Dresses

Grandma Lori sent the girls these beautiful dresses for Christmas.  With a few illnesses and a weekend getaway it was a couple of weeks before we got a picture of them all together.

She also sent Baylor a cute outfit with a sweater vest but that boys is too crazy to sit still for a picture!

EARRINGS!

After Kylie got her ears pierced about a year ago Tessa has been throwing time frames of when she would get her pierced.  First it would be "when she was eight," or "maybe next year when she was seven." But then as Christmas got close she thought "maybe after Christmas." We told her she could get them whenever she wanted.  

You know when you loose your first tooth and you are so excited and scared at the same time, well I knew that's how she felt. So when I saw that Walmart did ear piercing I thought that was the perfect solution.  I know Walmart gets a bad rap but we go there for craft stuff a couple times a month and they had a better variety of earrings at a lower price. And if she decided to back out we wouldn't waste a trip to the mall.

As we got ready to head out, she started saying she didn't want to...so Mallory wanting to show up her sister said, "I'll get mine pierced."  Well Tessa didn't want to be outdone. So we took them both with us thinking Mallory would back out when she saw Tessa getting hers done. 

She was really brave and even though this next picture looks like she has been crying...but only a few tears sneaked out.

Well Mallory still wanted to go through with hers so we thought "what the heck..."

She loved that she was the only one of the girls that didn't cry. 

They both look so cute in their new earrings and couldn't stop looking at the themselves in the mirror.  Oh and when you see them they will probably tuck their hair behind their ears...the universal signal for you to compliment their new earring )

Hardware Ranch

We had been wanting to go see the Elk up at Hardware Ranch for a while, but the holidays got really busy.  So the last time we headed up to the cabin we decided to take a detour in Logan and check it out!

We couldn't have picked a better day....sunshine and no wind.  We didn't even have to wear hats or mittens.

There were no lines and we got to spend extra time riding around the herd.

The Elk were loving the weather as well and some let us get pretty close as they lay sleepily on the ground.

There were 500 head of Elk grazing that day.

We learned so many interesting facts...like the number of points on their antlers does not correlate to age, it's just genetic.

The girls loved seeing these "big deer" and Baylor did make a sound the entire ride!

New Years Eve

We spent made a quick trip up to Bear Lake to celebrate New Year's with my fam.  We had so much fun that I only snapped a few pictures.  But some of the highlights were:

The adults going to dinner at the Bear Trapper Steak House for Shrimp and Crab.

The kids getting in the hot tub and then in the bathtub to get warm.
New years resolutions with somersaults to seal the deal.
Lots of bubbly.
Lots of laughing.
Counting down...not once...not twice...but three times.
Watching the ball drop.

Poor Kody got very sick the day after Christmas and was still sick so he was home trying to fight off his sickness :(

Cousin Sledding Party

After Christmas we had our annual Cousin Sledding Party at my cousin Jason's house in Mountain Green.  We are a little chicken so we stick to the little hills. 

Baylor looked so cute in his shark hat but it was only for show and my mom was nice enough to watch him in the house the whole time while I took the girls sledding.

Christmas Day

Christmas Day did not disappoint.  We let the girls stay up pretty late and then were cursing ourselves when we remembered that we had this little barbie house to put together.  Kody, bless his heart, didn't even grumble too much staying up for two hours putting it together.

One of my favorite moments: Santa had only eaten 3 of the 5 cookies we left him and Baylor started gobbling them up...nothing like cookies for breakfast ;)

My other favorite moment, despite the mess, was watching the girls play nicely together for a couple of hours!