Eliana's 4th B-day Part 2

On the 1st of January Eliana had her birthday, sorry it took so long to post this. She turned 4; I still can't believe it. She was lucky and had two different birthday celebrations. The first one was actually on her b-day, at my family's house in Las Vegas (I made a slideshow of those pictures, see below). We had to do it in the early afternoon because we flew home that day. We didn't bring her birthday gifts with us to Las Vegas and she is so into birthdays that it is a must to have a party with the cousins, so we had another celebration the next day too with David's family. She is just so spoiled. My mom made her a cute little balloon cake and cupcakes with ballerinas and I attempted to make her a present cake. The one I made didn't turn out as well as the picture, but Eliana did have fun helping me make it. She loved everything about her birthdays. Below are the pictures from the party at our house Present Cake.

The cake

Singing Happy Birthday

Blowing out the candles

A Bracelet from her cousin!!

Opening a gift.

Yippee, a coloring book!

What's inside this package?

Oh, a Dora puzzle!

Eliana is wearing one of the dress up dresses the girls got for Christmas.

Eiana's 4th b-day

MaNiC MoNdAy

Since tomorrow is the Inauguration of our 44th president of the United States of America, today's manic Monday is a dedications to past, present and future presidents. To learn more about the Presidents of the United States go here...

First Folder: 20 (in honor of the 20th of January...)

Second Folder: 43 (in honor of President Bush...his years in office helped us through some hard times. I appreciate all President Bush gave for America to maintain it's freedom)

Picture Post: 44 (in honor of our new President Obama...let's hope that he brings the change America needs to thrive again)

This is my sister Kalli with Eliana on Eliana's birthday (1/1/2009). I am going to post more pictures from then in the next couple of days. They are being silly with their birthday hats.

Lila

Marnie

Heather

Random Vegas Fun

We enjoyed our trip to Las Vegas to visit my family from Christmas Day( late) til New Year's Day. These are just some random pictures from our time there.

The kids.
Eliana showing off Kiffyn's scarf and Kenzie looking clueless.

Uncle Parker with Mr. Porter

Eliana painting with her gift from Uncle Parker.

Me with my gift from Parker and Stephanie, thank you guys. I had to switch with my mom though because this one didn't fit in any of the suitcases we brought. But I loved both of the them.

Porter with his new ball.

Kenzie on the rocking horse.

Kenzie dancing on the stage at Town Square, a shopping center with a kid area. The kids loved it.

Eliana in a little play house at Town Square.

Porter asleep at Town Square.

Eliana riding the unicorn.

Kenzie on the unicorn.

The girls sure do miss their Grandma and Grandpa Smith and their uncles and aunts. They had a blast in Las Vegas and can't wait til they can make another visit.

Smith Family Photos

While we were in Las Vegas after Christmas we took some Smith family photos. Thanks to our good friend Mary for taking some of them.

The Smith family girls: From Left to Right- My mom Sandy, my sister Kiffyn, me, and my sister Kalli.

Grandma and Grandpa Smith with the grandkids.
All of the Smith family: Top row (left to right): Parker, David with Porter, My Dad, My Mom, Kalli, Mitch Bottom row: Stephanie (Parker's finance), Me with Kenzie and Kiffyn with Eliana

Smith Family again:

Christmas Day #2

We flew into Las Vegas on Christmas night late so we had Christmas with them on Friday, the next day. Here are some pictures of the girls opening gifts at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's:

Kenzie with her new puppet, each of the kids got a puppet and they got a little cardboard puppet stage. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Smith for that fun toy.
Eliana unwrapping their new puzzles! Puzzles are always a favorite of the Kenzer.

Just a cute picture of Kenzie.

Eliana with her favorite gift from uncle Parker, thank you Parker.

We had a wonderful Christmas and I wanted to thank both Grandparents and my siblings for the gifts. Our kids sure are spoiled. We are lucky to have such wonderful family! We enjoyed the time we were able to spend with both sides of the family this Christmas season. I will post more on our trip to Vegas when I get pictures from my family soon.

Christmas Morning

Sorry I am posting so late, but I have been busy with getting home from Las Vegas last week and dealing with sick children. Here is pictures I took Christmas morning at our house. We had a good day but it went by very fast. We had to pack that day and we tried to get to David's parents' early but we just couldn't get out the door. We opened the gifts from David's family over there, but I didn't get any pictures of that because our camera was packed away to go to Vegas. We spent a good bit of time on Christmas in the airport, our flight was delayed over an hour. That put us getting into Vegas around midnight. It was still a good day! I hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas.

Kenzie showing off the candy from her stocking.
Eliana peeking in the stocking.

Santa brought Eliana this bike, which we got from some friends and just added training wheels and some Tinkerbell stickers, because she wanted a "magical Tinkerbell bike".

Eliana trying out her bike.

Porter was just happy as usual.

Oh pants for Kenzie, how exciting. Actually she really just enjoyed unwrapping anything.

Kenzie showing Eliana her new book from Mom and Dad.

David with his Christmas gift he actually bought himself a while ago, a new gun.

Me showing off what David got me, a necklace and earrings.

The girls playing with Kenzie's gift from Santa, a chest of dress up clothes and stuff.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent at the Strasser's. We had a delicious dinner, played some fun games, and tried to act out the Christmas story. I didn't get very many pictures because I didn't have a good camera. But we actually ended up getting David's parents old camera so we have one again. Here is Kalo eating on the go.

These two conked out early.
Santa Baby!

Grandma Strasser made these girl cousins some matching nightgowns, thanks Shar.

Oh and David had to go hunting when it was so snowy. He hunted a lot before Christmas. Here's him and Dan freezing in the snow, showing off their birds.

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Random...Random...Random...

Lila randomly picked three numbers...you chose which number you want to go where and then post the picture! Easy enough right? Sweet, let's get started:35, 19, 6

My Randomly selected order is:
First Folder: 6
Second Folder: 35
Posted Picture: 19

This is a picture that was taken of Eliana when she was a little over 6 months in July 2005. She was just learning how to eat at that age. I think she actually looks like Porter now in this picture.

If you are looking for a New Years Resolution, feel free to use Manic Monday as one of them. We are always looking for more people to play with us...so come on in and join the fun! See you next week

Lila

Heather

Marnie