Booster!

Maddie has been counting down what feels like forever to be old enough to be in a booster in the car. She'll be 4 on Monday and so last weekend we headed to Target to let her choose her very own booster! You would have thought this was the greatest thing ever! She had to have everyone look at it, she had to call her Grandma Kathy and let her know about it and she had to show Kaylin and Macie right away on Tuesday! She is one proud little girl! On a side note, don't you LOVE her glasses? We were in Michaels the other day and Taylor wanted some new yarn to finger crochet with so we had told Maddie she could choose something for a $1 as well. The glasses are what she picked out. Dave popped the glass out and she wears them everywhere! Love it!

Seaside!

At the end of December, we headed to Seaside with Carolyn, Jerry, Mindy and her family as well as Jerry's kids- Chris, Paul and Senna. When we arrived it was the most beautiful day you could imagine! It was warm and the sun was out. We literally threw our bags in our condo and ran for the beach! The kids had their shoes and socks off and I even got the comment "Mom, I told you we should have brought our flip flops". It felt so nice to have the sun on your face and to be on the beach in December! It was probably a good thing that we got to experience the beach that first day because for the rest of our trip we didn't see any more sun- just rain. We spent our days reading, playing board games, shopping (it's amazing how long 2 little girls can shop when they are given some money!), eating and playing in the pool. Dave and I hadn't been to Seaside in ages and I am quite certain that we will not let that happen again. We had so much fun!

Really? In December? SO pretty outside! This was also the view from our condo window!!

Maddie loving the sand- a happy girl!

We could hardly pin Taylor down for a picture. She was so thrilled to be on the beach!

No shoes or socks...

Taylor quickly headed for the water!

Sunset view from our condo! Gorgeous!!

Maddie, Alex and Taylor after their swim!

What's not to love about this face?

The Last of the Christmas Pictures (finally!)

New jammies on Christmas Eve have become our tradition!

Miss Maddie was quite excited!

Our two sweet little girls!

Does life get any better then this?

A Visit with Santa!

What's not to love about visiting Santa? Apparently, a lot of things! This year due to lack of time my mom, sister and I headed to the Alderwood Mall to get the girls pictures taken with Santa. I have to say that the line wasn't too bad and that the Santa is actually kind of cute! Dave and I had been preparing Maddie and Taylor for the "big visit" for all of December and both claimed that they were going to smile for him because they wanted to be big cousins to Emilie. As you can see from the pictures below, one of the girls held up on that agreement while the other one didn't! To her defense, right before they went to sit on Santa's lap, she hit her chin on my camera and that set her off. Needless to say my mom, sister and I got to have a very good laugh (and all the people around us thought we were the most evil people EVER!) Until next year.....

Here is Maddie Happy :)

Here is Maddie Sad (and a little bit angry!)

Now, here is both Emilie AND Maddie sad!

Cookie Decorating!

We had our annual cookie baking/decorating party with our friends the Kovals again this year. Krista was so kind to host our event and we even had our friends the Gentry's join us this year which was lots of fun! As usual, the kids enjoyed themselves- they used lots of frosting, ate too much candy and giggled the night away together. I love watching all six of the girls play together- they are all so different yet all have a very special bond with one another. We are so lucky to have such great friends in our lives!

The girls (with clothes on this year!!) making sugar cookies!

Taylor decorating her cookies!

Maddie's Masterpiece(s)! Yummy!

All the girls! Kaylin, Taylor, Molly, Maddie, Chloe and Macie!

Christmas with Papa and Grandma Lynette and Seattle!

I know, I know...January 8, 2010. It may be next December before I get all of our events posted but feel like I want to share them all- they were all SO fun! For our next event we went to Matt and Amy's house for our family Christmas with Roger and Lynette and Amy, Matt and the boys. As usual, it was a fun time! The kids had fun opening their new sleeping bags (from Pottery Barn which their mommy finds to be to dang cute!), cougar sweatshirts and many other great gifts. After presents and dinner the whole family was treated to a fun evening in Seattle. We got to go on the Carasol and then go on a horse drawn carriage ride around down town Seattle. Talk about a fun thing to do! Amazing was more like it! Dave and I were talking on the way home about how lucky our two children are to be able to experience these type of things at such a young age!

The cousins! Maddie, Taylor, Luke, Drew, Abbey, Zack and Kitrick

Taylor loving her gifts from her family!

The Myers before we got on the carasol ride!

The Myers girls enjoying a horse ride!

The whole crew!

Luke, Drew, Taylor and Maddie SO excited about their carriage ride!

Thanks for a very fun evening Papa and Grandma Lynette! We love you!

Pemberton/Anderson/Sieck Christmas!

The day after the Myers Christmas we headed to Bothell to be with my family for the day. It was so nice to be with everyone! The little one's played like crazy and the adults had a good time visiting and catching up. After a yummy taco bar we had a gift exchange with one another. This year in August we drew a name of someone in the family. It was fun to watch and see who had who and what they had picked out for their person. The girls had fun giving their presents to the person they drew; Maddie had John and Taylor had Emilie. It was an all around fun time!

This was the best picture I could get...Emilie was not thrilled at all to be having her picture taken by her Auntie Heather!

Maddie helping John open his present that she wrapped for him all by herself!

Kelsey and Taylor playing with her new toy from Grandma Oh-Oh! I love this picture!