Sleeping Angel

Abbie has been trying to give up her nap for a while now.  Most days she is not successful.  We struggle and struggle to get that nap in, sometimes it happens easily and some days not so much.  Today was one of those days that she just wasn't going to go to sleep.  Her cousins were here for the first time in a long time and she was much too interested in playing to sleeping.  Well here is how I found her when I turned around while making dinner.  She had sat up to the table hoping that dinner would be ready soon and all the playing caught up with her.

Disney On Ice

Thanks to this great website... SMMART IDEAS I won four FREE tickets to Disney on Ice.  I ended up buying one extra ticket so that we could all go.  We went last night and had a wonderful time.  It had Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Lilo and Stitch, and Abbie's favorite Peter Pan (because she LOVES tinkerbell).    This is literally how my kids were through out the entire show.    No one said they were bored, or asked to leave at all.  They were glued to what was going on on the ice, for two hours.

We let the kids each pick out a souvenir... Lexie said that she really didn't want anything (which just shows that she is getting too big!) But we did get a WAY too expensive lemonade.

 Ashton picked out a light up spinny thing 

and Abbie picked out tinker bell wings. (imagine that) They were pretty cute and I am thinking that she will be tinker bell for Halloween next year if this love of hers continues.  

Here's a few action shots of the show.  They are little blurry it was the best I could get.

More Pictures

Got the kids all ready and went to take some more pictures of the kiddos yesterday.  My plan was to take them up the canyon by our house and hope that there was still enough good color left to get some really good pictures....  when we got to the mouth of the canyon it was closed.  Plan B drive around and look for a good place to take their pictures.  We ended up at Gardner Village and got GREAT pictures.  Lexie needed some that better matched the other kid's pictures. We just got back her school pictures and they were cute, for school pictures but they definitely weren't the greatest pictures ever.  And I wanted some of all three kids together to maybe do Christmas cards with.  Well here is what we got.