Christmas night

The 1st time Lexi sat up, I got a picture of it!
Lexi is really into toys now, and Kylee is so great and always plays with her

Lexi loves her exersaucer!

Christmas night we went to a friends house for dinner, and afterwards the kids played with all their toys. Kylee cant resist a kid car.

love Lexi's shirt! Lexi is normally a 8-12 hour sleeper, and has been since almost the first day, but since I started working at the Post Office she wakes up at least a few times a night, so I thought this shirt was appropriate.

Kylee in her pretty Christmas dress

Kylee's Car

For Christmas Santa brought Kylee a pink car. I'm jealous. I always wanted one of these when I was a kid.

Lexi got to watch...for most of it

Daddy showing Kylee how the pedals work

lol Daddy driving with Kylee until Kylee could figure it out. he actually drove around the all military neighborhood like this.

Kylee wanted Lexi to ride with her.

Kylee doesnt care much if she is inside or out, driving the car or just sitting in it. She just wants to be in her car. So when I cant go outside and let her drive, I let her play in the garage.

She always wants a passenger, its so cute.

Here is a video of Kylee the first time she sees the car.

Christmas Morning

When we came down the stairs, Kylee ran straight to the presents and knew just what to do!
Kylee and Lexi love this toy

Kylee giving Nash his present...look at Nash trying to get it

Even Lexi tried to get in on the fun!

my little happy baby

Big sis giving lil sis her pacifier

Mommy helping Kylee open a present

taking a break from present opening

Santa gave Kylee a pink soccer ball

Josh gave me a purse :)

a rare serious moment...

Josh's video game chair

Kylee digging in her Elmo stocking

Lexi wearing Kylee's Disney princess sunglasses. Finally I found sunglasses Kylee will actually wear!

Christmas Pictures

I took about 200 photos to get just the right picture for our christmas cards. Thank Goodness for digital cameras! Turns out there was no perfect picture, so i ended up picking one of the only pictures where both the girls were sort of looking at the camera. lol.

i didnt use this one but I love kylee's smile here.
little 4 month old Lexi

eating/crushing/playing with ornaments. the ornaments were on the lower half of the tree for about an hour on photo day. after that, they went right back to where they were for all of the holiday season ~ on the top half of the tree. yes, we had a weird looking tree, but at least i didnt spend all of December cleaning up broken ornaments or yelling at Kylee.

Lexi's santa hat says "kiss me"

gotta do a diaper picture!

Grammy got Kylee this outfit when she was a baby

Drumroll please....and the mandatory Christmas picture with a screaming kid and Santa. Kylee wanted nothing to do with Santa so we said, "ok, no big deal, just Lexi and Santa this year." Then once Kylee saw Lexi was okay, she let us put her on Santa's lap. For 10 seconds she did great, and of course the photographer was not paying attention, after 10 seconds Kylee realized where she was and started screaming. Really photographer? Dont you work with kids all day? Dont you know you should be paying attention all the time? GRRRRR. Although to be honest with you, I love this picture and I'm glad we got it. Kylee's not the sit down all prim and proper kind of girl anyways. This cracks me up every time i look at it.

Lexi did great, I've always made sure that she's used to other people holding her besides me.

Next year I'm sure Lexi will be the one screaming, and hopefully Kylee will be sitting okay.

Christmas Eve

My friends neighborhood is really big on decorating for Christmas, so we walked around the neighborhood looking at lights and all the lawn decorations.
Merry Christmas Eve!

For Christmas Eve we went to a friends house, we made Gingerbread houses, a gift bag and a deer cupcake. Lots of activities for the kids!Kylee helped a little bit...

eating icing!

Lexi sort of helped...

Our completed house. Its been like 20 years since Josh or I have made a gingerbread house. We showed up that night to find out no one had ever made a gingerbread house, so Josh and I were the instructors.

my sweet little baby

At one point in the night, not quite sure why, but all the kids decided to tickle Kylee. She loved it, of course.

Santa Claus even made an appearance at the party. Kylee wouldnt go anywhere near him, though.

my deer cupcake

Opening presents at the friends house at the end of the night.