Kitty Love

We are truly blessed with wonderful pets. Ginger takes most of the "loving" from the girls...i.e. sitting on, standing on, hugging, "petting," and many more. Fluffy has been such a lover, too! Here is he just lying down while Macy is lying on top of him! They really do love their animals, and Macy can say all of their names, including fishy!

Rock Band

We purchased a Rock Band 2 from a co-worker after Christmas. We are at the point where we need more room just to store our wii and all of it's fun equipment (luckily we started finishing off the basement, and it should be done in February sometime). Before the girls got up from their naps, Jesse and I were rocking! He did awesome on the drums and the guitar, and I was a rock star on the mic! When the girls got up, they were interested, too, so we all played for awhile (a great activity while we were waiting for the mopped kitchen floor to dry). I'm sure this will provide many more hours of entertainment at our house for years to come!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a safe and happy new year! We went to Milwaukee and spent New Year's Eve at my parents place. Megan was in town from CA, and we had a nice time catching up and comparing bellies (she is due in early April, and I am at the end of July). How cool to share 25+ years of friendship, and now motherhood! I am excited to see her next weekend for her baby shower. My parents decided to send out a New Year's card with all the girls. Here is the picture they chose. I can't wait until our girls are old enough to capture pretty smiles like Kirk's girls! Our time will come! By that time, we'll have the third that doesn't smile for pictures, so it may be longer than we hoped. We stopped at Kopp's on our way home and got some cookie dough custard (so good)! Madison took a bite and a couple minutes later, we saw that she had fallen asleep, apparently before she swallowed! For the record, I would never be able to fall asleep before savoring that yummy taste! That's how tired she was!

Birthday Party Fun!

We headed off to Madison in the fog yesterday for Kiah's birthday party at the Little Gym. The girls had so much fun, I just wish we had something like that around this area. Madison really enjoyed the parachute and walking on the balance beam. We have a couple of pictures, and short videos from our time there. I guess Madison is patiently awaiting birthday number 3...she hopped down from her chair and wanted to blow out the candles of the cake. I was able to stop her before she did! At the very end, they


took a group picture and told them to make funny faces. Madison continued to hold her funny face long after most had stopped. It was a great day! Macy just loved running around and was fearless climbing up on most of the equipment.

Snow fun!

Here is Macy wearing all of her snow gear for the first time! She loved being outside. We feel horrible for not getting out sooner, but it was always so dark or cold by the time we got home from school. We were out for a couple of hours. Jesse built a fort for the girls, and we pulled them on their sleds to the trail by our house, and then went snowshoeing. Ginger loved it, too. We decided to wait to put snowshoes on the girls...maybe next time. We are excited for more outdoor fun in the future! OOPS! I accidentally posted one of the videos twice, sorry!

Santa's Letter

Here is Madison and Daddy reading the letter that Santa left. He really loved the cookies and hot cocoa - he's messy, though, lots of crumb!

Santa Came!

Santa Came! The girls had so much excitement on their faces when they saw the tree filled with presents Christmas morning! Madison had left two types of cookies for santa, and she insisted on leaving hot cocoa instead of milk. Santa even left her and Macy a letter! They loved opening, and of course, enjoyed standing on the box of the LP castle! Fluffy even enjoyed playing with the wrapping paper! We took a picture of Madison by all the opened gifts, before we headed out for the day. We had a wonderful Christmas filled with family and fun (and some driving). Hope everyone had a great Christmas!