Christmas Fun

Santa's Little Helpers

  It's sometimes rather difficult to get a good shot of Mavery. 

 Evie, on the other hand, loves the camera.  

Mavery still has a hard time not touching the tree.

10 more days until Christmas...

Santa 2013

While we were at the Winter Wonderland, we popped in to visit Santa.  Obviously, Evie thought it was great to see Santa.  She has never been afraid of Santa.  Mavery, on the other hand, thought it was terrifying.  She couldn't get away fast enough!  

Even Santa had to come around after we were done and look at the pictures.  It was pretty funny.

Learning to be thankful...

This week the girls went back to preschool and brought home all of their Thanksgiving art projects from the previous week.  Evie brought home this really cute toilet paper roll turkey with her hand prints as the feathers.  The teachers were so sweet to go around and ask the kiddos what they are thankful for and write it on the "hand feathers".

It's hard to see what all is written on her feathers so I will interpret: Rainbows, Rainbow Dash, My Little Pony, My Family.  I'm so glad we made it in the "thankful list" and rank right up there with My Little Pony!

That Evie cracks me up!

Texas Ice Skating

This week we went to the Waco Winter Wonderland and went ICE SKATING! Who know that you could ice skate in 80 degree weather?!?! They had a faux ice skating rink set up where you use real ice skates and skate around on a plastic material type rink.  It was fun, but the girls did not last long.  Mommy cheated and wore little booties over my shoes so that I could pull Mavery around without her pulling me down.  Mawmaw was a trooper though, she and Evie made it two times around the rink!

There was also a train ride!

And that's all I got to say about that!

Peace out!

Florida Thanksgiving

We went to Florida this year for Thanksgiving with Grandma Susie, Pops, Aunt Amanda, Uncle Nate, Stuart and Drake.  It was a bit cold for Florida, but we had a fun time.

Evie trying to sport her beach attire.

We finally had to opt for jackets.  It was a bit chilly at sunset.

The sunset on the beach was beautiful!

Please let me drive!

Time for some legos!

Say Cheese!

The Cousins 

Everybody line up! 

 One pooped Pops!

  Snow Angels?

 It was a fun trip!

Fall Photos

Mother Neff State Park

Camp Fire at Meridian State Park

A beautiful sunrise on the lake at Meridian. (even though we didn't catch any fish)

 Pretty Girl

Mavery: Queen of the King-size bed

Best seat to watch the Baylor Homecoming Fireworks

Swing Time

Upside down... Hang on Tight!

Mavery, push me higher!

Treat Night at Baylor

Treat Night with Megan and Emma

Sweet Little Pumpkins

Finally, these girls are earning their keep around here!

September 2013

Just some fun pics from the month of September...

Saturday we went to Baylor and played in the fountain. 

Here comes Evie...

Here comes Mavery...

...and She'll be comin' round the fountain when she comes...

Then we went the the children's museum and the girls spent most of the time in their favorite room: The Horse Room (the pioneer room)

Cooking....

And saddle-back riding..

Giddy-up Horsey!! 

Yee-haw!!

And last, this is the morning of picture day at school. It was reported that Mavery DID smile during her picture so we are excited to share the results soon! Until later...

School!

Evie's first day of Pre-k!  My baby is sure growing up fast. 

Both girls ready to rock and roll! Mavery started preschool two days a week this year. She is slowly warming up! 

Evie finding her name at her table. 

I love it when they match! 

The "Not-so Easy Bake Oven"

Evie got an Easy Bake oven for Christmas this year. She loves it. Just like I did when I was a kid. However, there is a reason that it says "ages 8 and up" on the box. 

Easy Bake oven is not so easy with a very enthusiastic 4 year-old! 

We made pretzels the other night. They were interesting. The mix even came with cheese sauce. 

I'm glad she enjoys her "Bake Oven" as she refers to it. It gives us a good chance to spend time together in the kitchen and also gets her excited about doing the dishes! 

Here's to brownies and cookies baked by a light bulb for the next few years to come!

Family Game Night

Evie is learning to play games. We played candy land the other night and she actually "got it". Meaning, she understood the concept of the rules and the objective of getting your gingerbread man to the castle first. When we sat down to decide who got the first turn she said, and I quote "daddy goes first because he washed the dishes tonight" (thank you mike)! 

Not to brag, but that seemed rather mature for a 4 year old. Just sayin! 

When we first started playing board games with her a few months ago she wanted to do everyone's turn for them and make her own rules. (It wasn't much fun and I sort of dreaded the moment when she asked "can we play a game??") 

The other night was fun playing a game as a family. It made me look forward to having family game nights with the kids. But honestly,I can wait just a bit for these sweet girls to grow up. 

Blankie

Any resemblance??

And people wonder why I call her Linus?? 

When Maves wakes up in the morning she will follow me around while I'm getting ready. She holds her blankie out so that I will pick her up and snuggle her. It's irresistible! And I am so weak!