Macey and Molly
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Here is my sweet girl helping me today! OK, she's really not HELPING me, but she sure did look cute in her dalmatian coat, pink and black tutu and her orange and black pj Halloween bottoms!
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Ok, so I am only a few weeks late, but look what we got! SNOW! I know, I know, I am sooo lucky! I love to see my children's faces when they get to play in the snow, it's kinda like Christmas morning. They get so excited and have so much fun together.
Abby was so excited to get out there and play in the snow. When it first started snowing Rodger and I were at a movie and the girls were at a friends house. We got a text from our friends who were watching our kids to please bring over snow clothes when we got home. WHAT? It is snowing right now? When we went into the theater I hadn't even heard of snow in the forecast! We were not expecting snow at all, so during the movie we both went out and looked to see if it was really there. It was falling so much! The movie we saw was Avatar, which is a good movie, but way too long when all you want to do is leave so you can go play with your kids in the snow. The movie could not get over quick enough!
Macey, Kamryn and Sophia playing in the Snow!
Sweet Molly enjoying her first time in the Snow. She loved being out there! She is such a trooper, Molly would live outside if she could. She LOVES being outside, even when its cold!
I thought I would add this picture. Rodger's sister Pam sent the girls some winter accessories and I thought I would share! It kinda goes with my SNOW post and I think my girls look so cute!
She gets along so well with her sisters, they sure do treat her like the baby of the family! I am so happy that my girls have each other. I tell them when they fight "You better be nice to each other because you have each other forever! You can never get rid of your sisters!" They love that one!
Here is Molly this morning before church. I didn't know what to get her for her birthday, since it is 1 day after Christmas, and she is into pretty dresses, so I got her this dress. I went to the store on the 26th and found this $45.00 dress for $15.00! I couldn't pass it up! I also got it in a size 4 so she can wear it for a while. She LOVED it and felt like a princess in it! I ask her all the time if she is my princess and she always says "Uh Huh"(Yes!).
Probably from watching her sisters blow out the candles on their cakes from past birthdays, Molly knew just what to do when it came time to blow out her candles! Rodger and I were both pretty surprised by it! She did such a good job!
She also knew that underneath the pretty wrapping paper were probably some really great toys, so she just ripped right into her presents! I guess I never realized how much she watches us and how much she knows! It also probably helped that Christmas was the day before and she had plenty of practice then!
Here Molly is with a blanket that her Aunt Kathy and Uncle Jeff made her. I'm not sure why but she LOVES blankets, which she calls "GG's". It's pretty cute. She also likes to be wrapped in them a specific way. She is pretty particular about her "GG's" and she loved this one and slept with it last night! How lucky I am to know my sweet Molly, as well as my other girls! Sooo, Happy Birthday Molly! I LOVE You!
Here we are as a family on Christmas Eve. We let the girls open up PJ's then. They loved them! I had bought them some jammies from Wal-Mart, but I went to a service day at my church and won PJ pants for everyone in my family! So a lady from my church made some matching pj pants for my girls and for Rodg and I. I bought their shirts at a consignment shop. So they are not all the same, but I thought any shade of pink would work-and they did! I spent a whole $10.50 on all 4 shirts! And to make the story even better, I had consigned some of my girls old clothes and got $10.35 back! So I really only paid 15 cents for their shirts! Sweet! I love a good deal! AND to make the story even better, the Wal-Mart PJ's were WAY to big and never would have fit my girls and they wouldn't have had any PJ's for Christmas! Oh, I am out of breath! I'm soo glad it all worked out!
My cute girls on Christmas Eve 2009
I LOVE this picture of Sophia! They were so excited about opening their presents as well as giving what they had purchased for their sisters and Rodger and I. A few weeks ago their was a thing called Winter Wonderland at their school. It is a place where parents can bring their kids to purchase gifts for their families at a pretty cheap price. I happened to be working that weekend so Rodger took all 4 of them! I was pretty impressed! They loved to see the look on their sisters faces when they opened the gift they had gotten them! P.S. Sophia is holding the PJ's from Wal-Mart! You know, the ones that are too big, the ones she won't be able to wear until she is 14? I hate Wal-Mart sizes sometimes!
Abby with her gift from Santa. She asked for a Tamagotchi, and that is what she got! She took care of it today and really had a fun time learning all about it!
OK, I know what you are thinking! You got Rodger a WHaT? A Nerf Sniper Rifle? He is grown up, right? Yes, he is my husband of 11 years, yes he is the father of my 4 girls and yes he loves Nerf guns! He had so much fun with it today! 
Santa brought Macey and Molly this craft table. It is so very cute and they played with it ALL day, I'm not kidding! They sure did forget quick that this was not what they had asked Santa for! I'm so glad that they are so happy.
My girls, together. How sweet they are and what a sweet job I have being their Mom! Merry Christmas girls! I hope you had the best day ever!
It seems so weird sometimes to think about how many times we have moved in the past few years, and all that comes with that. I am grateful my kids have adjusted well and are just happy to have each other. We have had a few job changes, school changes and so on. But we all seem to be doing good. Last year at this time, I really didn't know where we were going to end up. Were we to stay in California or go back to the Pacific Northwest? We prayed and waited, and waited and prayed. Finally an answer came that we were to pack up again(10 months after we had moved back down to Cali.)and go back up north. I am so thankful that we got an answer to our prayers.
This year our Christmas might be a little smaller, our tree might be a little smaller, but I think our girls will be just fine! The picture above is of our tree last year in our 2nd Cali. home. The girls have grown so much since then! It's amazing how fast they grow-and you don't really notice it until you see old pictures!
Molly-1 year ago. She wasn't walking, in fact, she had just started crawling a few months before! She has always been such a great baby! Can't believe how much she has grown!
Here we are last year in front of The Oakland Temple during the Christmas Season. They decorate the whole grounds with lights. It really is a sight to behold! We have some great memories of the Oakland Temple! Making a goal of going every month-and doing it, waking up way too early to go with the sisters in our ward for a very early morning session, spending time with my eternal companion in the most beautiful place ever! We sure do miss it!
The girls in front of The Oakland Temple
Here are my girls, last Christmas, waiting to be able to go down stairs to see what Santa had brought them. I know we were not in that house very long, but we sure did make some great memories! Christmas mornings are always good memories! They had such a great time last year! Opening presents, playing with presents and doing fashion shows in their new clothes is etched into my memory. Like every other place we have lived, memories. But if we hold onto those memories, we can always go back and be thankful for that time in our lives. No matter what our trial is, always try to create memories, and hold those ones from the past close. I know we no longer live in Cali. but we are grateful to have had that opportunity to create so many wonderful memories! I can't wait for this upcoming Christmas Season, to see the excitement in my children's eyes, to feel the cool crisp air, to spend time with family, to make memories that will last forever.