Preschool Field Trip

Oh how I love a field trip! Especially when I get to come along. Brinley's little preschool went to Dr. Dave's Dental Office (no it's not Dan's office). Dr. Dave is a pediatric dentist. My Mom is his Office Manager. I volunteered to help with the field trip months ago, not knowing that these little preschoolers were going to Dr. Dave's. How fun!!! Brinley was tickled to find out that she was going to "Grandma's dental office".

Here they are watching x-rays being taken on a little girl...

Watching Emma cleaning someone's teeth...

Grandma Debbie showing them cavity bugs taking over some teeth...

Watching all the instruments being cleaned. Notice Brinley paying attention (that's her in the pink coat) and Tanner picking his nose...

Thanks Dr. Dave, Grandma Debbie, Robin, and Emma for a fun tour of the dental office!!

I'm a little late posting this...

Happy 70th Birthday to our favorite New Year's Baby!!

Dan's Dad, Dave, celebrated 70 years this year. How exciting! We had a birthday breakfast at IHOP to celebrate with him. Can you say YUMMY!

We love you Grandpa Dave!!

Greatest SNOW on Earth!!

The day after Christmas we went sledding with the Dowdles. We had a ton of snow fall on us and it was great to be outside enjoying it. It was still snowing when we went and the wind was blowing, but the kids didn't mind. They loved it!!

I can't say that Rylee enjoyed it so much. This was her first time sledding and she was so good. Her checks were bright red and her hands were frozen. I don't think she quite understood what we were doing. She just watched all of us act silly in the snow. She did enjoy eating the fresh snow though.

I think we wore her out!!

Baylee and I giggled while making snow angels.

After making snow angels we had a contest to see who could catch the most snow flakes on their tongues. I think we tied. It was a fun day. Having all the snow for Christmas was perfect. I love it when we have a white Christmas!!

Priceless!

Hundreds of hours shopping for and wrapping the perfect gifts...

Ten minutes waiting patiently to see what Santa brought...

Watching your kiddos enjoying Christmas morning...

PRICELESS!

Christmas morning with our 3 very excited kiddos was so fun. We enjoyed watching the excitement on their faces. It was all smiles. Baylee and Brinley really wanted a Yorkie, but Dad was not so excited about the idea of having an indoor dog. So Santa brought them a Yorkie and told them that they needed to be a little more specific about what kind of dog they wanted. He wrote in their letter to ask for a real dog next year and this is what he left them...

My favorite part of the morning is receiving the homemade gifts the girls make for us at school. Brinley was tickled that she finally made an ornament like Baylee to go on our tree.

Baylee made us this fun card with her ornament inside.

I will treasure these moments forever. I hear to enjoy them now because they grow up so fast! We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas, we definitely did!!

Christmas Day 2008

Our Christmas Days are always crazy. This year we celebrated 4 Christmases with 4 different families before 12:30 PM. We had to get our girls up at 6:45 AM and have our own Christmas. Then it was off to my parent's house at 8:30 AM for Christmas all over again (they spoil us!!). Open presents there and then rush off to my Grandma and Grandpa Cowdell's (Mom's side) house for the BEST Christmas breakfast ever! It is my favorite part of Christmas Day!! Then race back to my parent's house for the Harris (Dad's side) Christmas party at 12:30 PM. CRAZY but fun! However this year we had soooooo much snow that we were late for everything because the roads were horrible. It usually takes us 8 minutes to get to our parent's houses, but with the snow it was over a half hour before we got there. As crazy as it always is, we have a lot of fun.

Looking at all the presents with Aunt Krista at Grandma and Grandpa's

Yeah!! More presents to open!!

This year my Mom made all of us a patchwork quilt. Each one fit our personalities. My Dad's was a fireman one, ours was a Utah Ute one (AWESOME), Krista's was horses, and the girls were all fairies, flowers and princesses. She started sewing these well before Halloween. She made us all think that she was just making them for the little girls, but surprised us with one for each of us. There were hundreds of hours of sewing in all of these. We love them! With it being so cold lately we have enjoyed having them to cuddle in and stay warm!! Thanks Mom!

All the GREAT Grand kids with GREAT Grandpa and Grandma Harris. Brinley was not exactly happy to have her picture taken. I think she was a bit tired from our marathon day.

When we finally got home on Christmas night, we couldn't even get in our driveway with all the snow we had that day. Thank goodness my Dad followed us over to help remove the snow. We had to park our car on the road and make a path to get the girls into the house. I always love it when it snows on Christmas. I wish for it every year. This year my wish came true and then some. I will always remember all the snow we got. It was beautiful!

Jammies from the Elves

Some how in mid December the Elves magically drop off Christmas presents for Baylee, Brinley and Rylee. It's always a fun surprise to see them magically appear under the tree.

It's no surprise that the presents from the Elves are jammies. However this year the girls didn't get Christmas jammies, they got Princess jammies.

Merry Christmas you three pretty princesses!! You look beautiful.

Christmas Eve 2008

A favorite Dowdle family tradition is to go bowling on Christmas Eve. It's so fun to see the excitement in all the kids. They have so much fun bowling and with a little help from the bumpers, they do pretty good.

The kiddos also put on a puppet show of Christ's birth with some hand puppets Deanna (Dan's Mom) made before she passed away. Rylee however did not want to participate (you can she her frown in the picture). With almost all the grand kids in town this year, it was cute to see them all get so involved in an activity that their Grandma had made for them!

After dinner, it's time for presents, presents, presents!! We couldn't get Rylee to take off her new dress-up dress. She loved it! Thanks everyone for the great gifts this year.