First Snow Storm - Dec 2010

{this was before we went to bed and it still snowed the entire night!}

A couple days after Christmas we got our first big snow storm. We went from have no snow, to a couple feet of snow overnight. Adeline was so excited to go sledding on the big hill behind our house. I got her all bundled up and she enjoyed it for a little bit. The snow would fly up and hit her in the face as they were sledding down the hill and she didn't like that very much. It was pretty windy and cold too. I was happy to watch from the window :) She ended up coming back inside after not too long and Abe stayed outside and went sledding with his friend (also a grown man) for awhile.







On a side note.... Today on Adeline's preschool sheet that they send home it said that they played outside in the snow. I totally forgot to bring her snow boots today and said, "Adeline, you played out in the snow today?" Adeline said, "No, I didn't". Me: "It says right here that you played outside in the snow today. Did you stay inside the classroom with your teachers?".... Adeline: "Um No. I just stood on a little patch of grass. I don't like the snow." me: "oh, ok".

Christmas 2010

The entire week before Christmas ALL of us got sick. I am a little tempted to not let Adeline go to preschool until Spring because I am sick of my kids being ill from all the gross germs. I thought we were in trouble for Christmas and that we were doomed to do anything fun. I had the flu/cold and was relieved when I woke up on Christmas Eve and felt better. We got together with our friends and had a fun night. We started off by going to a Pageant at the base Chapel. Adeline loved watching all the little kids and listening to the music. It probably helped that about 5 of the kids go to Adeline's preschool. After that we headed over to our friends house for a delicious Ham dinner. We let the kids open up their Christmas Jammies (thanks Nana & Grandpa) and they frosted some cookies for Santa. It was a little bitter sweet for me because I missed being in Utah with family. That's one of the things I HATE about living out of State... missing out on being with family. We had a lot of fun though and it definitely gets more exciting each year. Adeline was so much fun and was really excited about everything. We went a little overboard this year and learned from our mistake... that won't be happening again. I think the less they get, the more they appreciate it.

CHRISTMAS EVE




Decorating cookies for Santa



{sprinkles anyone?}



Leaving cookies and milk for Santa.... oh and a carrot for Rudolph of course :)

Santa Came! (do you like Chloe's head in the bottom left hand corner?)


Christmas Morning...

Merry Christmas!!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We had a great time with our little family, but really missed being with our families in utah. I will try to update my blog with pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas, but for now you get a "sitting on santa's lap" picture.

North Conway, NH

A couple of months ago we planned a trip to NYC to go see the Christmas tree, FAO Swartz, Macy’s windows, etc. I have been looking forward to going until about the week before we were supposed to leave. We had some friends visit the week before we were supposed to go and it was crazy. I expected it to be crazy, but didn’t realize that it would most likely be more work than fun. Our girls had both been sick and Norah ended up having Bronchiolitis and had to get breathing treatments the day before we were supposed to leave….. ya not good for taking your kids to NYC and having them outside in the freezing cold!! So we cancelled our reservations and made new ones in North Conway, NH. We stayed at a hotel that had an indoor water park in it. Adeline was in HEAVEN and Norah also loved it. It was so fun just to get away and be together.

{getting all warm for a night on the town!}


{fun day at the water park}



{cute little Norah being silly}


Before we headed back home, we decided to take the girls on a Santa train ride. It was snowing a ton (the first we’ve seen this year) and the girls had so much fun. Little elves brought us hot chocolate and cookies and then Santa came and visited. Adeline got to sit on his lap and tell him what she wants for Christmas. I think that was the 4th time she has sat on his lap this year. Luckily she said she wanted the same thing again… an Ariel princess dress.

{as we were leaving the hotel, it started snowing like crazy! First snow we've seen this year :) }


{Santa's Train Ride}

Miss Independent

This is how Adeline went to school this morning...


I've decided that probably 75% of our battles with her are over clothes.... yes CLOTHES! She is very opinionated about what she wants, or doesn't want to wear. I need to go through her closet and put away anything that she simply cannot wear in this freezing weather. She refuses to wear jeans or regular pants unless they are leggings. Every day is insists on wearing a dress or skirt. Problem is that it is FREEZING outside and she DOES NOT want to wear tights. So that resorts to leggings underneath. I think to solve my problem, I need to go out any buy leggings in every possible color :) Today she ran into my room already dressed (which normally takes us about 30-40 minutes) so I don't really care. I let her go looking like this.


Last week we went to see Rapunzel with one of her little friends. I had never seen a 3D movie and thought it was so cool. Adeline refused to even try on the glasses. She sat there silently for the first 1/2 of the movie not making a move. Then at a semi scary part she crawled over to me and said she was really tired and just wanted to go home and sleep in her bed. She was really scared. She is so sensitive about that kind of stuff. It really wasn't that scary. I got her to sit through the entire thing even though she wasn't liking it. Afterwards she pretended to like it since her friend did. When we got home from the movie she told Abe she liked it in front of me. When Abe took her up to bed she said "Don't make mommy let me what that movie again!" Poor thing. However she always talks about the princess Rapunzel and how much she likes her. Funny girl.



Dinner after the movie...


Adeline Loves taking pictures. When I uploaded pictures from my little point and shoot today I found about 100 that she had taken. Here are two...

Little Climber

I turned my back on Norah for about 1 minute the other day and all of the sudden she said "eh" really loud to get my attention. I turned around and to my surprise found her here.....



Apparently she is a pretty good climber already. That same night I heard Adeline walking around at 2am. I walked out into the hallway and she was headed down the stairs. I asked her what she was doing and she told me she was going downstairs to eat the cupcakes (cupcakes that really existed leftover from a RS Christmas party). I'm sure she probably would have if I didn't catch her. These cute little girlies keep me on my toes :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Yesterday we went out to get our Christmas tree. We were planning on going to a Christmas tree farm like we have the past several years, but decided not to and save the extra $40 it would have cost us. You think it would be less expensive to actually cut down your own tree... but apparently not! Plus the girls are feeling a little under the weather, so it was nice to not be in the cold too long. We just ended up going to a Christmas tree lot and Adeline still loved it. Once we got home and set the tree up, she immediately started putting all the ornaments on it. After she had put about 10 on it, I let her know that we should probably take them off and put the lights on first. She was so cute and said, "Oh, I'm sorry about that mom. Sorry about that!" She is so stinking funny. Once I put the lights on, she put just about every ornament on by herself... of course a little "placement" help from me and holding her up when she couldn't reach. I should have taken a video of her because she was shaking her hips and dancing to the Christmas music while she was hanging them up.