That's 7 inches of hair!

Lilly decided yesterday to get a hair cut. I had been trying to talk her into it for sometime, finally something clicked in her mind. She decided she wanted really short hair! We looked into donating her hair to Locks of Love, but that would of made her hair wayyyyy too short, so we just decided on a shoulder length style.

Before hair cut

Before hair cut, from the back.

After hair cut, from the back! She had 7 inches cut off! I was so nervous for her, but Lilly was totally excited.

Here's the new always beautiful Lilly, right after her visit to the salon.

She looks like such a big kid now, it's amazing what a hair cut can do for a girl :)

Last after shot from the front, with her Bug Juice reward for sitting still for the beautician.
I am excited for Lilly's hair cut, I can't believe she wanted it so short, she would of gone ever shorter, but I wouldn't let her. :)

Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It has been great having Lilly home on winter break and Mike gets to work "day shift" for the two weeks Lilly is on break. So everyone has had enough rest and we've all enjoyed our time together as a family.

We made sugar cookies on December 23rd, Lilly and I made them and cut them out. Lilly was so cute, she insisted on making 8 tiny reindeer for Santa :)

Lilly designed her gingerbread man to look like Daddy (notice the spikey hair) :)

Emma LOVED the frosting :) She called it "Painting her cookies." She was so cute, but really really really had a hard time not eating the cookies while "painting them". :)

We let the girls open their Christmas Eve presents in the morning, I had to work Christmas eve, evening so I wanted to see them open them.  We let them open their new pj's and the presents from their Grandma C. It worked out really nicely, because they got to play with their new toys from Grandma all day and it helped the time go by a little faster for the big night.

This is Lilly and Emma in their Christmas PJ's :) I love to dress them up as twins :)

Lilly Christmas morning really got into opening gifts, she was even using her feet :) We've always said she was quadridextrious :)

Emma really loved her new stick horse, she didn't want to open anything else. I ended up opening most of her gifts for her.

Mike picked out this really cool maze book for Lilly on every page there is a story about the maze, and it's basically an entire book with the same ongoing story.

Emma's favorite present was her new fishing pole from Grandma and Grandpa Y. She really loves it and keeps asking to go fishing with Grandpa :)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, we are looking forward to the New Year to see what life brings us. I am so grateful for my little family and the miracle that it is.

December in Pictures

I decided to just post a bunch of pictures taken in December. We've had a pretty busy month with birthdays, winter colds, family parties and Christmas programs.

Lilly and Emma visited Santa, Emma was freaked out, but Lilly thought it was cool.

A nice person at the outdoor mall took a cute family picture for us :)

Lilly and Mike made a bird feeder, and boy do the birds love it! It is really fun watching them from the window.

Lilly wrote on the bird feeder, I thought it was really cute and clever.

We've read lots and lots of Christmas books this month, I am so glad my girls love to read!

Lilly had her ballet Christmas program, it was very cute!

Lilly all dressed up for her school Christmas party, she thought she looked like and elf and was very adorable!

Yay for cousins! Yay for family Christmas parties and grandma dressing everyone up in matching outfits, so cute!

Jacob played the piano for the talent show, he did great!

Kaelyn played the piano too and did a really good job, she was so nervous, but pulled it off and I was impressed.

Emma and I sang Jingle bells while I plunked it out on my guitar. Emma was so proud of herself, it was adorable!

Lilly danced around grandpa Y. to Taylor Swifts "Santa Baby" :)

The kids made gingerbread houses and did some great work!
It has been a fun month and I am so excited for Christmas, it is my favorite holiday.