Christmas Morning

Elise was very delicate about opening her presents. Each piece was ripped off and then placed in our hands. When she finally had it unwrapped then we immediately wanted it opened.

Her faces were priceless.

Ryan's new pocket watch.

Baby doll has been her favorite toy thus far from christmas. Although the tricycle will be a lot more fun when we can ride it outside.

all us girls without planning it wore pink (Kylie and I are in pink pajamma pants)

yeah christmas was a hit.

Love Ryan, Kimi and Elise

Christmas Party

Tis the season for parties. Ryan got home Thursday and we have had five parties in four days. Elise has  now learned to say PARTY TIME! We've been having way to much fun.

This particular party has Santa come and the kids all sit on his lap and he recounts how good you've been all year and then you can ask for a present. Elise was the LAST child to go up and she just couldn't contain herself. She wanted it to be her turn so bad and then she got there and was shy and quiet. He heard her ask for her choo choo train toy though and gave her a bag of candy and she was in heaven! So cute. The rest of the time they have a production. They have some songs that the kids can go join in on. Elise loved going up and dancing to the music and dressing up. We had so much fun!

Festival of Trees

I love festival of trees! It was incredibly crowded though and that made a little hard for a little girl in a stroller to have much fun, or see much for that matter...

this is the shirt I wanted her to wear, but we spilled on it.

I wish I could say she was this happy all the time but there were so many people that she had to be held or in her stroller so she wasn't terribly happy.

I love this picture!

Luckily Lindsey gave her a sucker and we were able to have her be happy in the stroller for a lot longer. THANKS LINDS

1st Time

BOWLING! I hurt my thumb pretty bad sewing earlier that day so I refrained from bowling this time.  It was still a lot of fun to see Elise bowl. She was so excited. She had a really hard time staying away from the ball return but she eventually got distracted by the other balls, the video game arcade thingy and dancing with her cousin.

Thanksgiving

Ugh, Elise has another runny nose. Started the day before Thanksgiving and she STILL has it. Well I thought I would take a few minutes to blog about Thanksgiving to give myself a small break from nose wiping duty and crankiness. (she's coloring so that will keep her distracted for a while)
Weight loss wise I didn't do so bad over thanksgiving. The week before it I had lost five pounds, last week I did put on .7 pound I consider that a minor victory. Could have been a lot worse. You can read more on this blog I write for scalematters 

Anyway to the fun stuff! Elise's cousin Atlee was in town. Oh my gosh did they have fun together! We went to dinner at Ryan's parents and then Ryan and I left to go to a movie with my family. We saw HUGO. Pretty cute movie. Reminds me a lot of Finding Neverland. We had a second thanksgiving dinner with my family on Sunday. Elise loves my sisters. They are so nice to her. Elise watched some Winnie the Pooh with my mom and then we had some pie (our first piece, I was trying to be so good!).

I think these are some pretty cute kiddos, but I may be biased.