Picture-A-Day (December 2014)

These are the last pictures from my 2014 Picture-A-Day Challenge.

I made it to the end of the year! I'm so proud of myself. And so relieved to be finished.

I am not doing the challenge again this year. It's just too stressful.

Plus I think I do a pretty good job taking pictures anyway.

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December 1st - Eli loves kissing his baby sister.

 



December 2nd - Ruby all clean after a bath.

 



 

December 3rd - Another sleeping newborn pictures.

 

December 4th - Lexi was so excited to put Ruby in her doll's outfit so they could match.

 



December 5th - Cuddling with my baby.

 



December 6th - Eli insists that he holds Ruby too.

 



December 7th - The girls all ready to go to their dance recital.

 



December 8th - Lexi showing of the really big whole in her smile.

 



December 9th - Avery loves holding Ruby.

 



December 10th - Halle and Avery being twins.

 



December 11th - Ruby the nerd.

 



December 12th - Wearing their matching Christmas jammies.

 



December 13th - Decorating our gingerbread house.

 



December 14th - Sean and Ruby.

 



December 15th - Lexi the nerd.

 



December 16th - Eli is so big compared to Ruby.

 



December 17th - Eli the nerd.

 



December 18th - Lexi all ready to go to her Christmas Orchestra Concert.

 



December 19th - Eli loved the reindeer glasses that my parents sent him.

 



December 20th - After work cuddles.

 



December 21st - Sleepy Ruby.

 



December 22nd - Avery loves kissing Ruby.

 



December 23rd - Ruby. Sleeping again.

 



December 24th - All ready for Christmas Eve dinner.

 



December 25th - One month old!

 



December 26th - Giving themselves make overs with the make up they got for Christmas.

 



December 27th - Ruby is one popular baby!

 



December 28th - Lexi is such a good helper.

 



December 29th - These two are so cute together!

 



December 30th - This is what Eli did to entertain himself

while I was on hold with the insurance company.

 



December 31st - Happy New Years Ruby!

 





Recent Videos

I've created my own YouTube channel.

I will uploaded my videos to that. 

I am still working on uploading recent videos.

So far, I've uploaded videos from Lexi's orchestra concert and the girls' dance recital.

I uploaded all my videos as "unlisted."

Which, I believe means that you can search for it, you have to have the direct video link.
It also means that you can't just go to my channel and see all the videos.
You have to have the direct link to each individual video to see it.
It's either that or making my videos public or private.
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When I told Lexi that I was uploading her videos to YouTube she got so excited.
"Really? I'm going to be on YouTube? I'm on the internet!"
Haha. What a funny girl.
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Here are the videos I've uploaded so far.
In the future, I'll just post the links or videos in my blog posts.

I also plan on going back and adding these videos to my previous blog posts.

Winter Dance Recital 2014

 Last Saturday, the girls had another dance recital.

This was their third one.

Avery danced to Jingle Bells

and Lexi danced to the Miley Cyrus version of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.

Sean and I went with Ruby and the girls.

We left Eli with a neighbor.

The girls were so excited to wear their recital outfits.

 

I had planned on doing Avery's hair curled and all fancy but it just didn't happen.

Oh well. She's still a cutie!

 



This is Lexi's new pose.

She does it every time I ask to take her picture.

 



She lost her second front tooth last week.

 



I love this picture of them with their cousin Halle.

These girls love each other!

 



 

UPDATE: Here's videos of the girls' dances...

First Day of Dance 2014

 Last week the girls started dance class. Lexi's class is on Tuesdays and Avery's is on Wednesdays.

I wanted to take some pictures of Lexi before class but she was not in the mood.

I still managed to get a few pictures that I liked.

(It's a good thing I'm stubborn and persistent or sometimes I would never get good pictures.)

 

And one picture of Lexi at class.

She has three friends in her class this year.

A friend from her kindergarten class, a friend from our apartment complex,

and a friend we met in Rexburg when Lexi was just a baby.

(I'll have to get pictures with the friends later.)

 



Avery was much more cooperative when I wanted to take her picture.

She even tried doing the ballet positions for me.

What a trooper!

 



Avery's cousin Halle is in her class again this year.

And one of Avery's friends from preschool last year is also in her class.

 

Isn't she adorable in her boot and cast and frilly dance outfit?!

 



 

Of course, Avery didn't actually dance in dance class. She got to be a helper and hold up the signs.

And she got to wave a scarf and wear a tiara.

She also got a treat with all the other girls at the end of class.

And she got to watch the girls start learning their routine for the recital in December.