I decided to take advantage of the snow and take some Christmas pictures in January, the time line won't matter in the scrapbook.
Three little stinkers all in a row.
Caleb went behind the tree and shook it so the snow fell down on the girls, I was hoping it would fall on their heads more.
We made a giant snowman in our yard, Caleb and I had to put the middle ball on a folding chair and lift it because it was so heavy.
I really didn't think there would be any snow this year, just rain, but I was delighted when we woke up one morning to SNOW!! The girls were so excited and started to get ready to go out at 7:30, but I made them wait till 8:30, and even though there was barely an inch of snow they had a great time.
We went over to a friends house and went sledding on their 'hill' which was maybe 3 feet tall, but they didn't care.
I told the girls to smile nice and this is what I got, I guess I should be grateful they sat still at all.
Snow angles!
After playing with friends we went inside for a hot chocolate break and then it was back out into the snow. We built an awesome snowman which the girls decided was Mrs. Claus because she had eye brows.
Then we went to a slightly bigger hill for more sledding. I thought the hill would be all torn up because it is practically the only hill in the neighborhood but no one else had touched it. Caleb was on his way home from a weekend in Portland but he showed up for the last 5 minutes.
The next day Caleb took the girls sledding again in the morning and then they played in the front of our house for another hour and a half after lunch. I thought they would be sick of snow by now but Alyssa said "I can't wait to play in the snow tomorrow" when I was putting her to bed, unfortunately she is back to school tomorrow.
My little girl turned 6 this year (if you add her birth date together 1-11-12 (1+1+1+1+2=6) it equals 6, awesome). Someone at school told her about smiley eyes and so she wouldn't give me a normal smile. We just had a classic birthday at our house, I thought of a few games and thought that it would be enough...wrong! my games lasted an hour and then we had to fill the rest of the time trying to think of games, but the kids had fun and I don't think they noticed.
The first activity was crazy balloon frenzy, the kids just went cray playing with the balloons waiting for the guests to arrive.
After the initial chaos we decorated tails for 'pin the tail on the donkey'
Duck, duck, goose
Playing freeze tag outside
Megan froze in silly ways
Making necklaces
musical chairs with alyssa's favorite songs 'dancing queen' and 'mama mia' by abba
Of course there was cake
Alyssa wanted an ice cream cake with her name written on it and whatever my baby wants my baby gets! there is chocolate ice cream on the inside, yum
Hello Kitty is Alyssa's favorite character at the moment
Mom and dad got her a new bike because she has already out grown the one I bought her last year for her birthday! I'm glad that she had the smaller bike while she was learning to ride without training wheels, but it was time for an upgrade.
Megan was a stinker all week because she wanted it to be her birthday, she has six whole months to wait!
Alyssa's top tooth was super wiggly all through Christmas but it didn't fall out until the day after, she has lost a total of 6 teeth, 4 are still missing and 2 have grown back in. Megan keeps wiggling her teeth and hoping the fall out soon.
It was great having my parents come for Christmas, the girls miss having family around (we would visit at least twice a week when we were in Utah).
Chloe loved the Christmas tree, she would hid inside of it, take the ornaments off and rolled them around the house, and she ruined the ribbon too many times to count, she was a little stinker.
My kids are not early risers so our morning started around 8, which was just fine with me!
The big gift for Alyssa was her Twinkle Toe shoes which light up really bright. We were in the car at night and I thought a cop was following us but it was just Alyssa's shoes. Megan got some light up shoes too.
Grandma Hamblin bough the girls really nice dolls and my Aunt Lisa made extra dresses for them to dress them up.
Thanks Aunt Becky!!
Megan got 4 Barbies and she was in Heaven
later that day Caleb's parents came up to join us for Christmas dinner it was really nice having so much family around for Christmas. Alyssa was my big helper, she helped me make rolls and set the table.
