My Favorite Time of Day!

I love this time of day. When both the girls are down for a nap and I can just relax or get whatever done that I need to. It's nice when they go to bed at night too, but usually by then I'm too exhausted to get anything done. This only happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays because Pyper has school on those days. I tried to get her down for a nap other days, but she doesn't quite go down as easy and it turns out to be too much work. So our deal is that after school we eat lunch and everyone goes down for a nap. It works much better that way. Sometimes I still have to bribe her to go down. Like today, for instance, I told her that we could make a sledding hill in the backyard, but only after her nap. She went down really easy!

Christmas!

The holidays are over, yay!! The girls are sad, but they understand that we can only have Christmas once a year. Pyper has this movie called "Elmo Saves Christmas." In it, Elmo is granted a wish that they could have Christmas every day. Everyone starts getting really sick of Christmas by the end, but it helps to show that we can only have Christmas once a year, not every day.

Pyper got all the fairies she wanted and Zoee got a new baby. They also got new snow clothes so that day we went out and played in the snow.

It was really fun to have Grandma and Grandpa Jorgensen come and stay with us and bring us a big car. It's always more enjoyable when family is around, especially family that we don't get to see very often.

On the Sunday before Christmas we went to Jorgen's house for our Bailey party. We had pizza and lots of snacks and goodies. We also, besides opening presents, spent much of the time downstairs playing "Rock Band." (I think that's what it's called.) LOTS OF FUN!

On Christmas Eve we had both Grandmas and Grandpas over for our annual Holiday ham dinner. It's a good thing our families get along so we could do that. It was yummy yummy! Then when Grandma and Grandpa Bailey left we decorated a gingerbread house. Boy was that an experience! When the rest of us gave up and decided we were done, Grandma decided to fix and finish it, (or so she thought.) We called what happened to it Hurricane Susan! Then the girls opened their pjs and went to bed.

On Christmas, after playing in the snow for a bit and eating Grandma's yummy scones, we went to see "The Golden Compass." The girls were pretty good as soon as Zoee fell asleep. Then we drove around and saw some cool Christmas lights. By the end of the day everyone was pooped!

SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

As many of you know we have had a TON of snow this year. Here's some pics of some of the fun we've had.

Flying Pros

After flying back and forth to Arizona several times, the girls are getting to be pros at being on an airplane. They still get restless towards the end of the flight, but they know what to expect. Mom and dad are getting better at getting through security quickly. It's a little difficult when we can't keep Zoee in a stroller and we all have to go through separately, but nothing we can't handle. This is a picture of the girls as we are landing back in Salt Lake from Yuma. We had to drive around a bit because there was another plane in our gate.

Pyper's Fairy Party!

Okay, now I know sometimes I bite off a little more than I can chew, but this just might take the cake. We got home from Arizona on a Monday and Pyper's party was supposed to be Friday. (Ignore the dates on the pictures, I can't seem to fix my camera at the moment.) Anyway, I had this plan that I was going to make fairy skirts and wands for all the girls. (There were 16 invited.) And I was going to cut fairy wings out of poster board and they could decorate them at the party. Well, I don't know what I was thinking. I had only 3 skirts done when we got home so I worked and worked to get all the skirts and wands done. (Which amazingly happened.) Then I cut out all the wings. By the time I got all this done it was Friday. On Friday I realized I had to make a bunch of cupcakes and clean my filthy house. I also realized that I was not going to be able to handle that many kids myself so I called Brooke to come help me when the time came. I was still finishing up cupcakes when the girls started arriving. I hadn't really planned things out. There was no room at the table for everyone so they kinda had to switch off. They would either be at the table, or getting sparkles on their face, or playing in the toy room. It didn't really work that well, because everyone wanted to be at the table and some girls took quite a long time decorating. And to add to that they were decorating with sparkle glue and it had to dry so I was trying to find room to lay all these wings on counters and wherever. They still didn't dry by the time moms started coming. When it was time for them to go I realized I hadn't put the goodie bags together so I was just trying to throw stuff in bags and send them home with them. Aaahhhh!!!

Well, Pyper had fun and that's all that matters. Right?

Kokopelli Triathlon 2007

Notice the dark clouds in the background?

Well, this was the only triathlon I was planning for this year. I wasn't as ready as I felt I should have been so I think I secretly wished I wouldn't have to race. I jinxed the whole thing!!! After getting up way early and getting ready in the dark with lanterns, (we were camping out,) then getting in the water and warming up, they cancelled the race. Actually I did get to race the swim portion, but as I was coming out of the water and running to my transition area, the girl next to me said it was being called off and that somebody was going to die out there. Then I looked around and noticed how bad the weather was. All the tents were blowing around and people were running, trying to take cover. The announcer kept repeating that this was the hardest decision a race official has to make. I guess after I thought about it, the swim did seem a little bumpy and I had to breathe on the side opposite the wind or I'd get water in my mouth. I also had felt the rain drops, but it really didn't seem that bad. I was to focused on the race to notice. There were people from the olympic division who were already out on their bikes. I started to worry for them. It did get pretty windy.

Bryant and my dad didn't even get to race in the water. They announced the cancellation right after the women had left. So I found the rest of my family pretty easily, even amongst everyone running everywhere. Usually at the end of the race they have all sorts of food and drinks and stuff at the tables. Since they weren't having an end of a race and they had tons of food, they were giving complete boxes away to anyone left who would take them. So we took like two boxes of cookies and a box of energy bars back to our camp site.

I was a little happy I didn't have to race on the bike, but I was really sad, because it was the only race I had planned the whole season. Oh well, I'll be ready next season so I don't have to jinx the race. We're already signed up for the St. George Tri. (OLYMPIC!)

Halloween

The girls and I went down to Arizona for Halloween this year. I was so excited because I remember when I used to live down there I didn't have to wear a coat over my costume. I am not a big fan of having to cover up the girls' costumes to go trick-or-treating. What's the point of putting on a costume? It was fun. We went trick-or-treating at the mall, went to a trunk-or-treat, then went trick-or-treating around Jessica's neighborhood. The girls were so exhausted by the end of the night. Pyper was even pouting because she didn't want to go to another house. She wouldn't walk up to another door.