Happy New Year!

Wishing you a 2010 filled with peace, joy, and love!

We're welcoming the new year in in style....

Merry Christmas!

We wish you all a very merry Christmas! We enjoyed an amazing morning at home with the girls yesterday where they were thrilled to find all that Santa had delivered. Ellie had a couple big gifts this year (a bike with training wheels, roller skates) and her favorites were the piggy bank from Santa and a microwave from Aunt Barbie. They also loved their joint gifts - an art easel from Grandpa and a toddler basketball hoop from us. Audrey was much more into the excitement and mess than the actual presents of course! After opening and playing with their new toys, we drove up to Mimi and Boppa's house to see the girls' grandparents, great-grandma Olive, Aunt TT, Uncle Ty, and baby Addie. Round two of presents commenced and we've been relaxing here since then. We hope you all are enjoying your time with family and friends and we wish we could see more of you this holiday season!

Ellie quickly figured out how to ride her new bike

Opening presents!

Ellie learned how to roller skate in our kitchen :-)

At Mimi and Boppa's house, Ellie got a "laptop"!

Audrey's favorite gifts involved her babies - a highchair...

and a bottle set!

Ellie's Fancy Nancy skirt and shoes

Audrey, Addie, and Ellie - Santa's newest reindeers

The big cousins help feed the littlest cousin her bottle

Ellie and Audrey with great-grandma Olive

Audrey helping Mimi make dinner

Three little cousins

Christmas Eve

We have had such a wonderful few weeks leading up to Christmas! The girls have really enjoyed all the sights and sounds of this holiday season. Audrey has especially enjoyed the lights! The past week has seemed full of preparations for tomorrow. They had their Christmas party at school yesterday and Ellie's best friend came over this morning to decorate cookies with us. As we do with every holiday, we dressed the girls up in festive garb for a week or so beforehand and tried to take a picture every morning.

We wish you and yours a very merry Christmas! At our house, the stage is set downstairs for a magical morning!

Ready for Santa!

Winter fun!

We woke to a winter wonderland this morning and two very excited little girls! We have at least 12 inches of snow on the ground and it is cold. Although last night was too cold for them to play in the snow, I took Ellie out this morning for some fun. Audrey watched from inside with Lori and we had a good time throwing snowballs at the door!

City Kids

We are in the midst of our first big snowstorm of the season and are anticipating up to 12 inches of snow by tomorrow morning. Instead of letting the kids go out to play, here's what they're up to....

Why go outside in the freezing cold when you can sit inside with the fire, see outside, and still play with the snow?!?!