Every other year BYU plays UNM in Albuquerque so we get to go see the cougars play!  This year it was in November and we went with a big group from our ward!  We had a lot of fun, and while the score was way closer than it should have been BYU ended up winning! Phew!

Alex and Emeline enjoying the game!

Here’s Kaylee snacking on a pom-pom!  Emmy and Kaylee are excellent cheerleaders and Emeline even knows the cougar fight song!  Both of them had fun showing off the cheer skills for Grandma and Grandpa Baker!

GO COUGARS!!

Emmy and Kaylee have started getting jealous if someone holds just one of them so they often pile on together!  Here they are having fun smiling at all the people sitting behind us!

And finally it was time to go home!  :-(  But here is a cute picture of Kath holding Emmy on the way out to the car!  We’ll be back in 2011 for more!

Grandma Kath was in Idaho for her birthday and we were in Disneyland so we had her party when we all regrouped in New Mexico!  Here’s a few pics from the party!

Grandma Kath picked Carrot cakes and she said she wanted lots of nuts!  So in addition to us being nutty we added some to the cake!

Here’s Grandma blowing out her candles!

In preparation for her own birthday Kaylee enjoyed a small piece of Grandma’s cake!  Happy belated Birthday Kath!!  Emmy can’t wait to see you again now that we are back in New Mexico!

Emmy and Kaylee love to have their picture taken!  Here are some random pictures of us playing around!

Kaylee got to sit in my bed one morning while I finished getting ready!  She thought she was queen of the world!

It didn’t last long though.  She held still maybe 5 minutes and she was on the move again! Here she is about to pounce on the camera!

Here’s Kaylee just chillin’

Emmy helped me get Kaylee up and ready!  She is a really good helper now.  She always says things like “Kaylee Sweetie, no no”.  Kaylee follows her every move and they both love playing together!  It’s pretty cute!

Kaylee laughing at Emmy through the crib!

Look familiar?  We have a pic of Emmy that looks just like this!  I will have to do a side by side post!

Emmy took this picture and I was totally amazed at what a good job she did so I thought I’d throw it in here!  She is getting pretty good at using a camera!

So I was really sick and wound up in the ER with a super high fever over Halloween so we didn’t do a whole lot.  Luckily Alex, Grandma Kath, and Grandpa Layman came to the rescue and helped the girls have a fun time!

Here’s Emmy dressed up like Snow White for her Halloween party at school.  Grandma Kath helped get her all ready!  Emmy was pretty excited!

Los Alamos has a downtown trick or treat every year.  This year it was the night before Halloween.  Alex and my dad took the girls for a bit but it was really cold so they didn’t last too long!  Emmy was tired of her snow white dress up so by this point she had changed into a sleeping beauty costume and Kaylee is sporting a super cool witch costume Aunt Christina bought!

I felt a lot better by the ward party so we dressed up and went!  Here’s Goldilocks and the 3 bears!  Daddy bear, baby bear and blinky bear!  🙂

Emmy and Kaylee were both a little dazed from all the weekends activities at this point!  What cute girls!  They got a lot of candy!  In fact right now Emmy is looking at this picture and asking me for some of her candy and there is probably some of it left somewhere in the house…

So this picture is kind of blurry but I just though Kaylee was such a cute little baby bear I wanted to share!  Happy Halloween 3 months ago everyone! 🙂

We spent two of the days in California adventure also.  Which was really fun!  It had a lot of rides that were more for the parents (or big kids) too.  So here are some pics of all of us having fun!

This is the California Screamin’ roller coaster!  It shoots you on your way instead of cranking you up a big hill to start!  It’s pretty fun and we rode it probably more times than we should have!  Here’s my mom, dad, alex and I waiting to get shot forward!

Emmy and Kaylee loved a bug’s land!  It’s all designed to make you feel like you are the size of a bug with lots of big props everywhere!

This is a ride where you get to fly around in a box of raisins!  Emmy and Kaylee loved it!  Aunt Christina and Uncle Christian joined us for one of the flights!

Here’s Grandpa and Grandma Layman!  They paid for our family trip!  Thanks Mom and Dad!  We love you and we had a ton of fun!

Here’s Grandma and Kaylee admiring a big butterfly!  Kaylee loved all the statues and flowers!

Here we are about to get soaked on the Grizzly river run!  One of Uncle Christian’s favorites!  I think Annah pretty much got dunked under water about 5 seconds after this was taken! 🙂

Okay so this is a picture of a picture because we didn’t want to buy it but it was funny.  I hate being suspended in the air.  So like sky ride or ski lifts are a no-no!  Annah and Alex made me go on this tower of terror ride (and I didn’t know what it did for sure) that drops you several stories and then shoots you back up and drop you again.   Christina had already convinced me to go on another ride with a barf shield that shoots you up and I thought I was going to die on that one!  This one was even worse because you are in this cage thing and it looks like a solid room but all the walls and floor drop away at different times and you are looking out at the park while you fall!  It was crazy.  Here I am crying while Alex and Annah laugh their heads off.  BRATS!

Kaylee’s stamp of approval!  What a cute smile!

Emmy’s stamp of approval!  They had such a fun time!

We got to meet a lot of special people while we were at Disneyland!  As you could probably guess Emeline was a little shy when we got to meet the characters while Kaylee was usually trying to destroy their costume in one way or another!  Here some of the best pics of the girls meeting their idols!

So to see the princesses now you stand in line for a couple of hours and then you enter their garden and get to meet three of them at once.   Even with the long wait Emmy and Kaylee were just so excited to meet the girls they get to watch in the movies!  We crossed our fingers the whole line that Snow White would be one of the princesses we got to meet because that is Emmy’s favorite at the time!  And she was!!

Belle is Emeline’s new favorite princess!  We have a book about her but since the movie is still in the vault Emmy had never seen it.  She did get to watch an old VHS copy at Grandpa and Grandma’s house over Christmas and now she obsessed!!

Kaylee and Belle!  It was cute to watch Kaylee get so excited about meeting the princesses just because her big sister was excited!  Fun!

Here we are with Tinkerbell herself!  She is holding a picture of Minnie dressed like tinkerbell that Emmy colored to give to her!  She also colored pictures for Minnie and Mickey!

Here we are with Minnie Mouse!  All the character were dressed up in their fall attire!  You can see Kaylee is fussing trying to pull Minnie’s ear off!

Kaylee loved goofy because unlike Minnie he actually let her pull his ears!

One of the coolest things in California adventure is Playhouse Disney live!  It’s a puppet show of all the disney cartoons that Emmy watches  on TV!  You come in to a huge theater and sit on the floor so that the kids can run around and dance.  Then they play music and have the puppets run around and they even drop bubbles and leaves from the ceiling.  Alex made fun of me because I started crying watching all the kids dance around.  Every kid in there was on cloud 9!  So cute!  I loved it!

“Please Dad, can I keep him?”

The parades were awesome while we were there!  Here are the incredibles in the Pixar parade!  It was really fun to see all the pixar characters!

This picture cracks me up!  It totally captures Emeline’s emotion during the parade!

Emmy had a great time at the Celebrate Parade!  She got picked to have a drum and picked to dance in a conga line with the dancers in the middle!  It was so exciting because before we went Alex had showed her a video of the parades and she asked if she could be in the parade too.  Alex said that we would just watch the disney people be in the parade!  But then she got to dance out in the middle!  So she showed Daddy!  🙂

Alex took this picture of all the confetti they throw on you during the parade!  I thought it looked really neat with the big Mickey balloon in back!

Alright,  I think I have it narrowed down to just one more post!  More later!