gingerbread houses

What's christmas time without a gingerbread house.  

Christmas dresses

Grandma and Grandpa Smith sent the girls a Christmas dress.  They love that it is pink and sparkly.  What can I say, I love girls.  Thanks, grandma and grandpa!

Polar Express

This year to start off our Christmas time we went on a train ride in the mountains.  We sang christmas carols and ate hot chocolate and santa joined us for the ride.  We had a great time.  The girls especially loved singing the christmas carols.  

What happens when the girls have the camera

Apparently the girls got a hold of the camera.  Budding photographers?  :)

turtles

About a month ago the girls had each found a turtle in the road. and of course, we stopped so they could bring them home and take care of them. We had them for about a week and those turtles were almost loved to death. I did a little research to find out what they eat and discovered that they were pretty finicky and would die if kept in captivity, at least with the girls and all their attention on the poor turtles. So the decision was made to return them to the wild, in our woods back behind the house. The picture of Phoebe with the turtle is after the decision was made to release the poor things. You can tell she thought I was pretty mean at the time. So we all set out, kids, turtles, ryan and I, and the dog. We found a good spot and released the turtles and were walking back home when, unknown to us, the dog found a wasp nest in the trunk of a decayed tree, that she decided to put her nose into. The wasps were not well pleased with their visitor and stung her and then went on the offensive. Phoebe ended up with a sting on her nose, and I got one on my arm. They were nasty wasps, Phoebe was ok by the next day, but my are swelled and ached for about 3 days more. I should have taken an after picture. Maybe next time we will keep the turtles and release the dog into the wild.

Halloween

The girls had a great halloween. Phoebe was a black widow and Chloe a jellyfish. They got a lot of compliments. They were the last trick or treaters in our neighborhood. They were pretty tired by the end of the night.

Lake trip

We did do one fun thing this weekend other than put in hardwood floors, we went to the lake. The girls love the tube. I did a little wake boarding and am not sore and I drank a lot of water, but I am getting better, maybe at the end of lake season here I will be doing a trick.