Tuesday, January 11, 2011

santa train :)

we took the girls on the georgetown santa train a couple days before christmas. they girls were so excited to get on the "polar express" in their new pj's.we got a lot of time with santa, had hot cocoa and cookie, we sang christmas carols. and got to enjoy the falling snow as we rode the train through the beautiful mountains we had a WONDERFUL family day together. we are planning of making this an annual tradition with the girls!













christmas

we had a lot of christmas parties this year. these are a couple from the van eps family get together.

wild lights

we went to the wild lights with the sola and savage families before chritmas. it was such a fun night! we feel so blessed to have such amazing friends!


Monday, January 3, 2011

my crazy baby

i love when i have some one on one time with kinley..she is such a funny girl! it has been awesome to have our mornings together while big sissy is off at school. she is always happy and entertaining. she LOVES to laugh and her best buddy is wilson our dog. she loves him so much she actually acts like a dog...a lot of her days i find her barking, crawling, and licking like wilson. i think it is kind of funny and hope this is not something that continues forever :) she is learning more and more words which is awesome. kinley has been working with a speech therapist since she was 2 and we have seen some HUGE strides. recently we had her evaluation with the school district and she got approved for early preschool for her speech. they tell us she has apraxia of speech..which basically means she KNOWS what she wants to say, but just has a hard time having the motor planning to make the sounds. she starts school right after her 3rd birthday which is feb 7th. i feel so blessed to live in such a great school district with amazing services at our fingertips and they are all for free! praise God! BUT..... i am having a hard time knowing my baby is starting school 3-4 morning and week next month. i know this is what is best for kinley, and i am trusting God will give me the strength to be strong for her. here are some fun pictures of kinley in a typical morning with mommy and wilson. i get tears in my eyes knowing these are coming to an end :( i love you kinley hudson you are PURE JOY in my life!




kya's christmas dance show and tell :)

kya is still in ballet and tap at miller's dance studio. she LOVES it and has so much fun! for christmas her teacher taught the class a little christmas tap routine for us parents! kya's takes dance with a couple of her friends she had from preschool. kya's friend josie has twin little brothers grady and carter...and kinley LOVES them. it is a fun time for all as the girls get to dance, the little one play and the mommy's talk :)









kya's africa project

kya's class has been working on learning all about africa. she had to do a report on an animal of her choice. daddy helped kya and she worked really hard! we were so proud of her ! way to go kya!!

seeing santa and trains :)

our dear friends the sola's invited us to come along to the train museum to see santa this year. we have never been before, and we loved it! we got to see santa ride and train and enjoy some hot cocoa. what a fun time spending time with great friends!