Little girl, big hat!

I LOVE this hat on Ashley -- she didn't mind it too much, but it did get pulled off once she started playing...

What a cute little smiler!

...and here she is trying to put her socks back on....

....and realizing that she needs some help from Mommy!

What a cutie-pie!!!

I should mention that there should be pictures here of birthday party number 2, but aparently our camera wasn't around for it -- we had great fun with Mama and Papa!!

Golf for Papa's 80th Birthday

The whole point of our trip being in February was to be able to celebrate Papa's 80th birthday with him and Mama in Arizona.  Bob found a GORGEOUS golf course to take Papa to, which they both discovered opened AFTER the sun rose.....but it did make for some amazing shots!

Hey, it's still dark out! (but they had coffee!)

...and what a beautiful sunrise!

They were the first ones on the course, so teeing off was great -- no worries on hitting into the previous group!

Bob and his Papa -- having a blast!

Isn't this just gorgeous?!?!

....Bob found a bunker....but he actually did GREAT getting out of it -- see his ball on the green (on the right)?

And they even managed to take some time to relax and have lunch!

Happy Birthday, Papa!!!  We love you so much!

Ashley's Birthday Party #1

While we were on vacation, we had several birthday parties for Ashley!  Here's some cake-face pictures from the first one (with the Maxsons at Grandma Sweetie's):

Fun with Daddy!

These are from several weeks ago, but let it be known:

Daddy loves his girls....

Horsey Rides

Today the horsey was dragged out into the living room while BOTH girls were awake....

Danielle loves to ride her horsey....she's named it "Bullseye" after the horse in Toy Story 2.

Ashley decided that she wanted to try...so I helped her up, and she was SO proud of herself!!

What a big smiler!

....inspecting the mane....

...and one more turn for big sister.....

Loving new toys!

Here's Ashley loving one of her Christmas presents while sitting in her Tinkerbell chair (which was also a Christmas present)!

The Tinkerbell chair is a MAJOR favorite.  She'll sit in it, climb on it, wrestle with it, and if you put her in it with a toy, she'll sit and play while kicking her feet -- it's so cute!

...and since the camera was out, Danielle had to show me what she was playing with.  It's a kid's meal toy -- the big bad wolf riding a motorcycle.  It's the first 'car' she's ever had that propels itself (you pull it back and let it go), and of course she and Daddy had to have fun shooting it off the steps from the kitchen into the office!

Snow....girl!!!

Danielle has been having SO much fun playing out in the snow, and Daddy invented a new game....it's called "Let's build a snowman!"

The game consists of Danielle sitting on a pile of snow and Daddy shoveling snow on top of her.

Apparently this is one of the coolest things in the world to do....and as soon as she was out, she promptly asked me for some hot chocolate!

Snow-girl and shoveler!