Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Residuals...

Kayla cozy in her sleeping bag and pillow from Aunty Cyndi...
And of course playing with her stroller from Auntie Chrissy with babies stacked up as high as they can go!
Alexis follows Thumper around as much as she can... until she can catch him that is.....

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Welcome Thumper Kwasniewski

I couldn't get any pictures of the girls faces when they saw Thumper (that is what they named him) - but they were absolutely ecstatic to have a real bunny! I think Santa did a great job building his cage from scratch!

Alexis first time trying to get her bunny out of his cage....


He walked right up to her and she pet him and yelled - he is sooooo soft!

Santa left some carrots for the girls to feed to their new bunny...


He is so cute! We are loving the new addition to our family!

Christmas Pictures 2008

We took the girls to the store the day before Christmas Eve to pick out presents for eachother - When I asked Alexis what she wanted Kayla to pick out for her she said "I don't want anything Mom, I don't need to take care of anything else except for a real bunny!" It was cute and she was very very serious... we explained to her that it is alright for her to get another present besides her bunny if Santa brought her one that is....
The girls opened their presents to eachother in their rooms first before we went downstairs...
They were excited to open their presents - Alexis practically tackled Kayla to tell her Thank you for the craft supplies!
Kayla loved her two new baby dolls that Alexis picked out for her... she is quite the little Mommy, although I'm not sure what to do about her constantly trying to fit about 7 baby dolls in one stroller at the same time!
Downstairs the girls were very excited about their bunny (pictures to come later) and anytime that he would move around in his cage, they would stop what they were doing and run over to make sure he was alright! Here is Alexis in action:

Of course Kayla held a baby doll most of the time we were opening presents!

The girls tending to the newest family member!
Kayla playing with more baby dolls....
Alexis with her new Barbie car...


And the only shot I got of opening stockings before the battery was gone! They did get some goodies in their stockings from Disney world and they were also very excited about that!
Alexis friend Angelina came over to exchange presents with the girls on Christmas afternoon - then they played make up of course!
The day after Christmas Nana and Pa came over to exchange presents with the girls... only a couple of pictures as my camera was still charging!

The girls helping Nana and Pa open presents.... and Alexis cuddling with Nana - how sweet!~


Later in the evening - Alexis was playing with her make up again! Nice pink lips - she thought she looked like the real Sleeping Beauty that we saw in Florida!

Another gift that she got which she played with right away - she got to decorate these wings by herself - well Mommy helped a little, what could I say it made me feel like a kid again!

We had a GREAT Christmas and are very blessed to have such wonderful family and friends to share it with.

Cookies for Santa

Our plate of cookies for santa, some carrots for his reindeer and a letter written by Alexis telling him to have a safe trip and not get too cold in his sleigh!

Our Charlie Brown Tree - we have a real tree in our living room, but I used the top of a spruce tree in my garland and used the empty branches as our Charlie Brown tree centerpiece...
Our real tree - We spent Christmas Evening with Tony's side of the family, then met my family for Mass at 10:30pm and got home at about 1am - I left my camera in my sisters car when we went to Florida and returned Pa's camera to him therefore I didn't get any pictures of Christmas Eve at Nana & Pa's... the battery was almost dead on my camera that I retrieved from my sister at Church so I also didn't get many pictures of Christmas Day! What a bummer, but there's always next year!~

Winter Day Fun

The girls were all excited to go play out in the snow - this was actually on Christmas Eve, not sure why the pictures say 12/23... after they played in the snow they came in and we made cookies for Santa while Daddy shoveled the drive....



They actually built a snowman and a kitty cat, but Mommy got busy and didn't get a chance to get out there to take a picture of the finished product!

Making special cookies for Santa....


I walked out of the kitchen to check on Daddy outside, and when I came back in this is what I found! Thankfully she didn't like the full mouth of frosting and didn't try it again...

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Gingerbread House

The girls and I attempted to put together a gingerbread house.... I neglected to read the directions before hand and didn't let the icing "glue" sit for an hour before decorating it because it was already close to bedtime! So it was pretty much a catastrophe, but we had fun while we did it!

Kayla is now potty trained! Yeah! No more diapers! She was too excited to finish the house after a trip to the bathroom and didn't put her pants back on... I washed the countertop thoroughly!
One of the mishaps - we dropped this piece of the house so we had a Mouse hole in our gingerbread house!
The girls had fun decorating the house themselves.... with a little help from Mommy!


We had to prop up the roof with toothpicks because the icing wasn't dried yet so it kept falling down on us, but the girls did a pretty good job despite that!

Monday, December 08, 2008

Cookies with Santa

Last weekend we went to have cookies with Santa....


All of the kids waited patiently doing crafts and eating cookies to have their turn with Santa...

Alexis friend from across the street gets her turn with Santa - her Mom did a great job organizing the event!
Alexis and her best friend!
And her other best friend!
Alexis gets her turn with Santa -

He took his time with each of the kids and really talked to them! Alexis told him that she wanted a pink bunny for Christmas - he looked at Tony and I and said "this year?" we said "yes Santa"!
He told Alexis she needed to be very responsible and take good care of the bunny, she said she would feed it, play with it and make sure it is taken care of!

Kayla did great with Santa - he wanted to talk with her and she got a little nervous, but she did a good job telling Santa she wanted a new baby doll for Christmas... and a bunny!