Twinkle Toes is 3

Rori turned 3 at the end of January.  For her birthday, we went to Billings and met Grandma Denise, Grandpa Jay, Great Grandma Helen and Great Grandpa Ruben, and Uncle Charles.  We stayed at a motel and went swimming.  Then we did some shopping and had lunch at Red Lobster because Rori wanted shrimps.  She had popcorn shrimp and stripped all of the breading off each and every shrimp. 

 Shrimp at Red Lobster for birthday lunch!!!

New clothes for birthday!

Twinkle toes shoes from Grandma Denise and Grandpa Jay

This is how we Little People

We have a literal Little People village/small town living under Bryce's crib these days.  Along with the actual toys themselves, we also are very privileged to have 3, count them 3, Little People claymation DVDs.  Rori loves to watch these, over and over and over.  They are good and wholesome and they have good moral lessons in them, but if I have to hear Aaron Neville singing "Discovering Michael and his friend ..." too many more times, I think I might lose it.  No, it is just a problem when it gets stuck on repeat in my head.  We love our Little People! (Photos courtesy of Rylie Schoenfeld, age 6)

Apparently this Little People person is having a birthday!

Ahh, justing enjoying the fire!

Rori lined everyone up for a campout/carwash?

Happy New Year, Bryce!

We finally blessed Bryce on Sunday, January 2nd.  Our families were able to come and participate with us.  We had a little get together the night before with lots of food and goodies! 

Christmas 2010

Christmas arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Miles City. It looked like a paper war as we went along, with wrapping paper strewn far and wide across the living room!


Apparently all the excitement made Rori and Grandpa tired!

Pre-Christmas

December contained a number of great adventures in our house!

We went on our annual Christmas tree hunt outside of York. Even Bryce braved it. Rori got cold feet due to snow getting in her boots. Rylie didn't ride in the sled at all and was quite the little snow hiker.


Rylie's school does a Christmas program. Last year as a kindergartner, all the speaking roles went to older first graders. Her school only has K-1, so when you are a first grader, you are at the top of the food chain. This year, we were surprised when Rylie came home and said she was going to have speaking parts as a ladybug in the the 2010 Eastgate production of A Bugz Christmas. Always glad to see when popular culture spelling put into our schools!
Check out her costume:


Rylie also just finished her first basketball season. She played on a girls' 1st and 2nd grade team. It was quite fun to watch at times. I mean, it's easy to play defense if the girl you are suppose to be guarding is guarding you instead. Very funny at times. Ry even made a basket in one game and improved on playing defense and getting open. Sometimes it looked a little like a rugby scrum, but very cute overall.

We had a great time this holiday season. We went to Miles City for Christmas and arrived on December 23rd. The girls were very excited to get to Grandma's house.
The electricity went out that night for a couple hours, which led to pajama flashlight dancing. Grandpa gathered all the flashlights and lanterns throughout the house.

All kiddos received new monkey pajamas which they loved. Rori put hers on and they were little long with floppy feet. She said, "I look like a duck". She proceede to convert this phrase into a song to which she flashlight danced in the power outage.


On Christmas Eve day, all the preparations were made for the welcoming of Santa and his reindeer.










More to come in the next installment: