Cookie Decorating

It isn't Christmas without some cookie decorating! We had my friend Erin and her daughters over to decorate cookies (well just her oldest, Ryanne, since her other daughter is only 6 months!) We have been getting the kids together since they were about 9 months and it has been so fun to watch them grow. Cookie decorating with 3 year olds is something you can't take too seriously. They spent more time eating the icing and dumping out the sprinkles. Still it was a lot of fun!

We made the sugar cookies before our friends arrived. A good idea since Skylar lasted through the dough rolling for about 10 minutes. Elaina on the other hand LOVED the process.


Skylar with a mouthful of mini M&Ms.

Hard at work and if you look close, you can see the green frosting on her mouth.

Skylar's work of art (yes, there is a sugar cookie under there!).

3rd Birthday

As most parents say, it is hard to believe how fast time flies and how quickly your children grow up. But at the same time, you can't remember life without your children. We have been blessed to have Skylar and Elaina in our lives for 3 years now and it just gets more and more fun. Their personalities are very different but they are the best of friends. The bond between siblings is wonderful but the closeness of twins is just amazing to observe. We choose to have their party at a place that would suit both of them...Creation Station at the Museum of Transportation. Filled with trains, dress up, puppets, a pirate ship, a kitchen area, and more we knew it would be the perfect place for them and their friends to explore. As you can see by the smiles on their faces, it was a success!

Someone is watching

Have you heard of the Elf on the Shelf? Well, the story behind him is he watches over the children and reports back to Santa each night. He never ends up in the same spot so it is fun for the kids to look for him. Elaina couldn't decide if she loved Buddy (what she named him) or wanted him to leave and never come back. She cautiously said good night to him but eagerly greeted him in the morning. More than once we might have said in desperation "Buddy is watching you!". Skylar was oblivious to Buddy. Didn't care either way about him for the most part. We will see how he feels next year about that!

A post...finally!

I know I have been an absent blogger over the past month or two. The holidays, family in town, and lots of sickness (for me not the kids) caused me to not write. And it is easy get out of the habit once this starts. Well, today I received something so cool in the mail. I bought a Groupon a few months ago to a website that turns your blog into a book. I finally used it at the end of last month and the finished product arrived today. It was so fun to have all my entries (well from 2008 at least) in a book. Seeing the book motivated me to get back to blogging more. So I am not going to say I will blog daily, but I do plan to blog at least once a week. So many memories will be forgotten if I don't take the time to do so. Over the next few posts, I will catch up on the things I should have been writing about! Here are a few pictures from the weekend after Thanksgiving when we always put up our Christmas tree. The kids helped for the first time and loved looking at all the ornaments.

Moms of multiples are freaks of nature

Yep...been asked many of these questions!

Children's Garden

Cleaning up my pictures in iPhoto I found some from late summer. My brother Tim and I took Sky, Elaina, and Olivia to the Botanical Gardens to play in their Children's Garden. The kids had a lot of fun but by far the kitchen area was the biggest hit.

Elaina hard at work on her meal, which just a few minutes later, Sky dumped everywhere. Tears of course followed.


Seriously it is hard to believe she is Tim's daughter!! She is such a ham like her daddy:)


No surprise she liked this part of the garden...she loves to help me cook at home!

Halloween

Figures the only picture of both smiling is from the trial run a month before!



She could hardly wait!


Trying to get a picture...one is always on the move!

A few pics of our puppy dogs from Halloween:) Skylar loved his costume until it was time to leave the house. Then he kept trying to take it off. Elaina was beyond excited about the idea of getting candy which would be "so yummy in my belly"! Once Skylar figured out he could ring the doorbell, well his attitude about trick or treating changed. He lasted about a half hour and only had to be retrieved from inside two or three houses. Elaina could have gone for another hour but we figured we should call it a night. This might be the last year we get a say in what costume they wear. But they were oh so cute dressed alike once again!