the new sled

We got a new sled from Santa. It snowed all morning so Kyle and Hailey got to try it out. They said it works great. I had lots of fun watching them. Kyle would stand on it and Hailey would pull him down the hill, he thinks he is ready for a snowboard. The Hailey would lay on it and Kyle would pull her down.

Merry Christmas

Our Christmas morning started pretty early this year. On all of the past Christmases I have had to wake the kids up, but not this year. At 4:00 Kyle came up to our room, i was going to send him back to our room but Marc said he wouldnt be able to stay in his room he would be out by the tree checking everything out(Marc knew that because that is what he used to do). So he layed down on the end of our bed and about every 2 minutes he would sit up and and anounce the time finally at 5:30 we went and got the girls up. we went down and had lots of fun opening presents. We go through our stockings first, Katie and Nicole were pretty excited about the bananas and oranges and candy canes. Then we opened the presents under the tree from santa and from each other. Katie just wanted to open them she didnt really care what was in them Nicole opened hers and wanted to pull everything out and play with them. Everyone seemed pretty happy about what they got. We spent the day playing the new games and checking out the new toys. Marcs family came over to visit to. It was a really nice day it was great just spending the day together.

katie and Nicole really liked their candy canes.

Christmas Eve

Marc had to work on Christmas Eve so the kids and I spent the day getting the house clean and watching Christmas movies and of course getting our Christmas dinner ready. Marc got home at about 5:oo and we had dinner it turned out really good. After dinner we attempted to act out the nativity, the twins are still a little young so it didnt go very well but it was nice reading the story and talking about it with the kids maybe next year we will be able to do better acting it out. After that Hailey knew there was a present under the tree from my Mom that she could open tonight so I told her to get it ant that they could all help open it. Well Katie saw her getting a present so she went and got one of hers, I tried to tell her she had to wait but but her crying won over and I let her open it well of course Nicole wanted to open one to, well she went and got one but it was that she really needed to wait until Christmas to open because it went with one of her presents from Santa, after much screaming and crying she finally settled on opening another one. And by the way Rachel, Mom and Dad we love the book the kids had fun looking at all the pictures and tring to guess wich one was grandma and Grandpa, and I have enjoyed reading it.

Haircuts

I have been wanting to cut katie and Nicoles hair for awhile now but they kept telling me no because they wanted to be pretty princesses aparently you cant be a pretty princess with shorter hair. Last night Kyle was getting his hair cut so they decided they could try getting theirs cut to. It looks really cute, somehow Nicoles ended up quite a bit shorter, Marc said that is good because now he can tell them apart.

cookies and caroling

Yesterday we made sugar cookies, after dinner we all helped decorate them. It was lots of fun. The twins thought it was great, Nicole decorated a star and Marc told her she could eat it but she said it was to pretty so she wouldnt eat it.

We put the cookies on plates and took them to neighbors and friends, we didnt just give them the cookies we sang "we wish you a merry Christmas" then gave them the cookies my kids loved singing to everyone. After we went to our next door nieghbor I was going to run in the house and grab the plate for the other nieghbor but the front door wouldnt open. i knew that we hadnt locked it but it would not open. Marc tried it and he couldnt open it we got a little worried because we were all stuck outside and it was very cold so Marc used his "Huge" muscles, as Katie calls them and pushed the door open. He broke the door frame. It turns out the door handle was broken and that is why it didnt open. It was pretty funny.

More Christmas fun

We another busy fun weekend. This year in Kyles class they wrote letters to Santa and on Saturday Kyle recieved a letter back from Santa he was so excited. The letter said that he was on top of Santas good list and it said to say Merry Christmas to Hailey , Katie and Nicole All the kids were pretty excited about the letter.

Saturday night we had our Christmas party at the church this year they had a party called Night in Bethlehem so we all had to come dressed like we were from bethlehem we had fun getting dressed up. On Sunday evening we had Kyles choir performance. about a month ago they called and asked if kyle would be in this choir so he has been going every saturday morning and practicing. It was really nice he did a great job and I think he really enjoyed it he said he would be in it again if they asked him.

Santa

Last night Kyle had a party at his school. The kids got to make gingerbread houses, and Santa came they got to take pictures with them, and the kids performed some of their Christmas songs for us. It was fun. Kyle took charge of the gingerbread house and wouldnt let his sisters help so they weren't very happy. Nicole refused to be in the picture with Santa but Katie was all excited. The songs were very cute but Kyle was in the far top corner and we really couldnt see him. And I made the mistake of letting Kyle hold the gingerbread house on his lap on the way home, needless to say it was pretty much gone by the time we got home.

our weekend

We had a really fun weekend. Friday night we went for a Christmas drive, we drove around and looked at the Christmas lights, the kids get pretty excited about all the pretty lights. Then we came home and had hot chocolate and doughnuts and told some christmas stories it was a really nice night. Saturday afternoon it started snowing we were so excited we went out and played, we were having so much fun we decided to take the sleds over to a park that has a great sledding hill. it was lots of fun the kids all loved it, Im not sure they will be happy sledding on our little hill in the backyard anymore now that they have been there.

Christmas fun

We put our tree up the other day, it was a lot of fun and it looks great. The kids love helping put on the ornaments. Last night we made our gingerbread house we had a great time everyone helped, then we had egg nog and watched a christmas movie it was a fun night.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth

Kyle has been wondering why all of his friends have been losing their teeth and he hasnt lost any. A couple of weeks ago I looked in his mouth and his adult teeth on the bottom were allready through the skin they were just coming in the wrong spot so he wasnt losing his baby teeth. Marc talked to a dentist that he knows yesterday and she said that he needed to have his baby teeth pulled right away so that is beg teeth would have a chance to grow into the right spot. So today he got his two front teeth pulled. He did great they have a TV on the ceiling so he jast layed there and watched Cars through the whole thing, when he was done he said he felt great so he went back to school.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Marc was lucky this year and had Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off of work so we were able to spend Thanksgiving with my parents at their house. We had a great time here are some of the highlights: We took the scenic route to get there it is a little bit longer but very worth it. We saw a whole heard of big horn sheep, and had an amazing view of Mt raineer.

Also on our drive we got to use our window wipers My kids got so excited they just kept laughing and said Mom why are the window wipers moving so fast. You can tell we are from eastern Washington. After about three hours into the drive Nicole just kept saying "Me go home, me no like Gammas house" once we got their she seemed to like it just fine. Of course the food was great, it always nice to enjoy thanksgiving dinner with family.As we were sitting around visiting after dinner Grandpa asked Katie if she was Katie(its still a little hard to tell them apart especially when I am mean and dress them the same even the same color of elastics in their hair) and she pointed to Nicole and said "No shes Katie Me Cole" And then of course gave grandpa a big smile. I was hoping they would be a little older before they figured out that they could do that. Thanksgiving night the kids convinced Grandpa and Marc to sleep in the cabin with them. From what I heard they had a great time telling all kinds of wild stories. It would have been great except for Marc had to get up at 3:00 and go to the bathroom, and they never got back to sleep after that. The next day when they were cleaning up the cabin the kids both climbed into the hammocks and fell asleep almost instantly. Also while we were there Marc and Grandpa made a bench for our house it turned out really nice, Kyle and Hailey also made a bench they were very proud of how it turned out. marc and I were also able to get a lot of Christmas shopping done without any kids, which makes it much easier. Grandma let the kids help here set up her Christmas villages Saturday night they loved doing that. We had a great Thanksgiving Vacation.

chapter books and parent teacher conferences

Kyle finished his first chapter book yesterday, he is becoming quite a little reader we are so proud of him for working so hard. I also got to go to parent teacher conference yesterday and she only had good things to say about Kyle she said he is doing great and that she is really proud of him. She says he is just a delight to have in her class.

Halloween

We had a fun Halloween. Kyle didnt have school on Halloween, so we spent the day cleaning their bedrooms playing outside and coloring Halloween pictures. Then when Marc got home we got pizza we had it delivered the kids have never had pizza delivered before they thought it was great. Then because it was to early to go trick or treating we started watching a movie. At about 6:30 we got ready and went trick or treating, we have a great neighborhood for it.

We were just going to go the homes where we knew people well, but we decided to go to all the houses on the street and it turned out to be a good way to get to know our neighbors. They all recognized us and complemented us on our new house color. I didnt know how the twins would do but they really got in to it, they said tick or treat and thank you at every house, and at the houses where they let you pick your own candy out they just kept taking more and more until they finally moved the bowl. We now have tons of candy at our house. When we got back Kyle and Hailey sat outside and passed out the candy to the kids he even made a sign that said ,open ,so everyone would know to come to our house.