Pure torture

My mom made all four of these dresses:  two for my girls, and two for my nieces.  Heather Lynne is the beautiful brunette, and Katy is the cute red head.  We tortured these girls for endless amounts of pictures so that we could get the perfect one-yea right!  But I love looking at all of them and imagining what they must have been saying in their heads.  




Heather:  "Aaah!  I'm losing my mind!"
Heather and Adelynne:  (In whining tone) "Are we done yet?"
Katy:  "you're kidding, right?"
Heather and Adelynne: "Okay, I'll smile for that."



Heather:  (through clenched teeth) "I'm still smiling..."



Amy:  "I've got a wedgie..."
Heather and Katy:  "Are we really related to them?"


And last but not least, an almost perfect picture...

In California

The girls and I left for California on Tuesday, December 9th to go and spend some time with my parents. On Monday the 8th, Amy had been sick all day and I just avoided taking her to the doctor. I'm not sure why I did, even though I knew in my head that she needed to see her doctor. It wasn't until about 11pm that night that I was certain Amy had an ear infection so I sent her with Dustin to the emergency room. She was in a lot of pain and I knew that she needed relief as soon as possible. But I was also concerned that she wouldn't be able to get on the airplane if she was suffering. The doctor at the ER confirmed the ear infection, and also provided some medicine to relieve the pain. Gratefully Amy was still able to fly on the plane, and she didn't cry once. I'm so blessed to have children that behave well on airplanes.

Amy continued on antibiotics throughout the next two weeks, as did her other cold symptoms. Otherwise she was in good spirits, and really enjoyed playing in a spacious house and being adored by her grandparents. She even seemed to sleep well at nights-which was wonderful for me. Adelynne, on the other hand, got some kind of virus and was sick with high fevers for three days. She spent a lot of time sleeping and watching movies. Poor thing. By the end of our first week the girls and I had not even left the house once. But they were finally feeling better, so we went to visit my cousin. Her kids had been sick a few days before, but were feeling better. We stayed for a while and let the kids play together while we talked. Then we went back to my parents house. Within 12 hours of being at my cousins house, Adelynne was throwing up. Luckily she threw up twice and then lethargically watched more movies for the rest of the day. And within another 12 hours Adelynne was back to herself. It was not the ideal first week on "vacation," but we still enjoyed our time with Grandpa and Grandma Biggs.

Amy reading books at Grandma's house. My mom made these matching and reversible jumpers for the girls.






Adelynne not feeling so well and sleeping it off on the couch.


On Monday, December 15th, I got to be apart of my Biggs family Christmas Party. These are pictures of some of the family that was there at my parents house. We had a big cookie exchange, and then we walked down my parents street to admire the Christmas lights. My parents live on a street that really decorates BIG for Christmas, and people come and drive down the road for hours every night. Most of the houses do a Disney theme, which my girls love. Anyway, its really fun. 

This is my cousin Tamra playing the piano-its not a Biggs family function unless Tamra plays the piano.  And when she does, Charlie (my cousin Lanea's husband), is usually there to sing along.  

This is Sadie Smurthwaite and Becca Braatz-they are first cousins, their mom's are sisters, and my first cousins.  Anyway they were both showing off that they have a missing tooth-I think their first ones. 

This is my Aunt D'Anna and my brother Mark.

My cousin's husband Roy, with their new baby Lilly

My cousin Travis and his wife Steysi and two of their kids Mia and Jack.  

I have a great extended family that are just fun to be around.  I am so grateful to have a great network of family that I can call friends and I know that we can depend on one another.  I LOVE MY FAMILY!

Here's walking around the block looking at the lights.  I've provided a variety of the houses decorated along the street, its fun to see all the decorations and lights.

ward Christmas party (the first one)

The first one, as in, we went to more than one ward Christmas party.  Actually we only went to two, but it seems like there were more.  Anyway, these are pictures from the Christmas party for the Lafayette 1st Ward.  I was very excited that the girls were going to get to see Santa.  Dustin and I had been telling Adelynne all about Santa and that she would get to tell him what she wanted for Christmas.  I couldn't wait to see it first hand.  Santa arrived at the party and their was a long line to sit on his lap.  So the girls and I stood near Santa and watched the other children sit on his lap and talk to him, while Dustin stood in line for us.  We stood their for at least 15 minutes, and Dustin seemed to stand in the same place-others were jumping in line in front of him, I guess he just wasn't being aggressive enough with those children!  Anyway, the girls watched Santa for a while, and Adelynne became very anxious-mostly because she saw the bags of goodies that Santa was giving away.  Well, Amy got restless and ran off, so I chased after her.  When I finally got back, Dustin had managed to move up in the line, about 2 inches, but Adelynne had not waited her turn.  She decided to cut in line and get her turn in with the fat guy.  Dustin and I missed the whole thing!  I was really bummed out that I didn't get to see Adelynne make her plea.  Amy wouldn't even consider sitting on his lap, but she did take the bag of goodies from him.  

Amy trying to figure out who this guy is:


Yes, Adelynne is picking her nose. What three-year-old doesn't? Both girls are inspecting the bearded guy in red.


I imagine Amy saying, "You think I'm going to sit on that guy's lap?!?"


"You're funny.  Just get me the candy and no one gets hurt."

Pizza Pizza

My girls love, love, love pizza. Cheese pizza to be exact. When Amy sees a pizza box she lets out a squeal of delight and dances over to her chair. I never have to beg the girls to eat pizza. Someday, Dustin and I hope to catch Amy' reaction to the pizza box on film, but for now, just enjoy these pictures of the girls devouring (happily) their cheese pizza.

Not current events...

These are a few pictures that I took at the beginning of December, before the girls and I left on our vacation. But they are things I would like to look back and remember.

I had put the girls to bed one evening, and I could hear Adelynne telling Amy to shush. Then I think Adelynne felt the need to give Amy a stuffed animal. I was ignoring the girls for a while, but then giggling girls finally got my attention, and this was what I found when I went to investigate. It was too cute to be mad about. Adelynne had given Amy every last stuffed animal and baby doll available. What a nice big sister.


Adelynne was putting on her chapstick, or "lips" as she calls them, and Amy was watching very intently. Adelynne noticed her audience and very sweetly asked Amy if she wanted some. Amy nodded yes in her usual way, so instead of Adelynne handing over the chapstick, she very tenderly applied it to Amy's lips. It was one of the moments that I so love to see between my girls because they don't happen very often.


Adelynne loves building blanket forts in the front room. It has practically become a daily routine. Aubree was invited over this day, and the girls enjoyed it together. This day the fort was used as their own personal library and reading corner. Aubree was very sweet to Amy and was reading her books. Aubree is such a good friend to my girls, we are so glad to have her be our neighbor.

Today's funnies

The girls and I are currently in California, so there won't be any pictures or too many posts for a while, but I had to write about an event that happened today.  My grandmother called to ask what she could get the girls for Christmas, Amy was screaming at me while I was trying to talk on the phone, so my grandmother offered to call me back, for which I was very grateful.  So I had some time to talk to Adelynne about what she wanted for Christmas.  Now, Dustin and I have had this conversation with Adelynne too many times to count or remember, but Adelynne's answer has always been consistent.  She always has replied, "Roller skates."  (I don't know why, but that's what she wants).  At first she would call them "rollie skates."  But that didn't last long.  It has been great that she has been so consistent and it has made it somewhat easy for us.  But we needed to know what else she might want.  And eventually we got her to add on to her list.  So now she says "roller skates and a horse."  (When she says "horse" she means a toy horse).  This has been even more helpful.  So those two items are covered.  (Sorry to ruin the surprise for anyone).  Now I needed to give my grandma something specific to get her, so I had to drill Adelynne for something else she might want for Christmas, but all I got was the same answer as before.  Finally she said, "I just want 4 toys."  (I have no idea what the other 2 are), but I said, "Don't you want lots of toys?" And Adelynne replied, "No, that's too many."  I hope Adelynne won't be too disappointed with getting more than 4 toys, because between all the relatives she'll be getting more than 4.  Now, I don't know if I just have a practically minded 3-year-old, but I have to say that I am impressed.  What child would just say they only want 4 toys?!?  I hope she'll remember this when she's older.  

The second thing that happened today is while I was playing on the computer upstairs, and Adelynne was watching Bambi downstairs, the rest of the house was quiet with sleepers.  After about half an hour, I could hear Adelynne talking to herself.  Then she said something which wasn't quite clear, but I thought she said my brother's name, so I wondered if my brother had come over.  I left the computer, went into the hall, and leaned over the railing thinking I'd see my brother, but instead I just see my 3-year-old butt-naked.  Usually when she strips down to nothing it means she had an accident, but this wasn't the case.  She just decided that she didn't want to wear her clothes anymore.  But I was quite surprised to see that she didn't even leave her panties on.  It was a good moment to laugh.  

Maybe they'll be some other moments to write about, or at least I'll remember to write about them.  But if you don't hear from me for a while, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!