New Year's Eve Par-tay!

We are currently hosting a New Years Eve party at my house. Savannah is here for a sleepover, and the girls are off doing girl-y stuff and not hanging out with me at all! Here they are in their matching pjs.

And here they are getting ready to leave for the fireworks.

We took them downtown to see the fireworks, and that was the only 10 minutes of silence we have gotten so far tonight :) After the fireworks, we went past Clark Griswold's house.

They are currently playing the Wii fit and we have plans to watch Santa Buddies with popcorn in a few minutes.

Sledding

Santa brought the girls several sleds for Christmas this year. So yesterday, Briana tried them out in the back yard.

This next video just about gave me a heart attack.

So today, we took the kids to Zorinsky to go sledding. It was a huge hit.

Kindergarten gingerbread houses

I got to go up to Sydney's classroom to make a gingerbread house with her yesterday. It was very fun, and I must say, we had the best looking house in the classroom!

Letters to Santa

The girls wrote their letters to Santa the other day. I think they both did a great job. I really, really hope Briana was good this year because I also want a mansion!



Sydney wrote hers all by herself, and I was very impressed with her sweet letter, and all the words she sounded out and spelled!

In case it is too light to read, it says:

Santa Claus

Thank you for all the presents.

I tried to be good.

I want a Smurfs bed please.

To: Santa Claus

Love: Sydney

(picture of Rudolph)

Look what I did on my snow day!

Aren't those so cute? The are magazine Christmas trees! I saw it on Martha one day, and they are super easy, and best of all, all you need to make it is a magazine. That's it! If you want to make one, here's the link. http://www.marthastewart.com/article/magazine-christmas-trees

I know Martha's trees are all glittery and pretty, but I think mine look great just like this!

Snow dog

Sunday conversation

While Mike was looking through the ads this morning, this is the conversation we had.

Mike: Stacey, come look at this. I really want it!

Stacey: (looking at picture of girl on excerciser in ad)

Stacey: do you want the exerciser or the girl?

Mike: You can get me the exerciser, and then maybe it will turn you into the girl!

Stacey:

Mike: Uhhh....

Mike: I mean....

Stacey:

Out with the old & in with the new

Over the past month and a half, I have learned that there are two things I should not pursue a career in. Cake decorating and furniture assembly. I took apart Briana's loft bed yesterday.

And then I put together her new captains bed. I have sort of hated that loft bed ever since the day we got it, and it felt really good to get it out of her room. I got her new bed about half way put together before Mike got home from work and informed me that I had done the whole thing wrong and had to take it all apart and fix it. That was after I put about four hours of my day into that bed. But, it's together now, and it looks really good in Briana's room and she loves it. We took her dresser out of her room since the bed has storage, and I get to have her old dresser in my room now. Yay!

Here's her new awesome bed:

She'll be sleeping good tonight!