Sarah's Pre-3rd Birthday Party

We celebrated everyone's Ropelato January Birthdays together and added Sarah's since hers is so early in February.
Excited about her Sleeping Beauty Cake (My mom made it and decorated it with Fondant)

Blowing out the 3 Candles

Her Barbie Car Birthday Present

Playing with Jasmin's Castle (My mom gave her a box of paints to decorate it with as well (super creative, I know)

Treehouse Museum with Preschool

Treehouse Field Trip
Dem Bones Dem Bones-making a skeleton floor puzzle in the science area (they loved the microscope and dressing like neonatal nurses.

The music area. This place is great!

K is for Katelyn Day
Abby, Sarah, and I joined Katelyn for K day. We brought a K is for Katelyn poster with photos and a list of her favorites. We had the snack so we brought K is for Koolaid, Kix, Kisses (hershey kisses), and we brought cookie cutter K's to cut the K shape into single cheese slices. The kids loved it and we had a blast!!!

Sarah Painting

Sarah and I love to have our one on one time while Katelyn is in school and Abby is down for a nap. It doesn't happen often but when it does Sarah can enter a world of her very own!

29th Birthday Wishes

I asked for Paint. By paint I mean I painted the upstairs and downstairs hallways, the playroom, wallpapered the ceiling with paintable wallpaper, hung beadboard wall paper under my pantry, painted with venitian plaster on my backsplash and two walls in the kitchen, painted the lower cabinets one color, the upper another, and the underside of my counter another. It's not quite finished but it's been so fun. My sister-in-laws are the best and sent me parafin wax and the sister-in-laws on the other side took me to a day spa. We spent the entire day there (or so it seemed!!!). It was a steam shower, then the shower exfoliate, hair shampoo and deep conditioner, eyebrow wax, 1 hour massage, full line product sampling in the locker room...it was heaven!!! My in laws made me an awesome Salmon dinner with Quinoa. The girls and Nate made me breakfast in bed and Nate and I went to dinner at Dei Enko Tai AKA Kobe and saw the Reese Witherspoon chick-flic. What memories!
Shots of the ceiling during


Rearranging Katelyn and Sarah's room



(We wont dwell on date night being broken into two nights because Abby cried better make that screamed for 1 hr 40 min until Grandma broke down and called it quits. The minute I got home Abby became perfectly content and played quietly with her toys. Did I mention she's a little attached to me??)

Candids of the girls-bath

Interesting Choice of Outfits

Rub A Dub Dub, My Babies are in the Tub!

Sisterly Loves

Abby Dancing with Daddy


Katelyn and Sarah Synchronized Dancing with Sippy Cups

Sweet Goobers

Abby Officially Started Walking around the coffee-table while holding on...

Iceskating

Backyard Tubing

Santa's Gift was a huge hit, thanks to Dad's muscles!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was fun at the Starley's. We had a cute Nativity story with Katelyn as Mary, Sarah as the Angel, and Abby as a Wiseman. We had a great night together and ended with the family tradition of opening matching jammies. Nate was very jealous of my star wars themed jammies! Abby threw in a nice surprise and started crawling on that very night.

Peek-A-Boo Abby

Abby is starting to get around these days. She doesn't ever move while you are watching her but if you turn your head for a minute she's right at the Christmas tree yanking on the ornaments. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that our tree has already toppled over once this year spraying broken glass all over the floor...that being explained I left the girls in Abby's room while I answered the phone. Katelyn and Sarah of course followed shortly thereafter and I heard Abby start to wimper. I walked in her room and her cries went silent. I couldn't see her either. I thought that was odd. So I went in my room to see if I had had a zany moment and she was actually in there. Nope. I went back into the nursery and could hear her soft breathing. I lifted the bedskirt of her crib and this is what I saw:
Abby are you in there?

It's Abby

Abby pretending she can't move

The girls have been extra cuddly these days and it was fun to catch a shot of them with Grandma and Grandpa tonight.

Mommy and Katelyn moment, sometimes you just have to hold them on your lap because they grow up too fast!

WSU Bookstore Meet Santa and Reindeer

My mom saved me by watching Abby while Katelyn, Sarah and I joined my sister-in-laws at the bookstore to meet Santa and his reindeer. We had just lined up when Katelyn announced she needed to use the potty. Of course the nearest bathroom was upstairs and around the corner... Once we had that taken care of the rest was really fun. Santa was very sweet (we had carrots to feed his reindeer).

The craft was making a cute Santa frame for the free photo. And they had cute Dr. Seuss cutouts to take photos.

Outside we met Snowflake and Blitzen and received special reindeer food for Christmas Eve.

Then we found out the girls photo was in the Standard Examiner (if you saw the girls last Thursday in the Top of Utah section).
All in all a day with the cousins, santa, reindeer, and crafts-what could be more fun!

Ropelato Family Christmas Party

There's nothing better than hanging out with the family during the Christmas season.
We had a darling nativity with Katelyn as Mary and Sarah as Mary/Angel.

We played games (m&m straw game, and Christmas Jeopardy), ate delish food, and visited.

What could be better? Oh yeah we had a visit from Santa and the whole family got new socks. Nate received sports socks,

Stace received super soft socks,
Katelyn had princess socks with little crowns over each toe,

Sarah had crazy stripe socks,

Abby had cute little yellow socks.

Like I said, Good times had by all. Cousins Sarah and Lexie in twinner outfits!