Christmas piano recital...

 December 14

Talia and Eliza had their Christmas Recital at the Richland Public Library on December 15th.  This was Talia's first recital and they both did great!

 Talia played Up on the Housetop.

Eliza played When Christmas Comes to Town (from the Polar Express).  I'll miss hearing her play this every day.  It's such a pretty song! 

We're so proud of how hard they practiced and prepared!

Preschool Christmas program...

December 14

Lydia had her preschool Christmas program and she was so excited to lead the class into the Sanctuary!  She did such a good job singing all her Christmas songs!

Customers in training...

December 12 

We don't often go to Yoke's grocery store but the girls love when we do.  We had to get Egg Nog and cheese ball ingredients so our "customers in training" helped us out!

Letters to Santa/Boat parade...

December 1st

Here are the girl's letters to Santa this year.  Karisa had one too...not sure why I didn't take a picture of it.

 They took them to Santa's mailbox in the mall.  Here's hoping a lot of wishes come true!

 We did a little Christmas shopping.  The girls got a kick out of these masks!

 Annual lighted boat parade on the Columbia River!

 Since it was December 1st we finished the night opening up new Christmas pajamas!

It's officially December!!

Sick day...

It's rough to be sick but sometimes mom enjoys the extra snuggles.

Happy Birthday Darran!

Happy Birthday Dad!

We celebrated daddy's birthday by having dinner with Nana and Papa (Grandpa and Grandma were in California for Eli's blessing).  It's always fun to celebrate a dad we love so much!  He does everything we could ever want a dad to do!  We love you!

 We gave him a daddy shark shirt so the girls had to show us how it's done!

 Mud pie "cake!"

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Tree decorating party...

November 25th

Christmas tree decorating party!

Always a favorite tradition!  We love to eat and get ready for Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  November 22nd

We gathered at Dean and Sarah's house this year for Thanksgiving.  It's been fun to see our kids get to know Sarah's nieces on her side.  It was a yummy dinner as always with great company!

The night before we had went over to Nana and Papa's to play games.  It was great to have Myanna home from BYY...we missed Chris and Missy who were spending Thanksgiving in Utah.

After Thanksgiving dinner with the Moody family we went over to Andy and Julie's to celebrate Makenna's birthday with the Hague family.  It made for a fun family filled Thanksgiving!  We love being near so much family and couldn't feel more blessed.  We're thankful for a day that reminds us of all we have to be grateful for!

Christmas Parade...

November 17th we went to the Christmas Parade at the mall.  But it kind of ended with a flop...we had talked up seeing Santa to Karisa - he always comes at the end.  But there was construction going on close to where we were watching from.  Little did we know that Santa stopped short of where we were and went into the mall!  So we didn't even get to see him!  That made for a pretty disappointed 2 year old!

But we did leave with a lot of candy!  Here come the holidays!