Friday, January 15, 2010

Bathroom Renovations

While we were in Virginia we had a friend come over and redo our shower and floors in the master bathroom and the floor in the girls bathroom. We had a very small shower before...He took out the old shower and now we have this beautiful tile shower with so much more room. He did such a great job!

The shower had a "little" walk out area and now...
that is part of the whole shower.
The lovely carpeting...
replaced with beautiful tile!


Todd painted the cabinets a dark espresso color, once those are put back one and the walls are painted I will post some more pictures!

More of our stay in Virginia...

Grandma bought some Gingerbread cookies to make and decorate.


Now to eat the Gingerbread Cookies...
Yummy!
Being silly with Grandma!
Claire, Emme, Elise and Kylie eating lunch together.
All the girl cousins had a sleepover at Grandma's- they stayed up till 1 playing the new Disney Monopoly and finished the game in the morning.
On our last night my mom made homemade pizza- a family tradition growing up. Here are all the kids eating the yummy pizza!
Thanks again Grandma and Papa- we had a such a great time visiting with you guys!!! Love and miss you all!!!

The many faces...

of Mikayla!



Playing with Dress Ups

Grandma has a closet full of dress ups that all the grandkids love to play in, here the girls are all dressed up.



So fun....!!!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Christmas Morning

We went to Virginia for Christmas this year and decided to bring up most of their presents and stockings. Well ever since we put Mikayla's stocking up at our house she would show everyone which one was hers, so sweet.Singing with the Snowmen that Grandma has before we opened presents.
Waiting patiently- they were up before we were and were watching Rudolph in the play room until we woke up!
Opening the gifts...
We got Ally a "horse rider", she already has the horse, so now she has the doll to go with it!
Both Kylie and Emme asked for a toot machine for Christmas, I found an electronic flarp machine- they loved it!

Mikayla loves Gordon- they were buddies the whole time we were there.
Her new baby doll, her cousin Elise is helping her with her new doll.

Blankets!!

For Christmas Todd's mom made all of us our own warm fuzzy fleece blanket. The girls absolutely love them!!!


Our basement gets kinda cold in the winter and those blankets are perfect for snuggling up on the couch reading our books!! Thank you so much Grandma!!!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Co-Laborers Christmas Party

For our Co-Laborers Christmas party this year the invitation said to come in your best Christmas themed outfit and a prize was to be given to the best dressed. Well we decided to go as The Grinch and Cindy Lou Whooo!
I ended up making his shirt because Santa coats are crazy expensive and hot glued all the embellishments to make it look like a Santa coat. Then I made his pants. I had so much fun!! Found my clothes at the thrift store and googled how to get my hair to stay up straight (a baby bottle) and lots of hairspray and bobby pins!

Thanks so much Todd for dressing up- I had such a fun time making the outfits and WE WON the gift card!!!! :) And had a blast at the party!

Back to Bethlehem

The other night we went to "Back to Bethlehem". A church behind our house converts their parking lot into the town of Bethlehem. My girls love it. Poor Kylie was sick so her and daddy stayed home and I took the three other girls.

Entering the town, the Roman Soldier were very mean and made Ally cry- they never talked to her directly, but they were definitely in character and she did not like them!

There are people every where with live animals that you can pet.
A llama- closing his eyes as I took the picture- he was really soft.
A woman making blankets in the market place.
A little white dove.
The market place. A women carving pottery.

Ladies passing out jewelry, which my girls always seem to find so they can get beads! :)
The baby camel which I wish I had a video of the sound he made and Mikayla's face when he did it. She no longer wanted to pet the camel, very unsure of him!
Petting the baby goat- Mikayla did not take her eye off the camel the whole time she pet the other animals.
As soon as Ally saw that people were feeding the horse, she ripped off her gloves and gave them to me so that she could feed him. Love that girl and her love for horses!!
The larger camel, this is as close as we got- Mikayla was still unsure, I think I would be too! He is huge!
The Nativity scene.
A little petting zoo.
Then inside to warm up with hot chocolate and cookies. :)