Dancing Diva's

We were so excited for this year of dance, Nayeli decided to dance with Paige's class. This was helpful in convincing Paige to dance for at least one more season. They both worked hard and were very sucessful at their dance recital. The coreography in thier song was pretty difficult. They did one dance for each class and Paige's class danced to The Carol of the Bells which is a very beautiful Christmas song. They all danced to Christmas Songs which was such a great start to the Christmas Holiday!!! She had so many friends dancing this year in various classes which made each preformance so fun to watch. We were able to get a couple pictures of her, Nayeli, and Adyson. Grandpa and Grandma Hoskins were able to come watch and even took the girls to get a bouquet of flowers at the end of the preformance. We never got a picture of them though which Paige was bummed about. It was a little bitter-sweet knowing that this was going to be Paige's last dance recital since she has decided to start piano the beginning of next year.

Pretty Little Pedicures

While Kristen was visiting from Arizona, we got all the girls together and went to a cute little boutique store in our area called Paisely Punch to get mini-pedi's for the girls. I told paige that she could get a mani too forgetting all about her dance recital the next day. They can't wear any polish on their nails during the recital and so she was bummed when we had to take it off:( All of thier nails turned out great, Mara and Sasha's especially since they both did glitter toes and they still have those cute small piggies. We wish that we could have spent more time with Kristen and Sasha when they were here but grateful for the time that we had.

Some of our Favorite Christmas Picture's

Grandma Dede wanted a picture of all the grandkids to put in her Christmas Card, so when we were in Meridian for Thanksgiving, we got a few cute Christmas Photos for her to choose from.
We were lucky to be able to get these few it is really a task to get them all to smile and look at the camera together and especially hard for the little ones. We had a great time visiting my brother's family on Thanksgiving it was a really relaxing get away which is always nice around the holiday season.

I've been caught...

Uh-oh my mom found me raiding her closet and trying on her shoes!!! I find it funny that Mara will wear everyone's shoes but her own. Payden has a pair of sponge bob slippers that are way to big for him and she walks around in them. I can't believe that just a couple of months ago she wasn't even walking....my baby is growing up way too fast!!!

A Tea Party for Stella

Kristen called me and asked if I could help put a baby shower/tea party together for Kira. She has this great idea to make it a tea party where everyone could dress up and our little girls could all be involved. We decorated with various tea cups and tea sets. I had some tissue paper flowers from Mara's birthday that we used also. It turned out great and was a lot of fun to see all of the cute things that she got for the baby. I am so blessed to have Kira as my best friend and was more than happy to help her sister out!!!

Leaves are falling all around...

One of our families favorite fall traditions is: raking the leaves together, making a huge pile with those leaves, and then jumping in the leaves. Mara loved picking them up one by one and helping put them in the trash bags. However, she wasn't much into being sat in the leaves with her brother and sister throwing them around. We have raked and cleaned up around 7 big bags of leaves already a big accomplishment for 3 small kids.

Happy Fall Days to all our friends and family:)!!!

Trick-or-Treat

As always, we had a fun and exciting Halloween week filled with lots of parties and enough candy to last till next Halloween. The kids enjoyed being around their cousins and seeing their costumes. We had a total of: 3 army guys, 1 candycorn witch, 1 Leopard, 2 fairies, 1 purple dinosaur, and 1 little chick. Our week consisted of: 1 ward dinner, 2 school parties, 3 trunk-or-treats, and visiting 2 grandparents!!! We had a busy Halloween and were pooped by the end and went home Halloween night and were all in bed by 9pm. Which for all who know us this NEVER happens. We are hoping that next year is just as fun!!!