football player turned princess for a night

Mya has never really been into dress up. Brooke is the princess and mya would rather play tackle football with dad. the other night she got all dolled up to go to the "store". She had to go show dad how cute she looked before she headed upstairs to the store.

christmas

We flew to utah/idaho for christmas this year. It was our year to be with Jon's family. All that Brooke wanted for Christmas was makeup. this is my happy little girl after she got her make up and had dad do her make up christmas morning.

Jon doing mya's make up on christmas morning.

The night before the kids acted out the nativity. It was cute to see them all dressed up and so excited to play mary and joseph.

brooke getting baby jesus all bundled up

GPA

the day after thanksgiving my grandpa passed away. It was sudden and very unexpected. He had recently moved out to Utah with my parents and was living in assisted living. My girls called him GPA. Before gpa moved we would go over to his house a few times a week to visit and check in on him. He would always light up to see my two little monsters running down the hall asking him for cookies. Gpa always had a cookie jar full of oreos and my kids knew where to go to get a cookie. I have thousands of fond memories of my grandpa and am sorry that he is gone, but glad that he is back with my grandma. we love you gpa.

halloween

well.......... why not post about halloween in February. This year we had fun carving our pumpkins. I free handed my pumpkin and after it was done it looked a lot like the grinch. so i spray painted mine green.
Brooke was set on being a kitty cat and mya wanted to be a dinosaur. Brooke really only wanted to be a cat so that she could wear skin tight clothes. I hope she grows out of this phase.
I really wanted to be a mummy this year. I thought about buying gauze and wrapping myself in it but after i checked the price at the store and saw how much i would need, i went to the next best thing, old shirts and sheets. Jon, as usual, was himself for halloween