Christmas

We are celebrating our last Christmas in the condo and what a ball! The girls were so excited that "Ho Ho Ho" had some they were about ready to burst. The video on the bottom is them running straight for the Ariel salon. It was a special gift from Idaho elves. They were so excited they didn't even notice the other gifts for at least ten minutes!

Ky adored her "nemo" pez dispenser so much it took some coaxing to open her other gifts. Savvy got what she has been asking for -

Wall-E! She had to have us put it in right then!

Sorry for the poor video quality - I really need to hand the camera off to Ty in important moments.

Thanks for everyone that helped make our Christmas so magical - we hope everyone else had a wonderful day!

Daddy's Day

Last week was "bring your family to work day" at Ty's job. It was fun to take the girls and show them where daddy goes during the day. Ky jumped right in and wanted to sit at daddy's desk.

Savvy just wanted daddy to hold her. She is such a daddy's girl! She also made sure to tell every one of Ty's co-workers "HI!" with a big wave.

I think Ty just liked showing off his girls, and really - who can blame him? I just want him to know how much the girls and I love him and appreciate all the hard work he does for our family!

Ky's Christmas Party!

Ky's class got a visit from Santa today. They were all so excited to see him. Ky's smile stayed on her face the whole time.

She was a little shy, but she sat on his lap anyway.

This may sound a little crazy, but I was so excited for my first "handmade" gift from one of my kids. I am sure that I will recieve many over the years, but this first one is so special. She even wrapped it herself. Didn't she do an awesome job? I can't wait to open it on Christmas.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We finally got around to putting up our Christmas tree. The girls had tons of fun putting on all the ornaments and listening to Christmas music. Ky even put on the silver beads - can you tell?

This is how the tree looked right after it was decorated. Over the last couple days all the trimmings have been getting higher and higher. In fact the top fourth now has every decoration. It is still the prettiest tree I have ever seen!

After we decorated our tree, we made a tree of another sort. Grandma Nelson sent the girls a gingerbread tree kit. A huge thanks to Grandma - she must know how much we love art/craft projects! The girls loved putting it together. Savvy especially liked eating the ornaments!

Ky was so proud of the final result. She showed Daddy with a big excited "Ta-Dah!"

Ky couldn't let the extra icing go to waste. She took care of that in a hurry! I love this picture because of Savvy. She's trying to hear the jingle bell ornament by putting her ear up to it. She is too funny.

My little monkey

looks so cute in her new dress-up outfit! Maybe later we can get Ky to put hers on.

Changes...

There are going to be a lot of changes in our lives over the next month! As most people who read this blog know - we have been living a roller coaster of emotions the last couple months. We had purchased a house only to have it fall through and then had a hard time selling our condo. However, in the past week or so it seems that we have been extremely blessed and things have fallen into place. We got an offer on the condo and I can only hope they love it as much as we have. We in turn found a house. Not just any house... the perfect house. Want to see it? I know you do! So here you go!

Now for the details...
It has two floors and is a total of 2430 square feet.
Upstairs has the living room (tv/family room for now), kitchen (with the 50's double oven), 2 regular bedrooms (girl's room and playroom), master bedroom, and bath.
Downstairs has an "unfinished" food storage room (with shelves), an "unfinished" work/craft room, a 3/4 bath, a huge family room (we want to turn it into a movie theatre room someday), and a big guest bedroom with built in desks (great for when my girls are older.)
Outside has a 1 car garage, a rose garden (we will convert it into a regular garden), a large fruit tree (we think it's apple but we are not sure), a little work shed, and 2 big areas of grass with a concrete pad perfect for bike riding in the backyard. It is fully fenced and they have planted really tall hedges all around it so once you are in the yard you can't see out. It is also within three blocks of all the schools the girls will eventually go to.
Now we just keep praying that everything continues falling into place. According to the current paperwork we should be moving into the new place on the 28th! :) It will be such a wonderful Christmas gift for our girls to finally have room to run and play!

I wonder...

who found the leftover bag of Halloween candy...