Make a greeting card

Nativity play

This year the Christmas church party had the kids do a short Nativity play.  Riley of course volunteered to be an angel.  Her part was to just stand there and look cute.  Her friend Allie thought it would be better to take control of the mic and sing instead.  Pretty cute.

Traditions & Two year olds

A couple days after our anniversary is my birthday, seriously the celebrations never end around here.  I turned, dare I say it, I won't so here's a picture instead.   I can't believe that number, I certainly don't feel that old.

Anyway, we decided to go get our Christmas tree this past weekend.  Every year for 8 years we've gone to Mitchell's Tree Farm just down the street from our house.  So we attempted to get the girls bundled up.  Ella threw a major fit because she did not want to take off her short sleeve dress and put pants and a jacket on.  It took both of us to hold her down and dress her.  She was still screaming as we strapped her into the car.  We got to the farm and told her she had to wear her jacket to get out of the car. She refused and stomped off into the woods alone.  I sent Jarom after her and here he is bringing her back.

 Still screaming and kicking! We tried walking down the lane to the trees but Ella planted herself in the middle of the road and refused to walk or be carried.  Plan B.  "Let's just go get a pre-cut tree fast at another market."  Left, drove to the other place and Ella refused to leave the car.  Which left just me and Riley walking around looking for a tree.  Couldn't find anything we liked.  Plan C.  Drove back to Mitchell's Tree Farm.  Ella stopped crying but still refused to put on her jacket.  So we walked around the farm for 30 minutes as I watched her hands turn purple.  It didn't seem to phase her too much but I could see her start to shiver.  Luckily we found our tree at the last minute.  And here's some pictures to prove that even a crazy dress wearing 2 yr. old can't break our Christmas tradition!

Riley attempting to help

The trouble maker

The End

November to remember

 It's been awhile since I've posted but I have a good excuse!  Power outage, husband in Canada, birthdays galore, Thanksgiving, Anniversary, burnt lips/nose, etc...

November has always been busy here but this one was with some extra craziness.  Jarom left for Toronto for a week for business, during which time we had a power outage, not long, but still I was sitting alone in the dark...not cool.  Then a winter storm passed through and we got a couple inches of snow, but what really devastated the area were the winds which knocked down tons of trees in Gig Harbor.  Undoubtedly we had a power outage again, although this time it last for 3 days!!! So every night I kept thinking to myself this will all be over with they have to get our power on tonight.  Next morning it was Ella's birthday and it was 57 degrees in the house!  Poor Ella had layers of clothes on while opening her presents, we were all so cold by that evening that we didn't even have a cupcake or candles for her. She also ended up burning her nose and top lip on our gas fireplace glass.  She didn't cry but said "Ow, mommy, ow!"   By the next morning it was now 48 degrees and I think that's when I lost my mind.  Luckily we have good friends who brought over their generator and some heaters.  When it got up to 55 I thought it was a heat wave!  We have learned our lesson and will be getting a generator this year for sure.  

    Onto happier times, we had Thanksgiving with our friends down the street and saw the movie, Tangled.  The girls loved it, Ella sat through the whole thing with the 3D glasses on!  Then it was our anniversary, we didn't do anything special because we have an overnight trip to Seattle planned in a couple weeks! 

So needless to say, I'm glad November is over, but now it's time to tackle December ;)

Toronto

Princess of course

New nightgown, she wore this for 3 days... seriously all day

Riley was "helping" Ella unwrap everything