Happy Birthday Falyn!

It’s hard to believe that you are 4 years old already. You are such a sweet, smart, adorable little girls. You are always so happy and truly enjoy life. You love dancing and singing. You also love to draw and paint. Your favorite TV shows are Team Unizoomi, Yo Gaba Gaba, Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. Your favorite color is still pink.

Here’s a look back at how she’s grown over the last four years.

Falyn at 3

Falyn at 2

Falyn at 1

Newborn Falyn

Falyn’s 4th Birthday Party

Falyn had her 4th Birthday Party today. We were worried it was going to rain, but it turned out to be beautiful day.

The kids made ribbon dancers and had fun dancing.

The kids also had fun playing with the parachute.

We had a pull ribbon type pinata. All the kids pulled a ribbon and one of the ribbons opened up the pinata letting out all the goodies.

After the pinata we had cake.

Then Falyn opened her presents.

We gave all the kids kites and they had fun playing with them after Falyn opened all her presents.

Happy Valentine’s Day

This kids were all excited about taking their valentines to school. We did the ones with the lollipops again this year. Everyone loved them. The kids all came home with way too much candy.

Downtown Disney

Talia, Falyn and I had a blast at Downtown Disney today. Talia didn’t have school due to the break between semesters. Falyn has been asking for the Valentine’s puppy from Build-A-Bear for her birthday, so we took her to make her puppy. She had never been to Build-A-Bear before and she had so much fun! After she made her dog (who she named Valentine), we walked around Downtown Disney for a while and then had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe. Falyn thought it was the coolest restaurant she had ever been in. She loved the big butterfly and kept staring at the stars and moon on the ceiling above our table. Here’s some pictures of the fun.

2010 Pinewood Derby

The boys all worked hard making their cars for this year’s Cub Scout Pinewood Derby, which was held on Saturday.

Aidan designed and built his car all by himself.

Jared and Riley designed their cars themselves, but had a bit more help from Daddy to build them.

They all had a great time and their cars did quite well. Aidan won 3rd place for the Den and 1st place for the Bears. He got the Most Creative certificate. Jared and Riley got 4th and 5th place for the Tigers and got the Most Colorful certificates. (Thanks Samantha for painting the cool flames on the twins’ cars!)

Twins Birth Film Crew

While filling out a form for the twins 1st grade autobiography, we realized that the twins didn’t know that their birth had been filmed for a TV show called Life Moments. I scanned in some of the photos taken with our camera by the producer that show the film crew and showed them to the twins. We need to dig out the video of their birth so that they can see it. Here’s some of those photos.

I can’t post pictures of their birth without posting a newborn picture of the as well. Here’s one of each of them in the NICU.

Jared

Riley

Rainy Day Photo Shoot

What to do on a rainy day? Why have fun taking pictures in the photo studio of course! Falyn had a blast twirling around in the pettiskirt and tutu. Here are some of my favorites.

The girls did go out and play in the rain too.

It rained really hard.

You rarely see the flood control channel with this much water.

New Recessed Lighting

Dan’s parents gave use recessed lights for Christmas. Over the break Dan, with the help of his father, has been putting them in both the den and living room. We all love that we can now see to read in the downstairs rooms at night. Those rooms use to be so dark! It is so much nicer now.

Living room

Den