Christmas Cookies & school parties

The girls love to make cookies anytime of the year.

I love them too but the mess that comes with it is very exhausting.

Malia & Ava loved to decorated it after

These are cream chesse spritzs....so very YUMMY

we get together with the cousins to decorate the sugar cookies

of course then we would have to test the product

the next day was off to Malia school to help out with Christmas parties

They are making snowman soup!

These three will be in kindergarten together...

God bless the teacher that will have them:o)

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning

Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

Santa dropped off a "big" present for the girls on Christmas Eve.

How wonderful it was that Santa knew that the girls needed a armoire for their dolls clothes

Nana has been sewing like crazy making all the dolls clothes and shoes.  Some of the dolls even have hats and mittens.

Opening gifts is one of the girls favorite and they can't wait!

all of Malia's treasures

A special bath towel from Miss Trish, our daycare provider

All of Ava treasures

our family favorite Peppermint cake for Christmas dinner.

we seem to have more DOGS then kids these days.....

This year Kath came up with an idea to "recycle" gifts.

Each child is to check their toys at home and see what they have out grew and do an exchange with each other. 

The kids showing their special treasure of "recycle" gift.

Headbanz was one of our favorite family game this year.

then we had the "gamer" that stuck herself in front of the TV for 4 hours that night.

Bosco and Malia

It was a wonderful Christmas with family.

The Nutcracker

It has been one of our family tradition to take the girls to see the nutcracker.  This will be our 3rd year going.

The girls enjoy the music and since this year Ava has been taking dance she really enjoyed the ballet.

During intermission, the girls loved to go and check out all the ornaments and see the different nutcrakers.

They each got to pick out an ornament.

What an awesome show it was. 

Malia always seems to fall asleep during the 2nd half but Ava was pretty determined to make it thru until she got in the car, then she was got like a light.

Christmas with Mommy & Me playgroup

Mommy & Me playgroup was held again thanks to our friend, Kelly.

She came up a awesome craft idea that I might just have to do with Malia for next year.



All the kids enjoyed the special Christmas cookie treats.

This was the cute ornament that Kelly had supplied for the girls to make.

Then each child got to pick out a gift of a book or puzzle.

Christmas with Po Po & Gong Gong

Ava loves laying in Lily's bed

 the BFF's

Christmas with Po Po & Gong Gong & my sister & her family

A huge book of princess - Ava's favorite

 who doesn't like monster trucks especially remote driven



{Black & White Wednesday} I am shy...

Going back thru some pictures of the girls from December...

this picture does not show the true colors of "shy" Ava. She is wanting so bad to get up front and see the show but with some kids she wanted to be a little shy.

Sometimes, little things brings out our innocence & shyness.

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