A Joyful Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas filled with family and memories. This year my mom and sister came from Washington to spend Christmas with us. They added such an element of fun. We went to Gardner Village, saw Christmas lights, made cookies, read stories, ate treats, and played games and with new toys.

Dad got a multi-function ladder and a new Makita drill set (it has a long involved name that means something like a Red Rider Bee Bee Gun with Compass in the Stock, but I don't know it). Lydia's favorite things were her Tinker Bell things. She now thinks in fairy.

I got Cruicut cartridges and a new knife set. Ali's favorite thing was a computer (like Daddy's!). It keeps her from playing with Tim's so much. She's a gadget girl, she can navigate Tim's ipod touch better than I can. We're starting to save for MIT now.

So, everyone's wildest dreams came true and Lydia is now working on her list for her birthday (in June!). Lydia also insisted we put candles on the cake and sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus. I love Christmas time and all that comes with it. I'm so grateful my mom and sister were able to come and share it with us. They made the holidays perfect. It is always sad to see it go. We hope all of you had a wonderful holiday season as well and that this year brings a lot of joy!!

Christmas Dancing

We had a lot of fun watching our girls go crazy over their uncle Ryan's Christmas lights show he made last year. Just another family tradition we have. We inserted little subtitles throughout the video to liven the it up a bit

Oops, She Did it Again!

Once again Lydia has taken it upon herself to cut her hair. We had some guests over on Sunday, and as they were leaving the mom said, "Lydia, your hair is getting so long!" I commented that I'm letting her grow it out, but that her bangs needed to be cut. Lydia left the room and we said bye to our guests. As I walked into the kitchen to clean up Lydia approached me and said, "Mom, I'm sorry I cut my hair." Sure enough, her bangs had been "trimmed". I guess she didn't think I would actually get around to cutting her bangs, so she thought she would help me out by doing it herself. The problem is she thought her bangs extended on the sides quite a bit. I took her to get it fixed, but it was a lot harder to fix this time. She will have very short bangs and a mullet for a while. At least I wasn't planning on taking family pictures any time soon. Here's the damage.

I hope this will be the last time. Ali actually cut her hair a couple of weeks ago too, it just wasn't very noticable, so we just let it go.

I'm curious, do boys cut their hair?