Happy Birthday, Jesus!

It gets harder and harder to try and get our extended families together for the holidays. So this year was a little different. We got together with Jared's family the weekend before Christmas and with my family the weekend after. So that left Christmas day for just the four of us. Jared and I have never had Christmas day to ourselves....ever. We have always been at one of our parents house or traveling on the day. So I was so excited and was looking forward to making a big meal and just relaxing with my family. It was so fun. We woke up and opened gifts, Jared read the Christmas story, had breakfast, and then the girls and I started in on making Jesus' birthday cake. That was too much fun! I then started on dinner...we had ham, broccoli rice casserole, mashed potatoes, rolls, marshmallow salad, and birthday cake. It was delicious and I felt very Susie homemaker! So thankful for Jesus and for his sacrifice. It was such a blessing to celebrate Him with my family. Happy Birthday, Jesus!

 

Our birthday party for Jesus was awesome. The girls picked out what type of cake. Claire was convinced that Jesus would love chocolate cake with chocolate icing and of course, sprinkles. And she would be right!!

(no matter how hard I tried to fix it the first two pics are out of order.uggg)

                                                                                                                                                                        

 

That's my girl!!

Happy Birthday Jesus! We're so glad it's Christmas...

Singing Happy Birthday!



Dance observation day

In December Claire had a dance observation day for her dance class. We were able to go into the classroom and watch them dance and take pictures. They had a Christmas party with gift exchange as well. I will warn you there will be a lot of pictures with this one. Also, I am not all that good taking photos indoors so they are not the best but still so cute because quite frankly, my daughter is a very cute little dancer. See for yourselves.

 

Some of her dancing friends.

Claire's best friend Rachel. (This is who Claire thinks is the coolest person she knows. Seee Claire is 4 post.)

LOVE THIS ONE!!



Potty Training...again.

Well, we started potty training Quinn...again. It has been 5 months since the last time and she took the lead on it again. This time she was ready! She has done so good!! We still have accidents when we go out of the house because she is scared to go on another potty...me too, honey! Plus we are not sleep trained but we are headed in the right direction. I was ready this time as well. The day she told me she wanted to go on the big potty was the last time she wore a diaper. (January 8th to be exact) ;) She wears her princess panties most of the time but for some reason prefers pull ups. Maybe one day I will not have to buy a diaper like item again!! Like I said we are headed in the right direction.

Beautiful day in the neighborhood.

It really is hard to believe that I am sitting outside in January blogging and watching my sweet babies play. I am a 74 degree kind of girl and could live at that temp forever. It is 73 right now and is wonderful. It is a little breezy and I am sure the three of us will end up sick but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be outside.

 

 

By the way...the girls dressed themselves today and I kinda love what they picked.



Rhema Lights

We try to take the girls to see the lights at Rhema every year. This year was the best by far...it was in the 70's!! I wasn't freezing my buns off and wishing I had brought cash with me to buy hot chocolate. We walked a little longer and enjoyed it a little more. Thank the Lord for nice weather.

 



Just Quinn

~35~

On December 1st I turned 35 and I thought it was going to be tough but when I think about 36...that one makes me feel old. It will be official that I am closer to 40 than 30. Blah! So I am going to enjoy 35!

My girls both gave me a gift. Claire gave me a go-fish game, which we play often. Quinn gave me a baby doll that she "takes care of" for me, all the time. :) Blessed!