Exercise and Style

Keira got this fun exercise and movement DVD from my mom for Christmas. We just opened it up today and this is what we got. Before I opened it, Keira ran in her room and got her winter coat headband and put it on her head. By herself. Where did she learn this? I have never worn anything like that and I can't think of anywhere she would have seen it. The rest of the outfit is also hers. She refuses to wear pants half of the time we are at home. She tends to go potty more by herself when she is just like this so I usually allow it. Needless to say, I couldn't stop laughing and when I took the picture she wouldn't look at me and told me to quit taking her picture. I think that might be her teenage self coming out because she knows that she is going to be majorly embarrassed by these pictures later in life. So funny. The DVD is a success though. She has done it twice today. Really good thing to have for us homebodies that forget to get exercise most days. Maybe she will have better habits than me.

Christmas Day with the Inmans

We had a great time on Christmas with the Inmans. We got to open MORE presents (Keira was just loving it!) and we helped Grandma and Grandpa open theirs. We got lots of fun things from Argentina from Aunt Andrea but the best present of all is that she is home. Rick did get a pretty cool hat though. Too bad those Argentinians are much smaller than these 6'4 Americans. Elaina looked darn cute in it.

After lots of food, fun and games, Keira got to help frost some gingerbread men that Aunt Andrea baked. Good thing we had lots of practice! The best part was eating all of the fun cookies.

We had a great Christmas and hope that everyone else did as well. Hopefully we all took time to remember the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Christmas Morning

We had a great Christmas morning. I got the kids up and Keira (who usually takes at least 30 minutes to drag out of bed) bolted out of bed and into the living room. It was so exciting to see her so excited. She was in awe that Santa had really come! To our house! Can you believe it? We loved opening all of our presents and Elaina had to shake every single present that we got. Keira even knew that a present was legos before she opened it. What a smarty pants! We love legos at our house, so those were a big hit. Santa knows us well.

The girls were so cute in their matching pajamas. I am so glad I took advantage of a big clearance at Walmart last winter! It is so fun having two little girls and experiencing Christmas through their eyes. It makes Christmas the best time of year.

Christmas Eve with the Pierces

 We spent Christmas Eve with Rick's family. We had lots of good food, including pizza. Keira and Rick have been looking forward to it all week. They LOVE pizza which is a Christmas Eve tradition with the Pierces. We had lots of fun opening presents and the girls loved all of the new toys that they got.

Daddy really liked the new toy that he got too. It is a disgusting zombie video game if you are not familiar with the Left for Dead series. Boys.

New Camera

Here are some of my first pictures with my new camera. Click here to see the one I got.  I got it for a WAY better deal though. I only bought it for $129. Yeah, I am bragging a little. lol. I actually didn't know that it was such an expensive camera. So yay for me. Rick is way jealous but he got it for me for Christmas. I hope that I will have more pictures now that I have my own camera that I like. So we will see.

Isn't Rick the best dad in the world? He is probably not going to be happy that I posted those pictures but I think they are hilarious and show what a good dad he is. Thanks Rick for all that you do.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

Cookie Time

Yesterday we made the dough, then I baked the cookies last night and this morning, Keira and I frosted a bunch of the cookies. She has been so excited to do it since I mentioned it a couple weeks ago. It must speak to her artistic nature. ;) Yesterday we even made a special trip to Michael's to get food coloring (I was originally going to just get it from Safeway but they didn't have any.) Keira was so fascinated by making things different colors. I said that we could make pancakes pink and now that is all she wants. I think that I am going to have to do that soon....

We are thankful for Curious George because that kept Elaina busy. She was trying to be WAY too much help!

Come on Over!

I need input on my Netty Jabbers site so come read some posts if you haven't lately. I am trying to write more often but I have been super busy lately. Tis the Season. I don't even have any pictures to post on this blog. I keep forgetting my camera. I really wish that Santa would bring me a point and shoot camera! I can't stand lugging around our huge one. So I will work on that too.

The Trauma That is Family Pictures

We went and got family pictures today and it was quite the experience. Neither of the girls wanted to be there (heck, I didn't really want to be there) and Keira was mad that we weren't getting her Christmas ornament now! We had promised that she would get to pick one out after, but that wasn't soon enough. So we managed to get a couple cute pictures and Rick and I even got a couple together. That hasn't happened in YEARS! 

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween at our house. I am not really a huge fan, minus the candy but I try to be excited for the kids. Keira has been so excited for it. This year she was talking about trick or treating and dressing up so I knew it couldn't be avoided any longer. Darn. She dressed up as a fairy princess and Elaina dressed up as a kid on Christmas morning (she took her nap right before we went to the mall to trick or treat so it worked well!) and we went off to trick or treat. I had little expectations for the mall other than it was inside on a very yucky day. It was PACKED but they got a bunch of candy and were really excited. Keira loved the whole thing. She loved seeing all the kids in costumes just like her, and loved that everyone was so nice to give her lots of candy. She even bowled over two big boys to get to a bag of M&M's that she really wanted. Too funny! Then we came home and my mom and dad joined us for pizza and then we watched The Nightmare Before Christmas. I am not a huge fan of that movie but we had easy access to it on Netflix instant on the Xbox so it worked. Keira really liked it, I think.

Next up is Andrea coming home and I am so excited! I love this time of year and Rick PROMISED to get all of my Christmas music off of the old hard-drive today. He has been holding it hostage so I wouldn't listen to it before Halloween. RUDE!

Fun with Daddy

Rick was entertaining the girls this morning with carving pumpkins (more of that to come later) and playing his new racing game on the XBox that he got for his birthday. I was running some errands and came home to find the baby passed out on the floor. Apparently, she had started out really excited to help Daddy play the game but the sounds of cars put her to sleep and Rick had to put her on the floor because he was afraid she would fall off his lap. She was so passed out she didn't even know I was taking pictures. Too funny. 

Portraits

Here are some cute pictures that were taken yesterday at JCPenney. I have never taken the girls to get pictures taken by myself at a studio before and I remembered why! Actually Keira was great. She smiled big for every picture and did exactly what we told her to do. Elaina wasn't having any of it and didn't finally warm up until the very end. She still was trying to run away but at least we got some semi-smiles. I have learned some things about ordering and such but we are going again in a couple weeks for family pics so hopefully it will go well too!

Countdown

I just wanted to point out that we are into the days in my countdown clock for Andrea coming home. I am so excited! I am so proud of all that she is doing while she is gone but I will be so glad to have her back home. I can't wait for her to see (and meet) her nieces. There is so much to catch up on the letters and emails can't make up for. The countdown is on!

Netty Jabbers Revived!

I have finally written a new post on Netty Jabbers so go check it out! I am going to try to go back to writing once a week so keep checking back. Thanks for the support.

Hermana Inman

We just got this picture of Andrea with her new companion yesterday. We are always excited to get a picture of Andrea because it rarely happens. Her companion is fresh from the MTC and Andrea gets to train her during her last transfer before she comes home. I am so proud of all she is doing and I can't wait to see her next month. Time is really flying. Keira is really excited to see Aunt Andrea even though she doesn't really remember her. I told her that Aunt Andrea will be able to teach her more Spanish like Dora speaks and she thinks that is really cool. Maybe we will have a bilingual child. :)

Keira's Christmas List

I had Keira give me a list of things she wants for Christmas and once we got past the first five minutes of her describing them wrapped and being under the tree she told me a lot! She is really excited for Halloween and Christmas and it is fun having her look forward to these things. I have given my thoughts in () but she came up with everything on her own so this must be what she wants! We sent this to her Grandma's but I wanted to put it on the blog for recording purposes. So enjoy. :)

Keira's Christmas List

1)Coloring Books

2) Curious George book (she would love any books but she specifically said Curious George. We have tons of them, though, so let me know which one you are thinking of before you buy it, if you get Curious George.)

3) Crayola Color Wonder books (they have tons of them in the Crayola aisle of Michaels)

4)a new hat (she wants the bubble hat from Curious George, but good luck with that :)

5) kid board games (we have Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, and Memory but any other preschool game would be loved!)

6) Christmas candy

7) Pirate Costume (she is starting to love dress up or pretend that she is different things)

8) Dora magic wand (I think she saw this when she was at Target with Rick. I don't know what it is. You will have to ask him)

9) Cow Clock toy (no idea)

Pumpkin Patch

We went and got our pumpkins today at a pumpkin patch just down the road. We had so much fun picking out the perfect pumpkins and getting really dirty! Elaina insisted on walking everywhere herself and won the prize of the dirtiest pumpkin picker! Just good clean dirt. :) Rick told me that he wanted to get a picture of him and the girls when we got there and then guess what we forgot to do? Whoops. At least we got some really cute pictures of the girls and have some really cool pumpkins to carve and paint.