Dress Up

Here are a few photos that my friend Dawn took while babysitting my girls. According to Dawn, Anna really loved playing with her wig.

November 18, 2011

Snapshots from the end of 2011

September 8, 2011

We went to the firm's summer party at the beginning of September and Anna had her face painted like a butterfly. She also added a little chocolate brownie to her makeup.

September 11

September 11

Costco had several Disney princess costumes this past October and I figured they'd make a good costume for Anna. I decided to take her with me to pick one out. She found the Barbie costume and picked that one, much to my chagrin. Don't ask me why I'm okay with the Disney Princesses but not Barbie. I'm sure it's not rational. I decided to buy an Ariel costume on the off chance that I could talk Anna out of Barbie. We tried the costumes on and Anna was even more convinced that she loved the Barbie costume and so the Ariel costume became part of the Christmas dress up present.

September 23

October 1

October 26

After lots of research and many hours of negotiating with Dan, we finally got a park for our backyard. I payed for delivery and assembly and so the girls had their faces glued to the backdoor while it was being constructed in our backyard. They were so excited when they finally got to play on it.

The very next week it snowed, and I thought we would be done playing on our swing set, for the season, but we've had plenty of nice weather and the kids like playing on it in the snow as well as the sunshine.

November 5

first snowfall

Speaking of nice weather, the very next week I decided to potty train Evie and in the middle of it all, she begged to go swing. So I sent her outside in her panties. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should also confess that Evie is now back in diapers. Around the first of the year, when it became obvious that she could care less whether her panties were wet and I cared very much, I decided to stop the fight and put her back in diapers. 

November 11

November 14

We decided to meet up with Heather the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I thought the girls might enjoy exploring Temple Square, so we decided to meet there. It was so nice to be there when it was so empty. I'm sure everyone else was waiting to go after Thanksgiving to enjoy the lights. 

November 19

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I wanted to go scope out Toys R Us to see if it would be worth going back for their Black Friday sale. Evie kept saying, "I love it!" She especially loved the Furr Real cats and I had a hard time dragging her away.

November 23

December 19

Phew! I think these are the last of the photos from 2011. I hope I didn't have too many repeats. Now if I can just catch up to March, then I will make a resolution to stay on top of blogging this year. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Snapshots in June

Anna looking cute in her Cinderella dress and Mom's shoes.

Dan had to go out of town for a night on Wednesday, June 8, so I decided that we should celebrate the warmer weather with a picnic at the park. We got a pizza at Little Caesars, some grapes, cookies, and donut holes at Wal-mart, and went to our favorite park.

Yum! Donut Holes

Dressing up and dancing with our friend Avery

Our library has these activity kits that come with a book or two and an activity. My kids mostly just love the fact that they come in backpacks. Anna was so excited about hers that she wanted to wear it while eating breakfast.

On Friday, June 10 we met Heather, Tamara, and Pam and her daughters at the park. Tamara brought the girls this awesome chair set and it has been a huge hit this summer.

Evie got tired of always watching Anna ride her bike and decided to hitch a ride. Anna was a great sport about sharing, and if I remember right, Evie didn't ever fall off. She convinced me to get her her own trike and a helmet.

June 28

Family Photos

In the spring, Dan's mom, Sandy, sent the girls some dresses. Anna's came with a matching doll's dress. I decided to dress the girls in their dresses for our neighbor's baptism on June 4 and afterwards took some photos of the girls.

Evie didn't want to sit still for the photos. I'd sit her next to Anna and then try to snap a photo before she got up, without much success.

Then Anna got bored too, and it was all over.

It was easier to take a photo of both girls when Dad was holding on to them, and then a friend offered to take a picture of our entire family.

Recital Photos

Along with Anna's dance recital back in May, the studio had a professional photographer take some photos of the all the dancers. Personally I think the photos are a little scary with that bright pink on the black background, but I still paid for the CD of negatives because I think Anna is cute in all of them even if she does look a bit like a deer in headlights. And, I guess I should have known to put makeup on Anna, but the thought didn't even occur to me. Maybe the problem isn't with the costume or the photos, but with me. I'm not sure I'm cut out for this dance class stuff.