Slumber Party

I think Alana was still in the 'party mood' after spending several hours at Brooke's birthday party. She wanted to have a slumber party in our room. She carefully laid out her firetruck blanket, got her pillow and sleeping bag and went to bed on the floor in our room.

She also had to get her pony a pillow and blanket too. So her pony slept over as well. She keeps changing the name of her pony. This morning she told me her pony's name was Ellen DeGeneres! That's my girl!!

Painting time!

Alana wanted to paint the other morning. Tyler decided that he wanted to as well. It is funny to see the different ways they paint. Alana made a rainbow and added some 'sprinkles' to hers. She like to keep the colors from mixing together. Tyler on the other hand mixed all of the colors on his plate and then painted, in the same spot, on his paper.

Christmas 'hats'

We were putting away all of the Christmas decorations and the kids were helping. They decided that the plastic spiral trees made good hats. They sort of look like they belong in the wonderful world of Dr Seuss :)

Merry Christmas!

The night before Christmas was pretty interesting. Dave and I had to help Santa assemble the work bench, the little car, and a storage case. We opened the boxes hoping to find things partially assembled. Nope! It was all in pieces. We even had to cut them from the molds in order to even start putting them together! I took on the tool bench and Dave tackled the car (which had way too many parts for me to figure out, the tires weren't even full tires, they had to be put together too!) he also did the storage shelves. Their reaction in the morning made it all worth it!!

Santa brought Tyler a lawn mower since Daddy was tired of watching Tyler push around the stroller :)

Tyler putting all of his toys in the toy box. To hide from his sister perhaps?!

Tyler got this train from his Grandma and Grandpa Olson. Pretty cute!

Cookies for Santa

Today we decided to make some cookies for Santa. Alana was in charge of adding the mix to the bowl and Tyler added the water. Didn't do them from scratch this year... much easier with the kids to do the quick and easy mix. The kids enjoy licking the beaters. They even squished them down with a cup (dipped in sugar) Though Tyler seemed to like the plan sugar rather then actually doing the whole cookie thing.

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.