Tiny Dancer

Piper is so darn cute! Her favorite friend from school is having a ballerina birthday party on Sunday so I ordered her an outfit. She is such a diva already, look at her posing!

A little bit of everything

We couldn't take it any longer, we needed to get outside and run around no matter how little snow we have and how cold it was. Well Reagan doesn't do much more than stand and look around, she hasn't figured out that she can move in full winter gear yet. She can't figure out her hands with those mittens on and with the snowpants she's just a giant pink marshmallow
Piper on the other hand just loved being outside, Layla liked some attention too. I finally had to bring Reagan inside and let Piper play in the yard while I was making lunch


monkey see, monkey do?

playing in her sled





I was just taking random shots with my camera during snack time the other day




So sweet! Piper has been getting herself up around 6am lately, pouring herself a few glasses of milk, roaming the house and getting into the cupboards. After spilling milk all over the rug I thought I'd try to stop her early morning fun (mean Mommy) and put the gate across the upstairs. She complained a little bit but then fell back asleep with Daddy and let the rest of us sleep until 8am. Wow that was nice!

Such a little happy girl, this picture reminds me of one I took of Piper around the same age playing in my closet

Piper was reading Reagan's goodnight story to her. She was such a sweatheart towards Reagan all day that I decided we should whip up a batch of cookies for a treat, notice a little smudge of chocolate on her face.

our decorated tree, I'll have to take a picture at night, it's so much prettier. Jason and Piper decorated the entire thing, they did a great job but some of the lower bulbs have been relocated due to breakage and keeping them away from little Nannie

A gift from Grandpa

Again - these pictures are out of order, the site has been strange lately but Piper had a nice visit from GrandpaClaus last night. Every year Lonny has put a small tree up in Claire and Clayton's bedrooms for them to enjoy, well with them away at college I think he still felt the need to decorate, much to our pleasure.

Here is the final product, Piper's room looks magical at night, she sure loved her tree and the present Papa brought to put under the tree.
mid process, Reagan really likes the tree too, I think she enjoyed seeing Grandma and Grandpa more though

look at her face, I'm not sure what he's showing her but she's excited!

Thank you Lonny!

Playing with my Christmas present

So I just couldn't wait and Jason just couldn't make me wait, he gave in pretty easily and got me a camera for Thanksgiving, err, Christmas. I've taken at least 600 photos in the past day and a half. I need to read further into the manual though and figure out the manual settings so I can take some really good shots. Here are a couple random shots along with some of our fun from today, we cut down our Christmas tree today.

look, Reagan's smiling for the camera
giving kisses

Kyle, Konner and Piper

"this one looks good Mom"

the kids ran and ran down rows of trees, they had a lot of fun

"hey Mom, how do I walk in boots?" Reagan wasn't walking last year so she's never worn boots, she finally gave it a shot after we kept setting her down and walking away

how cute is she?

group shot - us and the Salmos family, it's hard to believe but Geof and I have been friends for oh, at least 20 years - eeek, we are getting older.

good work Dad!

Reagan was so curious, what was he doing with the tree?

"yep, just like that Daddy"

after our adventures today we went to dinner at Robin and Lonny's

Piper took some helicopter rides on Nemo

Reagan with her Uncle Clay

Piper the unicorn

waiting for lunch