December Happenings

The past few days have been very wet and rainy so we brought our little slide inside the house so the girls can play.  They do a pretty good job taking turns but occasionally there are some pushes and frustrating sequels coming from the girls.

 Sister hugs...so sweet!

 We have also been building forts to pass the time.  We use our dining room table, sofa and sofa cushions for our structure.  Even Maggie has a lot of fun playing inside the fort!

 This past Sunday morning greeted us with buckets and buckets of rain.  Half of our backyard was completely underwater.  We braved the wet weather and headed to church.  Once service was over we were pleasantly surprised to see the sunshine and blue sky.  We jumped on the opportunity to go cut down our Christmas tree.  It was certainly muddy but the weather was perfect!

Here we are posing in front of the tree we picked.

 Maggie was more excited about the leftover pumpkins.

 Kate was more excited about the popcorn.

 Will did an excellent job cutting down our tree in no time!

 Reindeer rocking horses!

 Maggie went straight for the mud puddles...she was in heaven!

 "Hmmm, I am not so sure about this popcorn!"

 Kate and Will took a ride on the Santa sleigh.  Afterward, Kate asked me "doesn't Santa live in the North Pole? So how come he is here?"

 Kate got a lollipop with her sleigh ride.

 Will posing with the tree before he tied it to the roof of our car.

Tonight we will decorate the tree and make it all pretty.  Hopefully Maggie won't decide it is a fun toy to pull on!

Loscutoff "Thanksgiving"

Today we celebrated Thanksgiving with Will's dad and his wife, Helene.  We didn't have a formal Thanksgiving meal...we went to an Italian restaurant, but we had wonderful time spending the day with Dedushka and Grammalene.  Maggie kicked off the day as a cowgirl.

Weeks ago Dedushka promised Kate he would come to Davis wearing a pinkalicious pink shirt.  He actually went to the store to buy one just for Kate!  He also came bearing a surprise of specially ordered pinkalicious cookies.  He knows what his Granddaughter loves...PINK and SUGAR!

 I love this picture!

 Unfortunately Maggie wasn't feeling too social so she spent the afternoon playing in our backyard while Kate played inside with the grandparents.

 I think it is time for me to raise the basketball hoop! :-)

 Story time and cuddles with Grammalene.

 I love Maggie's blue eyes...they are gorgeous!

 To keep Maggie busy at the restaurant I gave her my iPhone to flip through my pictures.  She is pretty good at scrolling through. 

We had a wonderful time with our wonderful family.  We are truly blessed!

Thanksgiving and a few other pictures...

The first two pictures are not from Thanksgiving but I have been meaning to post them.  Kate and Maggie are playing together a lot these days.  Maggie adores her big sister and Kate is really good at playing with her baby sister.  There are occasional sister fights over sharing toys, but that is to be expected!

 

Kate was playing a game on her digital camera and Maggie was very interested in watching her.

 Both girls dressed up and danced to the Pinkalicious sound track.  Such pretty princesses!

THANKSGIVING:

Since Will had to work in the morning, Kate, Maggie and I started off Thanksgiving by heading over to my parent's house for breakfast and to watch the parade. While we were there Kate was given a very special gift from Gramma...her very own stocking!  My Mom has made stockings for each of her grandchildren.  They take years to complete, but they are BEAUTIFUL and so very special!  Kate's stocking is of Santa sunbathing in Maui...so appropriate for Kate!

 Maggie was counting all of Gramma's apples while dancing around to music.

 Since the weather was so gorgeous we headed to the park with Papa and Gramma.  Kate LOVES having Papa swing her on around and around.

 For Thanksgiving dinner we headed to my sister, Sarah's house.  The girls loved playing in cousin Chloe's room.  Maggie quickly found the baby doll and pushed in the stroller all over the house.

 Uncle Daniel was playing a song for Chloe on the guitar.

 Kate and Maggie playing in Chloe's room.

 Gramma playing a song for Kate!

 Kid's table!  They are all eating homemade chocolate covered Oreos.  Yum!

We had a fantastic Thanksgiving!  We are blessed to have such a wonderful, loving family that lives so close by!

Kate's Preschool Pictures

Kate's preschool has a special photo website that we can scroll through and see what our kids have been up to each month.  I was able to download my favorites and post them on our blog for you to enjoy.  Kate LOVES her preschool and is so excited for the days she gets to go.