Playtime

Hailey's tent

 Building Legos together

 Coloring with Aunt Laura

 Packer driving Aliyah around

 (well, pretending - the battery on the jeep is dead)

  Packer wearing glasses

He loves to wear these. He thinks it's so funny.  He has quite the sense of humor and is such tease.  He likes making us laugh with these glasses and by putting things on his head.

 Hailey dressed up as Minnie Mouse with her "Minnie" ears

 More cute pictures of Packer wearing these glasses

 Hailey being silly

 Hailey was so dusty and dirty - piles of sand in her hair, diaper and dress - after playing in the dirt

 The kids watching a movie together. 

I paused it to get a picture of the three of them together and I actually got a picture with ALL three of them looking at the camera at the same time!! WOW!

 Jeff trying on a top hat

 Aliyah created a Disneyland ride for us at home.  

This is us enjoying her ride.

Can you tell we are super excited for our trip to Disneyland?!

Dance lessons

Aliyah just finished up her second round of dance lessons (8 week lessons offered through the city).  

She has loved dance class!

This round they learned some basics of ballet.

At the end, they do a goodbye dance.  They line up against the wall until Ms Angie calls their name.  

Then they dance however they like over to her and she gives them a stamp on their hand.

Aliyah loves seeing what stamp she gets for that day.

She has such a great teacher!

She loves dance and can't wait for the next session to start!

Within 5 minutes

Packer is such a cute trouble maker.  He likes getting into things.

He's figured out how to open the drawer to the oven and climb in.

So I quickly got a picture before pulling him out.

As soon as I got him out, he went over to the dishwasher, opened the door and climb into that!

All this, within 5 minutes!

And the other day, I caught him pushing my electric hand mixer around in the stroller!  That boy!  Never a dull moment here.

I sure love him!

Ice Castle

We went the Ice Castle in Midway with Grandpa and Grandma Thomson and Aunt Jenny.

We went on the last day they were open and the line to get in was huge!

Luckily, there were a few things going on while waiting...

like Anna and Elsa from Frozen!

Aliyah was excited!  Hailey was nervous.

After hours of waiting in the cold - we finally got in!

It was neat, but it was crowded.

Beautiful ice!

It was amazing

The kids were troopers, but they were tired and cold

So I had to include these pictures to show how accurate things were towards the end

Jeff and I 

And one last picture before heading out - Grandpa, Grandma, and Jenny laughing at the situation -

Packer asleep, Hailey not wanting to look, and Aliyah's red eyes from crying because she wanted to see Elsa again.

Next time we are not going on their closing night!

It was beautiful though!

Thanks Thomsons for helping with the kids that night!