December Highlights

Christmas Dance Recital

Blakeslie’s had a little Christmas dance recital at her studio. She was a star and loved performing for Santa.

Preschool Program

Blakeslie’s Christmas Program at preschool is my favorite thing all year. She was very excited about being a shepherd and she loved all the songs especially the ones with “instruments.”

Cookies with Santa

We had a great time going to Cookies with Santa. Blakeslie hopped on Santa’s lap and was very comfortable. Mayzie however wanted nothing to do with the big guy.

Christmas Party

We had a little Christmas Party for Bean and her friends. The highlights were Don’t Eat Pete and the treats. Mayzie especially liked the Jello which stained her entire body for a couple of days.

Nutcracker

We took Bean to the Nutcracker again this year. She loves it so much and is a huge fan of Miranda, our neighbor, who she calls “The Nutcracker Girl” all year long.

Polar Express

We went on the Polar Express in Heber and had a great time. They really did a cute job complete with cookies, hot chocolate, reading the story, singing and of course a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Claus.
Gingerbread House
We had fun making our Gingerbread house with Mike and Lynna. Even Mayzie helped. Her system was eat 3 pieces….. put 1 on the house….. eat 4 pieces….. put 1 on the house… She definitely had a good time.

Christmas
Christmas Eve we spent up in Park City with Chip’s family. Lynna makes a beautiful dinner and we all had a great time with the nativity.

Christmas morning was wonderful. We spent it with my Mom and Dad in our new basement. The last guy to work on it came on Christmas Eve so we cut it pretty close. Santa actually moved our tree downstairs when he brought the toys. The girls were in awe and we had so much fun watching them.

Our Crazy Thanksgiving

Well we didn’t spend our Thanksgiving quite like we thought we would. Instead of going to my Aunt and Uncle’s with all my family we spent it more like this……

Both the girls got sick the day before and got worse on Thanksgiving Day.

Chip and I still decided to make the complete Thanksgiving diner just for the two of us. The girls were not really up for eating anything. (Note their PJs. I think it is a first for me to have pajamas at the Thanksgiving dinner table.) I thought it was pretty silly to make dinner for just the two of us. However, I realized Chip hadn’t listened to me the entire month while I shouted from my soap box that it isn’t about the Turkey dinner. It was really good and with just us there was no stress or time table.

We decided to go to Phoenix to see my parents the day after Thanksgiving - probably against our better judgment. Here is a pic of Mayzie from Chip’s phone. She was happy here, but a few miles outside of Kanab it was a different story. Let’s just say it is not fun changing clothes and cleaning out a car seat on the side of the road – what were we thinking! I really wish she had used that bowl for catching instead of as a hat.

We had a great time in Phoenix - even though we passed our plague to almost everyone.

We had another Thanksgiving dinner and note Troy and Papa are missing and by the end of the night Nana was sick and sometime in there Chip got it bad too. The only survivors of this dreadful sickness were Erin and I. So we took complete advantage and had a great time shopping. The highlight of our 2 days of power shopping was finding a shoe store that was going out of business. I bought 14 pairs of shoes for $65! No joke! The best deal was a pair of Steve Maddens for $1.25. We definitely had a good time!

Here are a few fun pics from before the sickness fiasco.

Blakeslie loved her vest and headband from preschool.

Blakeslie named the big Turkey Sally the Turkey and filled out a feather each day of something we were thankful for. It was pretty funny to hear some of the things Bean was thankful for. My personal favorite was P.J.s and popcorn. I had nothing to do with that one, but it is by far two of my most favorite things.

15 month appointment

I can’t believe how fast life is going. Mayzie had her 15 month appointment this week. She passed with flying colors. Her stats were 50% height, 5% weight, and 90% head! She is so stinkin’ funny! She has the sweetest personality and already has a sense of humor. She has started doing animals sounds, kissing everything, and she loves to wrestle with Dad and Big Sister.

Here are a few of her most recent funny moments.

She held this paperclip to her head for over 5 minutes pretending it was a barrette. If it wasn’t so funny it would be sad- poor baldy!

She has discovered the candy drawer. This drawer has been on the bottom since we moved into the house. Bean never really bothered it. Mayzie just pulled most of it out and reorganized. It wasn’t until the very end that she realized what she was playing with. It has been a couple of days and she hasn’t been back. It will be interesting to see if I have to move it or is she will be like the rest of our family who ignores candy.

And so it starts…..I found her like this after two naps this week. When she starts going for the diaper- I’m grabbing the duct tape.


This is how Chip found Mayzie one morning. He used his phone so it isn’t the best pic, but it still made me laugh. I wish I could have seen how she got in there.

One of those “What was I thinking!” moments.

Poor thing has been so sick this weekend. We actually spent a couple of hours in the Urgent Care today for double ear infections. Then I had to drive all the way to the Provo Walgreen’s to fill the prescription (Gotta love Utah County on Sundays!) Hopefully she will be feeling better tomorrow.

Cute Pics of the girls

We had the girls pictures done by sugar'n'spice photopgraphy. (sugarnspicephotopraphy.blogspot.com) Jenn did a great job! The girls' individual pictures turned out fun, unfortunately we had to get the family ones redone and I haven't seen them yet. I loved the train track setting and I found a new clothing store (Naartjie) for their outfits that I'm quickly

falling in love with.

I absolutely LOVE her little lone snaggle tooth!

I couldn't get the other sweet pic of Mayzie loaded so instead one of the many "Why are you doing this to me Mama!" pictures.

Blakeslie was quite the model for most of the pictures.

I love my Beauty Queens!

Disney on Ice

We went to Disney on Ice last week and had an amazing time. Through a comedy of errors we ended up on the front row. (Right next to Andrei Kirilenko's wife and kids.) This turned out to be such a blessing because the show, that close up, even held Mayzie's attention. She sat in my lap the entire time and didn't even wiggle. She just kept pointing and Oooohing and Ahhhhing. It is so fun to watch the girls get excited about things. Does anybody else get teary eyed when you know they are so happy? It is also funny to me how young Mayzie recognizes the Princesses and Mickey and Minnie -

I think it will be a Disney Christmas.

(Mayzie is too busy pointing at the Cotton Candy Guy in all the pictures. She did eventually get to try the stuff and decided she loved it! )

Little Funny - When I wore this new grey sweater the first time Blakeslie said, "Oh Mom, I just love your new bathrobe!" I didn't know if I should go out of the house or not. :0)