Christmas 2013

Tim made the girls skate mates for Christmas (they are basically walkers for learning to roller skate).  We usually open one present the Saturday before Christmas and since it was going to be a warm weekend we let the girls open the skate mates.  They were super excited and wanted to go out and try them right then- yes at 6 something AM!

LOVE this sweet girl!!! ^

Christmas dresses!

The church near our house does a spontaneous nativity where the kids can dress up and participate in the reading the the Christmas story.  Both girls wanted to be angels this year.

Three angels and a shepherd!

Cassidy being a smiley girl!

Christmas eve night we opened our stockings.

Cassidy loves things she can shake- so she loved the skittle canes!

Made the girls keep their eyes closed (Santa doesn’t wrap his presents!)

They were super excited!!

Christmas morning breakfast with our birthday cake for Jesus.

Piper playing Daddy’s box drum

Christmas day hot tub dip!

Cassidy & I held down the fort!  Merry Christmas!!

Thanksmas 2013

Every year we get together with my side of the family sometime in December for a combo Thanksgiving/Christmas= Thanksmas.  Last year I didn’t get to go because I was in Florida waiting for sweet Cassidy to be born.  I was so happy to be there this year and it was SO fun seeing all the cousins together! 

The night before we left Cassidy got into the Cheerios…. they are her new LOVE!

There are three baby cousins all two months apart.

Most of our time was at my parents house but we got to spent the night with Grandma Diane (Tim’s mom) house

The girls had fun opening their gifts from her!

And playing with her hats!

Cassidy loved all the attention!

Saturday we spent some time at the soup kitchen my dad serves at.  Our family was able to serve together and give the other volunteers the day off.  It was a great experience and made a big impact on my girls!

hahahahahaha ^ this pic is great!  The girls LOVE Liza!

They took their jobs very seriously!  Piper was in charge of napkins and PB sandwhiches and Izzy was in charge of banana pudding & Merry Christmas

Lots of fun playing with cousins in the downtime!

The weather was nice so we got to spend some time outside and the girls took all the dogs on several walks with Grandpa.  We managed to get a whole family picture too! 

Very thankful for a fun weekend with our extended family!

I also got to spend some time with my best friend from high school who I haven’t seen in years.  It was fun introducing the girls to her.  They have known who she is for a long time and have carried around her high school picture talking about Holly   So it was fun for them to meet her!  Kicking myself for not getting any pics of that!  Oh well!  Hope to see her again soon!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

 

Piper had her holiday performance at school.  Cassidy was very excited!

She loves her daddy!!

Cooler weather means more tea parties!!

Setting up the tree!

Our nativities!

Starting a new tradition- wrapping up all our Christmas books and opening one each night to read!  Girls loved wrapping up the presents… and trying to show Cassidy how to open it!  Hoping she will catch on by Christmas!! 

We are all decorated- including our giant blow up Christmas penguin in the front yard!!  <3 this time of year!  Brings so many opportunities to talk about Jesus and how He was born and died for us.  Hope to be able to share the love of Jesus with others this season!