Pony Rides

My parents were down so we took them on a cart ride with Ivy.  Lydia loves going on the cart rides.  She calls it going on a parade.  She'll wave to everyone as we go down the street.

 Brooke loves getting to go for rides too.  She has a hard time waiting and not climbing into the cart as I am getting Ivy ready.

 This was just a cute picture of Brooke playing in the snow while she was waiting for her turn.

Circus

We went to a circus in Ogden with my family.  It was so much fun.  Justin's family was still here for the weekend and decided to stay and go with us.  We got to the circus early so that we could ride the elephant.  We weren't able to get an amazing picture of all of us, but Lydia is up front followed by Brooke, me, Justin, Arianna, and Michelle.

Lydia liked standing by the fence watching the elephants go around.  It was her second time riding the elephants and she is isn't three yet!  It was Brooke's and Justin's first time too.  My second time.

 

 Everyone wanted a chance to be a trapeze artist!

 

 Nathan and Lydia were pretty excited when my mom took them to buy them some cotton candy.

 Here we are with Justin's family, which included his parents, Michelle, and Arianna.

 

 Brooke waiting by the ponies at intermission.  We have a hard time paying money to let them ride the ponies when we have one at home, so they just go to watch them instead.

 Lydia and Brooke can be so cute together. 

My parents with all the grandkids.  My mom has Ashley and Nathan.  My dad has Brooke and then Lydia is sitting by Xander.

 The circus was pretty entertaining and a lot of fun.  It was fun watching the girls' reactions to different things.

Scheels Again

Justin's parent's came up for the weekend to go to one of his cousin's weddings.  We took them to Scheels because they hadn't ever been there.  Lydia was excited to get to ride the ferris wheel again.  She is so funny about it.  When you ask her what it does she says that it goes round and round and way up high.  She loves it.  Brooke isn't tall enough so she just gets to play in the shopping carts while we wait.

 Justin rode with Arianna and Michelle.  Lydia rode with Grandpa Ron.

 Lydia and Brooke both like Scheels.  They just want to go from place to place getting their pictures taken.  It is fun watching them try to pose at each place.

 Justin also has fun posing at each spot.

 

 

 

 The girls like the shopping baskets that look like cars.  They actually go around the store honking the horn and saying beep beep when people are in front of them.

 

 

Cowgirl Boots

Brooke and Lydia both got their first pair of cowgirl boots and they love them!  They wore them to church and everybody commented on them.  Lydia's flash when she walks which makes it even more fun for her.

 

Scheels

Justin was able to get off early from work one day so we headed off to a new store called Scheels.  It is a sporting goods/hunting store.  The girls got their picture taken by the elk. 

I had to post it because it is a pretty cute picture.

Christmas Morning

The girls were so wound up on Christmas morning.  We had to wait a little bit from when they woke up so that everyone could be awake and ready.  Lydia started opening presents faster than Brooke did.  I think Brooke was overwhelmed and was too busy watching everyone else.

 

 Both girls got Disney princess dolls.  Brooke got Ariel and Merida from Brave.  Merida came with her horse Angus.  Lydia got Belle and Rapunzel.  Rapunzel came with the horse Max.  Lydia would have been happy if she only got to open Rapunzel and Max.  Once she opened that gift she didn't want to open any other ones.

 

 The girls got cute outfits too.

 They were pretty spoiled this year.

 Lydia asked Santa Claus for a shopping basket.  She didn't want anything else and never changed her mind about what she wanted.  She loved the one he brought her.  She kept putting her doll and horse in it and pushing them around.  Santa Claus also brought them a cash register to share so they could take each other's orders.  They love pretending to take each other's orders and then they'll pretend to go get the food item.  It is the cutest thing watching them.

 Brooke was excited for her shopping basket too, and of course, pushed her dolls around in hers.

 

The girls were both very spoiled this year.

 

 

We had a wonderful Christmas.  It is so much more fun with the girls (as you can tell, I didn't bother getting any pictures of me or Justin).

New Pajamas

Every year on Christmas Eve we get to open up one present and it is always new pajamas!  Look at those determined faces.

 Lydia was a little excited to get her new pajamas.

 This is the girls right before bed in their new pajamas! 

Santa's Visit

Santa Claus stopped by on Christmas Eve to make sure the girls were going to be in bed so he could come and bring them their gifts.  Lydia was super excited, but Brooke was terrified.

 

 Brooke didn't want to be near Santa Claus at all, but being the nice mom that I am, I made her get her picture taken with him.

 Brooke is still crying in this picture even though I am holding her. 

Thanks Santa for coming to visit!

Mr. Snowman

While we were in Mendon we were able to build a very large snowman.  It was pretty cold and windy, but still fun! 

 It took both Justin and my dad to lift the middle of the snowman.

 Brooke got cold and ended up going inside before the snowman was complete.

 Nathan and Lydia were having a lot of fun!

 Lydia looks so little by the snowman.

  Lydia and Nathan were pretending to have noses like the snowman.

My dad was having a lot of fun!  He was having as much fun as the kids were.

 Oh yeah, I was having as much fun as the kids were too!

 The finished snowman.  So festive!

Justin, Lydia, and me by the snowman.

Samie eating Mr. Snowman's nose!

 

 Mr. Snowman leading Samie around the yard.

We had a good time building the snowman.