Snow Day!!

Today the girls had their first snow day of the year, they get an extra long Christmas break!! They were both excited that they didn't have to go to school, even though they both love going. They "played" school all morning with their stuffed animals. After lunch we went outside to shovel the driveway. You know there is a lot of snow when you have to shovel paths in the yard so the kids can walk without falling with every step!! They loved it!! Olivia was out for about 5 minutes and then decided there was too much snow!! The other 2 stayed out for quite awhile.








Christmas Parties!!

Luckily the girls had already had their Christmas parties this week at school. I was able to help at both of them, they both had a good time making crafts and having fun snacks. The teachers anticipated a snow day today, so they gave the kids their gifts at the parties instead of waiting until today. Good thing!!


Abby's school party was yesterday morning.



Brooklynn had her party on Wednesday morning. She was supposed to have a little program this morning for the parents, but that was obviously cancelled.

Christmas Tree

We went and got our Christmas tree today. We always go and get a real tree. We usually cut it down ourself, and that's what we did this year. We took advantage of there being no snow and headed out to Allendale! Abby made the final decision on the tree this year. We got it home and found out how big it is!! It's tall and wide! But it looks pretty with all the ornaments and it smells great!

Time out

Olivia was put in her room yesterday for a time out. She was screaming for quite awhile in there. When the crying had stopped for awhile, I went in to check on her and found her sound asleep on her window seat. I knew if I moved her she would wake up, so I left her there. She slept for about 2 hours on that narrow window seat!! Crazy girl!! (yes, she's sleeping in that position!)

Halloween

My sister, Laura, and her kids were able to come over for halloween this year. The kids always like being with their cousins, so they were extra excited to go trick or treating! We went around the block in our neighborhood and they got more than enough candy. Abby was Violet from the Incredibles, Brooklynn was Tinkerbell and Olivia was a lady bug. They all looked very cute!


They were very cute, running from house to house. It seemed like there were so many of them this year because the two little ones were out there too!!

This is rediculous.....

This has been the way Abby and Brooklynn's room has been looking for the past few months, it is rediculous!! We get it all cleaned up and put away and 2 minutes later this is the way it looks!! Needless to say they are spoiled rotten and have too many toys!! We are banning Christmas presents unless they get rid of a whole bunch of stuff....that is the goal for this weekend, to weed through and get rid of stuff they don't play with. I hope Goodwill needs toys.....

A new pet

Abby has wanted a pet for awhile, so when she got some money for her birthday she wanted to use it to buy one. While she was hoping to get a kitten, she settled for a fish. (Tim is not an animal lover) She named it Goldie. I'm sure it's the only gold fish with that name....ha. Anyway, she is very proud of it and makes sure she feeds it every morning before school. We've already warned her that fish don't usually have a very long life expectancy!! But she is very happy to have a pet now!!

Daddy the fireman

This week is fire safety week. The fire department goes to local schools teaching kids about what to do in case of a fire. Tim made sure that he helped with that this year and went to both Abby and Brooklynn's schools. They think it's great that daddy comes to their school. Tonight they had an open house at one of the fire stations, so we went for awhile to see the trucks and get popcorn!!


Eating popcorn and watching Daddy and his friends cut a car apart with the jaws of life. Olivia was actually the most interested in this and when they were done she asked if they were going to put it back together now....it was funny.


I don't know if the girls have ever really seen Tim in his bunkers because they usually only wear them on a call. Atleast Olivia thought it was strange and kept looking at him like he was crazy wearing that. She asked me as we were leaving "Is Daddy wearing a costume momma?" She couldn't figure it out. Anyway, it was good for them to see a little bit of what daddy does when he runs out of the house when his pager goes off. (Abby and Brooklynn are holding rulers and pencils up by their face, incase you were wondering!)

Happy Birthday Abby!

Today is Abby's birthday, she turned 6 years old today!! We celebrated her and Jessica's birthday this past Sunday. They shared a cake and Abby thought it was great. Abby loves that Aunt Jessica's birthday is the day before hers. She loves celebrating with her every year. Today she took a birthday treat to school for her class and then wanted to go out for pizza after school. She is getting so big and learning so much!!