Bikes and Cozy Coopes

My girls really love riding on their toys. Even today despite being sick half the night and most of the day, the only thing that they wanted to do was to play outside. Here are a few pictures of them playing and a couple of videos. Rylee has finally figured out how to peddle on her big girl bike so that is a couple of the videos and the other is of her pushing Kenzie. She loved doing it this afternoon!








Rylee filling up the cozy coope with gas















Then 2 bonus pictures of my girls and their blankies...they both love them!



Please excuse my hair...it was a rough night last night...

Happy Birthday Rylee

This weekend was kinda a whirlwind with both girl's birthdays so close together. I'm a little out of order but I'm going to post the pictures of Rylee's party first since it's the majority of the pictures that we took of her on her actual birthday. That way she can have a dedicated post like Makenzie.

Her party was great. This year we decided to stick with the idea of just immediate family and a few of her friends. We ended up with 5 kids plus my 2 there. They all had a really great time and got along really great. Here are the kids that came...

First Rylee the birthday girl



our neighbor Karley, who is about 6 weeks older than Rylee


her brother Nate who turned 2 in December


Bryton who will be 2 in May


Tyler, my roommate from college Sarah's little boy, who turned 2 in January


and Graylan who will be 2 in April

I decided to be a little crafty and got the kids flower pots for them to decorate so that they could have something to remember from the party. Everyone had fun decorating!








Then we opened presents...Rylee got a little help from a few friends.












Then finally we ate dirt cake! I wanted to be a little different since we had just had regular cake at Makenzie's party so we did dirt cake.

Happy Birthday Makenzie

I can't believe it has been a whole year since Makenzie Grace joined our family. She is such a sweet girl and has added to our family in ways I couldn't even imagine a year ago. She is such a sweet sister to Rylee and loves to give her hugs and kisses and is branching out and maybe becoming a little bit of a Daddy's girl now. She has the best smile and loves to flash it all times of the day. She does have her Daddy's temper and is quick to show it when her sister takes a toy she wants. We are working on that though! She loves to walk around the house holding hands with Mom or Dad and follows sister to do anything she's doing. We can't wait to spend many more years to come loving on her! We love you Makenzie Grace Bennett!
Here are some pictures from our day today...






Giving Mary a kiss




She did this all by herself...feeding Mary




with Nana


giving Elmo a hug



And we can't leave out sister...so here are a few of her too

The playground

We have had some really nice weather here the past couple of days. My mom got to take the girls to the play ground last week before we all started getting sick. They loved it! Here are some pictures.

















And a few from just playing...

Pretty Day

Today was a pretty day and we were able to go outside and play for a few minutes. Both kids really loved it! Here are a few pictures from it.














Then tonight we went ahead and gave the girls their Valentines day gifts (or as Rylee told her Dad, their dinosaur gifts) since we won't have much time in the morning. Here they are opening their cards and gifts.