Gingerbread Houses

We had some friends over the other night to make the good ol' gingerbread houses.

Taylor and Crew enjoyed eating all the different kinds of candy while the adults "creative" side took over.

These activities are always meant for the kids enjoyment but as always I think we enjoyed it the most. Here are the highlights of the night.

Each house had something unique about them. Nate thought for ours it would be nice to have a noose and a gummie bear in the back...interesting.

Naughty or Nice...

Today Taylor and I were practicing her letters with a dry erase boad and marker. She loved that she could erase what she wrote and try again. With a slight distraction on my part that was seriously less than 1 minute this is what happened. When I asked her what she was doing (in a somewhat stern voice mind you) she immediately said "it's okay, I will erase it."

O Christmas tree

We have put up our Christmas tree and we are enjoying have everything so Christmasy around our house.

These pictures were taken after church while we were hanging out and dancing to Nate's piano playing. Kennedy didn't give us much to work with as she was

anticipating the flash everytime.

Which of these things IS like the other

Okay so I couldn't resist posting this. I was looking at old pictures and came across ones of Taylor's first Christmas when we went to see Santa. I always thought that Taylor and Kennedy look totally different but then comparing pictures, the resemblance is a little uncanny. I think they look so different to me because their personalities are completely different. But as my mom commented about the picture in the previous post that with their hats on they look so much a like, well take a look at these pictures side by side. Pretty crazy.












They are about the same age and wearing the same hat helps a little.
On the left is Taylor and Nate 2005 and on the right, Kennedy and Taylor 2007.

Here comes Santa

It has become one of our favorite things to do to start the holiday season off right. Our
community holds an annual holiday celebration where there is caroling, rain deer, food, and of course the main attraction...Santa. Kennedy did very well and gave us plenty of smiles. Taylor was so excited all day long to go see Santa and sit on his lap. Every time we asked her what she is going to ask Santa for she would say an elephant, where that came from I don't know. But the day we saw Santa she had been taking her toy dog everywhere we went. While at Old Navy she spotted a dog leash that she really wanted for her puppy but I wouldn't buy for her. So when we sat her on Santa's lap that night and he asked what she wanted to my surprise she said a dog leash. Only 2 and she's figured out how to work it already, should I be worried? Other than Santa Taylor's other favorite thing is the train. Last year we actaully had to grab her and run to the car because she loved it so much. This year she decided the warm car sounded like just as much fun. She got a few rides in, including one with her friend Crew. It definitely helped us all get into the Christmas spirit.