Leila's 3rd birthday party

It is a good thing she is so damn cute

Ruby, Sophea and Lei

"Hi Mama!"

Best buds...Ruby and Leila

Jack, Sophea, Finley and Leila

Awe.

The frosting matched her dress

She is three....boohoo

My baby is 3....NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Our life lately

Nya kartwheeling

Erika and I at her bday dinner

Cute Iyla in her classroom

Mom and Nya at brunch

Three little beauties

Upside down Iyla

Visiting the petting zoo

VB practice

This is just a hodgepodge of events that have been happening in the past few months. We always seem to have something planned...life is good!

Annual Camping Trip

Sisters

Tyler and Iyla

Nya and Daven getting ready to race

Baby Leila

New favorite picture

Coming in for the WIN

Sweet Iyla

She played with this tree for hours

Kaya and Nya

The kids

Piggyback time

The whole group

Suzie and Me

Iyla and Suz

Action shot

Yelena and Erika

We just got home from our annual camping trip. We usually go every October but this time we went in January because October was too busy for our group. We are so lucky to have such an awesome group  of friends to do this with every year. We always have an amazing time and the kids make tons of memories together. They just play outside, ride bikes, go on hikes, have scavenger hunts, make s'mores, go fishing and everything else you can think of that is involved with camping.

Totally Leila

I stole this from another parent blogger. It was too funny not to share. This COMPLETELY describes Leila...and Iyla sometimes too!

46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Some of these are total guesses. Educated guesses, but guesses nonetheless. Seems like it’s hard being a kid.

Her sock is on wrong.

Her lips taste salty.

Her shirt has a tag on it.

The car seat is weird.

She’s hungry, but can’t remember the word “hungry.”

Someone touched her knee.

She’s not allowed to get in the oven.

I picked out the wrong pants.

Her sister looked at her.

Her sister didn’t look at her.

Her hair is heavy. (a personal favorite)

We don’t understand what she said.

She doesn’t want to get out of the car.

She wants to get out of the car by herself.

The iPad has a password.

Her sleeve is touching her thumb.

She doesn’t understand how popsicles are made.

The inside of her nose stinks.

Chicken is gross.

A balloon she got six months ago is missing. (so TRUE)

A puzzle piece won’t fit in upside down.

I gave her the wrong blue crayon.

The gummi vitamin is too firm.

Netflix is slow.

She jumped off the sofa and we weren’t watching.

She’s not allowed to touch fire.

Everything is wrong with her dress.

There’s a dog within a 70 mile radius. (not so much this one)

A shoe should fit either foot.

I asked her a question.

Her sister is talking.

She can’t lift a pumpkin.

She can’t have my keys. (while I am driving usually)

The dog is in her way.

The dog won’t let her touch its eyeball.

The inside of her cheek feels rough.

Things take too long to cook.

She has too much food in her mouth.

She (almost) sneezed.

She doesn’t know how to type.

The DustBuster is going to eat her.

Her mom is taking a shower.

Someone knocked over her tower.

She got powdered sugar on her pants.

The yogurt won’t stay on her spoon.

EVERYTHING IS TOO HOT.

Christmas 2012

Nya and River

Iyla at her school program

The cast (including baby jesus)

On their way to The Nutcracker...I LOVE this picture!

A baby with an itouch 4...look how happy she is!

Sparkle Toms

A mermaid for Iyla

Look at the chaos

Panda headphones

Her first Justice dress

Sisters

Nya with both grandpas

The golden child

Nya with both sets of grandparents!

Christmas is almost here

I took some Christmas pictures of the kids for our cards this year. These are not the actual ones we used on the cards but it is sneak peek. Next year...I am hiring a photographer!

Disney Halloween Cruise 2012

Iyla with Peter Pan

Leila enjoying the Nemo slide

In the Mickey pool

Iyla, Keith and Nya going on the Aquaduck slide

Day one

Sunrise from our stateroom

Getting her hair done while eating ice cream

Best friends

Dance off

Homies

Ta Da

Little dancer

Deck party

Learning new moves

Pure happiness

Lunch with a view

Pirate night

I love Nya's face here

Will and Leila

Castaway Cay

Buddies

Beauty

Beauty and the Stud

Trio of cuteness

The gang

At the Halloween parade

Goldfish with attitude

Happy fish

Peacock baby

The dining crew singing Nya happy birthday on our last night

The cruise was awesome. Nya Bliss had a blast for her 8th birthday. Leila was "challenging" to say the least but it was still fun to be with our friends and family. I am really glad Jan came...she was a huge help (as always)! Iyla loved the kids club and got to do a lot of really fun things in there with the youth team. They had some fun Halloween activities planned for the kids and we saw every live show they offered as well as a movie in the movie theatre. The pools were nice and heated so the kids loved that!