Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! We have Christmas themed Timehops today!

First up, our Christmas trees.

 

Then, the girls in their preschool Christmas programs (Maya- 3-years-old; Callie- 4-years-old).

 

And finally, crazy how time marches on. We have Maya on the left, dressed up to go see her sister in her preschool concert. Maya on the right, ready for her own preschool concert.

 

Weekend Wrap-Up: The Belated Happy Birthday Auntie Mari Edition!

Yesterday was Auntie Mari's birthday and I missed doing a post! But the girls did sing to her right away in the morning, and it was sweet.

We got to celebrate with her today, after two different Christmas programs at church- Maya's in the morning and Cal's in the afternoon.

 

 

Yesterday was a pretty chill day. There was some fort making in the morning, and that's the only picture I took all day. 

 

We went over to the Held's in the afternoon but no pictures of all the crazy kids this time.

This morning we played in all the snow!

 

And went to lunch, where I got my new favorite picture.

 

 

My favorite picture trick is to tell them they are not allowed to smile. I *love* how much they love to do the opposite of what I tell them. But in this situation, it totally works in my favor.

Back to the birthday girl. We had dinner at her and Josh's place. And I got to use my trick again to get an adorable picture of her with her nieces.

 

Have a great week!

A Picture Update

Hello! Happy Friday! 

The 2nd to last week before break is always pretty brutal at schools...at least in my experience. This was me at 5pm on Monday:

 

It had been a long day.

But Maya had a fun day with Boom, and then a fun dinner at Uncle Dan and Hanna's house with Daddy.

 

 

Callie and I played with Snapchat for the first time in awhile.

 

Callie lost another tooth on Wednesday morning, so she really does want her two front teeth for Christmas!

 

Maya went to the library with Pa, which is their Thursday tradition. This week she brought a kitty.

 

Last night was the first of 5 holiday shows that we have for the girls. It was Maya's preschool concert and she looked adorable.

 

When it came to singing in the concert, though, well... this is what we got.

No singing and a lot of her fingers in her mouth and staring at the floor. But lots of people came to see her and we got cookies after the show.

 

It was a fun/funny night!

Here is what Coo-Koo and Loony have been up to this week:

 

Crazy elves!

Lastly, this morning I went with Callie to her school's family breakfast. Donuts!

 

Have a great weekend! Here is a big fat goodnight kiss!

Timehop Tuesday

Happy Tuesday folks!

I just have a couple Timehops today.

Silly Callie:

 

Tree cutting:

 

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hey all!  I'm actually blogging on the ol' laptop tonight.  I can't even remember the last time I did that- I got an app on my phone awhile ago that made blogging WAY easy, but decided to fire up the computer tonight so I could transfer a bunch of my phone pictures.

Anyway, what a FUN weekend we had!

On Saturday morning Laura and Craig came over to get some BABY stuff, but before they came over the girls made sure to use all the baby stuff one last time, even the passies.  It also gave me an opportunity to organize baby clothes a little bit and I can't believe the ridiculous amount of baby clothes we have.

The clothes on the couch and in the bin are 0-12 months.  They don't include anything bigger than 12 months.
HOLY MOLY.

On Saturday afternoon, Boom, G-ma, Callie and I went to see "Peter and the Wolf" at Orchestra Hall!

It was a really fun show and great activity to do together.

Today was all about SNOW and Christmas tree chopping and decorating!!

The girls scraped off the car this morning.  Nothing like using child labor that they think is fun, am I right?

This afternoon we headed to the Christmas Tree farm and found the perfect tree!

We went with G-ma, Pa, Auntie Cat, Uncle Dan and Hanna and had a blast!

We also had fun putting our tree up at home, decorating it, and aiming flashing lights at it.

Two more weeks until Christmas break...three more weeks until Christmas.  It is hard to believe! I think I'm just about done with Christmas shopping, but have done NO wrapping.  So that will be my task for this week.

Have a great week!

A Picture Update

It was another crazy busy week.

Maya spent the week battling a bad cold and cough, but managed to still have some fun.

Top: Doing ok on Monday with Boom

Bottom: Miserable on Tuesday with Mom and Dad

 

Doing ok with G-ma and Pa on Wednesday and Thursday 

 

She perked up to do my hair one evening.

 

And we got some of our Christmas decorations out.

 

On Thursday we went over to Boom's to celebrate the sale of her old condo and drink fancy wine given to her by Uncle Jim for the occasion.

 

Callie didn't have school today, so she got to hang out with Boom and meet Auntie Yoda for lunch!

 

And guess who's back for the month of December...?!?!?!

 

Our crazy elves, Coo-Koo and Loony!!

Last, but not least, Callie's top front tooth has been hanging on by a thread all week. It was gross and she WOULD NOT let us do anything about it. But she finally (accidentally) pulled it out herself today at Boom's house! 

 

 And I thought it would be fun to go back in time, so I found a couple other kids who also had holes in their mouths around 6 or 7 years old.

 

Have a great weekend!

Cousins

You guys, I can't even with this picture.

 

So excited to be an auntie!