While daddy's away

It's been a long week here for the Potters. Wes was offered a job last Friday and he took it. Which is great! The only problem is that they wanted him to start by traveling this past Monday to New Orleans to see a client and install the product.

So, that means a week for me of working full time and taking care of the girls by myself. It's been a long week. I had to start the girls back in daycare by myself with pick up and drop off. The girls have done well with only a little crankiness. I don't think they have gotten use to sleeping at the daycare yet and they miss their daddy. He has been taking care of them for most of their lives. It's been rough but we got through it!

This is a picture from the final family Christmas for 2009. Every year for my dad's side of the family we stay in a hotel and just hang out. The room had a closet with a sliding mirrored door. The girls discovered it and thought it was fun to play hide and seek.

Our Christmas was very busy for two weeks. The girls and I each got sick. That part wasn't fun. We did have a great time and hated to leave. We are now home and trying to settle back in.

Three down, one to go

We'll we have had three Christmases and have one to go. We have celebrated with the immediate family, my extended family on my mom's side and extended family on the Potter side. We just have the Cox family Christmas to go.

Last night, we had two sets of great-grandparents at my mom's house to visit with the girls. It was really fun to have all those people here! However, Gracie has been feeling a little under the weather. Hopefully, she'll feel better soon.

Lastly, something exciting happened to the family. We found my mom's WSJ article. She was quoted about the snow storm. Check out the article....

White Christmas

This is the second time in a month that the girls have seen snow. Very unusual for our little Texans. We are in Oklahoma for Christmas and are in the worst snow storm since 2000. They are calling it Blizzard 09. It started snowing Christmas Eve in the morning.

Anyway, the girls loved the falling snow. However, this morning when we took them out and put them in the snow, they hated it! They both cried. I brought Gracie in but Lizzie wanted to stay outside with daddy. She wanted to be held the whole time.

Their second Christmas was good. They loved their presents and loved watching their cousins open theirs. It was nice to spend the day with family!

Pictures with Santa didn't go so well.......

We had hoped it would go a little better than this......

What fun!

The girls went to a multiples play group on Saturday. There were seven sets of twins. It was a whole house full of kids. The girls had a blast. Below is a picture of them with their "boyfriends".

Thanksgiving

We spent this Thanksgiving in Alabama with Wes's family. The girls got to meet a lot of family for the first time! This was also the girls first time to go on a plane. It was an adventure. The only bad thing was that both girls were either teething or had a cold and a little cranky.

We flew American and they didn't let us pre-board on the way there. They told Wes we could board after first class. So here we are with 5 carry-ons, two babies, and two car seats. Wes was hitting people with all of his bags. The first flight attendant was really snotty to us. Other passengers got up and helped us. On the way back, Wes got a pass for his mom to come back and help. He found out we were supposed to pre-board. The flight back was fine. Lizzie slept and Gracie was awake.

The girls at DFW. We took our bags and made a little play pen for them.