Silly Girls

Izze loves to take a bath, mostly so she can splash water and torture Addie.  The other day I ran the water but didn't want to put Izze in the tub until I had finished something in the other room (Izze likes to lay on her stomach in the tub, worries me a bit), well I came back in to find Izze had climbed into the tub pajamas and all!  She was so proud of herself and I couldn't help but laugh and grab the camera, of course.

The girls love to play together and they do pretty well especially in the mornings after a good night's rest.  I came into the room to find them with all of their baby dolls and animals all snuggled on the bed waiting to watch a movie.

Winter Blues

How do you spend your winter days?  Here's a look into what we do to pass away the time until we can head outdoors again without freezing to death...

Play peek-a-boo with beanie hats

Where is Addie?

There she is...

Izze loves to do anything Addie does, she follows her every move.

Silly Girls

Baked some mini brownies, turned out hard as a rock, my bad!  Luckily my new brownie pan worked so it wasn't a total loss.

Addie loves to line up all her dolls on the stairs, it must have been a cold day because she found blankets for each one of them.  Wait who am I kidding, of course it was a cold day!

Snow Angels

Since the big snow storm last week Addie has been begging to go outside and make snow angels.  Every day I have come up with some excuse, but then starting feeling guilty, so we bundled up and off we went to make snow angels in 15 degree weather!  Addie loved every minute of it and I thought it was pretty fun too, surprisingly.  I thought she would give up after 10 maybe 15 minutes because it was so cold, but she was out there for a good hour!  Andrew and I tag teamed it, because it was so cold and I am a whimp :)  Izze kept looking out the window and finally got her chance to join us, I think we are made of the same blood because she grabbed my hand and led me to the door not long after she came outside.

Downtown Fun

Earlier this week (before all the snow made us home bound) we ventured downtown to see the decorated Christmas windows at the Grand America Hotel.  Addie was so excited to be able to see her cousins, she keeps asking why she hasn't had school--still trying to comprehend the whole Christmas break thing.  We had fun riding trax, checking out the windows, shopping at the Gateway, and lunch.

Christmas Day

We had a fun Christmas Day together as a family and then we went over to spend the afternoon with Andrew's family.  The girls loved their presents and we loved watching them open all of them.  The favorites would be the Barbie guitar and Princess piano, it has turned into a regular dance party/music fest at our house.  We are so grateful for this wonderful time of year and all of our family and friends, we hope you had a very Merry Christmas as well.

Izze attempting to talk on the phone.

Addie has loved drawing on this chalkboard/white board.  I had no idea the things she has learned to draw, so fun to see all of the various pictures.

This is the infamous pretend elephant, Addie was so excited!

Let the music fest begin...

This is how we found Addie after church, somewhere she ditched her skirt and shoes and felt inclined to jam out before changing the rest of her clothes!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we went to Chick-a-lay (Addie's pronunciation) for lunch.  The cow was dressed up outside as Santa and Addie wanted to go say hi, so I figured we should take a picture too.

 We spent the day with Andrew's family and then came home to open our family exchange presents and pajamas, then put out cookies and a brewsky for Santa.  

Cabela's Santa

The Saturday before Christmas we met our friends at Cabela's so the girls could visit Santa and tell him what they wanted for Christmas.  We got there early and only had to stand in line for a little bit, such the way to go!  Before Addie sat on Santa's lap I asked her what she was going to ask Santa for, mostly to make sure she understood what was about to happen and to make sure she would say something instead of just sitting there.  I don't remember what she told me, but it doesn't matter because after she spoke with Santa she told me she asked for a "pretend elephant".  I have no idea where this idea came from, but for the next week all she told us and those who asked is that Santa was bringing her a pretend elephant.  In case you are wondering there are not that many pretend elephants hanging around at Christmas time, lots of puppies, monkeys, bears but no elephants.  Luckily Santa was able to pull through with a pretend elephant on Christmas morning, and thank goodness because that is the first thing Addie asked for when she woke up that day.  On a side note, Izze would have nothing to do with Santa, she clung to my jacket and would go no where near him, it was hilarious!

This is one huge camping chair!  The girls thought it was so fun to sit in :)