Elisa's First Day of Preschool

Elisa started preschool last week and has fallen in love! She is so obediant to get ready in the morning when I wake her up. She loves learning and telling me all the things that they have done in class. It is weird not to have her around two mornings a week but I am glad she is doing well with this!

Redfish Lake

I am for warning you this may be a blog overload! I haven't blogged forever and have tons I want to blog about. First off is Redfish Lake. At the End of July we went to a family Reunion at Redfish. I have been going there my wholE life so it is nice to take my kids and let them enjoy it!We went to the fish Hatchory and went fishing and watched them mark Salmon.

We did lots of Jet Skiing! Even my grandma took a go at it!

These to trouble makers had alot of fun together!

These two are pretty funny! Riley was really into putting her head on Kennedy!

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I can't believe my baby is "1" !

Kennedy is a happy girl all the time. She loves to smile at everyone and when in church thinks that is time to start entertaining people! Things that Kennedy love to do at one are: walk, say go and dada, she loves dogs, she still loves to cuddle and she most importantly loves her mommy! I have to be in sight at all times if she can't see me she lets me know it! She loves to swim, play outside and follow her sister everywhere!

My sister did a little photo session and Kennedy especially liked sitting in the cup she thought it was so funny!

Dance Recital

Well the following videos are of Elisa's dance recital. The videos pretty much explain how well it went. I guess I should tell you that Elisa has Quite the personality and if she is not going to do something she is not going to do it! She had a dress Rehersal earlier in the day and did every move to the dances but not for the recital she was not having it. Plus I think she had to go the bathroom! Finally for the Final they got her to dance by bribing her with Candy. If I would have thought of that sooner then maybe she would have danced the whole time!

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Easter

This post is a little late and my blogging is long overdue but here it is! This year for easter my parents happened to be here! The girls were way excited to have them around!`The girls and my dad! Elisa kept him busy all weekend with all sorts of things.
We took Elisa to the easter egg hunt at the city park, she was all excited until 200 hundred kids started running around and then she just got scared and stood there.

As you can see Kennedy was thrilled about her easter basket! So thrilled she didn't wait for Elisa to wake up. She unpacked hers and started in on Elisa's!

The girls in their cute easter dresses before churchElisa looking so innocents

Kennedy looked so cute! but I think she was mad I put her in this chair and wouldn't let her crawl around in her dress outside!

Sail Away Sail Away

Brody and I just got back from an amazing Cruise to Cabo San Lucas I was in heaven! I have wanted to leave the girls for awhile now and get away together and we finally did it! This arch was the view I woke up the first morning we were there! It was beautiful.
Every night on the ship are room man Comrad would leave a different animail made out of towels we were always teasing him that he was going to have to out do himself the next night. On are final night this is what we found a bulldog going after legs it was to funny!

This is brody and I on are snorkling adventure. Lets just say that we saw whales and that was my favorite part. The snorkeling thing was a little crazy in freezing water and there was not really any amazing fish so we will try that somewhere else with clearer water!

This is the mommy whale we saw we also he baby was also putting on a great show! we really were that close to them and it is as if they new we were watching they were totally putting a show. We even joked that they probably just had mechanical whales to make people get there moneys worth!

This is brody and I just getting ready to go back to the ship! We had so much fun and it was good to get away. Coming back to real life on the other hand was not fun. By friday we were def. ready to be home though. We missed are girls terribly and my the time we got off the ship I was done after a tsunami warning and the port be closed and then after we finally got to dock we were bound to never be able to get off the ship because of the imigrants not going to through imigration! We can't wait to go again! next time I think we will take the Kids!

The Girls

These two girls love each other! Elisa loves for kennedy to sit by her and watch her morning cartoons it usually only lasts five minutes before Kenned is moving to much for Elisa's liking! Elisa loves her sunglasses

And so does Kennedy. She will wear them and not even try to take them off!

And this is Kennedy's new bath tub! She will not sit still in the regular tub and is constantly trying to pull her self up so we decided this would be the perfect spot! She loves it and Elisa thinks it is really great because she doesn't have to share her bath!

The girls are both at such fun ages! Elisa has become quite the little helper! She loves to vaccum, Set the table and help me empty the dishwashers.

Kennedy is trying to Crawl she can do a couple little lunges and then she usually falls but the last few days she is really starting to figure it out and now I am in trouble!

Crazy Christmas with the HODGES

( The picture explains everything. Where is Logan?)

This year we spent Christmas with Brody's family and when I say family I mean the whole family! We had a great time and 21 people in one house makes for complete craziness! We had so much fun going sledding at Soldier Hollow and Pirates Island, going to see a movie and getting pedicures. It was great to be able to just sit around and visit since we all live so far apart we don't get to see each other very often. Brody's sister from Kansas City drove out with there four kids and it was so much fun for Elisa. She loved her older friends! She was really sad to see them go! We had a wonderful Christmas. I do have pictures but it was complete mad house that morning it was basically a free for all with that many people!

We have all have had the sickies since we have been back and have been just taking life easy. Brody is back in school and Kennedy is trying very hard to crawl. I don't know who told her she could do that but it was not me. I am totally against her getting big! Elisa is still herself up to no good but we love her and I think she might finally be growing out of the terrible two stage. She is saying funny things all the time and I wonder where she comes up with them. She loves her sister to pieces and that is the first person she wants to see in the morning!