New Years Eve Celebrations

We had a quiet evening at home celebrating New Years Eve but it wa perfect!  We had a family dinner, made our traditional clock cookies and toatsted to the New Year with sparkling cider at 9p.  Everyone was in bed by 10p and except for Haven, everyone got to sleep in on New Year's Day.  Our family had an amazing 2013 with so many good times and the addition of Haven to our family.  I can't wait for the good times that will come in 2014!

PS - I finally figured out how to post pictures from my phone and since I take 100% of my pictures with my phone, the blog will finally make a come back!

Christmas Celebrations 2013

We had a great time celebrating Christmas this year.  Here is a recap of all of the activities we did ..

The girls got plasma cars from Santa.  Our new wood floors are softer than I thought they would be, so the girls have to ride them in the master bath until it's warm enough to ride them outside.

Santa also got the girls a pony - crazy Santa!

We decorated cookies Christmas night - the girls had a blast!

Haven tried her hardest to sneak a bite of Auntie Silvie's cookie.

Christmas Eve night after Santa visited.

Haven is getting so big - and teething so everything goes into her mouth and she is drooling like crazy.

Emery ended up sick with a horrible cold and fever.  She spent all of Christmas Eve in bed resting and sleeping.  On Christmas morning, she was up opening presents and playing for maybe 3 hrs.  Then she crashed and was back to bed and resting for the rest of the day.  Poor girl has been sick more in the last 4 months since starting school than she has been in her entire life.  

Emery had a Holiday program at school.  While I didn't get any good pictures, she was cute and the songs the kindergartners sang were adorable! 

Annual trip to the Polar Express train ride in Heber.

I bought this Ergo carrier before I had Haven.  I don't do any baby wearing with Emery or Paisley but it has been awesome with Haven.  She loves it and it makes activities so much easier for me.  Haven took a good nap in the carrier while we were on the train.

Grandma Phyllis joined us for the train ride.

Annual trip to Festival of Trees.

This bubble activity is a hit every year.  I think each of the girls did it at least 5 times.

They both got to call the North Pole to talk to one of Santa's elves to tell them what they want for Christmas.