Wisconsin Wishes

Here ye, here ye! I have something to say! We had a stupendous time celebrating Christmas in Wisconsin! Wahoo! (Just beware how many pictures are below--Mommy is a little camera crazy!).We went out sledding and enjoyed multiple feet of snow...

...saw our friends The Barnes and our new pal Baby Brady...

...and enjoyed a multitude of presents and family craziness!

Lots of love for our Uncle Steve (and for all of our crazy, wonderful Aunts and friends we had so much fun with!)

Christmas Dress #2. I like to smile with a very cheesy grin...oh the silliness!

Sparkly, pretty, and just the kind of fanciness I like!

The beautiful family of 4 generations:

We learned a new trick from Uncle Steve. The monkey face:

We made this special plaque for all of our grandparents and great-grandparents. (And by "we" we really mean Mom did it).

Mommy and Daddy are always working away on their laptops and now we have our own! See, I'm a natural:

We are so grateful for all of the wonderful presents and fun we had with our family! Thank you to everyone! What a merry old time we had in Wisconsin!

Christmas Before The BIG TRIP

Before we left to journey to the Frozen Tundra, we had one more Christmas party at our house. This time, it was with our fabulous Mothering Matters group through church (10 mommies, 7 babies, and 4 kiddos ages 2 & 3). We just l-o-v-e these ladies and babies! They are the best part of our week and we are going to miss them while we're in the Great Northland!

This picture captures everyone except us and our one friend Jackson. We were actually taking the picture for everyone, so couldn't squeeze into the pic...or just playing, you figure it out!We had so much fun at our party and loved showing off our fancy dresses:

Christmas this year was a special time of celebrating Baby Jesus and our many wonderful friends and family whom we love so much!

Next up, the Frozen Tundra!

Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas!

Today we were able to go visit Santa and we were just so excited for the trip! We have such a busy week getting everything ready for our trip, so it was a special surprise to be able to make this our 2nd annual trip visiting the Big Guy with our cousin Peter.

Of course we told Santa our secret wish list and helped him practice his "Ho, Ho, Ho!"Merry Christmas!

(take note of Christmas dress #1...there are many more to come!)

Snow!

While our Mom and Dad's "homeland" gets covered in snow at this time of the year, we often just get boring, yucky-old rain and mud. Blah. But last Saturday we were so excited to find snow coming down. It was even sticking to the ground!

Come on Daddy! Hurry up and get your coat on--we're ready to go!! Daddy helped us make our first snowballs of the season:

Hey lady, why don't you put that camera down so I can toss a little snowball delight your way...

We even played in the snow for more time than it took to get our gear on (which is saying a lot!).

And now, just a few days later, the snow is a distant memory replaced by rain and mud. This really is quite a bit of snow for us:

The good news is that pretty soon we're going to have lots of snow to play in with our aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Yippee!!

There Were Kids Jingle-Belling...

...And everyone telling you be of good cheer! Even though Mommy has been still working on recovering from surgery, she can't just let the Christmas season pass her by! So we had the first of many Christmas parties at our house last week. It was so much fun (well of course 14 moms and 20 kids is going to be fun!). Above you've got the huge spread (yum!) and below you've got us hanging with two of Mommy's favorite ladies:

Our play-room was filled with lots of great conversation, fun, and chaos!

Our living room was just about the same:

We had the best time and can't wait for our next Christmas party!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

What's a Girl to Do?

It's been two weeks since you've heard from us two,
So what's a girl to do when her friendly readers are feeling blue?Just flash her big pearly smile at the camera and say "how do you do?"!