Dress rehearsal

Samantha is Mary at two services Christmas eve (3:30 & 4:45) at Trinity Lutheran church in Litchfield Park. Lot's of signing involved!

bike riding

This was taken Dec 9 and I forgot to post ...around the block(with a quick stop at Ashton's house!)

The Fairmont Princess Family Holiday Party!

I love the fact that Alyssa works at The Princess we get to go to some really fun things! Today was their family holiday party and they went all out. The kids had a blast!The kids LOVED the characters walking around. They were always jumping up on them and giving them high fives the whole time!

Bobcat Bill...I dont know what he was all about but the kids thought he was great!

Rudolf the RED nosed reindeer! They were super excited to see him!

SANTA
this is the 2010 Santa picture!

Samantha LOVES Alyssa!

Courtney looked so cute and was so good while she was getting her face painted!

they even got to decorate cookies!

More love to the characters!

Super fun time!

tv

Even though we dont have cable anymore the kids still watch way to much "tv." The past two days though they havent really watched anything because of the birthday party and today we went to Alyssa's work family Christmas party (next blog) so tonight they wanted to watch a little something before bed. They each picked a video from the library, Courtney wanted to watch the Backyardigans in the loft, Sydney watch Dora downstairs and Samantha is watching a Bratz movie in my room. they will all be happy and quiet for at least 30 minutes then it's off to bed!

FOUR years old!

What an awesome day! pizza, crafts, face painting, manicures, musical chairs, presents, a clown, a princess and cupcakes!

Kimba the clown!

Princess Lyss!

Courtney and bedtime

Courtney is my night owl. We usually put all of them to bed around 7:45-8:15. Courtney is usually very quiet and "reads." All of the books are slowly moving to her bookshelf. Well last night she was up doing stuff and making noise. Jon went up a couple times and told her to get back into bed. Around 9:30 he says to her "if I have to come back in here one more time you are getting a spanking." which she replied "Then dont come back in here!"

Smoking

This afternoon we were watching the old movie "white christmas" with Bing Crosby and Sydney says "what's that this in it their mouth?" One guy was smoking a cigar and the other one a cigarette. I told her what they were and she said "why?" Yes Sydney that is the question! I did think it was pretty cool that she had no idea what they were!