Dear Santa

Alana wanted to write a note to Santa this year. To my surprise she didn't want to ask for anything. She just wanted to write "I love you". Very cute. If you notice she drew herself with her tongue sticking out. Silly girl!!

First Field Trip!

Alana had her first school field trip today. She got to ride on the bus for the first time and thought that was great! They went to the hospital to sing Christmas Carols to the staff. It was very cute. They all sang really loud and seemed to have fun doing it. Rhonda and I surprised Lizzie and Alana by going to watch them sing. They thought it was great.

Poor Tyler, he wanted to sing with his sister. He kept walking up there. Everyone thought it was funny and didn't seem to mind that he crashed the party.

Santa and Mrs. Claus

After the kids sang they went back to a little classroom and the Hospital had pizza, cookies, and milk for the kids. And as if pizza wasn't enough for the kids Santa and Mrs. Claus came in for a visit! Santa handed out candy canes and Mrs. Claus handed out hugs. Very cute!

All of the kids were telling Santa what they wanted for Christmas. I hope he has a good memory since they were all yelling at once!

High Five!!

The dogs

Here are a few recent pictures of Blitz and Kelly. Kelly is slowly getting better. She still drives me crazy because she is trying to eat anything and everything that is on the floor, in the trash, or even on the table. I am trying to be patient with this dog....puppies are hard work. A child would have been easier but we won't go there......

First Snow!!

Boy were the kids happy when they woke up this morning. We had our first substantial amount of snow. We made a tiny snow man, that didn't last long since Blitz thought it would be fun to eat it. The kids thought that was hysterical. Poor Tyler though, we don't have any boots for him yet. Surprisingly the snow suits from last year still fit so we were lucky with that! This year Tyler let me put gloves on him so he was getting in the snow just as much as his sister!

This is why you have kids right?! They do all the dirty work while you stand back and take pictures! I see nothing wrong with this :) ha ha. Poor Tyler though. Alana took the big shovel and gave him a little shovel for sand. He didn't seem to care though.

Computer Time

Ever since spending some time with her cousin Kate she has been obsessed with computer games. Though we don't have very many she seems to do really well. She has taken to the laptop pretty well too, though I think she might have an easier time with a mouse for some of the activities. I guess maybe Santa might be getting her some new games, hey Sarah what is the name of that Mickey Mouse game?? She is asking to play it :)

Sleepy time

This is where Blitz sleeps every night. Alana loves it!

So I tucked Alana into bed the other night. I thought she had fallen asleep since she was so quiet. I sat downstairs and watched some TV while I was waiting for Dave to come home from training. Well when we went up to bed this is what we found........

She had gotten out of her bed, went into our room, and started her movie. That girl is just too sneaky!