Christmas!

Pardon my absence from this blog lately...we've been busy enjoying the Christmas season!

We made salt dough ornaments....(Sadie painted these)

Decorated and ate lots of sugar cookies with the Lances...

consumed tons of sprinkles....

 enjoyed receiving cards from friends and family...

Joanna and I danced our traditional Jingle Bell Rock dance for the annual Lance Christmas Eve program....

 and Sadie (and Charlotte) got Gramma Jammies on Christmas Eve.

 Sadie had a blast opening her gifts!

Charlotte too? She kinda got excited for the wrapping paper more.

 We had our Christmas morning at home and it was so nice. The girls enjoyed playing with their gifts from Santa for awhile.

 Sadie got an awesome Cinderella wooden doll with tons of clothes, and Charlotte got a fun ball that moves around on it's own. She loved it and kept trying to eat it.

Then we headed over to my parents house and attacked the HUGE pile of presents. It took us 4 hours to open them! (we open them one at a time)

We had a wonderful Christmas! Hope you did too!

silly kids

 Hello folks! It's time for another edition of "Dress up in Charlotte's clothes!" Starring: Sadie!

Here she is modeling a cute vintage number. The length is a tad short and it doesn't button up in the back, but she still can work it!

 Here she is modeling this tres chic purple number! She is always in motion, hence the blurry pic. I love her pose though.

Then the model got distracted by her cute sister and started loving on her.

a little too much.

Save me, momma!

christmas, etc.

 We've (I've) been busy wrapping presents! I love wrapping presents, I put on some holiday tunes and zone out in the wrapping zone. I look forward to it every year. Weird? eh. Anyways, I had Sadie help me move the presents from my craft room to under the tree...and this is how she laid them out. I thought it was so cute! Unfortunately I had to move them around so we're not hopping over presents every day, but I snapped a photo first of course!

We're (I'm) also working on aquiring a Christmas book collection. I want to get at least 24 someday, so that I can do this fun advent I've read about. You wrap each book up and open one every day and read it as a countdown to Christmas! Love it! I've got about 12 or so to go!

first eats

 Charlotte got her first taste of rice cereal yesterday...

 She didn't quite care for it.

 Can you blame her? It's pretty icky stuff. Sadie tried it cause she wanted what Charlotte was eating (of course), and made a face quite similar to Charlotte's.

Even Rory made a face. haha! Wish us luck next time we try some solids!

Sadie's new boots

Aren't they adorable? I love little girls in boots. Now if only I could find some for me that I like!

These have "deedle bells" on the back. lol! (jingle bells)