Alison's 5th Birthday

Alison turned 5 on January 10th! We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Ali is a sweets kinda girl. She loves anything with sugar! A girl after my own heart.

We had a unicorn party and I found this cute unicorn shirt the week before her party.

Her cake.

We had a fun party with mostly family and a few friends. We had pizza for lunch and played games-pin the horn on the unicorn, made a little craft and played duck duck goose.

Ali really wanted this jewelry set called "My Look" (that's what the brand is). She asked for weeks before her birthday if I had gotten for her.

Justin and I got her a cute dress with a matching jacket and boots.

Grandma and grandpa Galbraith got everyone the same shirt who had birthdays around the same time (Emery, Elise and Ali).

Blowing out her candles.

Eating cake and ice cream.

We celebrated Ali's birthday with the Pendleton side when we were up in WY after Christmas. Ali got a glow pad (that didn't end up working so we had to return it) and a mermaid barbie. She was thrilled!

Dear Ali,

We love having you in our family and you can be the sweetest girl! You love to cuddle in the mornings. You love to draw and do creative projects. You are a bit of a hoarder and like to put all your things and papers on your bed! We are trying to get you out of that habit ;) You can be really stubborn on things and only want to do things your way sometimes. But we've seen you be a really nice sister and friend to others. We just got your kindergarten shots and you were really not happy about it! But you are excited to go to kindergarten next year. You enjoy going to preschool and tumbling. You are very observant and ask very smart questions! We can tell you are always thinking. We love you so much!

Love,
Mom and Dad

Wyoming fun

Here is the view out of the front of the house on Christmas Day. Lots of snow! It was definitely a white Christmas in Wyoming!

Jackson went out with daddy to push the snow.

The girls loved playing with their cousins

And playing games

One of our favorite things is to go on a sleigh ride. So beautiful and fun! A little bright :)

All of the kids with grandma and grandpa Pendleton

The whole picture

Lizzy and Crew. The youngest of the bunch. Lizzy is actually older than Crew, but you wouldn't know it!

Keeping it real

When we showed everyone our snowflake we made, they all wanted a set, so we had an assembly line and made 15 large wooden snowflakes!

Justin and brad working at the saw

Here they all are!

The finished product. Each family got 3 of these. We got to stay for about a week and had a great time spending time with family.

Christmas 2014

We drove up to Wyoming on Christmas Eve to be with all of Justin's family. This is the last year where everyone was going to be all together. We came earlier than expected and surprised everyone. It was a good idea because the weather was supposed to be bad on Christmas day.

We had a really fun Christmas Eve together. The grandkids all sang a favorite song for grandma and grandpa. It was a surprise and they loved it! I tried loading the video, but I couldn't get it to work. They sang "Little Toy Trains."

 Stocking time!

 I had to include this pic :) The happiness and joy on Ali's face needed to be documented.

 Both got outfits to match their dolls.

 Molly's loot

 Alison's loot

 Jackson wasn't too happy about being in this picture, but he eventually sat for it.

All of the cute grandkids! Minus 2 babies-Lizzy and Crew.

Alison's Preschool Christmas Performance 2014

Ali had a cute Christmas performance. I was really proud of her for being up in front of everyone and actually singing and doing all the actions. She can be shy when she wants to be!

My dad came with me and Jackson to watch. My mom couldn't make it and Justin had something at work that he couldn't get out of. She was glad grandpa made it!

December happenings 2014

December is always a whirlwind, right? Actually, it didn't seem overly crazy, which was nice. My parents did something a little different this year. They gave us 4 sets of Christmas gifts at the first of December and we were to open up the gifts each week leading up to Christmas. It was really fun. We opened them on Sunday nights and the kids really looked forward to it each week!

Christmas pajamas- one of the things they opened first from grandma and grandpa.

Our tree all decorated.

My friend Stephanie and I went to a fun craft night and made some cute things.

Randall the reindeer showed up in some fun places.

My nativity was broken :(

I made some snowflakes with a lot of Justin's help!

More gifts from grandma and grandpa Galbraith.

We had breakfast with Santa at the movie theatre. Jackson and Ali were not too thrilled about all of it.

 Watching the movie after our breakfast. We started this last year, it has been really fun!

Mugs and hot chocolate from grandma and grandpa. Jackson's was broken about 10 seconds later. He was a destructive boy in December!!

You know I was decorating...I had a tree collection going on here.

And Alison took this pic of me addressing Christmas cards! We have a new stamp and it was pretty wet, so that's why they are all hanging out on the floor ;)

Whew....more to come in the next post.