Friday, December 30, 2011

more PlayDoh stuff

Ava and Harper spent the night last night and Rielee brought over her old PlayDoh set for them, a huge one. We now have doubles of everything plus lots of other cool stuff. They sat and played and laughed for the longest time.Those are Harper and Ava's new Build-A-Bears sitting in the chair, they just got them Thursday.

They had PlayDoh session #2 this morning after their bath, Auna supervised them. The yellow tub on the floor is what Rielee brought over and Harper's bear seems to be napping under the table...



Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Surprise party

Charb (with help from Kelly's friends) had a surprise 4oth birthday party for Kelly tonight at Camas Meadows, and boy, she really was surprised! Harper, Rielee and Ava were trying to talk the little guy into sharing more of the cereal in his snack cup.
He finally got up and left shortly after this and came over to see the pictures I had taken, the girls followed him with their hands out so he took off, guarding his cup.

I was holding Ava when Kelly and Charb came in and she yelled "surprise!" just like I told her to.


When I took this picture, Ava was more fixated on the cupcakes that were on the table behind her and not at all interested in smiling for a picture with Mom. She had already sampled one of the cupcakes with Papa and knew how good they were!



Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Horton

Early morning games of Horton Hears A Who, Rielee won 2 games and I won one. She was so happy that Papa played along.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas late morning

We went to Camas to exchange gifts with Charb, Kelly, Lexi, Luke, Ava and Harper, arriving about 11:00 a.m., the kids had slept until 9 so they were just finishing up with breakfast. Having opened gifts early the twins were experienced but still excited to open more.


They had a problem, both had new babies but only 1 new bottle! Ava is wearing both her and Harper's new tutus over her p.j.'s.




Papa and Luke putting the handle on the little trampoline we got them, the girls at first thought it was a little platform and were sitting on it with their babies. It didn't take them long to get the hang of it:




















Christmas early morning

Gabe, Des, Macee, Parker and Rielee came over at 7:15 for breakfast. They were up early, actually Rielee tried getting up the first time at 3:00 a.m. She was overly anxious since she lost a tooth yesterday and was wondering if Santa and the tooth fairy might meet each other at her house.
We had our traditional biscuits and gravy and also french toast, fried potatoes and bacon. Rielee and Parker breezed through breakfast and had to wait for the rest of us before they could open their stockings. Once again, no big winners on the scratch off tickets in our stockings.

Rielee was very happy with her little jewelry armoire, she owns lots of jewelry and was anxious to get it home and fill it up.

Macee with a book on sports and Parker with his Legos. Macee curled up and fell asleep on the couch right after this.





Christmas Eve

Our family Christmas party was at Robin and Dan's this year. Santa stopped by and had lots of time to visit, he talked to Rielee for a long time and had Parker sit on his lap, then Macee reluctantly joined in for a picture.

Parker was surprised and excited when he opened a "Rambo" style knife from Luke. Apparently, his Dad told Uncle Charb that this was an appropriate gift for an 11 year old. When I questioned Gabe about it, he reminded me that he had one when he was Parker's age, a memory I've apparently blocked.







Thursday, December 22, 2011

Thursday

Ava and Harper came up yesterday afternoon to spend the night with us since Dad was getting his cast in the morning. They both slept great, which was good since Rielee called at 7:30, ready to come over and play with them. Rielee wore her matching dress so they could all look alike. Rielee later played dress-up with the girls, putting one of her old princess dresses on them, they loved that.
Thank goodness Auna came over to visit, she was a big help to me since Papa was out in the shop working. Our friend Taylor stopped by with presents for the kids. She got Rielee a cute dog purse, Parker a shirt and she made Ava and Harper both cute little aprons...
but they were more excited about the big candy canes that were in their bags. They just laughed and laughed when they saw them, and couldn't wait to get them open!
Harper later posed for me in her apron.
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In the evening we watched the CR girls basketball team beat LaCenter, Macee had 21 pts.