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!