The Princess and the Frog

Friday afternoon, we took Milan to watch The Princess and the Frog. Milan loved it and we loved watching her.....she was literally on the edge of her seat staring at the screen (she kinda had to be or she would have been folded up in the theatre seat) and then she cuddled with daddy for the scary parts. Dave and I liked it too and totally recommend it!

Getting So Big

Eden has problems listening and following directions.....I keep telling her to stay little and she keeps getting bigger. She is just growing up too dang fast...she's already in 6 month clothes.

Last night Eden was my date to Brook and Jen's awesome ugly sweater party.

Just the other day, I found her playing with dolls.

We just love this little girl so much! Time to stop growing up Eden!

The Mystery is Solved

My old point and shoot digital camera seemingly just stopped working one day. It was understandable.....I have had the camera for 5 years and it has been dragged through seven countries. I got a new digital camera on Black Friday....when I got around to setting up my new camera, I put in my old memory card. I found TONS of these pictures.....


Then she moved on to taking pictures of Eden.....


Well, I guess that explains that :)

Christmas Festivities

A couple of weekends ago, we had a Christmas Party at church....we all had a really fun time and Milan was super excited to meet Santa. We've been explaining that Santa brings presents for Christmas so she thinks he's a pretty fantastic guy. When it was her turn to talk to Santa, she ran up to him and gave him a hug. My two cute girls with santa.

That same night, we went to the Parade of Lights downtown. It was FREEZING so we bundled up the kids, put the heat on full blast, and they got to watch from the tailgate. The kids liked the lights and they got some pretty good candy for their efforts. It was too cold for Eden so I sacrificed myself and sat inside the car with the heated seats on ;).

Milan started receiving Christmas gifts this week.

She got to open The Night Before Christmas from Dave's parents....thanks grandma and papa.

My dad also sent some pre-Chritmas gifts. Milan's favorite is this pink talking phone. Dave and I have been looking for a volume adjustment but it seems like the only option is really LOUD (thanks dad :).

We have started putting presents under the tree and Milan can hardly stop herself from opening them now.

Tonight, we went to the library and Milan got to see Santa again. She gets excited every time and loves walking away with a candy cane! I love seeing such a happy little girl!

Here's Milan and her little friend Kaitlyn....they had a fun time sitting together during the program.

Hanging out at home

Milan has a pretty bad cold, which has pretty much shut us down as far as activities since I don't want to spread the germs to more kids. Oh, and it's freezing outside and a constant 70 degrees in our house so we've been hanging out at home. Today, Milan had her BFFs over for a little playdate (it's ok, they're sick too). They had a great time playing together and I snapped this cute picture when they were in the middle of rearranging ornaments. Milan and J.P. are getting married so I'll save this pic for the wedding slideshow.


I just can't get enough of Edenbug and her cute little smiles....I couldn't even narrow it down to just one picture so here you go....


She started laughing last Thursday and it's stinking adorable...Dave does a funny face that gets her cracking up every time.....if I ever figure out how to get videos off of the video camera then I'll put it on the blog.

Play Group

Milan is in two seperate play groups where I drop her off at her friend's houses to play for a couple of hours. When it's our turn, we watch all the kids at our house. I used to kind of dread our turn because Milan had such a hard time sharing her toys and spent the entire two hours going to time out, coming out of time out, throwing a tantrum/taking a toy from a friend/yelling "mine"/etc, going back to time out. This week all of our discussions about sharing actually sank in!!!! I was so happy to see Milan sharing all her toys and it was so much fun....Milan had a blast playing with her friends and I got to sit down and play with all the kids too. I'm so proud of my stubborn little girl :)

Tummy Time and Cute Smiles

So, tummy time is definitely not Eden's favorite time of the day, but I'm a mean mom and make her do it anyway.....okay not that mean, since I just flip her over when she gets angry about it. See.....she tolerates it for about two minutes.....


Then, she gets frustrated that she has to hold her head up to look around and would rather just be lazy so she cries until I come rescue her.



The rest of the time, we get to see these cute little smiles :)

BRRRRR.....

Lately we've had a lot of snow and chilly days so I have to bundle my girls up in their cute snow gear just to walk from the car to the grocery store. They don't even seem to mind the cold.....guess it's because they were both born in Wyoming!