Let down your hair...

This is Kira's 7th birthday party. She was really excited for the new movie "Tangled". She wanted her dad to play it for her friends in the movie room. She was disappointed when we told her that it wouldn't be out of the theaters yet, so she settled with going to go see it as a family. We did end up having a Tangled party and just had to be as creative as possible at doing things that Rapunzle would do at a party!

The girls got to color Rapunzel poster with piles of hair to color (most of them said their hands hurt and couldn't finish the hair:) The boys colored wanted posters of Flynn Ryder, and they had to give him a nose, since in the movie they could never get his nose right.

Here is Kira playing the toilet paper princess game. I split the kids up into 3 teams and gave them all a roll of toilet paper. The had to pick one person to model and the others were designers. You never know what kids will like, but they went to town with this game, and when it was over they all wanted a turn to be the model.

Cute Lexi Gee, this was her teams' final product

This is Cambria Bybe, Kira's good friend from school. These girls took a while to nail down their concept!

Happy Savannah, from Kira's class also

Above and beyond my favorite! Logan looks thrilled to be in that position doesn't he? Logan is the only boy at home, and his mom told me he made her promise not to tell his dad that he dressed up like a princess that day! His team of boys were definitely the most creative and the e fastest too!

A little spin on a favorite: Pin the Hair on Rapunzel

Little Lizzie Gee is pretty close to the target here, but Seth spun them around so much they needed the voices of their friends to steer them in the right direction.

Cake!!! Kira saw this Tangled cake in the bakery window at Kohlers like a month before her birthday, and told me that was the cake she wanted. That made my job easy! I'm still getting used to this new camera and was unable to get a good shot here, oh well!

Karaoke was the final stage in our activities for the day. Now that Christmas is over and the girls been given so much, I'm not sure how important the karaoke machine was, but one day before a party my perspective wasn't so clear. The girls really did have alot of fun with it. Especially this little friend of Kira's, Payton. She is not shy with the microphone, it was cute. Hopefully we'll get the mic back out, we just have to turn that tv all the way around to plug it in. Not something mom can do by herself real well.

Man, what a great party. What a great day. What a great little girl we have in Kira. It was fun to meet some of her little friends!

Brynn's Nutcracker

There's our cute little soldier. I'd feel bad about Brynn having to spend most of her life at her ballet studio, but I really don't, because she loves it! She can't wait for school to be over with so she can get to dance. She can't wait to learn something new and then come home and give us all a personal performance and show us. I love the passion she has for dance, and I love that she puts her heart and soul into it! This year Brynn was a soldier that fights the "mouse king" and a candy cane. She normally dances about 9 hrs. a week, and with the nutcracker it added up to about 10 to 12 depending on the week. She loved it all! And Seth and I loved the extra driving too:) I was lucky to hang out with Brynn back stage for one performance to help. Some of the pics are bad because they are taken with my camera phone, oh well!

Brynn and her friend Rachel. This is their soldier make-up. Brynn was a busy girl back stage. Each day they had two shows; an evening and a matinee. So after being a soldier at the beginning of the show Brynn would have to wash all of her make-up off and then re-apply regular stage make-up for her candy cane dance. Then in the evening show she would repeat that whole process!! Her face looked kind of beat up by the time she got home and always had some of her white soldier make-up way up in her hair line.

Brynn's soldier group. From memory, some of the girls are: Lauren, Abbie, Hannah, Rachel and Bailey. I was supposed to be in charge of entertaining these girls while they were off stage, but they came fully equipped to entertain themselves. It was after the nutcracker that Brynn started asking for the big ticket electronics items. "So and so has a DS, so that would be fun to have and mom can you believe so and so has their own phone?" They all brought their own board games and treats (eventhough there was a strict no food allowed in the building rule). These girls didn't need me to lead their fun and it was going to be really hard to get Brynn to do her math in the midst of this circus backstage!

Brynn in her Candy Cane costume. She also did the whole dance with a striped hula hoop. She was also a candy cane last year, so the whole soldier thing was alot of fun for her! Kira came to see her and brought a little nutcracker as a present, she wouldn't let anyone else hold it. "It's my present for Brynn!" She gets so excited to see her up on stage. And figuring out which soldier she was among the others was not easy!

Halloween Saga 2010

It was time again for Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. We missed it last year and the girls were begging to go this year.

We had to get a shot in the giant chair. I couldn't convince Seth to hop up there for an entire family picture though!

Alayna, very busy selling baby pumpkins

This is Gordon and Seth trying to figure out one of the mazes. They take them very seriously!

Help, I'm swimming in corn and I can't get out!

It's always great to hang with the Kennards!

The cold train ride:)

The last thing the girls wanted to do was get their faces painted. It was already passed their bedtimes, but we went ahead and let them get fancy. We had to take pictures before they went to sleep and wiped it all off!!

The Witches at Garner Village
If you look closely, Kira still has her face paint on from the night before, she just couldn't part with it.

Kira lost her cousins and sister because they went off to a Utah game, put that didn't her down from posing in front of every witch!

My little music lover

Grandma Julie and Grandpa Mike hadn't ever seen the witches before. It was lots and lots of fun!

While Seth and Brynn went to the Utah game and sat in the freezing cold rain, we all went to my mom's and watched the game and let the kids play.

We're so glad when grandpa comes home! I remember when my dad would say "two girls" and that meant he wanted both Brynn and Kira in his arms at the same time. That face says happiness, doesn't it?

Ian having a little conference with Alayna

Carving Time!

Taeya's Halloween party

Kira's favorite game!

Kira, as Dorothy and Brynn as a gypsy
Alayna wanting to come to school too as always!

Kira in her school parade

The 5th graders don't walk in the parade anymore, so this is the only picture I could snap in Brynn's classroom. How can anyone be too old to walk in the parade?! This last picture is of Kira reading a part in a pumpkin play. The baby sat very patiently, as you can imagine!