Christmas in Midway 2011

We had such a great time at Christmas this year and even though the drive to (drove straight through from Bako. to Midway. 1 pm to 4 am.) and from was CRAZY, we are so glad we went. Here are some of my favorite pictures from our time in Midway.

 Charli 'kissing' Sydney!

 Saige was doing some crazy moves while playing mario cart

 reading together

 these girls love their grandpa. he brought them the cutest nesting dolls from russia.

 mom and syd

 dad and dalton

 cousins!!!

 cousin sleepover-so much fun!

 we got to see santa AND mrs. clause this year. my girls liked mrs. clause even better than santa. they kept saying, "she is SO nice"!

 family pictures

cute kids

 the haul

 these girls got LOTS of fun stuff

 so did these babies

on our way to church

Over the river, and through the woods...

to GRANDMOTHER'S house we go!

We used to sing that song all of the time on our way to see my grandparents in Greenville. Even if it wasn't Christmas. Anyway, here is Syd. We were trying to go through some of Madi and Saige's old clothes to find some cold weather clothes for the babies. Unfortunately, this cute pink hat was too small. Fortunately, there wasn't ANY snow in the 3 weeks we were there (weird) so we didn't have to worry about keeping them warm.

It was one of those days...

You know. The kind of day when you just can't seem to get it together. Almost every day is like that around here. This is Syd wearing Dalton's clothes. I got her all the way dressed to go to the doctor like this. I would have left her that way (because I didn't have time and she really does think that little brothers are awesome) but that would mean that Dalton would have had to wear the pink one that said, "little sisters rock"!
I took them to the doctor for their 6 month check up by myself because Brett was home with a very sick Madi. She threw up yesterday in class and 10-15 times after that. She seems much better today but I have  a feeling it will go through the rest of us and if it does, there will be a lot more mixed up clothes in our future (that is, if I can keep up with the laundry)!
I hope to blog soon about their check-up, Christmas, our Utah trip, etc.

Santa

Santa came to the ward Christmas party! I love it when he shows up there because that means we don't have to go wait in the line at the mall.
He asked the girls if they were sisters. Saige said,"we are twins"
Santa said, "I don't see it"!

What did they ask for? Madi asked for a typewriter. I told her that no one makes typewriters any more. she assures me that Santa does.
Saige asked for horse stuff.

No pictures this year of the babies crying on Santa's lap. Brett was tired and offered to stay home with them. I ran out the door before I could think of photographic consequences!

She did it!

Sydney rolled over tonight from back to front for the first time. Dalton was the first to tell us because he didn't like her kicking him in the head:)
I think it is payback from him kicking her so much in the womb!

School Pictures (First Grade)

Here are Madi and Saige's school pictures from this year.

Don't they look so grown up? I hate it!

Gingerbread

I have wanted to learn to make Gingerbread house pieces for years and I finally got around to it this year. My Great-Aunt Kae was the one that started it all. She used to come over to Circleville with parts for 20-30 houses and enough powdered sugar to fill the town and all of the cousins would gather at Grandma's to make gingerbread houses. It is one of my favorite traditions and one that I wasn't willing to let die. I want my girls to be able to do it too. It was a ton of work but so much fun to do-especially when my whole family was here. I even learned how to do her 'stained glass windows'!

My brothers and Stef were super into it so that made it so fun. In fact, we laughed for hours at Jade because at one point, his roof was breaking and he shouted, "Oh No! My Gingerbread"! 

Shad thought that sounded funny coming from an 18 year old boy and we all kept repeating it and laughing. It was so much fun!

 After we made our houses (and we were all sticky) we sent the girls to the shower-unsupervised. They came out a while later (Madi and Saige had washed Mia and her hair) wearing bath robes. They were giggling in the bathroom forever. They have so much fun together. It is fun to watch.

PS-to all my Dalton cousins...

I have the patterns, recipes, and notes from Aunt Kae if any of you want them. I am hoping that next year I can come home for Christmas and we can make them together again!