We went to visit Clint and Melissa and watched their kids one day and out kids had a blast!
Rylee and Tyler (little buddies) Whenever they get together I swear they see who can come up with the weirdest words. They say these random words and just laugh their heads off. Its pretty funny.
Taylor had a blast on their trampoline. It was her first time on one and she loved it!
Rylee and Clint's dog buddy. She loved Buddy!So this morning we were at the Winters house and I was sitting at their computer blogging of course. I looked over and Taylor was messing with their phone so I got up and grabbed the phone from her. It looked like she had called someone cause it said the call had lasted over a minute. No one was there so I hung up. A few seconds later the phone rang. I answered and they said "Hi, this is the Millard County Sheriff's Office, we just received a 911 call, is everything ok." Taylor was screaming her guts out in the back ground cause I had taken the phone from her. I told them it was my baby, and that that is why she was screaming. She said "Oh that is fine, but the cops will be there any second cause they respond to all calls". Just a second after that, the doorbell rang and sure enough the cops were out front. I made Jon answer the door cause I was just dying. The cop just kinda chuckled and said he couldn't believe it was Taylor that had called. Usually older kids call. It was scary and embarrasing. I better start paying attention to my kids and save the blogging for when they are sleeping eh!
So lately Rylee has been wanting to get herself dressed, do her own hair, and put makeup on (when I am not looking). The worst part about it is that when she does her hair, she will put anything in it. This includes liquid hand soap, lotion, shampoo, and lots and lots of hairspray. These two pics are strictly hairspray. It is so thick in her hair!!!! I couldn't even move it. And to top it off, aunt Heather's eye makeup. And the furry shoes look awesome too, don't ya think?
WOW!!!
This bottom pic is her doing her own hair. She uses about twenty elastics daily. I want to be a nice mom and let her keep it like that cause she just thinks it is soooo pretty, but it also makes me look like a bad mom, at least it looks like I don't know how to do hair. In the front, she usually has two little clips right above both of her ears. She seriously reminds me of shrek and his ears that poke out. Its funny and very interesting every single day!!!
We just celebrated Tay's 1st birthday. She is getting so big. But she is still really small. She looks kinda funny walking around cause she still seems small to me. Here is Taylor eating ice cream. She would not eat her lady bug cupcakes. When we took the spoon from her she threw a fit for about twenty minutes. We couldn't get her to calm down. Man she has a temper.
We had a birthday party one night with the Winters and then another one the next night with the Pace's. She got soooooo many clothes and a few fun toys that she didn't really care for. Rylee really enjoyed opening all of Taylor's presents and as you can see, Taylor could care less.
These are my lady bug cupcakes I made. They aren't the greatest but at least they were a step up from the pathetic cake I made on Rylee's birthday. A lot simpler.
Rylee finally got her bike! She has wanted one all year. Her birthday and Christmas are both in the middle of snow so she has been riding inside. It is funny!
I look hidious in this picture but Taylor was sick and slept through opening presents so I had to put a picture with her. This is me with my pressure cooker. Yeah!!
Rylee with her new baby. 
Jon and Rylee went for a drive to find some clear road. And they did!
This is a picture of Jon and the girls on Christmas Eve. They were looking for rudolph's red nose in the sky. It was cute!
These two pics are of Santa on Christmas Eve. He comes around to every house on Christmas Eve in Leamington. Rylee was so excited looking at him out the window but as soon as he stepped in the door, she was gone. The first picture is of her hiding in the kitchen so Santa couldn't see her. She was watching Kelly's little boy Boston sit on his lap. He was definitely not afraid!
I love this picture. Rylee is telling Taylor to stay out of the tree. I think her face is hilarious!
I cannot believe she is walking already. It makes them seem like they aren't babies anymore. She is such a sweetie though. She likes to follow Rylee everywhere she goes.
Rylee was in the primary christmas program. She and her little Sunbeam class were sheep. Ry was a cute little sheep. I was very surprised she sat up there and sang after a very tramatic dance recital this month where she stood on the stage with her hands over her face and her teacher had to carry her off stage. Anyways, she did so good except she wouldn't stop picking her nose!!!! WOW!! It is a nervous thing thing she does and it doesn't look so great but we were proud of her for standing up there and singing.
Dad and Ry in the snow building a fort.
We had the twelve days of Christmas done to us this year and one night they gave our girls matching pj's and I had to get a picture. They looked so cute.
Cousins!!! What else can I say! They love getting their pics taken. Especially the one in the middle!!Well its been a little while since I caught us up. This last month has been crazy and fun! Jon has finished student teaching and is has been substituting the whole month of December which has been nice. This month has been full of seeing family, Christmas parties, dance recitals, sickness (Taylor got tubes in ears and got salmonella poisoning in the same week!!), and not to mention the big jolly man himself! I finally have nothing to bribe Rylee with anymore. First it was her birthday and then santa and now nothing to bribe her into being good. Any ideas??? Taylor, is doing well and is WALKING!!! My baby is walking. She is just the sweetest little thing ever. Always sick, always something going on with her but she usually always has a smile on her face. Anyways, here are some pics I have taken recently.
Rylee finally turned 4 this week. She had a great birthday as long as no one told her Happy Birthday. Family would call and talk to her for a second and then say Happy Birthday and as soon as they said those two words, she would set the phone down or hand it to me. She did not want any sort of attention on her for some reason. It was very weird. Then we had a little party that night and had her grandparents and aunt Heather there. She loved opening presents and having dinner but as soon as we lit the candles and started to sing, She started screaming!!! Face bright red and yelling "stop singing"!!!!!!! THen she started crying and we finally stopped singing. It was very very sad. As soon as we stopped, she wiped her eyes and went back to playing with her presents. I have a video but it is really sad so I didn't post it. But she had a fun birthday anyways. Thanks to her grandparents and aunt heather for the great gifts!!!!
Dr. Winters and her patient Taylor. She got a dr. kit from her grandma pace and we were her patient's all day long. Even my mom's dog was getting shots and her "blood plessure" taken, as she would say. She loved it so much!
Rylee holding her Dr. kit
Jon woke Rylee up at seven on her birthday and wanted her to open some presents. She said "Dad, maybe later I'm still tired." But he pulled her out of bed anyways. She was happy when she started opening her presents.
I am totally embarassed to post this but I just had too. This is supposed to be a castle. In the book that I got it from, it REALLY looked like one. My mom and I began making this at four o clock in the afternoon and finished at midnight. WHY????? Well, because when I finished, it was leaning bad!! So we cut off some pieces and rearranged to make it look better but it didn't. Everyone that looked at it laughed except my awesome dad who somehow managed to say it look great without even a grin on his face. Love ya dad! We made at least three batches of icing. I am stating right now : I WILL NEVER ATTEMPT TO MAKE MY CHILD A CAKE THAT IS NOT FLAT AGAIN. NEVER!!!!! IF IT IS A ONE LAYER CAKE WITH ONE LAYER OF ICING, IT WILL COME FROM A STORE! SORRY GIRLS! Oh well, it is a picture to laugh at I guess. Thanks mom for standing for eight hours straight to make this cake that looks more like a church than a castle, even though you were sick.
Look who is SOOO excited to see Santa. Or maybe terrified is a better word. She was just fine standing right by him but when it came time for her to sit on his lap, then came the freak show. He was such a nice santa and was trying so hard but Rylee did not care. She liked burrying her face in my thigh better!
Taylor was a bit of an improvement from Rylee but she didn't like him too well either. What can I say, I was afraid of him too when I was little!
Waiting in line was a whole other story. Ry had a blast! Her and her cousins loved posing for me. (Especially Macie!) Man I love her poses. She's so funny!
Tay and I waiting in line.Dear Santa:
My name is Rylee Winters. I have been a good girl this year. Oh yeah and to the elves and Mrs. Claus and the Reindeer.
My sister Taylor wants a drum and a jungle set. I want a bike and a bike helmet. I don't want anything else. I will share the jungle set with Taylor. I want Mrs. Claus to bring it to me.
My cat Spirit wants a bone so she can play fetch. She wants the elves to bring it to her.
Rylee
(So this is what she wanted written down for her santa letter. Jon wrote it for her and we laughed and laughed forever. It was so dang cute!)
Putting on Uncle Marcus' baseball stuff
Grandpa Pace, Tanna and Rylee
Riding the neighbor's horses. This is Rylee's first horse ride and she loved it. She really surprised me!
We had a great Halloween this year!! My WHOLE family was down. That hasn't happened in, well, never! The kids were all able to go trick or treating together. We went to seven houses and they were done. Bummer for me cause I got no candy. Ha!
Taylor was a "crying pumpkin", and Rylee was a monkey and a princess. Kelly's twins were monkeys this year and when she found this out, she wanted to wear her last years monkey costume. So for the primary party she was a monkey and then a princess to go trick or treating.
Tanna, Isaac, and Rylee
Cinderella
Taylor, Preston and Boston. Tay didn't like the whole dressing up thing and by time we went trick or treating, she was asleep.
Hey hey we're the monkeys!!!
So our family has never carved pumpkins. How bad are we. Well Jon was gone, of course, to a football game so I decided I would show Rylee by myself. Well the pumpkin was so small I was pathetic at carving it so grandpa stepped in. Even he had a hard time. It was one tough pumpkin.
My dad told her that you can eat pumpkin seeds so she pulled a handful of disgusting pumpkin insides out and put it in her mouth. SHe was unpleasantly surprised. We couldn't help but laugh. SO as little kids are, by time my dad and I finished carving the pumpkin, she was asleep. I never even got a picture of what it turned out like. Oh well!!
Last weekend JOn and Rylee decided to put the tent up outside and sleep in my parents backyard. INSANE!!!! It was so cold! I didn't think RYlee would last through the night. I went out the next morning at like nine o clock and this is what I found. I don't know how she was STILL sleeping at nine o clock in the morning. That is NOT like Rylee!!! It was cute though, they had a blast.
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