Shamrock Cookies

We made some shamrock cookies today - my very favorite cookies in the whole world :-)

Gymnastics

Celia has moved up to the next level in gymnastics. We can only watch during "observation day" and we had our first one. She's getting really good! For the youngest kid in there, she definitely has the most skills.

Snowman Family

Sesame Street Live

We went to Sesame Street Live AGAIN ( this was the 6th or 7th year I think) b/c Dad gets free tickets at work.

Christmas Program

Celia had her pre-school Christmas program in January. The kids didn't have much time to practice since there were so many snow days, but it was cute to watch.

Snow in Tub

Another snow day means it's time to get creative........the girls loved having snow in the tub to play with - Hannah Montana barbie took a hot tub!

Dog Bath

We had another snow day today (the 4th one so far) so we decided to give the dog a bath. Celia had fun helping clean Maggie. Now the house smells like "wet dog" instead of "stinky dog".

Cousins visit

Allie and Celia's cousins, Ross, Ian and Mackenzie, came to visit on their way home from Colorado. The girls had fun seeing them.

Christmas Eve/Day

Another blizzard!

We got another 10 -12 inches dumped on Christmas day! They even closed down the interstate. CHeck out the pile of snow on our patio table.....

Snowman

The girls made a couple snowmen today now that it's not so cold outside.....

Santa

During the 2nd snow day, we visited Santa at the mall. For the first time in 3 years we have a good picture with him!

Snowstorm

The girls helped me shovel when we were dumped with 12 inches of snow a couple weeks ago. We even had 3 snow days as a result!

Allie dancing before Parade

Allie danced before the Star City Parade on Saturday. Temps were in the 20s and it was really cold, but she did a good job. It was a good parade too, 100,000 people came out for it!

Christmas Tree

We went and picked out our own x-mas tree and had it cut down. It is really pretty and was definitely worth it!

Thanksgiving

Grandma came to town for Thanksgiving. The girls had lots of fun with her, and enjoyed going shopping and staying at her hotel.

Jack-O-Lanterns

Check out the cool pumpkins I made :-)

Allie's First Sleep-over

Allie had her first sleepover and it went pretty well, except for her friend Abby waking up at the crack of dawn the next day! THey watched movies and had monkey bread in the morning :-)

Pumpkin Patch

This year we went to the HUGE Vala's Pumpkin Patch in Gretna. Only b/c we got free tickets. Boy was there lots to do there! It was cold out, but a good time.