Amber's officially 4 now!

At the first of three parties, Amber shared the celebration with her cousin who is four days older then her.

Human bowling.

My attempts at a cute birthday cake. The girls loved it.

After blowing out the candles...

On the big day, Amber got pancakes with ice cream on them. (Her mom forgot to get doughnuts the night before.)

The day after, a friend party. They ate peanut butter sandwiches and decorated mini brownie bites. They loved it.

Happy Birthday to my tall girl. She is a delight, and surprises me every day with how smart she is and what a good helper she is!

Another batch of catch up.

Hannah really enjoyed her first cup of Hot Chocolate. (Usually I would just give her chocolate milk.)

When your three year old is wearing a summer dress and wants to go outside to play in the cold, she can come up with a very creative outfit to maker herself warm.

We had a very special visitor. My grandma Partridge, the girls's Great Grandma!

One fun thing we do is have a tea party with Mickey Mouse chicken nuggets and fruit snacks, eating on the princess tea set (with snow in the back ground.)

They are ready for their Easter Egg hunt!

President Monson and Easter Dresses.

We have started having special seats during Family Home Evening.

And it usually turns into this after about two minutes!

Amber and Great Grandma Hinkson at a cousin's funeral.

Hannah and Great Grandma Hinkson. Our kids are very luck to have three Great Grandmas!

The view from Amber's hight. (Grandpa Hinkson and his brother and sister.)

Ralph captured some fun pictures of the girls playing in the back yard.

Little Girl turns Two!

Hannah on her first birthday.

Hannah now. She's collecting her treats from her string hunt.

And another treat...

She sees the bike and the presents...

One out of the way...

And she's off! Amber gave Hannah her old bike.

A new dress...

A train set...

She has been obsessed with Pooh Bear recently. My attempts at a cutesy cake.

A new hat.

Doesn't she look so grown up now?

Silly Pictures

Our Big Train Adventure. We rode Trax in the free zone.

Finally finishing Hannah's dresser. Silly family.

Amber said, "Mom, I have to get your shoes." Then tromped around in these boots.

Couldn't quite get dressed, another silly one.

What's happened this year so far...

Besides packing, moving, working on the new house, unpacking, organizing, having a birthday, and finding out we are having a boy, we had family fun. Here's Amber at a special lunch after going to the dentist for the first time. She did wonderfully!

Family night treat, ice cream cones.

Coloring with Aunt Gretchen. Gretchen came to help us pack and move. She saved me! I can accomplish 1/4 of what I would usually do in a day. (Or less...)

Lazy mom made Hannah lay by me to read her a book.

Amber fell off of our couch and hurt her shoulder. The girls had a great time waiting for the doctor. Don't worry, nothing was broken in the shoulder.

My loot from the string hunt of a lifetime. I also got a dusbuster vacuum from Ralph. I was so excited. I can't wait for it to get a little warmer so I can clean the cars!

Amber has been really tired since we moved. Here is a never before seen picture. She simply curled up on the couch and fell asleep. We even had visitors over.

Starting young. Hannah playing on an iPhone.

Amber curled up on her bed, in her very favorite pink room, watching Dumbo on my iTouch.

Time to announce.

I told Ralph the other day that I am lazy. He said that is the last word that he would use to describe me. Then I decided I am socially lazy. It's so much easier not to say things sometimes then it is to say things. So here is our news.

We bought a house. In Draper. We will hopefully be in it by the end of January. We are really excited. It's about five minutes from Ralph's work, saving him an hour and a half on the road.

And we are expecting our third child in the middle of July. I have been out of commission for the last six weeks being sick. I was always functional, but not to the best of my abilities. I am feeling better. I even had a good work out at the gym today. I have missed that, and so has my waist line. You aren't suppose to gain as much weight as I have in the fist 12 weeks of pregnancy. It was do to sitting around, eating what ever would keep my stomach calm (usually white flower carbs,) and no gym time. But I'm back. Watch out.

OK, lets finish up the year...

My whole family came for Thanksgiving, and for my dad's 80th Birthday Party. It was loads of fun to have the family together. The kids all loved playing with each other.

Happy Birthday, Pops. We had a big party at our church with cousins, aunts, uncles, grandma, and Dad's whole family. It was a lovely, wonderful night.

My favorite peeps, my siblings.

Finally, in the beginning of December, Hannah caught the dress up bug. She would throw a fit whenever I tried to dress her up. Of course, she had to try all of the dresses.

And settled for Snow White, because it is a little bit shorter and she wasn't tripping all over the place. She's very smart.

Hannah and Amber's favorite past time, playing in Amber's room (where Hannah sleeps as well.) The best thing a mother of two small children can hear. Amber saying, "Hannah, come on, let's go play in my room!" Hannah says, "Ok." And they disappear. They go play. I don't have to be there. It's wonderful!

The bakers at the Children's Museum at the Gateway.

Christmas Eve, the Nativity. The angles and Mary.

Hannah wanted in on the dress up action.

Grandpa Hinkson and the one and a half year olds.

Our tree Christmas Morning.

Amber's new PJs, displaying our new blocks.

Hannah jumping on our new trampoline with new jewels on. It's an adult strength, exercise trampoline.

And then the snow came. Again. My wonderful sister Karen went out and played with us. I must say, when taking two little kids out to tromp around in the snow, it's much nicer with company!

And then they began to eat the snow. Yum.

I wore regular boots with my pants tucked in so my sister could wear my snow boots. Don't I look stylish?

Karen, the best sister and aunt anyone could want. She stayed a week after Christmas and we had a great time together. I miss her every morning when I drink my daily hot chocolate along.