December!

This is a crazy long post with tons of pictures!

What can I say...December was a busy fun month!

It is too hard to leave any of the details out!

First of all...here we are decorating the tree!

The girls of course decked out in princess attire! This is a daily occurence!

Samantha!

Sadie!
Our tradition is always to watch the movie Elf while decorating!



Samantha left, Sadie right

This is at Jake's Annual Work Christmas Party. Thank goodness they were happy to pose with Mrs. Claus, because they kept saying "No, Ho Ho!" Which translates to please don't make me go near Santa Claus!!

Cookie Decorating!

This was the closest we got to Santa...waving at him in line!
Jake did carry Sadie up to see if she would change her mind, but she freaked, and the most hilarious thing was Samantha screaming, "No, Sadie, No!!!" like we were putting her in danger or something! It is sad to have them be so worried, but quite comical at the same time!!

Afterwards, Jake had a great idea to take the girls to the outdoor skating rink down at Crown Center! Here they are all set to go give it a try!!

Dad and Sadie in action!

Dad and Samantha! Poor Jake is starting to feel it!!

It was so sad.....we are thinking that Jake did not get the right size of skates!! He was feeling some serious pain pretty quick!! What a good sport, though!! (Don't worry...more pics to come of our 2nd time ice skating and Jake was skating like a professional!!!)

I just had to post this picture because it cracks me up that out of all the shots we took the one where the girls are finally both smiling and looking so cute at the camera and I am the one messing it up!!! Of course!!

Here we are showing off our attempt at Graham cracker gingerbread houses! They didn't turn out to be anything very deluxe, but we had a fun time making them!!

I am assuming now with the haircuts people know who is who, but just incase....

Samantha left, Sadie right

We headed to Utah for Christmas of course, and had a fun Christmas Eve with Jake's family! Here the girls are posing in their new Dora nightgowns from Grandma Janet!

It was so fun to have the girls be more into the Christmas fun and traditions! Here we are getting cookies ready to leave for Santa!

The girls were so WASTED! Too much partying I'm sure! So Jake spent half the night with them! Here they are all knocked out! I wish I could get the video to load of us waking up the girls for Christmas morning and them both crying and saying "NO, SANTA!" They were so worried the night before thinking that Santa would be in the house while they were asleep, that we finally told them we would have him leave their presents outside and we would bring them in for them! Of course once we got them upstairs to check out their loot, they were thrilled! I hope they remember this for next year! What a great guy Santa really is!!!!

We didn't really get a lot of great Christmas morning shots, but here is Sam opening up some blocks!!

And Sadie opening up her Fashion Friends!

Here they are with their new princess purses and jewelry that they picked out for each other!

Playing with Grandpa Spencie and their new baby dolls!

We had a great Christmas Day party with my family, again not a lot of great pictures captured, but we all had a super fun time!

The official Christmas Day family picture!

Well...it just might happen, I might be caught up before our newest little addition shows up! I am 38 weeks today, so hopefully you will see a few more posts this week!!