BAILEY IS 2!!!!!

I can't believe that on January 12th my little Bailey girl turned 2!! It has gone so fast...and I have loved EVERY second of it. She is so fun to be around and I absolutely adore everything about her. As I have said before she is at such a fun age!! She does and says some of the funniest things. She wants to do everything her big brother does, although she is not quite as coordinated. :) She is also one of the sweetest little girls. She is the best sharer, as long as you ask. She will let out a very high pitched scream if Carson tries to take one of her toys, but all he has to do is say please and she will say "O.K. Carson...here Carson."

I love the cute little lisp that she has...I am hoping she grows out of it on her own, but while she is this little it is pretty cute! She can definitely hold her own, and can be very dramatic at times...but what girl isn't! :) My dad told us that she reminds him a lot of me when I was little...that didn't make Ryan feel too good about what her teenage years might be like, but hopefully she will take after her dad and be a little more mellow! :)

On her birthday she woke up and had a princess balloon waiting for her. She was pretty excited about that!!

We watched Beauty and the Beast while we waited for Carson to wake up. After he woke up our friends Megan and Morgan came over to eat breakfast with us. We had french toast and oranges. Here is Bailey and Carson waiting for their food!

And here is the birthday girl very excited to finally have her breakfast!!
(By the way I told her to say "Cheese" for the picture...Awesome.)

After breakfast we got all cleaned up and headed to Daddy's work so he could take us to lunch! Bailey was a little worn out already and fell asleep on the way...

but all you have to do is put a little IN-N-OUT in front of her and she is good to go!!

For dinner that night we went to California Pizza Kitchen. Mostly because we had a gift card there, but if you remember we actually went there for her 1st birthday too, so maybe we will have to make it a tradition! :)

When we got home we opened presents...Carson was very good about not getting any presents, but he did want to help Bailey open them, and really wanted to play with all of them!

As of late, Bailey has LOVED Beauty and the Beast. So she got a Belle phone and...

Some figurines that have been wonderful for church!!

We sure love our Bailey girl!! She honestly brings such a fun spirit into our home. I love watching her and Carson together, they have such a sweet friendship. Hopefully it lasts! :)

Happy Birthday Bailey...
WE LOVE YOU!!!

Tante Meet comes to Visit!!

On January 4th we got to have a little Christmas celebration with Ryan's grandparents and with Tante Meet who was visiting from Holland. We had such a great time with them and wish we got to see Tante Meet more often. She was so wonderful with my children. They had so much fun reading stories with her, playing puzzles and helping her open her presents. We sadly only got to see them for one night because Tante Meet had to head back to Holland, but it was a great night!
Here are a few pictures of our Christmas with Oma, Opa and Tante Meet:

Tante Meet gave my kids some money from Holland. They didn't quite get what it was, but once we told them it was money they were pretty excited. :)

Tante Meet is Oma's older sister.
We hated to say goodbye, but hopefully we get to see them all again really soon!

New Years Eve

We went out to dinner with Ryan's family on New Years Eve to Lucille's BBQ. Yum!! After dinner we went back to the Zylstra's house to wait until midnight! I actually fell asleep on the couch and woke up right before it was midnight. My kids on the other hand were wide awake! They LOVED banging on the pans!!

Here they are giving each other a hug while Grammy and Pa gave each other a little smooch to bring in 2011!!

Daddy got a smooch too!!

Can't wait to see what 2011 brings!!!

L.A. Zoo

So the week after Christmas Ryan actually had work off...which has never happened before so we were REALLY excited. On Monday the 27th we decided to go to the Zoo as a family. We had a great time and Carson could not WAIT to get there. In the car I told Carson to show me his excited face and this is what I got...

Gotta love those missing teeth!!

Carson loved seeing all the animals!! Bailey was not as into it, but pretended to be because Carson was. :)

Whenever we tell Bailey to smile for a picture she just looks at us with a ya right look on her face, but if we tell her to show us her teeth, this is the face we get...

There is the smile we wanted!!

Carson and Bailey would have their own little conversations in the stroller as we were walking around...it was so funny!!

There she is showing those teeth again!

So handsome!!

Towards the end of the day they were done being in the stroller, so we let them walk around for a bit! They of course wanted to hold hands, although it only lasted for a little while!!

Then they wanted to give daddy a turn holding their hands...I LOVE IT!!

We had a GREAT day at the Zoo!!

Christmas 2010

We had a great Christmas! We spent the morning at our house with the kids. This was our first year that we spent it at our house! We had so much fun and the kids were so excited! I have admit that I was probably a little more excited than they were. I woke up really early and could not wait for them to wake up. Here is what Santa left them...

Here are the cookies, carrots and donuts that we left. And Santa even wrote the kids letters.

Now this little guy is named Randall the Reindeer. WE LOVE HIM!!! Randall is just like Elf on a Shelf and he reports to Santa every night to tell if the you were good or bad. Carson loved him, and I loved that I could use him to get Carson to behave! :) After Carson opened all of his presents he made sure to thank Randall for telling Santa that he had been good! SO FUNNY!! By the way...thanks Megan for bringing this wonderful reindeer into our home! :)

Here are a few pictures from that morning....

Every time we asked Carson what he wanted Santa to bring him he would say monster trucks. Now at first we were a little nervous because I had NO idea what he was talking about. So I finally had him explain to me what it was and where he saw it, and after much research on the computer, we finally figured out that he wanted a Monster Truck game that he had seen on T.V. that had Mater and Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. So Santa was luckily able to pull that off. I also have to thank my sweet husband who went to every Target and Toys R Us to find the little Cars that went with the game...he was a real lifesaver!!

Of course Bailey got her baby...and all the baby stuff you could possible want!! And she LOVES her! The baby actually cries and laughs and whenever she would cry bailey would say, "Oh no, crying. Bottle!" She would then put the bottle in the babies mouth to help her stop crying. She is so cute to watch with her babies.

Sadly I only took pictures that morning. I was really lame and didn't take any at our parents houses. But we first headed over to Zylstra's where we ate, opened presents, and talked to good old Tanner who is in Florida on his mission and doing really well! Then we went to my parents house where we opened more presents and played a scavenger hunt game with my siblings. We had a great time! After that we went back up to Zylstra's to see all of Ryan's extended family! Overall we had a busy but VERY fun Christmas!!

Christmas Eve 2010

On Christmas Eve my family came over to our house to let the kids play together. We decided to try to get a picture of all the kids...minus Jaylee who was sleeping...but it didn't work as well as we were hoping. It is quite a challenge to get all four kids looking at the camera, not to mention smiling and happy...so here is what we got!!

Here is Lilly, Jensen, Bailey and Carson

My little Bailey girl is so funny! She is talking like crazy and if you asked her what she wanted for Christmas this year, she always said "Babies...two babies." She is at a really fun age and is always making us laugh...love her!!

The two goofs below have such a cute relationship! They are always so excited to see each other! I love how much they love each other! This is Lilly trying to give Carson a hug...he was not that into it, but Lilly sure was happy!

I mean seriously...TOO CUTE!!

Later that day we went down to a park near my house and the kids had so much fun playing!

After my family left we met the Zylstra's at CPK for dinner. Then they came back to our house and helped the kids write their letter to Santa and put out cookies, carrots and donuts...because according to Carson the reindeer LOVE donuts. So they also went on the plate!! We had a great Christmas Eve and the kids couldn't wait to see what Santa was going to bring them! :)