Girls Day Out

Since I'm back to having a day off during the week again me and the girls met up with my friend Tiffany and her daughter Lilly for lunch one day. I just love how excited my girls get when they know they are going to see Lilly.

Aren't they cute together!

Love Day!

We Love Fancy Nancy! For Valentine's Day we got the girls a new book to enjoy.

We also made some sugar cookies to give away for treats. As always decorating them is so much fun for the girls and they run out of cookies to decorate too fast.

Chad and I got to go out the night before. He took me back to the restaurant where he proposed to me 10 years ago on Valentine's Day. He took flowers there earlier so they could be there on the table when we got there and over dinner he gave me a beautiful necklace. It was so sweet! On Valentine's Day we spent the day at home with the girls. We read their new books and made a nice dinner at home together. So simple yet so great! I love being home with these little cuties!

Our Snow Family

Over the weekend Chad took the girls out to build a snowman and they had so much fun they decided to make our whole family out of snow.

Kenzie and the girls in her class made this one at school on Friday.

Snow much fun!

This last weekend we found a really fun place to go sledding. Chad and I took the girls Saturday afternoon. It's just around the corner so we just put the girls in the big sled and pulled them there with the 4-wheeler. Here they are all ready to go.

Doesn't that look fun?!?!? That little dot on there is Chad.

Me & McKenzie

As always Brooklyn loved riding on the 4-wheeler.

Chad and the girls

We had so much fun that we decided to go again on Sunday and we got Donald & Judy and their family and Clint to go with. It is such a long hill that it would take forever to climb back up it. It is so great to have the 4 wheeler, we all go down and then Chad meets us at the bottom and takes us all back to the top. All aboard....

I could not believe Brookyln. She is such a little thrill seeker. Chad put her on a little saucer sled and sent her down, thinking that she would probably not make it all the way down. Well she did and after that she was hooked. She just could not get enough of it. She must be just the perfect size because she did it over and over and managed to stay on all the way down every time. She would get going so fast that we would have to have someone at the bottom to catch her. You could see her hitting bumps and bouncing around all the way down. When she was within earshot all you would hear was her laughing. Here she is waiting to go...

Here is a video clip of her going down. It's a little hard to see her at first but the hill is so long it's the best I could get.


Kenzie was a little nervous about it and it didn't help that right when we got there she tipped over and got snowrash (like road rash but from the snow :) ) on her face. After that she didn't want to go alone but she had fun riding along with everyone else. Here she is with me and Clint.

Then she and Brooklyn went with Erica.

She also discovered that her snowpants are pretty slippery and had fun just sliding on them.

And when all else fails it's always fun to play in the snow!

Jake went down with me a couple times but I' m not sure he knew what to think of it. He sure looked cute though!

All of "big kids" had just as much fun- if not more - that the little kids. It was fun to do and fun to watch. Here is Judy watching Chad help Levi, Erica and Liz get ready for a trip down.

Here's Ricky getting ready for one of his many trips down.

Don't worry Chad got to do more than just haul us all back up the hill over and over. He watched Ricky go off a jump then had to try it out for himself.

We all came home with red cheeks from the cold. Some of us with bumps and bruises and we were sore the next day but it was so much fun we can't wait to go again. Little red cheeks and all. :)

As a new year begins...

Always busy...

Yet it seems like nothing is ever getting done!
Everyday seems to go by so fast, we've got
A cute-as-can-be 2 year old who's so close to turning 3, and a
Really smart and oh-so-sweet 5 year old who'll be 6 before we know it!

I can't believe my babies are now a kindergartner and a preschooler!
Next year will bring 2 more layoffs, we're

Really lucky to have made it through the last 2, and
Ever so hopeful that we'll make it through the next 2. We're
Very lucky to have each other, our families, our health, our home and our jobs
In these hard times . We're Excited, and a little scared, to see what 2010 will bring.
We're hoping for ourselves, and you too, that it will be a great year!

Merry Christmas!

Here's a wrap up of our holidays. I spent everyday leading up to Christmas doing something fun and holiday-ish with the girls. I had so much fun doing all these fun things with them. Since we knew we'd be busy Christmas Eve we made cookies for Santa they day before. They both loved decorating them!

They woke up Christmas Eve morning excited as ever!

We started out the day going to Grandma and Grandma Liebes. Here they are all dressed up and ready to go!

They got the cutest dolls from Grandma and Grandpa! They are like the old paper dress up dolls but they come in a little tin and all the clothes are magnetic. They've spent hours playing with them!

That night we went to my Mom and Dad's for dinner. We always open one gift there on Christmas Eve, which is always pajamas. My mom and dad have done this since we were kids and it's so fun to have our kids there carrying on the tradition together.

Impatiently waiting...

The girls lounged around in their new pj's and watched some Christmas shows.

Me and my brothers gave everyone a good laugh...

Then it was off to bed so Santa could come! At about 11 that night I went to check that the girls were asleep and Kenzie was still wide awake. I asked her what she was doing awake still and she told me that's she kept getting up to check out the window for Santa.

Christmas has always been one of my favorite holidays but I have to admit that it just doesn't get any better than when you have kids to spend Christmas morning with!

For the whole month - probably even before that - if you aksed Brooklyn what she wanted for Christmas all she would say is a Barbie. Does she look happy or what?

Kenzie was excited about everything! Especially her new miniature washing machine so she can wash all the laundry she has for her babies!

Me and my princesses.

Look how cute those tutus turned out!

Christmas day was such a nice day. We spent the day at home. The girls loved being able to enjoy all their new toys.

They loved being able to watch their new Monsters vs. Aliens movie in Kenzie's room on our new portable dvd player!

They looked so adorable in their new Christmas dresses!

Then my family came out for dinner and we exchanged more gifts! I was like Christmas morning all over again!

We even got a family picture!

I'm so lucky to have such a great family that I love to be with and get to be with so much! We are so lucky to have been able to spend so much time with both our familys over the holidays! We hope you all had a great holiday season too!