Christmas 2011

We had a really nice Christmas this year. Will and Lilly got lots of great toys and I got a Kitchenaid mixer (YAY!).

Here are the pictures of the kids.

Lilly getting out of the bath in here hoodie towel.

William the red nosed reindeer.

Lilly in the rain forest bouncer.  She loves this one.  We bought it when William was a baby, and she loves it as much as he used to.

William smiling for the camera on Christmas morning.

Lilly in her snowman headband.

Sitting by daddy helping him open his packages.

Will and Lilly playing on the floor.

I think that Aunt Erin's gifts were the hit of the year.  She got Lilly a giant caterpillar toy.  It's about 4 to 5 feet long!

For William it was a drum set.  He loved it!  (This one gets to stay at Grandma Rhonda's house.)

After all of the presents were opened Paul gave Lilly a bottle and they took a nap.  Look how sweet!

We had so much fun playing at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Later in the day Nina and the boys came over for dinner.  Mom cooked a great spread and we were all stuffed.  The only hard part of the day was trying to pack everything up to get it all back to our house!

Christmas Tree

So, I accidentally buried our little fake tree behind a lot of crap under the house.  I also buried all of the decorations.

So, William and I went to the store and bought a little table top size real tree, a string of lights, and a package of construction paper.  We've been using the paper to make decorations for the tree over the last couple of weeks.  Here's how it turned out.

We made a paper chain to use as garland, some snowflakes to act as ornaments, and a cone angel as a topper.

Not bad for less than $30.  :-)

New Family Member

So, we have a new addition to the family.

Erin went to the animal shelter today and brought home a new dog.

She doesn't have a name yet, but look at that face!

She's not growling... her lip just gets stuck on her tooth like that.

SO FUNNY!!!!!