Birthday Party, Round 2

We celebrated Emily's birthday with the Jansen relatives on Sunday. The party was moved out to WBL, so that Papa could be in on the fun. It's way too cold out right now for him to be going out. We had pizza, salad and cake. The plan was to go sliding down the little hill out back, but it was too stinking cold out. So, Emily helped Grandma decorate their Christmas tree.

Louie and Charlie sat on the couch and ate a whole bag of cheese puffs. . . ummm, delicious.
Then, Emmy opened presents. She got an art smock and a whole kit of fun stuff from the Syndicate Street Jansens, she LOVES to paint and draw. Tapios got her a lots of winter and Christmas themed books, we have read all of them!
And then the 117 piece set of food and kitchen toys from Isak. Isak must have known that Santa was bringing Emily and Louie a play kitchen this year???

Grandma and Papa gave her this hat and a cute red dress that goes with it. We went shopping at
Baby Gap with Grandma a few weeks ago and Emily picked out this hat, put it on her head and kept walking around saying "cute." So, Grandma had to buy it for her. It's very cute. On Saturday, Emily and Dan decorated the sugar cookies that we baked last weekend. Again, Emily ate the majority of the cookies that we put in front of her. There's still sugar everywhere!

Check this out . . .

This is so darn cute:
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1225696267

Whoops, I put the wrong link in earlier, try this one. . .

This is a for the not so merry?
http://www.scroogeyourself.com/?id=1306326933

Here's one of the Florida cousins:
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1229678360

Emily's Third Birthday

We got more snow on Tuesday. I bundled the kids up for some fun in the snow. Doesn't Lou look like he's having fun? He did like the Santa that we have out in front. Emily, doing her usual in the snow.
Dan got some fun Santa cupcakes on Thursday night for Louie and Emmy, to celebrate her actual birthday. They watched the "Happy Birthday" Signing Time and Louie walked around saying "hap bufday em" It was so cute.

Birthday Party, Round 1

Emily's party with Dan's family was last Sunday and let's just say that Emily figured out the birthday thing really quick. She was really into opening the presents and was very excited about each one. It was so nice, she said "thank you" after opening and studying each gift. We didn't even have to prompt or tell her to say it.

The cake was really good too, or so I heard.

Emily really loves her presents too. She got a couple things for drawing and painting, a Dora phone that says her name and some PJ's and big girl undies. Thanks everybody, we had a fun party.

Cookies and Snow

Cousin Charlie came and spent the weekend with us last weekend. He had a dance st De La Salle on Friday night, quiz bowl on Saturday and then we baked cookies on Saturday night. Emily and Louie couldn't get enough of having Chowie around. They screamed to have him sit with them for dinner and they helped with cookies it was lots of fun. This picture cracks me up. When we moved into our house and were cleaning out some of the crap in the attic, Dan came across my grandma and grandpa's old snowmobile suits. He LOVES wearing it, Dan across the street was out in his Carhart suit, so my Dan had to wear this thing. Isn't it nice, especially with the red stocking cap.

Snow and cookies all in one weekend!

It doesn't get any better than that!

We went to my friend Carol's house last Saturday and decorated gingerbread boys and girls. It was so much fun. Our friends, Annette and Bailey were there too. Bailey actually decorated her cookies, Emily ate every cookie I gave her to decorate and Lou was happy eating his plate.

Catching up . . .

Sorry, I don't know where the last month has gone? Well, it was busy. Dan went to Park City, Utah for a week. The kids went to Tesa's for a day and then to Bamma and Pappa's for two more. I took the rest of the week off of work and we had a ball!

But let's catch up. In November, Emily got her first black eye and that same week she ended up in the ER because she couldn't breath. She's being treated for asthma now and that seems to be really helping. However, I thought for sure we would be questioned by the staff at Childrens bringing this kid in with a black eye and she says "ouch" and "hurt" all the time . . .

We made an apple pie and sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving. Emily LOVES to be in the kitchen helping with whatever food preparation is happening. She always wants to help "stir stir."

It also snowed a little bit on Thanksgiving Day. The kids were so excited!! They both stood by the door and kept asking "snowman?" Like the dusting of snow was going to be enough and we need to get out there. Louie could hardly wait to get out and run around in his new boots. He LOVES boots and was very excited to get a pair of his own. Emily loves to catch snowflakes on her tongue.

The pie. Playing (pounding on) the piano at Auntie M's house. Auntie M has lots of fun toys at her house. She's got a whole bucket of Thomas Trains. Lou is all about Thomas and anything to do with trucks and trains.