Ice Skating!

So...last Monday evening I'm cooking supper while Elizabeth and Eva were playing in the kitchen.  I turned around and saw this....

 Eva can now climb into the chairs and onto the tables....great.

Wednesday afternoon we did a couple science experiments involving color...

 Madilynn completed her reading list again earlier in the week and picked "go ice skating" out of the prize bucket.  She was so excited!! 

On Friday night that's just what we did!

Elizabeth just got her skates on...

 Ready to go...

 We ended up getting a walker for each of the girls...

Madilynn was all smiles, everytime she went by...

 Elizabeth taking a break...she was saying, "this is so fun!"

 Eva got a lap with Daddy carrying her...

 then we realized we could use the stroller, so I went and got it out of the car...

 I think next time I will skate too, and push Eva in the stroller.  That should work out well!

Daddy & Elizabeth

 This morning we caught about 4 deer in our backyard eating our roses!  I took this picture just as Michael stepped out the back door to scare them away...

An Afternoon Hike...

Saturday afternoon we decided to take a little hike to see all the pretty fall colors!

Eva checking out her leaf, "ooo"

It was a beautiful time of day...the view in the canyon

The girls were having so much fun singing, jumping, and twirling down the path!

Elizabeth did well walking most of the way.  I carried her a couple of times and then at the end Daddy carried her a little ways.

Mommy with the big girls!

Daddy with the girls!

Daddy carrying a load...

We made it back to the bridge...almost done

When we got home after supper Elizabeth decided to color some and ended up drawing her first pictures of herself and our family...

such a great job!!

Here's a couple of videos Michael took while we were walking so you can see and hear what the girls were doing...

Since he didn't mean to cut her off, got another one of her twirl!

I thought this was funny...here's Eva while we were getting set up to go.  She never cried and did really well!

Eva Update...

These were taken the Sunday night before Madilynn's birthday...

So silly

I wanted to get some pictures of her walking, since all I had before was just videos...

playing with Daddy

Elizabeth was singing and pretending that bottle was her microphone

More videos of Eva walking and playing! When she gets up onto the hearth and sits she says, "cheese" like we are going to take her picture - so sweet!

Madilynn is 6!

We celebrated Madilynn's birthday with friends on Sunday after church. 

Here's the birthday girl with her sisters after we got things set up!

 SIX!

 Enjoying their pizza and cupcakes! The park was such a fun and pretty setting...

 After the party we all came home and napped, we were all so tired!

 Madilynn was the first one up and she was so ready to color this bag that one of her friends got for her...

 So beautiful!

 On Monday - her actual birthday we sang to her again after supper...

 Then she opened gifts from family and they got to see on video chat.

 new watch from Mommy & Daddy!

 Drawing her horse and rider from Nana & Papa...

 new rain boots from Granny...

She had such a big time, and got lots and lots of new things to keep her plenty busy!  Can't believe my Madilynn is already SIX years old! Wow!!  We love you!