The Nutcracker

This weekend I took my oldest baby girl to see the ballet "The Nutcracker." It was so much fun seeing her sweet little face light up as she saw all of the ballerina's and she absolutely loved the music. I have had the tickets for about 6 weeks and we had talked about it a lot leading up to it. We talked about everything from how we were going to get to get dressed up to how we would have to whisper during the performance (which was a little hard to remember). We had a great time and maybe next year baby sister will be old enough.

After the ballet we went to get ice cream, which Sam was very excited about. She absolutely hates to have her hands dirty or sticky so with every bite she had to use a wet wipe to get the sticky off her hands. Justin and I started calling her Howard Hughes a few months ago when we saw this behavior. Do you know how hard it is for a 2 year old to eat ice cream without getting sticky hands? It was exhausting and hilarious to watch!! Hope everyone has a good Christmas Eve!

Baby Doll Dreams

Tonight was a special night for Samantha. Her Aunt Sandie brought over some Christmas presents for both the girls. She gave Samantha a cabbage patch doll and when Samantha got the present about half way open and saw what it was she put her little hands over her mouth and started saying "Oh my goodness" over and over again it was absolutely precious. She is finally old enough to have quite a reaction when she gets something she likes. It was so cute and let me just say Aunt Sandie she loves your gift and has gone to bed with her. I haven't even given her the books yet because she was so taken by the doll. I am so sorry that you didn't get to see her open it but hopefully these pictures capture the moment well for you. Come see us next week and we can have a tea party with the new doll whose name is Laci by the way!!! Cute Cute Cute..... We love you and Merry Christmas!

Christmas Cards

It is 9 days and counting until Christmas and Justin and I decided that it was about time to send out Christmas cards..... All that counts is that people get them before Christmas right?? I couldn't get one of them both smiling in the same picture but they did a good job.... Here is a sneak peek of my little cuties Christmas cards!

Ice Storm

Ode to Electricity. How do I love thee let me count the ways.... I love love love electricity. We have had a bad ice storm here and we were without electricity for a day and were quite fortunate to get ours turned back on while many of our family and friends have not been so lucky. We feel quite blessed to be sitting in our warm house with our baby girls. All these pics are from either our house or houses in our neighborhood. There is going to have to be some serious tree cleanup once it all melts. While I am stating what I love let me just say that I love generators as well. If anyone wants any last minute Christmas ideas for us a big honking generator that will run everything in our house would be great! Hope everyone is staying warm!!!

Baby doll brush

It has been ages since I have had time to blog, but I thought I better take the time to get this funny story written down. The things that Samantha has to say to me are hysterical! Justin was out of town this week and as you know that can make for very long days. One of the evenings I was chatting on the phone and Sam comes up to me and says "Moma where is my baby doll's brush?" she wanted this tiny brush for one of her dolls that I keep put up because for one it is so small I am afraid that she will lose it, and secondly because I don't want Ally to choke on it. So since I am on the phone and it is so close to bedtime I tell her "I don't know where it is." I go back to my phone call and this answer simply was not good enough. She proceeded to ask me where it was 2 or 3 more times and each time I told her that I didn't know. She was getting louder every time she asked hello can't children see when you have a phone in your hand? Laf! After a few more times she tells me "Moma I think it is in the dishwasher" I start laughing and tell her that I don't think so and she tells me "Yes I think it is." After telling me this a few more times she gets distracted and finally goes off to do something else. We go to bed for the night and there is no more talk of the brush. When we wake up in the morning she is standing at the top of our stairs looking over the landing waiting on me and she sees the brush up on top of the bookshelf and she starts in "Oh Moma look there is the baby doll brush" and I say tell her "oh ok" like I didn't know where it was and she says "Moma we need to get it." I tell her well hold on a sec and that I need to run back in my bedroom to get something and she tells me loudly "Moma you are making me very upset about this baby doll brush." All I could do was crack up, she says such funny things everyday. She has turned into such a little girl over night and has really good conversations with us, it is just adorable. The conversations with her sister are a little less mature lately when she hears her cry she tells her "Ally get a grip." Laf!

Can you believe it??

What is happening to my baby? Alexandra is 7 months old and she is not only crawling but now she is pulling up!!! Can you believe this? She is so tiny, but she so desperately wants to play with her big sister. I caught a cute picture of her today pulling up and looking out the window....

Isn't she adorable!!!??? Could someone please tell her to stop growing so stinking fast?

Tales of Elmo and The Bunny

The girls had a great Halloween. They went and Trick or Treated at Daddy's office and then we went to the Trunk or Treat at our church. The girls had an absolute blast playing and watching the other kids. Samantha thought she was some kind of celebrity because all the adults and all the children every time they would see her would say "oh look there is Elmo" needless to say by the time she got home she thought she was something pretty special. Ally had an equally good time watching everything and really wanted to get involved in it all.

After our great Halloween though Sam woke up with a 102 temp and has been running between 102 and 104 degree temp since. She feels awful and has not had anything to eat to speak of since Halloween. I took her to the doctor yesterday and she has blisters in her mouth, they tested her for strep throat but it turns out it is just a virus and we have to let it run its coarse... Yuck.... On top of all that it is highly contagious and chances are before its all over it will make its rounds through my house. Ain't that Grand???!!!