Topham Talk: Catch-Up Time!

I sure haven't taken very many pictures so far this year. Guess we've been pretty boring lately:)

Sunday afternoons are usually filled with basketball or football playing in the living room since it's too cold to go outside right now. Halle doesn't miss a second of it either. She's not really a girly girl, but how can ya be when the only thing you see is your brother's playing sports or watching them on TV. She really doesn't even mind being tackled once in a while, and she loves to be the one doing the tackling.

Once in a while she decides she wants to wear her princess dresses. She has four of them but only ever wears the "Tangled" dress. As much as I try to get her to be girly it just doesn't happen. The only thing different than the boys is that she wants to pick what she wears and changes her clothes a million times a day, and the dramatic attitude:)

Thought I better get a picture of her in her dress while she actually had one on!!

She did have a tea party with some of her dolls....once. Pretty much the only time she's played with the Rapunzel doll she got for Christmas. Oh...and she hates to get her hair done. Thus the beautiful hair in all the pictures:)

Wearing the boys hats at Grandma's house!

She does like to put make-up on, which is a good sign:) Only she wants to do it by herself and wear a lot of it.

And these are the kind of things that happen because Halle is Miss Independent...a little, ok a lot, annoying at times.....

didn't quite get her legs through the right holes of her underwear...

...and I guess it's not too uncomfortable to wear your pants backwards.

She also thinks she's big like the boys and can sleep out on the floor on Saturday nights with them. She usually never falls asleep before the movie is over, but she must have been pooped this day.

Goofin' off in the car with brother's hat again

Just a pic of when she was sick one day...took a nap on the couch for a few hours. Sometimes being sick isn't all bad:)

The kids got some extra large sugar cookies from Grandpa Topham for Valentine's Day this year. Yum!!!

Halle loves to copy the boys and do whatever they are doing. Austin will sometimes use a little basketball as a pillow while he's watching TV, I found Halle copying him one night. Pretty cute.

We went up to Ogden this year for state basketball and had a great time. The girls did really well too. Ended up taking 5th place! It was really fun.

Of course the only thing the kids wanna do when ya stay in a hotel is swim. Thanks to my Dad for being Grandpa of the year and swimming with my kids in the pool since Kurtis was gone and I wasn't able to get in the pool. And Austin was such a good big brother and helped Halle too. What a good guy!!

Tate and Halle chillin' during one of the state games...they're really good at pulling faces!

After state basketball there's always a banquet, and we took the kids this year. Before it started Halle was running around having a great time, and I thought I'd let her get some energy out before she had to sit still for a while. Probably 30 seconds before Kurtis was about to start the banquet I hear crying from across the room. Didn't think it was a big deal, thought she maybe just tripped or something. Then I got over to her and saw some blood running down her face and knew it probably meant a trip to the hospital. She looks happy about it huh:) Not for sure what happened, but pretty sure a table jumped right out of nowhere and hit her in the head!!

The night of the big crash...sleepin' like a baby! Really glad I paid a lot of money to go to the ER so they could glue her forehead, then have her pick the glue off the next night so it pretty much did no good.

Two rare occasions...princess dress on AND falling asleep on the floor!!

St. Patrick's Day!!!

We made green waffles, green scrambled eggs, and had green milk. Tate is sooooo picky, the green eggs and green milk were just too much for him. He frustrates me pretty bad when it comes to meal time. He usually takes one look at whatever I put on the table and says..."How many bites do I have to eat??" I can't tell you how many times he's gagged, literally, on his food. And he's often a vegetarian. Won't eat anything with hamburger in it and usually won't eat chicken unless it's in nugget form. He really wanted to try the green milk on St. Patrick's day but when it came right down to it he couldn't make himself do it. And he gagged just looking at the eggs.