Joyous January!

January was kind of a crazy month for the Welker's. We were trying to get moved in to our unfinished house, Heston was still totally sleep deprived and we were pretty overwhelmed by the work that still needed to be done. The girls still found plenty of ways to have fun and entertain themselves in the middle of all of the chaos.... actually they probably made most of the chaos but we won't talk about that :)

 Dani and Abby thought that it was fun to pull the drawer out, crawl under it and read or play together. I found them doing this many times and I thought that it was pretty sweet!

 Why did we get bunk beds???

 Silly faces!

 My first thought when Dani came in to me like this was.... YIKES! but then she told me that she was a momma KANGAROO!! She's brilliant, that's all I have to say.

 Emily is quite the demanding child when she wakes up in the morning. She comes in to our room scowling and growling "EAT!" then she whines "see-all" (cereal)  she's pretty happy once we get her that bowl of cereal!

 Heston gave me Wicked tickets for Christmas and his mom watched the girls so we could go to Tucson and watch it! It was amazing!

 Our two little suckers! Emily...addicted to pacifier. Abby....addicted to her thumb and tickling her ear with hair.

Emily LOVES baby dolls! She loves to take care of them, change their diapers, put them down for naps, and make lots of messes.

Grandma and Papa took the girls to see "Tangled" in the theatre!

Daddy's girls!

The girls love to read with Grandma Welker!

 Dani helped our new neighbor Beth chop up tomatoes so she could can them.

Dani ready for school in the skirt that Grandma Colorado made her for Christmas.

 Abby and Dani love wearing their skirts from Grandma.

 Daddy was so exhausted from working on the house. This is what happened every time that he "put the girls down"

The girls all came in one morning all dressed for the day. They were pretty proud of themselves!

Happy New Year!

 Well..... Here I am 14  months later and I'm going to try to catch up with my blogging. Here are some fun pictures from 2 New Years ago.

 Abby holding Papa's hair while she sucks her thumb.

 Gotta get pretty close to get that short hair in her ear to tickle it!

Doing "london bridges" to a baby doll.

 our three Grandmas!

 Playing cards!

 Dads know how to party!

Christmas 2010!!!

On Christmas Eve we went on a drive to see Christmas lights. (Welker family tradition) We took all of the seats out of our van and all piled in.

Grandma was tickling Emily and she was cracking up!

Abby's got to have that thumb!

Sam and Lacie.

Tara and Jarom.

We drove out to see this house that was in the newspaper. They had more lights than I have ever seen at a house. They had a yard ornament of every kind of Disney or cartoon character that you could imagine and most of them moved. When we got there Dani said... "Um, I think that I actually really want to live here!"

Another Welker family tradition is to go and see the sleeping Santa in the window of a store on Main street.

Dani didn't want to leave.

We went to a really neat nativity production

The girls sat on Sister Wright's lap and watched the nativity.

Abby sat on Aubrie's lap.

It was so neat. Mary rode in on a real donkey and the children did such a great job. It was the perfect ending to our Christmas eve.

on the way home the girls wanted to walk part of the way to Grandma's house so Lacie and Grandma walked with them. We thought that it was a good idea to really wear them out so they would fall asleep easier. Jarom thought that it would be funny to hide and scare them. It worked. They were pretty scared.

Here is what we all woke up to on Christmas morning.

Waiting behind the sheet.

The anticipation is rising!

Pillow pets for everyone!!!!

Abby was most excited about the makeup in her stocking.

Emily loved the train set. She played with it all morning.

Abby trying out the pillow pet.

Dani and Sophie joined her.

Tara and Jarom's first Christmas!

Sam and Lacie

Jarom got a rifle.

Heston gave me tickets to Wicked!

Heston got tools!

We gave Dad a gun safe.

Mom got a sewing table.

Branson made this dragon for the girls room because Heston tells them "puff the magic dragon" stories every night. What a talented uncle these girls have!

Emmie got a baby from Grandma and she LOVED it!

Sam got more hunting gear.

Emily got a princess potty and Lillie took it over.

Then they decided to share.

Chocolate face on the potty.

More Potty time.

Tickling Jarom.

Abby tried out her makeup.