Christmas 2012

We spent Christmas in our new house this year.  My parents were able to make the drive through the snow filled mountains to be with us.  We all had a great time, ate too much as usual and had fun watching the kids unwrap their presents. 

 

This year Ella asked Santa for 111 kittens and cats and Bridgette asked him for a new baby doll.  As you can see, Santa couldn't pull off the kittens and cats. However, he found this pretty awesome Barbie doll house.  Ella couldn't believe it when she saw it that morning.  Bridgette on the other hand was thrilled and couldn't believe Santa brought her what she asked for.

 

 

Christmas Eve

 Bridgette couldn't believe it was Christas Eve!

 After Mass the girls went and sprinkled reindeer food they had made outside for Santa's reindeer.  The indgredients were oatmeal, barley, sprinkles and of course sparkles.  The sparkles allow the reindeer to find our house.

Believe it or not Santa found our house!  This is what the girls woke up to on Christmas morning.

The Minivan Express

 Christmas was so fun this year, we were able to do so many outings to get everyone in the Christmas spirit.  A few nights for before Christmas I laminated and printed these golden tickets. The idea was a spin off from the Polar Express but it was the Minivan Express to go see Christmas lights.  I hid them in a book I set out read that night.  While I got the girls ready for bed, Jake made popcorn, hot chocolate and got the minivan warmed up.  I finally settled the girls down and read my story and when we got to a certain page the tickets fell out.  I had to explain what they said because they can't really read yet.  They were very excited. We all hoped in the car even Molly and drove around and saw Christmas lights.  We even stopped by a couple of places that had these huge light shows all coordinated with music you could listen to in the car. Next year we will do it again but probably travel to Seattle for some really cool neighborhoods that all do lights.  This will definately become a tradition for us.  I can't take all the credit for this idea, pinterest helped on this one.

A meal in her Bumbo

 Molly loves to sit up and join us at the table these days.  Most of the time she sits in her highchair but today she is in her bumbo chair.

Guess who's getting older?

 Jake turned 34 years old on Dec. 20th!  Jake and I actually went out for dinner by ourselves and left the girls with a sitter.  Everyone did well except for Molly.

Snowflake Lane 2012

Thought this was an adorable picture of Bridgie and Jake.


A week before Christmas we took the girls to Snowflake Lane downtown Bellevue.  Each night during the holidays they do a live show at 7pm where the Snowflake princess comes out and some other characters come out to greet the kids.  Drummers beat to the music blasting outside and fake snow falls from the sky.  People jam the sidewalks listening and dancing.  It is a ton of fun!  This year Ella was sooo into it and of course Bridgette was scared.  So she stayed inside the restaurant with me and Molly while Jake took Ella into the action.

 I had the girls get dressed up to go to Snowflake Lane because after dinner and festivities outside we stood in line to see Santa.  Ella asked for 110 kittens and cats.  She is obsessed with kittens and cats.  And Bridgette asked for a new baby doll.  I spoke up for Molly and told Santa I just wanted a good nights sleep!

Molly is 5mos old

 They all want to be like Molly.

Finally took Molly in for her 4mo well child visit a couple of weeks ago.  She weights 16lbs 90-95%, 26in long- off the charts in height.  The doctor was very impressed with her head control and her eye contact.  She actually said that Molly was advanced for her age espcially since she is grabbing for toys and pulls her feet to her mouth.   Just in the past week she has had two teeth pop through and she now rolls over on a regular basis without help.

 Molly is 5mos old!  Yipee!