Santa Claus

Kelsey is not a fan of Santa so we like to take her to Artis Photography as they're able to photoshop her in. This year she didn't even want to sit on the sleigh by herself so she was actually on my lap. You'd never know it! Josie was ok with Santa for one photo before she started crying. Maybe next year we'll get one with both girls happily on Santa's lap. A mom can dream right? :)

Preschool Holiday Party

We all had a fun time at Kelsey's preschool holiday party this year. Kelsey still wanted nothing to do with Santa but she did enjoy the crafts and puppet show.


Showing off her cookie (decorated by mom...directed by Kelsey)


At least someone sat with Santa this year!


My girls


Santa and Frosty

O Christmas Tree

Kelsey was a big help with the tree this year. She helped test all the lights and hang them....well she tried at least ;) She also put up a few ornaments but had more fun going through all of them and playing with them.


Hanging the lights


Mommy's helper










I think the advent calendar has been Kelsey's favorite thing this year. She can hardly wait each morning to open her "prize"


When we pulled out the snowman she said "I've missed you snowman!" and gave him a big hug

Crafty Holiday

Our best buds from playgroup came over for our annual holiday playdate. Sadly Matt wasn't able to make it due to being sick but the girls all had a grand time!


Hadley


Tehya


Kyra being silly

The girls had a great time doing crafts. They got to make presents, Christmas trees and necklaces. Thanks Tracy and Tehya for supplying the fun!

Double Wide

I finally broke down and bought a double stroller this last week with money saved from Great Grandma Simon and Uncle Ted. I'd had hesitations about buying a double stroller just because of the size of them. But I decided it would be much easier to take the girls for walks with a double jogger rather than continuing to put Josie in the Bjorn. They both seemed to love it and its been great so far! Thanks Grandma and Uncle Ted!


Taking up the trail :)


I think Kelsey's favorite part about the stroller is she gets to sit RIGHT next to Josie and hold her hand

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with Chuck's side of the family all making the trek to our house. While we had good intentions of taking a big family picture it never worked out. Here are a few highlights from our day.


Uncle Jeremy and Gigi


Aunt Ulynn was by far Josie's favorite!


Hanging with Uncle David


Grandpa napping after the big turkey dinner


Grandma managed to catch up on some much needed rest too


I love this picture because of Kelsey's adoring look at Macey. She LOVED having her around to play with and has asked every day where she is.

First Foods

Last week we gave Josie her first taste of rice cereal. Overall she seems to like it - its hard to tell for sure since she basically spits out most of it. But she doesn't make the totally disgusted face or gagging/coughing noise that Kelsey always did so we consider it to be a success :) The night we gave it to her she slept from 10-7. We thought we'd hit the jackpot! The next few times we gave it to her? Up every few hours. Guess it was a fluke!

Jump Planet Heaven

For those of you that know Kelsey - she's a little monkey. She loves to climb and jump on everything. So when her preschool had a trip to Jump Planet she was in heaven! After over 1.5 hours of non-stop bouncing, running, climbing and sliding with friends she slept great! Maybe we should go every night! ;)

All Aboard!

I love the creativity of toddlers! Kelsey loves making trains out of things...chairs, books, etc. Recently it was the bins that hold all her toys. A major mess was created but boy was it fun! :)


Getting everyone situated in their "seats"




She made sure that someone was in every "car". Sometimes the passengers decided to switch cars and got off at different stops. Thankfully there was always another passenger waiting to get on! :)

And the little one said "Roll Over"

Josie has been working on rolling over for a few weeks now but she either couldn't get the momentum down or her arms got in the way. Well all that practice has finally paid off and she's figured it out! She found it so exciting that we had a heck of a time getting her to sleep today because every time we'd lay her down (even if she was asleep) she'd start trying to roll :)