Beautiful day!

Today was Beautiful the girls played outside and had a blast. Allison got to play with the water table and have her first Popsicle. She is getting so big she turns 10 month old tomorrow, and yesterday she took her first steps well four to be exact. Pretty soon she will be running a muck with the older two girls.

The girls are looking forward to the warm weather they can't wait to play out side with the water table and playdough. Today it was still pretty cold out so the water table was out of the question so they played with the playdough instead, from the pictures you can tell it's still pretty cool outside still.

Since it was cool outside Allison had fun playing in the house with her new little car. She love this thing so much that when ever Ashley gets near it she has a fit. She will be 10 months in about a week and a half she just got her 3rd tooth and is just about to start walking.

Allison was showing me her silly smile!

Here are a few pictures of Travis taking Emily for a ride to the video game store let me tell you those two were made from the same mold!

Sunny days

Last weekend was beautiful so the whole family took advantage of the nice weather and went to the park.

My Emily is getting so big, she starts soccer this April so she asked Travis if he would help her with some soccer while we were at the park.

Allison loved the swing so much she fell asleep in it.

Emily and Ashley had fun climbing on the rock they pretended they were cats.

Ashley not so happy I wanted to take her picture her face says hurry up Mom I want to play.

Big Smiles from Allison she sure did love the swings. Can you believe she's already 9 months.

Oh and we can't forget the dogs I caught them cuddling the other day too Cute.

and Ashley wanted me to put this picture in here she picked out her outfit herself , she says that's what 4 year old big girls do.

Ashley's 4 years old

Ashley is 4 years old time sure does fly by. She got to celebrate her birthday for most of the week. Wed the 18Th was her actual Birthday but since Travis had to work we had her birthday dinner on Thursday. On Thursday we took her shopping at Toy's R Us she was able to pick out her Birthday present from us. That was an adventure!



Later that night Grandma and Papa Souza, Grandma Leonhardt, and Aunt Kelly Uncle Lorrin and the boys came over for her Birthday dinner and she got to open all of there presents.



We had a little birthday Cake and sung Happy Birthday!

Then on Sunday we celebrated her birthday with a big Birthday Party with all of our Family and Friends at Pump it Up!

All the kids had a blast ....

Even Allison got to join in on the fun.

Even some of the adults joined in...

I think they almost had more fun.

That night the parents all slept well.

Here is a picture of all the kids.

And here's the birthday girl!

It was a great day.

Here is our future Olympic swimmer, Grandma and Papa Souza paid for Swimming lessons for Ashley's birthday. She has only been to 4 lessons and is already swimming unassisted most of the time. The teacher is really impressed with her abilities.

Allison is 8 months old!!!!!!

Well today Allison has turned 8 months old. Here are a could of pictures of her playing today. Travis an I could not ask for a better baby she is always happy even when she is sick. She is just getting over her first little cold and she could not have been a better baby.

We just wanted to update you with some new pictures so far January has been pretty uneventful.

The first week in Jan Travis went and did a presentation at Emily's school that ended up being a big production it was really cool. Half the department was there, there was Travis, a k-9 officer,2 Sargent's, a Captain and even the Chief was there. The reason for such a big presentation was because Target wanted to make a donation to the police department for school education on 911 and stranger danger. All the kids thought the dog was the best part!

Last week we had really warm weather for Jan it was in the 70's so of course we had to have Jeep wars even Allison got to enjoy this one. Emily gave Allison a ride in her Jeep she's getting so big. It was during Jeep wars that Travis realized that Emily is old enough to ride on his Motorcycle this year. I guess the law is when they are tall enough to reach the rear foot pegs all the way they are legal to rise on the back, well I wasn't too happy to hear this. Travis was so excited that the next day he went out and bought her a full faced helmet, so this last Friday Travis went and picked Emily up from school on the bike of course she thought that was the best thing in the world. I am going to have lots of gray hair!

Can you believe that Allison is 7 1/2 month old already. She is doing so much for her age I wish she would slow down. She has been crawling for a couple of months now she is walking along the furniture so walking is in the near future. She has said two words her first word was fish(ishh) and her second word was Dog well she says oggie too cute!!! Just two days ago she started clapping and waving to people. She thinks she is older than she really is I guess it's trying to catch up with her sisters.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope everyone had a good holiday we sure did, Emily and Ashley where so excited about Santa Clause this year. Santa was really nice to them this year, both the girls got what they wanted from Santa Emily got her American Doll named Julie and Ashley got her Leap frog Tag Pen plus many more. Allison really didn't understand much but she had fun opening her gifts too.

Christmas Eve we stayed home and had Kelly and Lorrin and the kids and Mike & Vicki, Travis had to work this year for both Christmas Eve and Christmas but he was able to stop by and hang out for a few minutes here and there. Christmas was pretty low key we opened presents in the morning and then Mike & Vicki came over later to hang out and then the girls and I went to my Mom's for dinner that night.

So pretty low key which was nice because right before Christmas more like the week after Thanksgiving we had a pipe in the wall break and leaked water all over the family room. It was horrible it messed up part of our brand new hard wood floor water had gone under the floor so Travis had to tear out part of the wall in the family room it just happened to be the pipe that lead to the second floor bathroom and then had to tear up part of the floor and then had to tear out a part of our upstairs bathroom which we just got done redoing. Travis had to fix the part of the pipe under the house which took about 3 days total the poor guys was having the worst time with the plumbing it almost got the best of him until a friend of our told us about this wonderful new plastic pipe which finally worked. It was horrible the house was a mess, we had no water for several days and let me tell you, you don't realize how much water we use on a daily basis until you don't have it. Finally a week before Christmas the house was finally back in order so it was nice to have a quite holiday.

The kids are doing well we were able to make it through Christmas with out being sick since everyone around us had that terrible cold, but Christmas night I started to feel like I was getting a cold the next day the kids and I all had the cold. So we are still trying to get over this cold that everyone has Travis is the only one who is healthy so far. Both the older girls can't wait to go back to school and neither can I feel like I am walking around picking up toys all day long, but Allison is loving that her sisters are home all day she loves to play with them. Since she started to crawl that's all she does it chase them or the dogs through the house.