Dressing up fun

All three kids have been having fun wearing around silly outfits during this break. A couple of days ago the boys decided to be cowboys, and Natalie chose Christmas day to wear her princess clothes. She even let me borrow her crown for awhile since it was my b-day!

Family picture fiasco

We wanted to get a current picture of our family to put in Christmas cards this year, but after taking 35 pictures, it still doesn't feel like we got anything we really like. I don't even feel confident that the Christmas card thing is going to happen this year; there's just a lot going on and I haven't figured out what exactly to send out. Plus, many of my addresses are no longer current. Email or blogging may be all you get from us! Sorry! :)

The Six Year Olds!

My twinners are six! They're posing in front of the cake they requested--they both wanted same cake and they wanted it together (I had planned to make to separate cakes, but who's complaining). They also had certain requests for how they wanted their side decorated. The decor is compliments of Darren (I think he does a better job and I was busy decorating 50 sugar cookies for the kids to give to their school class). Alisa, I ended up using your recipe, so thanks (Mom too, for having the recipe in the first place)! I'm thinking it's been a long time since you made those cookies!
Anyway, I think the twins had a fun day even though they didn't get a big party this year! Oh, the fun of having your day during the busiest month of the year! I did explain that I never had birthday parties with friends on my birthday because everyone was with their own families celebrating Christmas, but I left out the fact that at least we usually got together with grandparents, Burtons, etc. Sigh!

Look who's two!

Andrew is happy to now be two years old. This picture makes his face look so much thinner and grown up. He enjoyed blowing out his candles one at a time, and even liked the cake Dad made for him (I was still in Flagstaff and birthdays don't wait!) He has been claiming that it his birthday for many days since then, so we had plenty of arguments yesterday when the twins had their birthday (no, it's MY buthday, no my buday)!