Our Princess turns 3!!

We can't believe that our first baby girl is 3!! It has been such a great three years. Colee is such an amazing little girl that brings us so much joy. She is our best friend and makes us laugh so much. A lot has changed in her life this last year and she seems so much older. I often have to remind myself she is only 2, now 3.

The things she is into now:
-Max & Ruby!! They are on her mind or the tv literally all day and night. She even mimics the things Ruby does in the episodes. Like last night in her tub she had lined all of her toys up on the side of the tub and I asked her what she was doing and she told me they were getting ready for the talent show. That is exactly what Ruby had done on the episode she watched right before her tub. And yesterday Ruby was going ice skating so Colee used the tile floor for her ice arena and was skating for uncle Heath and I.
-Colee LOVES being a big sister! She loves her baby sister so much. She wants me to tell the baby everything that she is doing at any given moment. "mom tell my baby sister I am eating a sandwich", "mom tell my baby sister I am singing a song" "mom tell my baby sister I can do a cartwheel". She wants her to be in the know and that her big sister can do so many things.
-Colee started going to Sunbeams for a few minutes each Sunday to get the kids used to their new schedule in church. She learned a new song and now every day she will come up to us, out of nowhere, and say, "do you know the song Jesus was born in Judeah"? and she starts to sing it word for word in a very low voice. It is so cute!! She really does know all the words for both versus.
-Nana is her BEST friend. She wants to be my mom's shadow at all times. She will hear someone come home and run and open our door and yell upstairs.."hello?? Who's here?" if it is nana we will more than likely not see her the rest of the night. And in the morning when she wakes up it is Nana she wants most of all. This totally works out for me as I am usually just getting back to sleep with Emee when Colee is getting up so I love to say "YES" go see Nana.
-I am quit certain I have a little Picaso on my hands. She really enjoys drawing and coloring and has gotten really pretty good at it. She can stay in the lines on her coloring books and she can draw stick figures as of last night. I plan on helping her to really get into art and encourage her love of being creative.

Colee girl...we love you so much!! Happy Birthday baby girl!

Thanksgiving 2009

Colee Christmas eve 2006 just a few days old

Emee November 2009, 10 weeks old in same pj's as Colee in above pic

Right before dinner Thanksgiving '09

Colee and Livi at dance class...Colee has got some awesome moves ;)

Isaac would be so proud of his boy pushing a pretty pink stroller

I am putting up some random pictures but to be honest it was so busy on Thanksgiving that we just did not get around to taking many pictures.
We had the big Hansen Thanksgiving at mom's house this year and it was CRAZY!! We had to split it up and do some of us upstairs and some down stairs but all in all it worked out great. Of course we learned a lot and would do some things differently but not as terrible as I thought it could have been with so many people.
We got to have Colt Kelley with us for a few days. Isaac flew in with him on Tuesday and he left him with us and drove his new SUBURBAN back to Washington to be with Lea and baby Case. We all had a great time with Colt. He is only eleven months old and he totally over powered my almost three year old!! It was so hilarious and I would just laugh as he would pull her hair or even walk towards her and she would start to scream. She was seriously so scared of him.
Colee started dance class this month and so far she really likes it. She gets to go with our little cousin Olivia and she of course loves that the most. I bought her a little pink dance outfit and now she thinks it is the only one she can wear to class. She refuses to wear any of her other ones!

The BEST big sister!

Here is Colee in her favorite positions with the new baby! She Loves, Loves, Loves being the big sister!! She is so darling with her. I was a little okay maybe a LOT worried at how she would be with a little baby but it has been so wonderful. She helps far more than I thought she would and her favorite thing to do is to lay right next to her and talk to her. When it is bed time Colee gets very upset if Emee is not ready to go to bed also and cries that she wants her baby sister to go to bed too. She does not like to be in the room without her.
We are so lucky to have such a loving little girl to help welcome our newest addition to the family.

Halloween 2009

Notice the chaperone's were un-knowingly representing the Mt. West Conference

Look at these two cute girls!! They are best friends and so excited to trick-or-treat together

Mike wanted to scare the kids with this mask but we were out too late with the girls and he missed all the neighbor kids.

So Halloween is so not my holiday BUT I did make sugar cookie dough & Colee had fun making cookies with mom

Colee LOVES and I mean LOVES her cousins!! She plays really well with Gavin especially. He had a costume themed b-day party and Colee was beyond excited to go. It was her first b-day party and she got to dress up...she had so much fun and still talks about it to this day!

All ready to go to the party!

This was a fun dress up year for Colee. She loved her red cheer leading costume her daddy bought. It was not the first one we got or even the 2nd but by the 3rd trip to Wal-mart this was the one! I REALLY wanted her to be Wonder Woman so I ordered it on line, of course, but when it got here she hated all the attachments so it had to go :( I had even purchased the WW box set on e-bay so she knew exactly who WW was! Mike took it back and brought home a fairy princess one that was so cute but it was way too long for miss short legs. So off he went again and came home with the red cheerleader one and it was a hit! She wears it almost every morning.
I had lots of fun things planned for Colee and I to do the last week before the actual Holiday but those did not pan out since I got sick and then so did Mike but I did manage to make some sugar cookie dough for her to make cookies with and thank goodness for the annual Ebay Halloween party!! She loved the idea of the Ebay party and talked about it all day waiting for London to get out of school. However....she was scared too death the whole time there! She was literally screaming and hanging on for dear life to aunt Sher whenever they would pass someone with a mask on, which was basically the whole place! So, they only made it through half of one floor and had to leave...sorry aunt Sher! What a mess my daughter is when it comes to masks of any kind, that includes maskots or anyone in a suit that she deems scarey! She freaks out even if she sees a mask sitting on the table, not even being worn!! She was actually worse this year than last, I thought she would be better since she understands it a little more but that was not the case.