Christmas 2013

Christmas came quick this year! We started the winter break off with strep. Gracie came down with it on Saturday and postponed our leaving to Oklahoma until Monday. Wes came down with a virus that turned into a sinus infection. He was sick the entire time we were gone. Grace started feeling better by Christmas Day. We had three Christmas celebrations; one on Christmas Eve, one on Christmas Day and then the weekend after Christmas with my dad's family. We had fun at all of them!

We had a great time while we were there! We celebrated with tons of family!

December Fun

Wow! It's been a busy month! The month started off with an ice storm. We were iced in for about four days. Also, we had a couple of Christmas activities with church and the girls school.

Lots of ice!

So cold!

Riding the Polar Express with school

Li

Trying new food.

Listening to the story of Jesus' birth

We've had a great month so far! Just getting ready for Christmas Day!

Family Pictures Fall 2013

We had our family pictures taken again by our favorite photographer, Allison Lezon. The pictures turned out fantastic!

Halloween 2013

This Halloween Nana made the girls costumes. Lizzie was a cowgirl and Gracie was a fairy. The girls really loved picking out their fabric. We had tons of activities to this year to dress up. I'm glad they had sturdy costumes! First they worn them to our church's Halloween HullabaBOO, next they wore them to school and finally Halloween night. On Halloween, the dads at the school wore capes helped with drop off. The kids loved it.

Like every year, we went trick-or-treating with the Shers and Halsteads. It was a blast!

Fairy and Cowgirl off to the church festival

Us

The girls made Wes take pictures of their face painting before washing it off

It's funny they picked the same thing!

Super Wes!

Character parade at school

Holding her book

They each won a chance to paint the principal and assistant principal

Crazy girls ready to trick-or-treat

More crazy girls

Halloween is one of the girls favorite holidays! It was a great one for them!

Pumpkin Patch

October is a fun month for us. Lizzie and Gracie love Halloween and pumpkins. There is a small but sweet pumpkin patch close to the house that the girls love. Each year, we visit this pumpkin patch several times. After Halloween, Lizzie asks when the patch will be open again and talks about it all year.

Lizzie loves pumpkins

Gracie picking out pumpkins

Yay, Pumpkins!

We take this picture every year.

A little yoga in the pumpkin patch

Walking in the pumpkin

Sitting on pumpkins

Loving the pumpkin patch

Fall is a fun time around our house. Wes has already made his pumpkin muffins. All we need now is a pumpkin pie!

Things I Love......

As I heard Wes giving the girls a bath today, I heard the girls giggling a ton. They were teasing their daddy and thought it was hilarious. That got me thinking about the things I love about our two girls.

I love:

• Their laughs. I love that they tell silly jokes and that they think are funny
• Their independence - the way they can walk into a situation and be OK
• Their charm and sweetness - they make friends wherever they go
• The way they will apologize and act sweet as soon as they know they pushed us too far
• That they will tell me I look pretty
• Their hugs and kisses
• Our walks home from school where we talk about their day
• That they will still cuddle with me
• Their toughness - they don't cry anymore when they get shots
• That a band-aid will instantly make them feel better
• The way that they take care of each other
• That they say please and thank you without prompting from Wes or I

There are many more reasons,and these are just a few. I am thankful for these two little girls and say a prayer for them everyday as they go to school. They do have faults and test us on a regular basis but we do love them.

Grandparent's Day

This past Friday, the girls were lucky to have Grandma, Papa and Nana come to school for Grandparent's Day. Also, they celebrated World Peace Day and placed pinwheels in the ground in a giant peace sign. The girls loved it! It was a very special day for them. After school, we had to look at it again.

Nana, Grandma, Papa and the girls

Sweet Lizzie

Sweet Gracie

Gracie in the peace sign

Lizzie looking at all the pinwheels

Nana, Papa and the girls

Saturday was a full day of hanging out with Grandma, Papa and Nana. Grandma and Papa stayed until Sunday and we had fun! I think they were exhausted when they left.