Monday, December 9, 2013

Grammy and Papa Rich came for an early Christmas!!!


Happiness is being together!
Best friends-- these two clicked from the very beginning.
Getting ready with Grammy is a tradition 
Finished products ;)
Visiting Jason at work ;)


Matchies standing in front of the tree- looking gorgeous 
On a walk at the river walk ;)
One last cuddle ;) 

Thanksgiving 2013


Emmy wanted her standard request - one braid-- so we spiced it up a bit.
Poor Callan-- with an abundance of girls toys-- and not so many manly "things that go vroom" he is forced to push around books... At least I know what he wants for Christmas! 
Ellie - with her turkey "chicken little"
A close up of chicken little-- she picked the feather, feet, head and beak placement-- such an interesting perspective.- my favorite thankful feathers  "my favorite papa" "Daniel tiger" and "I love Jesus"
Emmy and "Foxy Loxy"- her turkey
A close up of her masterpiece -- my favorite thankful feathers..."Kansas city- where it snows" "josh- who plays with me" and "home" 

2 smiling... Always 2.
We went to visit daddy at work-- it was a very fun time! 
The "beast" as the girls were convinced it is called... I corrected then several times-- but it always reverted to their beast. Whatever.  Our friends were kind enough to invite us over to their house for a heavenly beast (feast) -- Delish!!! Great food and great friends-- I am so thankful for friends who are there even when family is far away!
And the night ended like this-- my sleeping angel boy in my arms and the girls in their daddy's arms-- we have so much to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving with our little family ;) and tree decorating!!

Jason worked on Thanksgiving- so on Saturday (he had the day time off because he had night shift that night) we had our own mini thanksgiving! It was a "beast" as the girls call it-- and it was Delish!!


Then we put up our tree and decorated!!
The kiddos loved the festivities ;)

The stockings were hung!-- here is Elles 
Ems
Callan
Finished product
Our family tradition is to sleep in front of the tree the first night it's decorated-- Jason missed the party-- but it was fun!
Emmy putting up the star with daddy

The decorating was quite a party.

I love these cutie pies!!

Frozen!!!!

We went to see Frozen!!!! We surprised the girls and they were sooo excited!
The girls decided who they wanted to be-- Emmy was Anna and Elles was Elsa-- we hadn't seen the movie -- so they didn't know the characters-- but they got it right-- funny!
Here Ellie is freezing everything.-- they were so excited-
Callan stayed at a friend's house-- she sent me this so I wouldn't worry-- it was a very fun night!

Santa came early and brought fuzz ball!!

We had a friend offer a free guinea pig to Santa including the cage, food, and bedding! Jingle reported that the girls were ready for a pet- and so Santa left it on the front porch. Emmy- most of all- is over the moon.