January Snow Days

We went sledding in the park by our house on Monday. So glad we decided to save our Canada sled. Although it is impossible to steer, it will work on very little snow. Carly and I had so much fun creating a "ski slope".  Maggie went down once with Mike and then decided that was enough for her. She wasn't much of a snow bunny this go around.

A White Christmas - Almost

Here is Dec. 27th in Chattanooga. Uncle Trevor had the fabulous idea of hitching the dogs on the sled to pull the kids around Oma and Grumps' house. The kids and dogs loved it!

Megan and John home for Christmas.

Maggie and Carly can not resist doing snow angels even when they know piles of snow will end up in their shoes. The angel is always worth the sacrifice of cold feet.

We are on day 2 of our second snow storm of the winter. We always thougth one reason to take the girls to Canada last year was to experience snow...who new it would come to the south.

Christmas Morning 2010

Somehow I only took 6 pictures Christmas morning...and only about 15 pictures total for December.

The item below was initially a grocery store. The girls have since turned it into a Coffee Shop that serves Pizza - my kind of place!

They cancelled school here tomorrow. Looks like we might be out Tuesday, too. I have a feeling that we will be playing with a lot of our Christmas gifts (accept for maybe the carseat)...Maggie only wanted two things from Santa this year - a cupholder for her car seat and a lollipop. Luckily Santa seized the moment and gave her an upgraded carseat instead of just a cup holder.

December Dance Performance

Carly's school offers several kinds of dance. This year she is taking ballet and creative movement. Here she is in her ballet costume the night of the winter performance. The picture below is with her new school friend Thailer. Carly is making her acting debut in the spring. She will be participating in the Town Theatre's Alice and Wonderland. She auditions for a part on Monday night...and then will have weekly rehearsals until the show! She is thinking that she definitely wants a girl part and that if she is cast as Alice that they are going to need to get her a wig...

Thanksgiving 2010

Doesn't seem right to post these pictures with Christmas a week away...but I actually took less than 50 photos over the course of the weekend (compared to 300-400). So it was a breeze picking out a few favorites.

Such a pretty table!

Our first Thanksgiving hike!

Wonder what Maggie is thinking..

Christmas Card Extras

We spent an afternoon on USC's campus taking pictures in hopes of catching something worthy to put on our Christmas card. I took almost 200 pictures. We ended up with about 20 keepers....I wanted to share a few of my favorites.

November

Another month is almost over and I have barely posted...So, here's a wrap up of what we were up to the past few weeks.

Lots of silly play time outside...we have had beautiful weather in Columbia.

Carly went to a cheerleading birthday party. Frances was kind enough to share one of her uniforms. She chanted "We've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit, how bout you!" the rest of the day...and refused to take off the outfit as well.

Carly still enjoys practicing the monkey bars.

We kept our pumpkins for at least 2 weeks after Halloween. Carly created about 6 designs for the jack-o-lantern. She and Mike settled on this one.

The kindergarten at Carly's school received an award for their sensory garden. Carly was the girl chosen to represent the class...This was her in her Sunday best for the banquet. She said that adults talked through the entire banquet and that she ran out of food while they were talking...she was not impressed.

Maggie loved playing in the piles of leaves.

Celebrating Mike's birthday. The girls picked their finest dress up clothes for the occasion.

The rock wall in our backyard is completely exposed. Grumps and Mike ripped out the barbed wire fence this fall. Hopefully, we can add on to it one day.

This tree in our front yard was so pretty this year.