Easter 2012

Happy Easter!  Ours was filled with coloring eggs (32 to be exact), egg hunts, lots of candy, and fun!  The girls had so much fun this year!  Savannah seems to think that the bunny is going to bring her eggs every day....I'm sure she will figure it out soon enough :)  Here are some pictures from our weekend.

Savannah painting her egg...Madeline eating hers!

Ready to go to the Easter egg hunt!

Me and my girls!

My little bunny

Ready, set, go!  Doesn't Madeline look happy?

Savannah found lots of eggs!

Daddy and his girls

Easter morning

Unfortunately Savannah woke up Easter morning with a cold so we didn't get to go to church.  We decided to go on a family bike ride instead!  It's our new found sport/family activity and it's so much fun!  The girls love riding in their little trailer!

Madeline's 1st Birthday!

I can't even believe my baby girl is 1 already.  I have been in a bit of denial about the whole occasion.  Madeline is such a happy baby.  She is always (for the most part) in a good mood and has a smile for everyone.  Her latest things are waving hello and goodbye and giving kisses.  It is way too cute!  Her favorite saying would have to be "uh-oh".  She is definitely a mommy's girl these days but you won't find me complaining!

We had a lot of fun for her birthday.  We spent the day just hanging out as a family and then had a party the following day with our close friends.  I had a hard time choosing which photos to include because of course I think they are all great, so here are a bunch!

Madeline is 1!!!

Ready to celebrate!

The sign I made for the party.

All 52 weeks of Madeline's first year

This is probably one of my favorite pictures ever taken of me and my girl

Present from Mommy & Daddy!

Sisters in their chairs

Yummy!

Do you think she liked it? 

Ready for the party!

Party favors for the kids

Before everyone arrived 

Madeline and her friend Maggie who are 3 days apart.

Singing "Happy Birthday"

Getting cleaned up

All the kids

Madeline with Aunt Jenni

Thank you everyone for my gifts!

Happy Birthday to my sweet baby girl!

Winter Wonderland!

After lots of waiting, we finally got our first snow storm!  Savannah has been asking for it to snow for months and she finally got her wish!  We have been having a blast!!

The girls first sled ride!

Shoveling snow with Daddy

Savannah and I ready to build a snowman

We did our best....Ha!

Madeline in the snow for the first time! 

She enjoyed playing in the snow as well as eating it!

Savannah was excited to play in the snow with Groppy 

Trying to catch snowflakes

Mommy with her snow bunnies

Making a snow angel

We have been having so much fun in the snow and on Wednesday we are supposed to get anywhere from 4-14 inches!

Christmas 2011

We had such a fun Christmas season this year.  I think it's taken me awhile to blog about it because it was so much fun and now I have the post Christmas blues!  From Disneyland, to riding on the Santa Train, to seeing Christmas lights, it was just a blast!

We started off the month with a visit to see Santa.  A good friend of ours has "Santa Mike" to her house every year for a one on one visit with the kids.  For the last 3 years now Savannah has wanted nothing to do with Santa....this year was no exception.  So, there is no picture of Savannah with "Santa Mike" but at least we got one of Madeline!

Madeline meets Santa for the first time!

I felt like I spent the whole month of December wrapping presents, thank goodness I had a little helper to lighten the lode :)  Savannah LOVED wrapping presents.  Her favorite part of course was sticking all the bows on.

Savannah wrapped a present for her Groppy!

Later in the month we had a great time riding the Santa Train.  We got to ride a real train to Santa's Village and meet Santa for a second time!  This time I got what I had been hoping for, a picture of both girls willingly sitting with Santa!  Don't the girls look excited?

I love how Savannah is protectively hanging onto her sister :)

Christmas Eve was a very fun day.  After eating a very delicious dinner we took a ride to look at some amazing Christmas lights.  Then we came home and opened our stockings.

Madeline ready to go look at lights on Christmas Eve

The girls ready to open their stockings!

Me and my girls on Christmas Eve

Christmas was a fun and interesting day.  The morning started off great!  Madeline decided to sleep in until almost 9am so Derek and I were able to spend some very special one on one time with Savannah opening some of her presents.  For months prior to Christmas if you asked her what she wanted for Christmas her answer would be "a pink vacuum".  Needless to say she was very excited when Santa came through on Christmas morning.

Trying out her new Dyson!

Soon after Madeline woke up to join in on the fun!  I am pretty sure she enjoyed eating the wrapping paper and ribbon more than the actual presents!

Excited to open a present!

The big present for the girls was a brand new play kitchen!  We are still working on the sharing aspect but they both love playing in their new kitchen!

My little chef ready to cook!

My mini chef :)

Our Christmas got interesting around 11am.  Our electricity went off!!  I was sure it would come back on within a couple of minutes but boy was I wrong, it didn't come back on until 11 that night!  Derek cooked our lunch on the BBQ which was kind of fun.  We were planning on having a dinner at our house but thankfully my step sister got the day off work at the last minute and offered to host at her house.  So, we packed up the ham and headed there for a great dinner!

The girls listening to the emergency radio with Daddy trying to find out when the power will come back on

Groppy and Poppy spent the night with us by candlelight and we enjoyed opening presents with them the next morning.  Our girls love their grandparents and are alway so excited when they come to see us.

Madeline snuggling with Grandma

Savannah reading the newspaper with Poppy

We hope everyone had a great Christmas.  Happy New Year!