Dancing Queen- more pics!

Daphne's Dance Recital was January 17th! She was great!
Here are a few photos from the night! I let Daphne wear a little lip gloss and she was so wonderful. I asked to take her picture and she went over by the wall and stood like this:

After the recital, I said, "You danced so beautifully!" She looked disappointed and said, "I forgot to have stage fright." Then they gave her candy and she was happy again.

This is my first attempt posting video, so I hope it works! Daphne is on the front row, furthest one on your right. We were a little frustrated because her teacher moved to a different place from where she had been at their dress rehearsal, so for the first little bit she is looking for her teacher. She does great after that. Watch to the very end- that is the funniest part! Okay, unfortunately you can't really see it on Blogger, but at the very end, Daphne flits off the stage as quickly as she can; meanwhile, they cut the lights and Daphne plows over a little girl trying to (more appropriately) walk off the stage. Then there is a big thud. Priceless.

More Christmas Pictures!

My mom (aka GiGi) came to visit on New Year's Day. We had a lovely time and she got some great photos with her new camera!
Matt, Isaac, and Daphne shoveling snow- love the team work!My angel, Isaac!

Daphne's sparkly fairy costime from GiGi...

Victoria is loving Christmas so far:

These two are from Cafe Rio, where we went to celebrate Mom's Birthday! I am in love with Cafe Rio- I would eat there at least 3 times a week if Matt let me. It keeps me sane in the Tex Mex free zone that is Utah!

Victoria loved Christmas! She was completely oblivious to all but the wrapping paper and, etc... but that was enough for her...

Victoria's First Christmas

Well, I figured I better get my Christmas pics posted before the Super Bowl or it would just be embarrassing. To be quite frank, I don't have very many Christmas pictures, partly because the majority of our Christmas was at Disneyland, but also because of the aforementioned camera disaster at Disneyland. We lost all the pictures from our Christmas Eve celebration from Nanny and Papa's. So, here are just a few pictures from our little celebration with my Mom. (She has some way cute pictures, so I will try to post them when I have them!) GiGi gave Daphne the cutest silver fairy costuem, which Daphne LOVED:
She also gave Isaac a few Star Wars books, which was apparently shocking to him!:

This was Victoria's first experience unwrapping gifts, and as predicted, she continued her love affair with paper by attempting to eat the ribbon, the wrapping paper, and evenutally, the paper itself. We know this is pretty standard six-month -old behavior, but it does not discount one ounce of the cuteness involved.

Now many of you know that while I will never win any 4H awards for home-making, I am pretty decent with cooking and cleaning and decorating, etc... I am however severely delayed in one specific arena of domesticity: my sewing skills. I could not sew one blasted thing. I had to have Matt sew the buttons back on my shirts. So, a few years ago, I was determined to figure this thing out and increase my skill set. I bought fabric to make Daphne's bedding for her room. Matt's mom and sister helped quite a bit, and eventually I had made ( with my own two hands) Daphne's bedding. I was quite proud of myself. So, although I am now moderately operational with a sewing machine, I still have not improved any of my mending skills. I set torn seams and lost buttons aside and my wonderful and very masculine husband fixes them whenever he can. We have the most measely sewing kit imaginable and Matt was using mix-matched thread, etc..., so my Mom stepped in and bought him a much nicer sewing kit for a little Christmas gift. My Hero!