Santa paper

I wrap the "Santa Gifts" in different paper so the girls know which one is from Santa and which from is from us. Well this afternoon Jon needed some wrapping paper and I realized we were completely out. Courtney then chimed in and said "I know where some is. There is some under your bed!" OH NO she found the Santa paper and I had already wrapped all the Santa Gifts! UGH!

Sleepover...not

Today we spent the day with namy up at her rv in Surprise. The day went pretty well. Samantha and I were gone to her Christmas eve dress rehearsal for part of the day but namy said the twinks did pretty good for her. When we for back we went and got some KFC. Samantha loves the mashed potatoes and gravy. She ate most of it out the container. The twinks didn't want anything to do with them! We watched a movie (Freaky Friday, it's so sad that Lindsay Lohan turned into such a bad girl) and around 8:20 it was lights out. They didn't want anything to do with sleep. I gave them lots and lot of warnings and Sam and Courtney even got a bum swat which didn't help one bit. ( I dont know why I even attempt to swat their butts it never helps! sometimes the threat of doing it does though, it's just the follow through after the threat that doesnt help!) I even promised the first one to fall asleep that the would get to go pick out donuts in the morning but that didn't even work. At 9:45 we headed back home. Lots of crying was involved especially from Sydney. I was going to let Sam stay so namy wouldn't be alone but she wanted to come back with us. They just couldn't figure out why they had to leave. The three of them just can't sleep in the same room. Next time it will be keeping it at one at a time!

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!