Early Christmas with Family

While still in Texas, we celebrated an early Christmas with mommy's family. We had a great time opening gifts and eating yummy food over at Aunt Sandy's house. Reagan, surprisingly, enjoyed the prime rib and asked for not only seconds, but thirds. For those of you who don't know Reagan's eating habits, asking for more food is a BIG deal. We sure did have a good time visiting with family the past two weeks, but we are ready to go home, back to Daddy and Irbe. Arizona we are on our way tomorrow!

Riley and her present.

Riley was so excited to have a present ... she couldn't contain herself.

Reagan handed out all the gifts to everyone ... She finally found her gift and was so happy.

"Dad Dan & Mimi bought me a new purple Leapster ... now I can give my old one to my sister!"

Dad Dan & Grannie, enjoying the family time.

Silly Kayli, she is wearing the bow on her head!

Mommy & two of her sisters ... we missed you Dana!

Merry Christmas Mom Sher & Granddaddy!

We took the girls up to the cemetary to give Mom Sher & Granddaddy Bob some new flowers for Christmas. I was a little nervous to take Reagan up there, not sure what she was going to think. She was very strong and seemed to handle the situation very well. The girls seemed to enjoy walking around looking at all the different flowers. Reagan was very proud to have given Mom Sher her new flowers.

Our new cousin in HERE!

Happy Birthday to Sullivan McRay Higgins, born December 15th at 11:46 am at Frisco Baylor Hospital. He weighs 7 lbs 9 ozs and is 20 inches long. Aunt Kimmie and Sullivan are doing great. We are so happy he is here and we are looking forward to spending the week with him.

Our first week in Texas

We made it to Texas!

The flight was about what I expected, Reagan did great ... Riley, not so much. Riley screamed the first 20 minutes and the last 30 minutes. She was not happy unless she was "on her own". We got a lot of "nice" looks from all the other passengers around us. The movie player worked like a charm for the middle of the flight ... thank goodness for technology! The flight was only two hours, so it was nothing we could not handle.

Once we got to Aunt Kimmie's house, we (the adults) started cleaning out the attic, getting all the baby items out and cleaned for the new baby on the way. The entire family room was packed full of boxes, bins, and toys. All the kids had a blast playing in the huge mess. Riley thought is was so cool to have a baby swing ... she climbed into it on her own and sits in it everyday.

Tuesday, we went to a friends house for a play date. It was a nice day when we started out, close to 70 degrees. By the time we finished our play date at lunch, it was in the upper 40's. By dinner time, it was below freezing, and we had a little bit of sleet/snow. Nothing great, but just enough to let you know it was COLD!



Thursday, we went to see Santa Claus. This was Reagan's second time seeing Santa, and both times she asked for the same thing ... then she told me she is going to get two of what she asked for, because she asked Santa for it twice and he said yes, both times! Riley was a little unsure if she wanted to get close to Santa, so I went with her. Then we went to Chili's for a birthday lunch for Aodhan ... he will be three on Dec 14th.




Thursday night, we took the kids to see the lights & decorations in a big neighborhood called Deerfield. This neighborhood has it in their HOA guidelines that you have to decorate your house, so almost every house was decorated to the tee. We saw a couple houses that had their lights choreographed to music, it was really cool and the kids really enjoyed it. We got a really cool video of this one house, hopefully it looks as good to you as it did to us!

We will update more as we go through our second week. Baby Sullivan will be born on Monday, Dec. 15 ... we are spending our last weekend with three kids preparing for next week ... I am sure it will be hectic and crazy with a newborn and all the kids, but it will be so great to see the little one.

Signing off for a while ...

After a long day of packing, we are finally ready. The Posti girls are headed to Texas for a few weeks to see family, friends, and welcome our new nephew/cousin to the world.
For those of you in Texas, we hope to catch up with you while we are in town.
For those of you who follow the blog, hopefully we will be able to update the blog while we are gone ... if not, we will be sure to get lots of new pictures on once we get home.
Have a safe holiday season and we will be back the week of Christmas.

'Til then ...

Zoolights 2008

Last night, we went to the Phoenix Zoo to the "Zoolights". The weather was so beautiful, around 65 degrees and the zoo was not crowded at all. We enjoyed the wonderful display of lights with our good friends The Bower's. The zoo uses so many lights, it is crazy. The trees were so beautiful ... my favorite was this one Blue Tree.

The kids favorite part was "Jengo" the talking giraffe. He even spoke to the kids, calling them by their names (thanks to the parents passing along the kids names to the right people). Riley was a little confused about a talking giraffe. Her favorite part,by far, was seeing the live Elephant. She talked about seeing that elephant all night, and woke up this morning still talking about it.

The pictures are not good at all ... taking picutres at night, of Christmas Lights, is obviously not our thing. Here are a couple of shots just for you to see! Enjoy!

More Christmas Fun

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A little bit of Christmas Fun

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Warm weather still ...

We are still enjoying nice, beautiful, warm weather. We still have highs in the mid 70's sometimes warmer. The girls are loving the outside time. We finally dug out the Dora Jeep and charged it up. Unfortunately, it is only a one seater, but Riley has found a way to hitch a ride.

She holds on tight enough not to fall ... it still makes me a little nervous watching them drive off though. Oh, the stress of being a MOM!

November 27, 2008

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ...

We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and remembers all that we have to be thankful for!

Riley's New Do

Grandma watch Riley the other day and mentioned she needed to get a haircut. I usually put her hair up in ponytails, so I was very against cutting her hair. However, becasue I put her hair up everyday, she is getting a lot of hair pulled out and broken ... so, mommy decided to try and cut Riley's bangs (by herself ... not a great idea Mom). She ended up with crooked, blunt bangs.

Thank goodness we have Ms. Jackie, one of our dearest friends, who helped Mommy out with her work ... she fixed the cut job Mom did and made Riley look so cute. Now, I can just brush her hair and let it be. Very nice, convienent, and EASY! That is what I need with two girls!

Almost Turkey Time!

To prepare the girls for Thanksgiving, the neighborhood mom's decided to do Turkey rotations (like we did for Halloween). First, the girls came over to my house and we made real cute Turkeys out of their hand prints. They decorated their turkeys with glitter and feathers (way cool for them!). Their other crafts were fun for them too ... Reagan especially enjoyed Ms. Jackie's rotation, chocolate chip cookies & punch before going to the park for play time. According to Reagan, those were the MOST DELICIOUS cookies she has ever tasted! Must have been good.

Here are all the girls ... once again, it isn't hard to pick out Reagan, our little peanut! She is almost a whole head shorter than her friends ... hopefully she will grow soon!

FUMCG Preschool Fall Festival 2008

Last night was Reagan's fall festival, where they get to play fun games and sing songs with all the other preschool classes. They all looked so cute, dressed up as scarecrows. Reagan's class was unfortunately in the back row during the performance, so we could not get a decent video of her singing. There were to some tall 3 year olds in front of her, so we could not see our little peanut! Oh well, she still looked so cute and we got some good still shots of her.

What Silly Girls!

Reagan & Riley have found a new "play place". I foresee a scratched back, head, or stuck kid in the near future!

I also discovered that I could have a helper in the laundry department, just if she could do the laundry in the correct order. Riley is good about putting clothes in the laundry room, but I always find the dirty clothes in the dryer!

Mommy's New Toy!

Saturday was an interesting day for us. We woke up, after very little sleep the night before (thank you Trick-or-Treating). Mommy started her usual cleaning and we hung around until 9:00. Daddy then left to go and get his car serviced at the Acura dealership. Mom continued to clean until Dad called at 10:30 and said they were going to be a couple hours on his car ... lets meet for lunch.

So, the girls got ready, jumped in the car, and picked up Dad for a lunch date. We ate lunch at a very yummy place, The Rock Bottom Brewery. By the time lunch was over, we headed back to the dealership to pick up dad's car, so we thought. Now, it is 1:00pm and Riley has had just about a 20 minute nap all day so far.

For some reason, we decided to weather the heat (yes heat, it was 94 degrees on Nov.1) and look at cars. After looking at a couple different cars, including a Saturn Relay (minivan), a Hummer H2 (way too big), and an Acura MDX (mommy's favorite car), we got to talking to a salesman. The girls had a great time running around the dealership, playing in their kids play area, and eating cookies all afternoon.

4:30pm rolled around and we were signing a contract on a used ("new" for us) Acura MDX.

We traded in our good ole' Hyundai Santa Fe and got Mommy a 2005, pearl white, Acura MDX! Mommy is so excited about her "new" car. Ever since she saw these cars, she has said she wanted one ... now she has one! We got home around 5:30pm, fed the girls a little bit of dinner, and then headed back out to Target.

We did not make it home in time for Riley, poor thing fell asleep and didn't even wake up during her diaper change. We got Riley in bed around 7:30pm and then Reagan was not far behind.

What a busy and very UNEXPECTED day!

Cute & Crazy Hair

Here are some "new" hairdo's for the girls.

Reagan wore her hair curly like this the night of halloween, and she loved it so much, she wants it like this all the time. However, it takes about an hour to do, so it won't be happening as much as she would like.

Rileys hair is so short on the top and front, that this hairdo works great and looks so cute on her. To make it even better, she sat in my lap, still as could be, while I did her hair. She always finishes with an "ahhhh cute"!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from the Posti's

Our pumpkins (L-R ~ Reagan's, Dad's, & Mom's)

Halloween Festival at the neighborhood LDS church,
with our best friends Brielle & Cooper Bower.