December 2011

We love the time leading up to Christmas and all of the many festivities.

We did an advent tree again this year. There are stickers in each of the presents to open each day.

We went to Breakfast with Santa at the Rochester Athletic Club again this year. They have breakfast, a time with Santa, and various crafts to do. The girls enjoyed it!

Hannah would not sit on Santa's lap or anything, but she did get closer to him this year. Chloe was not super excited about Santa this year, but did okay overall.

The girls wearing their matching Christmas dresses.

The girls wearing their Christmas headbands from Grandma Pam.

Hannah's first Christmas concert for her preschool at Kingdom Kids.

Hannah did not sing very much even though that is all she was doing for weeks leading up to the concert.

The girls love to help mom bake as often as they can. They helped bake 9 dozen cookies for a cookie exchange.

Andy and Hannah made a Gingerbread village.

Getting ready to go to Christmas Eve service at our church.

We let the girls open one gift each on Christmas Eve. They opened their new pajamas (A family tradition that we started last year). They were both really excited about their matching pajamas. It was pretty cute!!!

Thanksgiving - pictures of the cousins

We had a fun time spending Thanksgiving in Erie this year. We were able to go for 5 days. The girls really enjoyed spending time with all of their family.

Grandma got all of the girls matching Christmas outfits, so we tried very hard to get some cute pictures of them all together. It was hard to get all of them looking at us and smiling, really it was impossible :)

It is too bad the lighting is bad on this picture because the girls were finally all looking :)





The girls enjoying Aunt Tiffany's belly. They can't wait to meet little David.

Hannah loves Max

Fall Festivities

We went with some people from our church to the Northwoods apple orchard. The girls loved picking and eating lots of apples. Hannah ate at least 5 apples! The also have a little petting zoo that the girls enjoyed.







Chloe loved the sheep. She walked up to them and said "Baa" to them.

They had some pumpkins that you could get as well.









Andy and Hannah made a cake for Cassie's 31st birthday. It was quite a surprise!





The day before Halloween Hannah dressed up as a Princess-ballerina-sheep

Chloe was obviously a sheep this year and Hannah was Cinderella.

Chloe loved going to the houses and getting candy. It is too bad that she could not eat any of it. She only got to go to a few houses. Hannah went for a little while longer and enjoyed herself this year too.

We stopped by Aunt Tiffany and Uncle Chris' house for Trick or treating. Unfortunately Tiffany had to work that night, but it was good to see Chris. The girls both got fun books from them.



Our first stop was by Becky and AJ's house.

Hannah having lots of fun!

One last stop (at out house). One of the cutest trick or treaters all night :)

Ayden's 3rd birthday party

This is a little late being posted since Ayden's birthday was in September, but I thought that I would share it anyways. The girls had a great time at the party!

Cam and Jessi had someone bring 2 ponies and a horse to their backyard.

Ayden with her Aunt Sheridan

Look at that joy!! Hannah loved riding the pony.

Chloe had just as much fun although she liked riding by herself more than riding with Hannah. Everytime we took her off of the pony, she would point to get back on it.



Grandma and Great Grandma with Chloe

They had a pinata at the party

Hannah needs to work on her baseball swing.
She didn't cry this time when it broke open like she did at my 30th birthday party.



After the party, the girls had a great time playing in the mud in the backyard. Uncle Jeff was kind enough to keep bringing them water to make more mud.

They kept dumping buckets of dirt on each other's heads.