Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve we enjoyed a night of food, music and reading the Christmas story/nativity play at my parent's house.  Here are some pictures from our fun night:

The Bolles Quartet minus one, plus 2 new additions played "Away in a Manger."  I like this picture because it captures the look on my dad's face listening to us play.  I usually don't get to see the expression on his face when we play, I just know it makes him cry...which really isn't all that hard to do!!

Matching Cousins= Cuteness Embodied

I just downloaded my pictures from today and I will do more on Christmas another day, but I had to put up these darling pictures of Megan and Lily in matching pajamas.  They did a little photo shoot for us after their bath, which was a very wild and splashy one,  I might add.

Superheroes!!!!

They've discovered a new activity which involves hours of uninterrupted, non-fighting, non-mess- making play. Hope this lasts!!!!

 

Quick Trip

My mom and I went to Utah for the weekend to spend some time with Marianne. We had a lot of fun shopping, eating good food, talking, laughing and just being together. On Saturday we were able to go see the BYU folk dancers perform "Christmas around the World." It was a super fun weekend....just went by way too fast, at least for me. Andrew would probably have a different opinion about that, although he's always happy to let me go and have a little getaway. I'm a lucky gal!!!

Thanksgiving

We enjoyed a nice Thanskgiving afternoon at the Stout's with lots of yummy food. We forgot our camera, but Auntie Sarah snapped this picture of Megan coloring so intently with her Uncle Evan, who she adores.

 

We then came home and decorated our Christmas tree and surprisingly only ended up with a couple of broken bulbs. When the kids went to bed we had to rearrange things a bit because all the ornaments were on the lower half of the tree, sometimes 3 or 4 in one spot and all overlapping eachother. It made us laugh!!

Jordan was surprised to see a violin just his size and tried to play it.

Christmas love is in the air!!!

Treasure

Jordan discovered my little chest of rocks my mom gave me after my grandpa passed away. He was a rock collector and loved polishing and making things out of the treasures he found. The chest was locked and Jordan asked if we could find the key and see what treasures were inside. It was so fun watching the anticipation on his face as we unlocked the chest. He spent a long time looking at all the rocks and when I came back a little later I was not surprised when I saw what he had done with them....

Here he is on the same day. He cut out all of these spikes made out of paper and had me tape them to his back so he could be an ankylosaurus...you know, 2 years ago I had no idea that there was ever such a thing as an ankylosaurus. It's amazing all the things you learn when you become a mother!!

Little Helper

The other day while Jordan was at preschool, Megan and I spent some time in the yard raking leaves. I raked the leaves, while she picked up the piles I made and put them in a bucket. I thought for sure it wouldn't last very long and she'd get distracted with something else, but she was my little helper for a good hour or so. The little bucket she carried around was almost as big as she was and she looked so cute with her little baby backpack on. Who knew a 2 year old could be so helpful?