Snowflake and her bag of tricks!

The girls are continuing to love having Snowflake visit our home for the Christmas Season. One night she toilet papered their bedroom. The next night Brilynn and Maycie were fighting so they didn't get to sprinkle the magic snowflakes on her. That was a huge disappointment to the girls and they have been on their best behavior ever since:) This morning they looked and looked around the house to find Snowflake but couldn't find her. It wasn't until they went to get milk for their cereal that they found her. She had made the milk green and was standing on the top shelf of the refridgerator. Silly Elf!!!

12 Memories of Christmas...Snowflake the Elf

I can't believe that December is already here!!! Well we have started our 12 memories of christmas. I am really excited for some of the things that we have planned to do for the month of December. The first memory that the girls opened was a little elf. This is what was included in with the elf...This little elf has come from the North Pole to spend the holidays with you. She begged Santa to let her visit with the hopes that you would grow to love her just as much as she loves you. Your elf will need a name, so decided as a family what her name is going to be. Each night you will sprinkle her with the magic snowflake dust that she has brought with her. If you do this, she will come to life during the night. We have heard that she can sometimes be very mischievious, so watch out. This little elf will be such fun for you and she will become a great friend. Enjoy her and use your imagination when you play with her. The girls were so excited to have their new elf and they chose to name her snowflake. So that night we sprinkled her with the magic dust and went to bed. The next morning the girls found her in the classroom with a marker in her hand and she had scribbled all over the a coloring book. Then you could only imagine their faces when John ran into the room to see what was going on and his face was covered with blue dots and a smiley face. The girls talked about this all day long. While I was at the mall Maycie told many random people about the elf and what it had done to her dad. So fun!!!

Stay tuned during the month to see what our other memories of christmas gifts are and also to see other things Snowflake does in our home!!!

Black Friday

I LOVE black friday. I start weeks before looking online and planning out my route in an excel spread sheet. The more kids I get and the more expensive their "gifts" become and the more money I save each year by being one of the CRAZY mom's at the black friday sales. This year I was excited that Toys R Us was smart enought to open at midnight. I would much rather stay up late than get a few hours of sleep and have to wake up at 3 in the morning. So at 8:00 on Thanksgiving Day my mom, brother, and myself headed down to Toys R Us. After being there for about 30 minutes, I was frozen. I made a quick call to John and had him bring me down an extra coat, blankets, and hot chocolate. By the time we finished in TRU we decided to just stay up all night and hit the other stores. I did come home for a few minutes around 3:00 and did some quick online shopping. We shopped until about 7:30 the next morning, came home, slept until 11:00 and then headed out again until about 6 that night. By then I was completely exhausted and felt like a zombie. I seriously don't remember the last time I stayed up that late. The next morning we headed out again to finish up a few things that we had missed. Between my mom, dad, 2 brother's, sister-in-law, and myself and hitting TRU, Walmart, Target, Kohls, Office Depot, Best Buy, Walgreens, Hobby Lobby, Lowes, Staples, Shopko, and Kmart we managed to get everything on our lists. Some people may say we are crazy, but I would be more than happy to share my savings with them:) The best thing is that I am completely finished with all my Christmas shopping and now I can enjoy the rest of December!!!

Trick-or-Treat

This was Preslee and Payge's first experience with trick or treating. It was so much work for John and I but they loved it. Preslee was making me laugh the whole night. She wouldn't let us carry her or push her in the stroller. She had to walk, by herself, from house to house. Then when her bucket got full I dumped it into another bag. She had a complete melt down. I had to put the candy back in her bucket. She would get upset if the people wouldn't let her pick out her own candy, and she would try to get 2 or 3 pieces at each house. She made it so fun. Payge was content with whatever. The only hard part with Payge was that she wanted to eat every new piece of candy that she got and Preslee just wanted to get to the next house. We had a trunk or treat on our street then we took the kids to the mall. After that we came home and went door to door. The girls got a lot of candy this year and I guess it helped that Preslee and Payge participated this year as well. After trick-or-treating, we came back to our house and had our annual soup dinner with the Butler and Smith families. We enjoy spending the evening with friends and letting the kids run wild in the basement. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and it seems like it comes and goes so fast. Now I have to start planning Thanksgiving!!!

This made me laugh!

When my sister took the kids to the Tree House she took this picture of Brilynn. It wasn't until a few days ago that I had a chance to look through the pictures and I found this one. It made me laugh because this is so Brilynn. Always making a joke. I love this girl!!!

Family Fun

A few weeks ago my sister and mom came out for the weekend. We went non stop for the 5 days they were here. We shopped in Park City, took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese, went to soccer games, visited Frightmares at Lagoon, had a day of rest and went to church, took the kids to the tree house, went to Pack's Pumpkin Patch for FHE, and visited the Sweet's candy factory. The girls loved every minute of it except the shopping parts. It was so fun to have our family here for that long. We look forward to doing it again soon.

Yay!!!! It's Nursery Time

Last month the twins turned 18 months and for John and I that was a huge milestone for the twins. That meant that we would finally be able to send them to nursery during chuch. Thank goodness!!! They are so busy and always on the go. I am so glad that John and I were able to have twins. It has been one of the hardest things but one of the most rewarding things of being a parent. John and I love to sit and just watch them play and interact with each other. They are such sweeties!!!

Jack-O-Lanterns:)

Once the twins went to bed we headed out to the garage to carve the annual pumpkins. Of course Brilynn and Maycie didn't last very long before they were done with the pumpkins and were riding circles around John and I on their scooters. As long as their having fun?????? Thanks John for degutting all of the pumpkins for us. He had them all nice and clean for us before the girls and I even came out. What a sweetie!!!

Brilynn lost tooth number 3 and 4 in the same day. The funny thing was that she lost one in the morning while brushing her teeth. Later that night I looked at her and asked her when she had lost the other tooth. She had no idea that it had fallen out. We couldn't find the tooth so she had to write another letter to the toothfairy explaining what happened to her tooth. Good thing the toothfairy is sooooo sweet and decided to pay her anyway.

Soccer Girls

Although soccer would take up our whole Saturday, it was something I looked forward to each week. I loved watching the girls play and see there differnt personalities shine through. This was Maycie's first year to play and she LOVED it. Her first game she scored 4 goals and was so proud of herself. Brilynn always wanted to play defense until we started offering the girls slurpees if they got goals. Then Brilynn was begging to play offense. After Maycie had her treadmill accident she was out of commision for a week and was very upset that she couldn't play. The first game she played with her "hurt" foot, she had to kick with her left foot but she still managed to score 4 or 5 goals. One morning we were going to soccer and out of the blue Maycie said, "Brilynn just watch me and you'll learn how to play." Brilynn's quick response was, "Maycie, your so RUDE!" It didn't take Maycie long to become very confident in her soccer skills.