Joy school Christmas party

Tonight was McKenzie's joy school party. She was so excited to go!!! We had great food, and great conversation. I made my friend shaina's cherry dessert squares, they were so yummy! They were a huge success. =) For part of the party the kids put on a nativity play for us. They did so good. It was really cute. McKenzie was the angel. She was the cutest angel ever. I think she thought she was a princess though. Madisynn wasn't part of the play, but she just wanted to be around everybody. I got a couple shots of her, and then we made her come sit back down. She never would have held still if she was a part of it. Christmas Eve we are going to watch the movie the Nativity and read about the nativity so McKenzie understands it more. It is important that we teach our kids.

Farewell to Fred the Snowman

Poor Fred almost made it through the month. I was hoping that he would make till January. Nope. My brother Quinn came over last week and saw him and started laughing. He said he looked like some kind of deformed Jaba the hut. My Mom even said that he was looking pretty sad. I realized they were right and I needed to bring him down. He only had 1 eye left, or it was a part of his mouth. I'm not exactly sure. I decided to bring him down earlier today. Bye Fred we will miss you. You were fun to build, and my girls had fun saying high to you every day.

Belly Buttons: cute or not cute you decide!!!

I know this is a weird topic to talk about, but my kids are fasinated with their belly buttons. I don't know if this goes with all kids, but mine play with them all of the time. Maybe it's because they both have outtie belly buttons so it's easier to grab on too! While I was making matt's birthday cake the other day, I looked down and saw Madisynn playing with her belly button. I couldn't resist it I had to take a picture of it. Of course I had to add one of McKenzie's belly button too so here is a picture of both my girls belly butttons. I love to mess with my kids, I always tell them to try and kiss there belly buttons. It's so funny to see them try! McKenzie has just figured out that she can't do it, and she'll say Mommy I can't reach.

Bunny in my tummy

Well McKenzie has informed us that she has a bunny in her tummy. She turned to me one day while we were eating breakfast and said I have a lot of stuff in my tummy. I asked her what kind of stuff and she said I have a bunny in my tummy. I just looked at her and laughed and said what??? I have a bunny in tummy. I asked how in the world did it get there? She said Grandma put it in there! I should have taken a picture right then, but I wasn't thinking about it. Better late than never.

She says that she likes having it live in her tummy. Ha Ha!!!

Surprise Package =)

Today I recieved a package. It was on my bed, I opened it up only to see:

Madisynn =)

What a great surprise!!!

McKenzie thought it was so great that she wanted to get in the box with Madisynn and have a picture taken too. Hey why not! They had a lot of fun!!!

Matt's Birthday

Matt's birthday was yesterday. I wanted to make it better than last year. Last year he was in the hospital for his birthday. We couldn't light candles in the hospital, and he didn't really want to eat because everything tasted like paste. It was an aweful birthday last year. Anything would beat that. So I asked Matt what he would like to do. He said he wanted Papa Johns pizza for dinner and that he wanted a pumpkin cheesecake for his birthday cake. Easy enough for me, the cheesecake took about 15-20 min to make it, and matt ordered the pizza and they picked it up on the way home from work. Good enough for me, I was able to decorate those sugar cookies and get them out of my way. So we ate pizza talked and played phase 10. It was just nice to sit and talk and not watch a movie. Don't get me wrong I love to watch movies, but sometimes I feel like that's all we do. Mckenzie was so thrilled to see presents, that she tried to open them. She was right by Matt's side the whole time. I can't wait for her birthday in April, she'll have so much fun! Madisynn looks like she is high in the picture I took of her. It's funny because she looks like that in almost every picture I take of her. My Mom enjoyed herself with us, that was the first time in 4 years that we have had a member of either of our families to spend it with. Matt said he enjoyed his birthday, and I really hope he did!!! Happy Birthday again Matt! I love you with all my heart!

Cookies!!!

I decided to bake and decorate sugar cookies with my kids yesterday. We made the dough the day before that was a ton of fun. I don't do this often enough. I thought the girls would have more fun decorating them. Boy was I wrong McKenzie only decorated 2 and Madisynn decorated one. They didn't even want to eat the candy. I swear they had eaten like 3 hrs. before we started to decorate. Anyways I decorated about 4 1/2 dozen cookes by myself. It was a real party!!! When Matt and my Mom got home from work, I made them decorate some, because I was tired of trying to come up with more ideas. It was worth all the hard work, because these cookies tasted so good! There is nothing better than homemade cookies!!! Doesn't the cookie in Madisynn's hand look especially tasty?!? She would rather squish it in her hands than eat it!