Juliet Turns 2

Its been two years since this sweet little girl came into our lives. I can't believe we ever lived without her. She makes life so much more fun. She gets so excited about everything. Seriously everything. And it is contagious. She is always making us laugh. She talks so well, and learns new words every single day. She loves to sing with her sister, although she can only get the last word of every line out. She is so incredibly lovable and affectionate. She will give hugs and kisses without us asking. She loves to hold hands and be held. She loves to snuggle up against us, even if its only for second. She loves, loves, loves her big sister. More than anyone else in the world. They do absolutely everything together. Everything. Luckily Jules is pretty go with the flow, most of the time. She will usually go along with whatever it is that Abby wants to do. They play so cute together. Juliet loves princesses, most especially Ariel, and Anna. She loves to dress up, but she won't ever let me put anything in her hair. It doesn't bother her to get dirty, she is always a mess. She loves to destroy things. I have to watch her so close or else she is destroying something. 

I could go on and on about this little girl. I wish that I could write down and remember everything about how she is right now. Her rolly polly little thighs and her little starfish hands. Her puppy dog brown eyes and ridiculously long eyelashes. Her sweet smiles, and her precious attempts at a thumbs up. The way her hands twist, and her mouth drops open when she gets excited. How she refuses to stay where we are and constantly is running in the opposite direction. How she gives her apology hugs. Her sad face. Her laugh. Her smiles. Her singing. 

She is the best little friend. We had so much fun celebrating her birthday in Arizona with family. 

We started out the night be eating dinner at Joe's Farm House Grill. I knew she would love that place because she could run around and she could have french fries. 

Tara had flown in that day to meet up with Kelly so they could drive up to Colorado for Christmas. It was perfect timing so they could come play with us!

Abby absolutely refused to join in the family pictures. It was a beautiful night though, and it was so fun sitting and laughing with each other.

Then we headed back to Mema and Poppi's house for cake and gifts. Abby wouldn't let jules get anywhere near to opening the presents. Or playing with her birthday balloons. Hopefully next year she will start to get the concept of Juliet's birthday versus her birthday. Ha ha.

 Juliet got a new stuffed doggy from Grandma and Grandpa Cordner, and then a barking woofing "woof woof" from mommy and daddy. Abby gave Jules the new ariel book. I think Jules was most excited about the Ariel book. She seriously loves her. My parents got her a little music set. Which they loved, and immediately started driving us nuts!

For her cake we found a cake boss cake. That man knows what he is doing. They are delicious. It looked like a frozen cake which totally worked for us. Although we didn't really care what it looked like. It tasted amazing!

Jules loved everyone singing to her. And blew out the candles with a little (a lot) of help from Tragdon and Abby. 

Oh sweet little Jules. We seriously love you. Thank you for being such a bright happy spot in all of our lives. Keep being strong willed, happy and loving. Heres to another year with you!

love,

Mom, Dad and Abby

november

November was a stressful month. Kyle had some big set backs at school and he was so busy the entire month. Lots of late nights at school and lots and lots of stress. 

But we had a lot of fun too! 

We went out looking for ideas for Christmas gifts one day. The girls found these helmets and put them on all by themselves. Of course they picked out the pink ones. 

It got SO cold in November. The girls always look so cute all bundled up.

Visiting Bass pro shop and checking out their Christmas stuff. It was open yet, but the girls loved staring at it.

Abby helping me peel potatoes on Thanksgiving. She was next to me most of the time. I hope that she always loves to help me in the Kitchen. Its so fun having her in there with me.

The Thanksgiving spread. Derik and Kaity came over and had dinner with us too. I was so grateful they were there. It made the day that much more fun and special. We had SO much food. I made yams, green bean casserole, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and rolls, 2 chocolate pies, a pumpkin pie and a banana cream pie. Kaity brought an amazing salad, the ham and 2 really yummy pies. It was a lot of food, for pretty much 4 people. Ha ha.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we put up all of our decorations! It is so fun having our house be so festive. Juliet has pretty much destroyed the ornaments on the tree. Now they are clustered up at the top.

At the beginning of November we made a thankful tree. Abby loved this activity. She colored on a bunch of the leaves and loved taping them and putting them up on the wall. Jules just wanted to destroy and eat it.

Derik and Kaity surprised us with tickets to see Bastille! We were so excited. It was an incredible show. It only took us and hour and half to drive there. It should have taken 30 minutes. So we missed the opening act which was just fine for us. Ever since Coldplay we have been terrified of opening acts. Seriously incredible show. I just love that band!

Playing in the snow! This is the only snow we have had this year. It has been so warm! I'm afraid January and February are going to miserable. But we will take the nice weather as long as Colorado will give it to us!

I went into the school to have Kyle clean my teeth. It was so cool to see him at work. He did a great job. My teeth had never felt so clean. ha ha.

I had to take this picture of Thanksgiving prep the night before. The girls were both in the kitchen with me just destroying it, while I made a huge mess of the counters.

I went running early on Thanksgiving and this was the sunrise. Gorgeous!

Our stockings all hung up together. I love the way they all look together! I can't believe I made the bottom two! I feel very accomplished.

Disneyland 2014

This is the trip we will always remember, and for the most part wish we could forget. Don't get me wrong we still managed to have a blast, but the stomach flu and Disneyland aren't the greatest mix. The day we left for California Juliet was throwing up. Luckily by the time we left for the airport she was totally fine. The next day Abby was unusually grumpy and by about 3 in the afternoon I knew why. She threw up all over my mom while I was on the roller coaster. Then about an hour later she threw up again. So we headed back early. That night she had a really high fever, but woke up feeling much better. Just very tired. Then  the next day Tragdon threw up at the park, so we took him and the girls back early. That night Halee was throwing up all night. The next day it was Lacee that threw up, and Kyle was really close. So Disneyland pretty much hated us with all the nasty they had to clean up. But so nice that we didn't need to clean anything up! 

The funny thing is we still had a blast. Abby is always asking me to go back. And if you can throw up twice in disneyland and feel like crap pretty much the whole time and still have the time of your life.... that pretty much tells me Disneyland really is the happiest place on earth! 

Starting out the first day. Kyle was really excited!  

Juliet wasn't sure at first, but she caught on to all the disney characters everywhere and got really excited. 

She wanted to get out and danced and danced to all the music.

My seriously photogenic child outside of Autopia. She was about an inch to small to ride in the car. Big bummer. So we waited to watch everyone go past in their cars and take pictures.

You can almost see the top of little Abby's head.

We hung out at the petting zoo while everyone went on Thunder Mountain. The girls were big fans. 

And then who walks out? Mickey Mouse! No line, no waiting. He walked straight out to us and the girls had so much see him and talking to him. Not scared at all which was kind of fun. 

They had this fun little toss the ring game that Abby was really into. Only she would just run the ring right up to the hat and set it on there. We were cracking up!

Waiting to see Minnie Mouse with Aunt Halee!

This little girl loved every second she wasn't in her stroller. She would have walked the entire time if we would have let her. If she didn't randomly take off in the wrong direction at full speed and give us a heart attack I would let her walk more.

Running around outside of radiator racers. That ride is the funnest!

This green balloon was the bane of our existence. Abby had her heart set on a green balloon ever since she saw a picture of one before our trip. So the first day she saw the guy selling the balloons and we could say no. The only problem was she wanted to bring it to the park every day, and it is really hard to push a stroller with that thing constantly hitting you in the face. She was so cute with it that it made it all worth it.

We took the girls to Disney Junior Live on Stage and they loved it. Jules danced and danced and freaked out every time someone she knew popped up on stage. She even made a break for the stage at one point, kyle caught her just in time.

Jules loved this weird bead decoration. Like loved it a lot.

 A lot.

Jules fell asleep in the stroller on the way from California Adventure to Disneyland. We wanted to go on Jungle Cruise and Pirates so I pulled her out praying she would stay asleep and she did. It was so incredibly sweet.

Before we went to Disney Junior we were really hot and tired so we went into the Sorcerers Workshop. If you haven't checked out this place you need to go. Like right now. They have tons of huge screens all over the room that play clips from classic Disney movies. It is incredible. We just sat there for about an hour with the girls totally mesmerized.

When we brought little Tragdon back from the park he was so sick. He just kept throwing up. But in between, he would hop in bed with me and keep watching the movie and talk my ear off. He helped Abby with her stickers for hours. He is the absolute sweetest boy.

Jules hated riding in the stroller, she would do a lot better if someone was paying attention to her.

The girls playing with their buddies at the airport.

It was seriously such a fun trip. I am so grateful we were able to go and that kyle was there with me. It would have been so much harder without him there! I just love Disneyland and can't wait to get my girls back there again!