Hermie returned!

Hermie came back to keep an eye on the kids for Santa.  The kids loved finding him every morning.  Sometimes in silly places, like their jewelry box..

 

Or posing with their picture..

 

 

He even assembled gingerbread houses so they could decorate them.

 

On his last day here, he left yummy muffins for breakfast.  The kids said goodbye to him before going to bed on Christmas Eve.  They hope to see him again next year.

 

 

 

 

Sheriff annual Christmas party

Sydnee got off of Santa's lap with her gift and ran to us and said "He put me on the nice list!  He must have forgot all the stuff I did!"  LOL

 

Some of the sweetest people you will ever meet.

 

Great Grandpa made these for the girls.  He never runs out of ideas.  They are a stool and bench in one!

 

 



Christmas lights!

We ate at Olive Garden first and then headed to the Christmas park.  It's such a fun tradition and we look forward to it every year.

 

It was nice to go early in the year and not freeze!  We had a blast.  Especially Maycee.  She LOVES lights this year.
We are getting so excited for Christmas.  We got our tree and our lights up.  Hermie, our elf on the shelf, came back.  He's keeping a good eye on the girls and they are on their best behavior. I hope it lasts and they will end up on the nice list!

Halloween

Halloween was a busy day.  Sydnee and Kaydee both got to have a Halloween party at school and then as soon as I got them home I had to get them all dressed up and makeup done and then we met daddy at grandma and papa's.  We ate dinner there and the kids decorated some pumpkins with stickers.  Then we went trick or treating in their neighborhood.  It was the first year that the older girls were leaving us in their dust.  They wanted to run to every house as quick as they could.  Maycee was so good at saying trick or treat and thank you.  But we had to haul her around to keep up with the other kids.  It was tons of fun and they got way too much candy. 
After that, we went to grandma and grandpa's house and went to a couple of their neighbors.  Kaydee wanted to keep going but the other 2 were tired, so we ended up going home and putting them all to bed. 

 

Kaydee as the Lalaloopsy 'Spot Splatter Splash'

 

Sydnee the clown

 

Maycee as her favorite Minnie Mouse

 

All so adorable!!

 

 

 

 

 



Pumpkins with my pumpkins

We made these cute little peanut butter treats and they were fun!  And pretty yummy too!

 

This was our first attempt at letting Sydnee and Kaydee carve pumpkins.  They did great!  They both drew their own designs, but Kaydee carved hers on her own without help. 

 

 

The finished products: (daddy carved Maycee's minion).

 

 

Kaydee did both on the left, Sydnee's is on the right.  Good job!!



Frightmares!



Halloween cookies

I love when the holidays start and we can do these traditions with the kids.  I always looked forward to making and decorating sugar cookies with my mom for holidays, and I want to carry on the tradition.  So I invited Grandma Becky over and it was a lot of fun.  They loved cutting out the cookies, but decorating was the best.  Sydnee was being a little goofy by then and making silly cookies, but Kaydee sat very concentrated and did her best on every single one.  She made some really cute and creative ones.  Maycee just made a mess, and a couple cookies with multi colored frosting and candy eyes sticking off of them.  Still cute in my eyes though!

 

 

While the cookies were baking we watched Charlie Brown Halloween.  I've been watching it since I was little and I'm glad the girls like it too.  Though I could live without Sydnee calling people blockheads...  LOL