Merry Christmas

The "laundry" from Grandma and Papa

Cadence's Big Girl Princess Bike

Here's some pictures of this mornings events! This is our first Christmas away from family, so it's different for us, but more laid-back which will be nice. Brandon's mom came up, and she just left to head to her family's party, and my family is getting together at Gari Lee's today. We went to Christmas Eve services last night, and it was Cadence's first time going into the sanctuary for the entire service. She did great, sang Silent Night, and I think enjoyed looking around at all the lights and decorations. We had a nice dinner last night, so today will just hanging out, nothing special planned. Brandon and I woke up at 6:15, and he said he was so excited, he wanted to go wake up the girls! We waited an hour, got them up at 7:15, and opened gifts. I took us awhile to open everything up, they wanted to play with each gift right away and we had to stop for breakfast. We still have stockings to open, but I think we will do that tonight. Cadence said she was tired and had to lay down in between gifts, very atypical for her to do so, we just thought she was tired from being up late on Christmas Eve. Well a bit later we figured out why she was tired and not doing much, she puked, and all over her new teddy bear. Luckily she now says her tummy feels better, so we hope it's just a one-time thing, and not the flu bug taking over our house! Hope everyone enjoys their Christmas celebrations!

Before the puking began, (I enjoyed the cuddles)!

Couple Pics

Here's a couple funny pics of the girls. We have hockey girl Cadence wearing Brandon's hockey gear and Ainslee who decided she did not want to nap in her own bed!

Avalanche Bay Weekend

This weekend we went to Boyne Mountain to play at Avalanche Bay. We stayed in a three room suite that was bigger than out house, and had more bathrooms. I never felt like we were staying in a hotel, it felt like a home. To make it better, we got a steal on the suite because we were given a off-season quote which they honored!!

The weekend was very eventful, lots of fun, commotion, emotion.... When we checked in we went right to Avalanche Bay, and thought the girls would have a ball. Paige LOVED the water, our girls wanted nothing to do with it. For Ainslee we think it was the sound, loud constant water, and the water avalanche that happens every so often completely freaked her out. Cadence being her timid self had a meltdown on the Lazy River, so she pretty much stayed to the kids area. The "big" kids loved the water slides, so we had fun trading turns staying with the girls so we could go on the big slides. During all this, Grandma and Gari Lee hung back with all three girls, and Paige proceeds to throw up right in the middle of Avalanche Bay, and threw up during the night as well. Poor Paigee girl.

Overall, we had a lot of fun, we are hoping to do this again next year, (if they give us the same price for the room)!!!!

Don't eat the pretzels!

We thought it would be fun to make some chocolate dipped pretzels last night. It turned into a mess, chocolate and sprinkles all over the place, and all over the girls! Just a caution- if you happen to be around us this weekend and are offered pretzels, I would decline, most of them were licked by the girls before they put the sprinkles on!!

It's Really Here

I can no longer deny that the snow is here to stay. It's a winter wonderland up here today, all schools closed, and 5-7 more inches expected before night fall!!!