Baking Christmas Goodies

 We did some baking tonight...made some cupcakes

 made some chocolate stuff

 spent some quality family time

 kylee stuck some pretzels in a marshmallow

 Lexi also played with the marshmallows

 Josh and Kylee piped icing on to make.....

little marshmallow snowmen!

 the best way to help!

TADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aren't they cute??????

 Josh did this one in honor of Kylee, who is getting glasses

        snowman with cape and glasses

We brought these on plates to our neighbors. The girls had a blast wishing everyone a Merry Christmas :)

 This past weekend we made gingerbread houses with one of Kylee's friends

Kylee's house

Lexi helping mom with her house

 Josh's house - complete with car, garage, palm tree

The one above is Kylee's house, below is Lexi and Mama's house

having a lot of fun this Christmas season, the girls are at such a great age!

Let it SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday night it snowed in Washington! The snow was not play ready until 9pm, but we kept the kids out of bed to play in the snow :)

 snow angels!

 lol, checking out her snow angel

 we all had so much fun!

 our house

 gotta taste the snow!

 we made a little snowman, there wasnt quite enough snow to make a big one

 giving the snowman a kiss

 had to pull out the sled...eventually we walked over to some small hills and did some sledding

 Josh's first time playing in the snow during a snowfall. He loved it as much as the kids!

 snow snow snow

 my little entrepreneur Lexi hooked up the sled to her toy

 yup snow snow snow!

 josh made a snowman for his truck

 got kylee with a huge snowball

we woke up tuesday morning and got to play in the snow some more, in our backyard

 even Nash joined the fun!

 gotta make snow angels!

 guess who got hit with this big snowball? mom, of course!

 our house from the back

I forgot how much fun snow is! What a great night/morning of making memories!

Ringing in the Holidays

Welcome back to our blog :) We are all settled in Washington State, bought a house, unpacked the house and setup for Christmas. House pictures are coming soon. Josh loves his new duty location, and we love Washington so far. Hawaii was beautiful and amazing, and we loved the 4 years we were there, but now we are enjoying the beautiful seasons, cool weather, winter clothes, hot cocoa and soon, snow :)

Our beautiful girls ready to see Santa

A few weeks ago we went to our towns Christmas parade

The girls loved it, Kylee kept looking at me saying "Mom, look at that!"

They passed out tons of candy

WA is so beautiful. I really missed fall colors in Hawaii.

They were both so excited to see Santa!

I couldnt resist telling him what I wanted.

Our beautiful, grown up Kylee Elizabeth

Lexi has always loved Santa, and this year was no exception

Kylee has never been a fan of Santa, but this year she sprinted to him and jumped into his lap.

I had to post this. The first picture is 2010, with Lexi just a few months old. Look at Kylee. The second picture shows Lexi still loving Santa, at just over a year, and Kylee still terrified of Santa. And then this year. I love all of these pictures!