Getting ready for Christmas!

It's hard to believe that Christmas is right around the corner and being the procrastinator that I am, No I haven't even started shopping yet! Oh well! It always gets done!
Here are a few pictures of us getting ready for the Christmas season. The first few are from church and making our advent wreath. Our family had fun having dinner at church and then making this project together. The girls really enjoyed it and are proud of their end results as you can see. The other pictures are from when we got our tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. We had fun decorating it and our house!




The girls holding the advent wreath they made.


Kaylie



Ryan and the girls working hard at putting it together.

Enjoying a candy cane while our tree was being prepped.

Kaylie enjoying some hot apple cider after picking out our tree.

Olivia has arrived!!!

We are so excited to have our new baby cousin/niece here!! Olivia has finally arrived and she is soooooooo adorable (as you can see)!!! Our family had fun visiting them at the hospital last night! Sarah looked great and seemed to be doing awesome. The girls are so excited to have her here! They have been waiting and waiting and guessing at when her arrival would come. When we got home from the hospital, Kaylie went and got one of her baby dolls and swaddled it and was rocking it last night and whispering to her "Olivia". It was pretty cute!
Congratulations Sarah!!! You are going to be a great mom!!




Adorable Little Olivia


Mama and Papa with their grandkids!



Sarah and Olivia

Halloween 2009

Our little Wizard of Oz girls


Glinda the good witch in my old flowergirl dress



We certainly cheated this year! We weren't up to the whole carving thing so we just bought things that they could push into the pumpkin. Here they are showing off their end results.




Our little Dorothy holding Toto in her basket.

So it's only going on a couple weeks past Halloween, but thought I would post a few pictures of the girls and their Halloween fun. They had a great day! Kaylie was busy all day with birthday parties and trick or treating. Madelyn went as Dorothy. Wizard of Oz is probably one of her favorite movies right now so she insisted she was Dorothy. Kaylie decided she wanted to be Glinda the good witch from the movie.
We had a little harder time finding Kaylie's costume until my mom remembered she had saved a flowergirl dress that I wore when I was 4 or 5 in my aunt Sue's wedding. It worked perfectly! It looked just like Glinda's dress on the Wizard of Oz! Now the only probably was Glinda's tall crown! We couldn't find one to buy anywear! Believe me I searched high and low and had to settle for making one. I am definitely not a crafty person but she was happy with it and thats all that matters!

Kaylie's Kindergarten Halloween

Kaylie and her teacher Mrs. Jacobson


Kaylie and her class



Kaylie singing "If your scary and you know it!"




Kaylie parading around the school with her class.


Madelyn and I had fun watching Kaylie in her Halloween parade around her school and at her Halloween program in her classroom where she sang some fun songs that she has learned in Kindergarten so far this year. Kaylie was Glinda the good witch from the Wizard Of Oz.

Mickey's Road Show

One of my girls favorite things to do is to go to Disney shows. We went to one last Sunday at the Xcel- Mickey's Road Show. The girls loved it and had a great time, despite Kaylie not feeling well! Mama and Papa came with us and enjoyed the fun too! Next up- Disney on ice. They are especially excited for this years Disney on Ice because it is all about princesses. Here are a few pictures from the show.

Annual Trip to Apple Orchard and Pumpkin Patch

This weekend we did our annual apple orchard and pumpkin patch visit. We FINALLY had a nice weekend to do it. With the cold temps. and the snow lately, I thought we wouldn't get this visit in but thankfully Saturday was beautiful! We went and took pictures at the pumpkin patch first and then went to the apple orchard. The girls had fun looking around and wanting their picture taken by everything. As we left the place, Maddie exclaimed "I had a great day!" and that makes all these little trips worth it in the end.





Maddie looking at the sheep. My kids are defintely not animal people, which is fine by me. They didn't want to feed or pet the animals there and they hardly wanted to go near them because of their smell. I guess I need to get them in the country more often!




Have to get a picture by the pink tractor every year!

Trip to Apple Orchard

We took in the beautiful day to spend at the Apple orchard as well! The girls enjoyed picking apples, going on a hayride, and looking at all the animals. It was a fun day and the girls really enjoyed it!




The girls showing off their perfect apples.

Ryan, Kaylie, and Maddie getting ready to go on the hayride.

Madelyn picking more apples.

Kaylie finding the perfect apple.