Vintage Photo Shoot

This past Monday Hope had off school so a friend of mine who is also a photographer decided to shoot a vintage session with our girls. We took all our props and headed to the park. Here is a handful of the ones I got. We had so much fun and I'm not sure these girls could get any cuter.

Love this photo of Lexi! she looks so awesome!

The girls had fun and looked so cute during their photo shoot!

I know I am biased but I just think Hope looks so gorgeous in this picture, even though she isn't smiling there is just something about that beautiful face and hair. She is and always be our special angel!

I can't even begin to say how much I love our little girl, she is the most precious, most beautiful blessing that has come into our lives. We love you baby girl with all our hearts!!

Our sweet beautiful Hope!

The three beauties!

Horse back riding

This past Thursday we met LeighAnne, Makenzie and Sydney out at Leighanne's in laws house up in Waddell, AZ, its about an hour northwest of where we live. They live on horse property and have 4 horses and invited us all to come riding. Hope was in heaven, she loved George the horse, she must of rode 10x, she didn't want to leave. We all rode and had a blast, a big thank you to Ethel and her trainers for taking us all out to ride, it was such a great time!

Grandma M. and her first time riding a horse. She loved it, I think she went 3x and by that time she was ready for the horse to start galloping.

We had no idea her helmet would end up matching the jacket she wore that day, she looks so adorable though!

PHOENIX ZOO

Wed. we watched Ally and took her and Hope's friend Zeba to the Zoo! It was a gorgeous day and the girls had so much fun. Ally couldn't get enough of the monkey's, it was so sweet to see her get so excited about them

Scottsdale Princess Resort

A couple of days ago we met Wayne's sister LeighAnne, Derek and the girls at the Scottsdale Princess. Derek coaches for Stanford so they were here all week getting ready for the Fiesta Bowl. So we took a drive up there to visit with them and have lunch. Hope was so excited to see her cousins Makenzie and Sydney! It was so fun seeing them, just wish it could of been longer. GO STANFORD!!!

G-pa and G-ma D. with the girls

Day at the park

Last Monday we met Chad, Amanda and the kids at a park in Gilbert. We had a picnic and the kids had blast playing outside. It was such a beautiful day and so fun having everyone together.

I love this picture of Grandma M. with Ally and Hope, so cute!!!

ally was so excited to sit in this tree, she thought it was so much fun! Love that girl!

Hope had fun practicing her baseball skills!

Having fun on the swings!

Papa M. hanging with his girls!!

G-ma M. and Ally hanging out on Christmas

my sweet and adorable niece Ally! She is seriously the sweetest little 2 yr old I have ever met, I just love her so much!

My handsome nephew Ben, he is so adorable!

my beautiful niece Colbie on X-mas day!

Christmas morning!!!

This X-mas Hope was a very lucky girl, first off she had both sets of grandparents with her to spend the morning with. We all had the best time opening gifts and just being together. We were pretty proud of Hope though, before even opening any of her gifts, she was more excited to give her grandma's and grandpa's their presents first, it made us so happy to see her want to give first. We all got some great gifts, one of many for Hope was a karaoke machine, she just loves to sing and dance, Santa knows her all to well!

This smile says it all, very excited about her new Happy Napper.

There was one thing Hope wanted more than anything from Santa and that was a twin baby stroller and Santa made it happen. She only had 3 things on her list this year, but Santa spoiled her with a lot more than just 3.

Hope was very excited about her Star Wars light saber

Hope sporting her new AZ cardinal pillow pet compliments of daddy! Not sure how that one got past me, if I had it my way I would of found a green bay packer one instead. haha

Christmas Eve 2011

This is the only picture we took on X-mas eve before we left for church. Afterwards we came home and had a X-mas eve party at our house. We had around 25 people, it was a great night with great family and friends.

Hope had 2 of her friends spend the night last week, here is Brooklyn and Hope all dressed up, are they cute or what? Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Jayden, but let me tell you they all had a blast playing together. we can't wait to have them over again!

Glendale Glitters

A couple days before X-mas we went to G-pa and G-ma Dickmann's to frost cookies, dinner and then we went to Glendale Glitter. We walked around and looked at all the beautiful lights. It was a chilly AZ night so it got us all in the X-mas spirit. Afterwards we drove around and found some amazing homes that went all out with lights. It was such a fun night!

North Pole Experience in Greer, Arizona

A couple of weeks ago we took Hope to the North Pole in Greer! We went up with our friends Bill, Tammy and Adri. We all rented a cabin together and had a great time. We got to take a trolley to the North Pole where the girls got to see Santa's workshop, help make toys, eat cookies in Santa's bakery, go to Elf University and finally at the end sit on Santa's lap! It was such a neat experience and in the morning we also got to have breakfast with Santa! Since we were up there for 2 days one of those days we got to take Hope sledding for the first time. It was a great weekend, with lots of snow and fun times. We can't wait to go again next year!!

My little snow angel