February

February was a busy month for us. I changed jobs in the middle of the month and started working from home. It was a great transition and nice change of pace.

We had snow days where we played in the snow!

 We celebrated my grandma's 90th birthday with a great party.

We skate almost every weekend and love taking lessons. 

For children's Sunday, they served as ushers for two of the services.

Sometimes on Fridays, we go get donuts before school.

On one of the snow days, the girls played dress up.

Snow!!!

Christmas 2014

We had an excellent Christmas! It was so fun. We spent it in Oklahoma with my family. Santa came to Grandma and Papa's. Before we left town, we went to see Santa. 

Seeing Santa

 The Sunday before Christmas, we went to my parents church. It was a good service. They have this beautiful sleigh and Christmas trees set up, so we took advantage and took some pictures.

The girls

With Grandma and Papa

All of us

Cousins walking out of Christmas Eve Services

 On Christmas Day, after opening presents, Wes made breakfast. After breakfast, my sister and her family came over for lunch. We had a fun day celebrating Christ's birth.

Our dolls!

Lizzie's doll looks like her cousin

 The day after Christmas, my cousins family, aunt and uncle came over. We had dinner and fun!

More cousins!

Sweet cousins and my sister.

more cousins

My aunt and uncle

Manicure party

Saturday, we were woken to Lizzie saying "there's snow!" Sure enough, there was some snow on the ground. We had to run to get shoes, hats and gloves. We weren't quite prepared for snow.

Snow!

Later on Saturday, we headed to meet up with my dad's family for Christmas. We had fun visiting with his family. On Sunday, we had to leave to head back home. Wes had work on Monday.

 Before we left town, we stopped by my grandma's place. I snapped a few pictures before we left. The girls love to make great-grandma pictures while they are there and tape them to her door.

The girls and great-grandma

All of us!

Love this!

We hope this Christmas and New Year that you find light in the darkness, love for one another and peace.  

Christmas Performances

The girls have been singing with the choir in church since they were four. They have loved it each year. Yesterday, they sang in church and then again at the Christmas Pops concert.

Getting ready to sing in church

With the choir

Singing at the Pops Concert

They did great and had a blast! Gracie's teacher even came and watched her sing. It meant a lot to Grace. The Christmas Season is in full swing!

Thanksgiving 2014

We had a great Thanksgiving! We went to Oklahoma and spent time with family. The girls spent the whole week there because they were out of school. Wes and I came up on Wednesday. On Thursday, Nana came up to spend the weekend with us.

On Thanksgiving, we saw a ton of family. My cousin's family came over and the kids all had a blast playing. It was a great day!

We had a great time with all our family. I only took pictures on Thanksgiving and then only of the kids.

Halloween!

We had another fun Halloween season. The girls decided what they were wearing about three months ago. Again this year, Nana made their beautiful costumes. The girls looked great! Lizzie was Elsa and Gracie was DracuLaura from Monster High.

We first attended the Halloween HullabaBOO at our church. The girls had a blast playing games, trunk or treating, and decorating cookies. One of the games was to count the number of candy corn in a basket. Lizzie actually guessed the right number! After Gracie heard, she hopped back in line and wanted to guess the number. I told her she already had her chance and she found something else to play.

DracuLaura and Elsa

At school on Halloween, the girls had Character Day. They wore their costumes from last year and Lizzie was a cowgirl and Gracie was a fairy. They had a blast and were excited to dress up for school.

Finally that night, the girls put on their costumes. First, we trick or treated at the girls teachers' houses. Both girls loved it and their teachers are really sweet. Next, we met up with friends at Sonic and ate dinner. After that, we met up with even more friends and went trick or treating.

In case you are wondering, Gracie is hissing.

We all had a ton of fun! The girls were giggling and running from house to house. It was such a long and fun day that Gracie came straight home, put on her PJs and hopped into bed. She was asleep in no time flat!

Thanks to the Sher's for trick or treating with us again!

Fall Break!

Recently, we took the girls to Colorado for fall break. We had a great time. The girls were excited about the trip and flying in an airplane. They couldn't wait to stay in the hotel. They called it the family field trip.

In the van on the way to the airport

We got there about mid-day and just drove around. We stayed in Durango and spent a lot of time driving and looking at the beautiful mountains.

The next day, we went to Mesa Verde to see the cliff dwellings. They were really cool to see. Lizzie and I started getting a little altitude sickness.On the way back to the hotel, we stopped at this really cool shop and the girls got dream catchers.Then as we got closer to Durango, Wes made a comment about how low the clouds were. Turns out, it wasn't clouds. It was snow! We were in a brief snow shower. It was interesting. It was sunny and about 50 degrees then dropped to 30 degrees for about 15 minutes and then sunny and 50 degrees again.

On our way to Mesa Verde

Before we went down to see them

Up closer

On Monday, we went to Chimney Rock. Turns out, it was closed but we found prairie dogs instead! It was so fun to watch them. I think the girls could have watched them all day! It reminded me of being a kid and watching prairie dogs.

Looking in the hole to find one

Checking things out

After the prairie dogs, we went to Pagosa Springs for lunch and to check out the river and the springs.

By the river

Us!

Huge fun chess set

Posing by hot springs

After we left Pagosa Springs, we headed to Silverton. We drove up into the mountain and saw snow! Lizzie and Gracie were so excited to see snow. They kept throwing snow balls at each other.

Standing on a mountain in the snow!

Tuesday, we headed home. We were exhausted but had a great time! We loved Colorado and going on our adventure. It was nice to spend family time together, swim in the pool and see something new.

Gracie posing in the airport

Lizzie at the airport

There were many times that I was reminded of being a kid and going on vacation with my parents and sister.