Christmas is almost here...

We have been doing all sorts of fun things leading up to Christmas starting with putting up our tree just after Sophie's birthday! Cali put the star on the top, she was so proud! :)

Holly took our family Christmas pictures, which turned out absolutely amazing! Thanks again Holly! Holly was showing Sophie the pictures on her camera and she was very interested!

Yesterday we invited Presley over to do gingerbread decorating, it was so much fun but the girls took off on us after about ten minutes...they had more important things to do I guess! :)

This is the finished gingerbread house, tree & sleigh... I really enjoy the decorating, maybe I'll get ambitious enough next year and actually make the cookie part myself...who knows?!?!

Marie brought Cali and Presley a chocolate Santa, boy where they excited about that!

Presley stayed for dinner although they didn't really eat dinner. It's so fun to have the two of them together, they play so well and they are just so darn cute!

Today was Greg's work's kids Christmas party, we went ice skating again this year which Cali was really excited for!I got Sophie all bundled up to go out on the ice in the stroller but she didn't look like she was having to much fun so she just ended up watching and waving to everyone!

I quick shot with everyone before Sophie was done...like the size of that helmet, I think it was bigger than Cali's! Sophie got a really cute piano music toy and Cali got a Tinkerbell music jewelry box, we had a really nice time!

Happy 1st Birthday Sophie!

Happy Birthday to the sweetest little girl, my Sophie! She is such a precious little girl, she is doing so many new things lately. Sophie has taken her first steps and is on her way to walking, gotten a new tooth and started saying some new words...kitty, doggie, dirty, uh oh. She is so smart, for quite awhile now you can just ask her a question and she will nod yes or no...it's really nice to have her able to let me know things before she learns all of the words! Sophie is such a little goofball, everyone seems to think that she is so serious but I think that she just takes her time warming up to people and then her true personality shines! :) Cali and Sophie get along so great, they are such giggly little girls...making each other laugh all the time and they also like to scream, oh boy it gets loud in this house! The picture below you can tell Cali was getting impatient, she just wanted to eat the cake but Sophie wouldn't sit still and kept putting her hands in the cake! :)

Sophie's perfect little hand print in the cake, how fun!

After we picked up Cali we spent some time at the park, Sophie was having a blast!Happy Birthday my sweetie!

Sophie's 1st Birthday Party!

Today we had Sophie's 1st Birthday Party and it turned out so great...great friends, great family, great food and Super Great Birthday Cake!!! :)

Sophie was checking out her birthday cake that Auntie Holly specially made for her to match finger puppets that she had sewn for Sophie's birthday gift! It was such a neat cake and it tasted sooo good! Thanks again for all your hard work Holly!

Sophie surrounded by her birthday gifts...thanks to everyone for all the wonderful fun gifts! :)

Birthday Cake, Birthday Cake, YAY!!

Love the green teeth!

Marie & Morgan...what a little doll that Morgan is!

Sophie got quite overwhelmed at her birthday party...it's hard to understand what's happening when your only one! So we waited until mostly everyone was gone to let Sophie have a go at her birthday cake...

YUUMMM!

And in the tub she goes! :)Thank you to everyone for coming and making Sophie's 1st birthday so special!

Happy Birthday Holly!

It's Holly's Birthday today! Happy Birthday Holly! We had Holly over for a birthday lunch yesterday, I think we all had a great time! :)

Cali loves to help with the candles!

Mmmm, yummy Raspberry Lemon Muffins!

So we've had Max now for about 2 weeks now and things are going really well, not to say there wasn't a few times we thought we made the wrong decision. At first the house was total kaos but everyone has settled right down now and we are doing so much better! We are really happy to have Max in our family, he has such a nice personality and seems to take directions pretty well...remembering he is still a puppy! :)

Max sleeps in the weirdest ways, every night I think to myself if I slept like that I probably wouldn't be able to move in the morning...ahh, to be a young pup!

This Is Our Puppy Max!

We had recently been talking about maybe getting a puppy and I happened to be looking on the computer and stumbled across this Chocolate Lab that was being given Free to a good home! I must have been the first one to see the add, we went to take a look and just fell in love with him! Cali named him Max after her favorite cartoon Max & Ruby. He is 3 months old and seems to be a really well behaved puppy. It's going to be an adjustment though, the minute we got home he tried to chew on everything...oh boy! Welcome to the family Max! :)

Giggly Little Monkey's!