Is it the broom or the girl?

Yes, she is wearing a sundress that's way to small for her in the middle of December. We don't go out much so I'm cool with it.

Eva's Wassail

Eva's annual wassail was on Thursday, she also had a field trip that day...Thursday was a day of fun at school for her!

Here she is discovering where we were sitting.

 Saying "HI!" to Elle...she was really excited to see her.

These girls are getting to be really close...it's great.

 Sorry it's so dark...bad lighting + crappy flash.

Here's a video of her part with her 1st grade class, if you listen carefully you can even hear Elle singing behind me.

I also took some video of Elle singing along to all the songs...of course once I started taping her she wasn't doing it as much but it was still super cute. It's probably a video only grandparents want to watch and finish...there's a special message for the grandparents at the end of this video. Enjoy!

Christmas Tree Hunt 2010

Every year we cut down our tree, the girls really look forward to it and it's really fun. Plus the place we go gives you free hot chocolate and candy canes (bonus).
There were a lot of lots selling trees by our house this year, here's one of Eva and mines conversations about tree lots:
Eva: Why do people buy a tree when they can cut one down?
Me: Well some people are too old and can't cut them down and some don't want to cut a tree down...like that lady there...see, she's too old to cut her own tree.
3 days later...we're waiting at the same light, that has two lots of trees and we hadn't cut our tree down yet.
Eva: OH MAN! I wish I was an old lady!
Me: (laughing) What?!
Eva: If I was an old lady I could just go over there right now and get a Christmas tree!
So cute.
Here we all are on the day we finally got our Christmas tree.

Aww, sisterly love.

Classic Eva face.

And Ellie hamming it up as usual.

After walking around and going back and forth on what tree we wanted and what size would be good for this year, Jeremy came across this one and Elle agreed.

This is a reenactment. I missed the actual cutting...it was so quick I wasn't paying attention...I was too busy taking pictures of Elle.

 I'm trying to experiment more with my camera on manual... I know I have an awesome camera but I have no idea how to use it.

Luckily I have a perfectly willing model at my disposal.

The violent shaking of the tree...always entertaining.

We were getting in the car when I realized I wasn't in any of the pictures, not that I was that disappointed but I figured I should be in at least one picture so our future baby will know he/she was gestating at some point.

And there you have it. Christmas Tree Cutting 2010. We decided a smaller tree would be nice this year and it has been nice, it's the perfect size. I should've taken a picture of it all decorated. I let the girls decorate in purple and green ornaments this year...Eva's having regrets. Usually I rearrange everything they do once they go to bed but this year I thought it would be more fun to just keep it how they put it on....it's interesting. :)

THANKSGIVING 2010

I should have taken pictures at the movie theater! Duh! That was our "big" new tradition this year. We went to see Megamind around 5pm on thanksgiving, the girls had a blast.

Anyway, back to the food:

Here are the girls enjoying some pre-dinner appetizers. Elle ate most of the olives in about 5 minutes. I made the famous cheeseball and i made waaaay too much! Not that anyone's complaining.

Here's Jeremy cutting the bird. I tried to find the most embarrassing photo of him...done.

We got three different kinds of sparkling cider! This one is mango apple, it was a hit! I must admit it was really good, perfectly sweet.

 I was too lazy to find the tripod so we went with individual shots.

I got this giant gingerbread man from Trader Joe's, I thought the girls would have some fun decorating it. And they did...almost as much fun as they had eating it.

I also forgot to add in Eva's adorable snowman from our snowfall the other day. She made the cutest, littlest snowman ever with our neighbor, they are the same age...cute little girls.

It had already melted a little at this point, she sat it right by our front door! So cute.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This is our first Thanksgiving as a family with kids...alone! Gasp! We're actually excited about it.
As much as I wish we were with tons of family to play games, sing and watch movies we're starting our own traditions today. We'll be going to the movies together to go see Megamind (the girls are REALLY excited) and we've made all the appetizers and sides that we like to have on Thanksgiving!
Here are some pics from the little snowfall we had the other day, no school!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's a...

baby.
That's right, we didn't find out. It's just not as fun...and Jeremy said we only have 20 more weeks (or less hopefully) till this baby comes and then we'll know no matter what!
Here are out ultrasound pics we came home with. The best part was seeing the baby doing the cutest little yawn...it was nap time for him/her and the tech was really trying to get a better profile shot...which was really, really uncomfortable and I just didn't care that much. I can see it has all his/her toes and fingers blah, blah, stop pushing my baby all over my guts and on my bladder!
He was a nice tech but 45 minutes of an ultrasound is long!

Elle had a fairly good time. She loved seeing the heartbeat best, she tried jumping up and down with the beat.
All and all it was a good day and I'm ready for bed!

18 weeks

Some pictures of me being 18 weeks with baby #3 courtesy of Mr. Jeremy Brower.