Happy New Year!

The girlies still love watching our "2009 Year in Photos" video (ok, ok, I do too!), so I decided I HAD to make one for 2011. Maybe someday I'll get ambitious and do 2010 since I missed it. :)

For now, here's 2011:

Cool Yule!

Again, I'm late on the upload. Here are my favorite photos from Natalie's Christmas dance recital "Cool Yule," and a video to boot! :)

I was SO proud of our little snow princess. You can tell she has matured and changed so much just since June in her Mary Poppins recital. She's really trying to learn the routines and follow Miss Jesi!

In the Summertime

I must get myself to bed, but I wanted to post these cute little videos of the girls at the pool in Ohio this past weekend.

Mollie is VERY cautious about most everything, pools and water definitely included. She barely wanted to wade in the baby pool until all of a sudden she saw Natalie going down the slide all by herself. Then she said, "My tun! I side!" So I kind of ignored it for a bit, but she persisted, so Brad took her down. The first time, the sounds she made were less than enthusiastic, but that little thing trucked herself right back up and wanted to do it again - and again - and again - and AGAIN. I am not exaggerating AT ALL when I tell you that Brad took her down about 30 times, I took her twice, and Sheila took her probably 15 times. I think Mollie went down the slide more than anyone else!

Here are a couple clips of Mollie sliding and RUNNING back to the stairs.




Natalie had an absolute blast and has no fear of the water. In fact, I wish she had a little more fear, but we're working on it. :) She keeps her trusty Puddle Jumper on (as does Mollie), and she's good to go. I was proud of her sliding all by herself with her cousins. She (like her dear old mom) is not quite as coordinated with the sliding and ends up completely dunking herself at the bottom, but it doesn't phase her one bit!

Twinkle Twinkle & More

This is long and random, but I wanted to capture some of what the girlies are doing right now, especially Mollie because I feel like we don't have any videos of her! This was actually taken about 6 weeks ago, on my birthday!

Girlies from Sarah Billheimer on Vimeo.

Mollie Sings Backup

I took this back in February, but never posted it. Mollie will still sing the "Hey!" part of Jingle Bells. It cracks us up! :)

Jingle Bells from Sarah Billheimer on Vimeo.

Mollie has something to show you!

Earlier this evening, I was inside making a grocery list, and Brad took the girls out to look at the garden and play in the backyard. All of a sudden, I hear this loud bang on one of the kitchen windows, and I see Brad motioning for me to come out. I can see a tiny little pink figure out in the middle of the yard . . . standing up! So I run out, then run back in to grab the camera. She just started doing standing out of the blue, with no prompting! Too cute! Note how at the verrrrry start of the video, she's attempting to clap - which then kind of causes her to lose her balance. She kept doing it over and over and over for quite a while. She even almost perfected clapping for herself at the same time! ;) :)

Mollie's First Stand! from Sarah Billheimer on Vimeo.