  Can you tell she was a little excited?

Random photo of the week

The last 2 weeks we haven't been anywhere except to the doctor. Both girls ended up with diagnosed bronchial pneumonia.  Lauren went south quick....sniffles on Sunday, pneumonia on Friday.  So our days have been scheduled around nebulizer treatments.  We all have went a little stir crazy....so to break up the madness, we got a little silly!

It's been movie madness and this was Madagascar 3 day. She looks pretty good with a rainbow afro, don't ya think?

Princess Tea/Birthday Party

A few weeks ago Lauren was invited to a Princess Tea/Birthday Party for her friend Ellie from Playgroup that was turning 5.  She was very excited because she got to wear her fancy dress that Nana Julie made her a year ago.  I played it off that it's close to Rapunzel's dress....too bad there were multiple Rapunzel's! 

 Ellie's mommy had to be out of town, so her daddy took charge and was King Johnson for the day.  We declared it Princess Ellie's day and the festivities began with jewelry box decorating.

 While the big girls were crafting....the little girls played quietly in the living room.  This is Alexa, Ellie's baby sister, being bashful!

 Adalynn just parked herself in one spot and stayed there the whole time....she hadn't quite mastered the log roll at this point!

 Adalynn thought it was tons of fun when the big kids showed up to play musical Princesses!

 Each girl won something.  Lauren got a Fairy Godmother ornament!  Whoop Whoop!  She was stoked and can't wait for Christmas to put it on the tree.

 There was a pinata full of candy with pull strings!

 Then it was time for cake!

 Ellie's face cracked me up in this one!

 All of the princesses.....which dresses were hand sewn???  Cassie's grandmother made her Rapunzel dress for Halloween, she's on the far right.  And then Lauren of course!

 Time for thank you hugs from the Birthday Girl.

 This was when Ellie opened the present from Lauren.  It was a large Cinderella doll that sings and talks.  I found it on a crazy after Christmas sale so it was a bargain on my end too!

The girls are sick again....or just getting over it, so thankfully we got to go to this party before that hit us.  But we missed another one at Chuck E Cheese. She was so bummed, she still talks about it a week later! The day of the party she was diagnosed with pneumonia....so that was a big no. We'll make up for it! 

Photo Shoot Pre Christmas

So before Christmas mommy took the girls to get pictures done in their coordinating Gymboree outfits.  They looked so cute.  I just wish the photography places weren't soooo hokey! Too bad Adalynn wasn't more relaxed.

 I had told the lady to NOT worry about the baby....the picture above was right before she decided to say "I'm gonna get you!" to my 6 month old who is deathly afraid of strangers!  Needless to say I spent the next 10 minutes trying to calm her down and dry the tears.

 While I was doing that she got a few good ones of Lauren.

 Then we got Adalynn to break out of her rut a little!

 Blue eyes just like Sissy and Daddy.

 That's our happy girl!

So much for the sibling photo shoot.  But we got a handful of good ones! I had forgot about these until an Aunt reminded me I haven't updcated the blog lately. We had used these as some Christmas presents so I didn't want to ruin the surprise!  So better late than never!