March

We went ice skating at the local rink with our Girls' Club

We took a trip to the Huntington Library with friends.  

 I love this picture of Sniffity. It really captures her true personality   

Sniffity at a riding lesson. 

 Flower Fairy stopped riding.  She enjoyed it but 

she wasn't really into it anymore and was enjoying swim team more.  

Here are some pictures from our Homeschool group's Kids Fest.

The girls made their traditional items to sell.  FF made fairy themed candies.  

Sniffity added a new item this year, scarves for dolls and kids.

She also made dog treats.  

This year FF's Shakespeare class did Love's Labour's Lost. As always, she 

had a blast and we enjoyed her performance.  

Outside of the theater right before the show. 

I took the kids and a friend to see the Star Wars exhibit at the Science Center.  

We had so much fun seeing all the props and characters. The only thing missing was B!  

I think by her smile you can tell how happy she was to see Yoda!  

Sniffity on a bed of nails at the science center.

With Cupcake Princess at a lunch in OC.  

February

Sniffity finally started to ride her bike! 

Having a Jamba Juice with FF after her first ride.

Sniffity and B went to Winter Camp with the Y-Indians

and took a ski trip before camp started.  

Sniffity learned how to shoot.

 And do some Archery.

 As always she had a blast!

2012 in review

So I here is what 2012 was like for us.  I am going 

to mostly post pictures with just a little explanation.

January

The girls dressed Panda as princess 

Sniffity turned 8 and had a Build A Bear party with friends. 

 It was hard to get the girls to pose for this one.

I made cupcakes, at Sniffity's request.  

I organized a World Fest for our Homeschool group and 

Sniffity represented France. 

Flower Fairy continued with swim team. 

Sniffity had a recital at he music school. 

Happy New Year!

New years 2012. 

New Year's Eve with friends.

We all had a great time.

A trip to Descanso Gardens. Did some letter boxing while we were there.

The loved the Spiral rocks!

At the children's maze.  I remember when they looked small on the benches there!

Looking for a letterbox.

Sniffity started riding lessons this month. 

We took a nice hike on Jan. 2nd

The girls enjoyed seeing this rock.

 I finished this a little late. It is a Christmas present for 

my new niece.  I love to crochet!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

This month was terrible for our photos! Our server crashed and that is where we have been storing all our pics since 2005! B is still working on restoring the photos and rebuilding the server. On top of that I also accidentally deleted most of the pics I'd taken this month, off my camera! Christmas Eve: We mostly stayed home. Baked candycane bread, for our Christmas breakfast and cookies for Santa.

Sniffity dealt with a really loose tooth all day,
that after two weeks of being really loose finally fell out!
In the evening we headed out for our traditional Christmas Eve Ice Skating and dinner out.

B and the girls had a great time!
I did too!
When we got home we watched the Santa Clause. Then the girls got ready for bed. They also got to open one present, this year it was the present from B's Aunt in Indy.

Here is what E set out for Santa this year along with the cookies and cocoa for Santa. There are several letters and more in the blue box. (She wrote about letters and drew pictures for him, as well as questionnaires he had to fill out! She also crocheted him and the Mrs. some scarves.)

We had a fun morning. The girls and the dog all seemed
pretty happy with all of their gifts.

What every girl dog dreams of a cell phone and a guinea pig (toy)!

Sniffity lined all her presents up before opening them.

Santa brought what mom didn't want her to have for Christmas! Flower Fairy seemed pretty excited over one of the many
panda gifts she received this Christmas.

Her fav gift this year was from FF. A pack of Mustaches!