Jerry's Girls

reno/tahoe: day 4

thursday, january 26th, 2012

we were all dressed & on our way to ski, but the wind was terrible so we aborted & decided to spend the day at the cabin & ice skating.

we found a lovely spot of the side of the road that girls wanted to play in...it was in kings beach (grandma dorothy's old home)

making snow angels...

and we stopped at the most beautiful beach we've been on, sand harbor...

i told the girls we had to touch lake tahoe...

paige loves to collects all things nature...

jer warmed up the hot tub...

and we went ice skating at Heavenly...

rees wearing a jacket & hat that was mine when i was a baby...

when paige got tired of skating, she walked over to get cookies with me. she asked for a picture by the horsie...

the others skated for over two hours...

and paige played some angry birds, (it was very popular this trip)

a dip in the hot tub before bed & then a snuggle in front of the fire place. then we watched the florida debate, which mya was really into, she didn't want to go to bed until it was done :)

you can always tell when paige has been taking care of rees...

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oh boy, we've dreamed of taking our girls skiing since the day mya was born, so this day had been talked about, dreamed about & planned about for years. (i'm smiling while i write this, it was so great!)

we decided to check out Mt. Rose Ski Resort (it's just 20 minutes up the canyon from Reno). jer is just a wee bit excited that there are 12 ski resorts within 90 minutes of our future home.

mya, wynn & paige started the day off with a 2 hour lesson while jer hit the slopes. i hung out with this cutee...

lunch time: (i love the new baby food packets...genious!)

the girlies caught on quick! so after lunch jer took mya & wynn down some slopes:

paige wanted a break so we hung out inside...

then it was time for paige to hit the bunny hill again...

jer, paige, mya & wynn head up the hill...

i love this next picture of paige waving with her tongue out...

it was a great day & all the girls loved it. as we were leaving jer said, "everything went perfectly perfect." :)

then we headed back to the cabin & jer heated up the wood stove heated cedar hot tub, it was pretty cool!

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reno/tahoe: day 2

tuesday, january 24th, 2012

lazy hotel morning.

drive up to lake tahoe...

stop at truckee, pioneer monument, donner lake, emerald bay.

arrive at cabin.

trukee, nv: a pretty cool western town

jer wanted to check out donner lake & it was beautiful...

then we drove around the west side of lake tahoe & couldn't help but stop at the beautiful emerald bay:

once at the cabin the girls got right to work opening their snow cafe:

and we put some snow on rees' high chair for her to play with, but she loved her orange wedges the best.

snow for sale by chacha:

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reno/tahoe: day 1

plane flight:

LAX to RENO

checking in

we're off to explore our future home :)

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fri&sat.

friday:

talent show auditions.

night time tennis.

park playing.

saturday:

packing.

natural history museum.

taco truck.

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mmm...tasting ice cream for the very first time.

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guess who's seven?

our wynnie turned seven today...

i can't even sum up in words how much we love this lovely girl.

she is a jewel.

let's start at the beginning:

wynnie woke up before 6am this morning, she was so excited!
birthday breakfast request: waffles
wynn was super lucky & daddy was home on the morning of her birthday so she got to open all her gifts before school

mya & wynn gave wynn a mermaid lalaloopsy, it was a big hit.
we dropped a couple slices of wynnie's favorite pizza off to her at lunch...

...and we found a special birthday surprise! look closely at the birthday girl's smile & you'll see another missing tooth. her buddies convinced her to pull it out during recess & the school nurse gave her a cute tooth necklace to keep her tooth in.

after school wynn took her sissys & 3 of her favorite buddies to color me mine

mya, wynn, paige, kelly, tyra & gabby

after painting we stopped by baskin robbins for an ice cream cone. since wynn got a clown cone on her birthday last year too, i now consider it her birthday tradition.

and then wynnie opened her gifts from her friends

and we gave the girls punch balloons to take home
the car ride taking all the girls home was a super happy/noisey one :)

wynn's 7th birthday gifts:

roller blades (she has wanted these for sooo long! she was roller blading around our house before school & even brushed her teeth with them on)
blocks & marble game
navy polka dotted dress (her b-day dress)
shirt & sundress
mermaid lalaloopsy (from her sissys)
hand held light game (mamma & bampa)
cute clothes (nana & papa)
$10 (great-grandma nielson)
and some fun gifts from her friends

after dinner we were doing homework & getting our jammies on when the missionaries stopped by to give wynnie a birthday present...they gave her a picture & one of my old missionary dolls!! so funny, i had donated some of them to deseret industries & i guess they turned them over to the elders :)

so we invited the elders to join us for happy birthday singing & cake eating...

it was a good day. a wonderful 7th birthday for our wynnie.

she is loving, sweet, works so so hard & is tender hearted. she's a perfectionist, wants to do well, is shy, & thoughtful.

and inside her beautiful head she is always thinking & pondering. she reminds me of joseph smith, she ponders what we teach her & wants to truly understand it. a few weeks ago she specifically asked us how do we know that our church is the true church? how can she know?

what a beautiful question from our 7 year old, who in one year will have the choice to be baptized. and she has always been that way. she is close to heaven.

we love you dearest wynnie, i wish i could re-live all of your 7 years over again.

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weekend re-cap.

i still need to write about my big girls, but first, we'll do a little weekend stuff.

FRIDAY.

we stayed home friday night & it was lovely

SATURDAY.

jer had to work at CHLA and he said it was probably the worst 24 hr call ever. he came home on sunday exhausted

the girls & i sang at a baptism & went to diggy's birthday party

lots of phone photos

there were free tickets to the BYU vs UC-Irvine men's volleyball game on saturday night, so a group of ward members went. it was a long drive, but we had fun & BYU won

rees with lyndsey pohlman...rees cries when anyone other than her own family holds her now:

paige with her buddy, grey. couldn't get a picture in focus cause these 2 never stop moving!

SUNDAY.

jer officially started his 2 week vacation! he slept almost the entire first day of his time off :)

MONDAY:

no school

in the morning jer played soccer with guys from the ward while the girls & i hung out in our jammies

we were going to go to the beach, but ran out of time. so we headed to jump-n-jammin instead

around the corner from it i spotted a place called "paris baguette" and it looked like the real deal. jer is always on the look out for french pastries and breads that taste just like the ones on his mission did. they are hard to find, but wow wee! we hit the jackpot today & found a place bursting with stuff tasting like they came straight from france. we're going to have go to this place lots before we move to reno.

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p & r

today i'll tell a few things about paige & rees, then tomorrow i can do the same for my big girls.

REES:

i said this already, but so many people stop me in the store. today i counted while i was at target & there were seven different people that stopped me & said how adorable she is, (three of those were in a group together) two of them were men. i told jer, you know she's really cute cause guys don't usually stop you to say how cute your baby is :) we sure do think she's adorable.
yesterday she tried carrots. she'd take a bite & then do these quick wiggles with her eyes closed, like she was tasting something sour.
today i bought her some baby mum mum rice crackers, she gaged on them at first, but she likes them now & so do her big sissys :)

she's consistantly rolling now & always rolls off her blanket until she gets stopped by something like the kitchen chairs...

she loves chip bags, they make a great noise for her
for some reason her big sisters all feel the need to be 2 inches from her face & talk (or make strange noices) REALLY loud. i can't tell you how many times i've said, "please don't scream at rees."
not the best sleeper, ever since we took our trip to utah for thanksgiving she hasn't slept well. i feel tired most of the time.
she's starting to get stranger anxiety. at church on sunday a woman behind us in sacrament was doing cute things to make rees smile, rees' lips turned downed & she wailed. she did the same thing the other day to the check out lady at the dollar store.

PAIGE:

today i took paige to story time at the library, she found two small books with stories about cats. after walking out the library door she sat down on the bench & wanted to read them. so we sat there and read them. :)
paige is so so loving & is wonderful to rees. she still loves to lay beside her, give her toys, and constantly says, "you're so cute reesie!" (really loud of course :)
for christmas i gave her the tablets that change your bath water into a color & bath tub crayons. she loves them, our tub has drawings all over it & looks a mess. but our paypay is happy & still gives baths to all her favorite things.
she loves to line all her toys up, here they are ready for bed with her...

and next to her is her other christmas gift, her my little pony pinky pie. on the way home from preschool today i heard paige say in the back seat, "i love you pinky pie." it sure did make my heart swell up.
she's been eating like crazy, i think she's going to have a growth spurt. and she's more tired than usual, today she took a nap...which means she's still awake now. (she's next to me watching skiing with her daddy, jer's getting the girls pumped up for our ski trip :)
she's been making her bed every morning without me even asking & she does such a great job.
she used to be pretty shy, but wow! not any more :) she'll talk to anyone & loves to have playdates now. i've been inviting buddies over for her to play.
and she's been doing such an amazing job with her silky. we kind of took 2 steps back over the holidays, but with the start of school & our routine, she's pretty much only has her silky when on a bed. but the other day i did find her like this...

(that's paige inside her blue silky that her cousin, dillon, gave her. it's dillon's old pajama pants, so paige fits nicely inside, she climbed down into one of the pany legs.)

**bonus photo: jer reading to the girls tonight. we checked out "earth to clunk" from the school library & we all LOVE it. we've read it several times.