Christmas and Birthday

We had a fun Christmas this year.  Nothing super fancy, no exciting trips, just fun here at home with family, trying to remind everyone the true meaning of Christmas as often as possible!

Here are some photos right before Christmas at school with some gingerbread houses made by T and A.

Going downtown to see the lights.  It was SO cold!

Christmas Day, Sunny found treats in her stocking first.

Kids with stockings and presents.

My birthday is 5 days after. 39 years old this year, next is the big 40! BUT 40 is the new 20, right?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Merry Christmas 2013

Dance Recital

Saturday the 14th was the girls dance recital.  This was L's first recital and she was excited.  A was very confident and felt so experienced.  It was SO fun to watch!  L danced to Lasso Santa Claus and was the cutest cowgirl and A danced to What's This? from Nightmare Before Christmas.  They both did so awesome!  

The Thursday before we practiced with A's makeup, since she's on a competition team there is a certain way she was supposed to do her makeup.  We had a glittery lip major fail.  It was funny and we did figure out a better way to do it for the recital.  

Glittery Lip Fail:

Before recital started:

After show was over:

Photo Bomber

So proud of my beautiful girls :)  You guys did AWESOME!

10th Birthday

On the 2nd we celebrated the birthday of our 2nd boy!  He is growing up so fast and although I totally miss his sweet chubby little baby self, I'm loving the boy he's growing into!  He's such a deep thinker, thoughtful of others, smart, conscientious student (although he doesn't love school), good friend, kind brother (most of the time - we all have our "moments") and all around GREAT kid!

We love him so much and are so grateful he is part of our family!  Happy 10th birthday!  He was born at 2:56am on Dec 2, 2003 and at 2:56am on this Dec 2 he came into our room and told us the time.  I knew exactly what he was thinking (it's officially my birthday and now I'm REALLY 10 years old) so Larry and I wished him a Happy Birthday and told him to go back to sleep.  He's a funny guy - that's totally how he works :).

This year we had a family party and invited Grandma and Grandpa and Grandpa B. over for dinner and cake and ice cream.

Grandma and Grandpa brought a friend for Sunny too!

Happy Birthday! We LOVE you!