Eva's 8

Why is time flying by? It seems so slow when you're a kid. Once I hit senior year of high school I started to notice time would go by so fast. Now it's like you blink and your daughter is eight years old and has decided to get baptized, tells you how she wants to cut her hair and you can have actual conversations with her.
Eva is becoming my pre-pretween...sigh.

We must have taken this picture about 3,000 times! Not one had her eyes open. Oh well.

One of her favorite breakfast treats is the sausage biscuit from McDonalds, so Jeremy got up early and got her once for breakfast before school.

Eva's presents. She's obsessed with the Fur Real animals- I think those are the only toys she kept from the ones I got rid of.

At class- I made cake pops the night before, in her favorite color, orange.

No one is allowed to eat until she takes her first bite!

Eva requested baked potatoes for dinner.

JJ

JJ has lost so much baby weight since these were taken.
:(
Isn't is the cutest!



Jeremy's sis Anna and her husband Sam were in Oregon over the holiday's and they came for a visit a few days before Eva's birthday.
Isn't she gorgeous?! She's a model in New York.
Don't mind my super greasy face in this picture...someone get me some skin products stat!

Christmas 2011

I am so behind on updating the blog!
Sorry to everyone who actually relys on this blog to see pics of the kids!

This Christmas Jeremy and I made a decison to not buy any toys.
Several months ago I got rid of all of the girls' toys. I got SO sick of hearing myself say, "Clean up these toys!" That I decided to clean them up- forever.
And the really sad part is that they didn't even care! The only "toys" we kept were a few stuffed animals and some pet shop pets.
The girls make up their own games, they like to do crafts more than anything and play with boxes!
I feel like and idiot for ever buying toys past babyhood.
Of course now JJ is getting older and the toys are starting to spread- mostly giant legos.
It has begun. I'm  hoping to keep it in check this time around...third times a charm right?
Here's our Christmas in a few pictures:


So excited about presents!

I know it's blurry but it's still cute.


We stuck to our making giant gingerbread men tradition. Here's photographic proof of Elle's crazy eye: