December Update

So let's play game of catch-up...again. I have been bad with the blogging lately. So here are lots of pictures.

I LOVE CrossFit!!!! If you didn't already know. This is what your hands look like if you do CrossFit,(no not sausage-like that is just me. Blisters and calluses) but it really is a badge of honor. I could go on and on but I won't. You probably are all sick of hearing about it. If you want to know about CrossFit ask me next time you see me and I will talk your ear off. :)

Claire helping me make dessert on Christmas Eve. Yay for chocolate lush! Yay for a little helper.

We had lots of company on Christmas Eve, which was super fun. Mom and Dad, Jake and Shanna (and baby JJ), and Grandma Julie all ate dinner with us. We even opened some presents. Dad got this very cool skull cap from Jake and Shanna for when he rides his bike. No more cold or sunburned head. He said it was half a bra. Sydney could not stop laughing. Very appropriate, as usual, Dad.

Grandma Leslie gave Brynn her very own box of Wheat Thins. She was sooooo excited. I mean really, what more could a girl want? The box is in the cupboard now, with Brynn's name written all over it, just so we don't forget who it belongs to.

Grandpa Dave gave Syd the crazy dot-to-dot- book. Look at the picture close and you can see the dots. One picture has over 1000 dots. This will keep her busy for a while! Click on the picture to see a bigger version of it. You can see the dots better that way.

Christmas jammies! They love to put on their new jammies. And check out the super cute pregnant chick on the couch. Doesn't she look great? Two months to go Shanna!

The girls all got pillow pets. They are very cute and soft. Bunny for Claire, turtle for Syd, and ladybug for Brynn. They will be perfect for traveling.

Syd loves to read. We gave her the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book and she had it finished before lunch on Christmas Day. That's my girl!

We got a new office chair for the computer desk downstairs. The girls had a blast spinning around and around in it all day long. I am surprised that nobody threw up.

Bobbi even got in on the gift-giving action. She got a new bed. It was so funny to watch her react to it. She sniffed it (it is embedded with catnip), walked around it twice, and plopped down in it like it had been her bed forever. Success! Although, she has only laid in it twice since then. Darn cat. If anyone out there ever figures them out let me know.

Casper's had a ski night at Beaver last week. Shawn and Syd went up. Here is Syd chilling in the snow. Shawn said they had a good time. Syd hadn't been skiing for a couple of years but she was able to pick it again quickly.

Yesterday was Beach Day at school for Syd and Brynn. This just means that they got to eat thier lunch on a beach towel in teh decorated gym. So they were running around the house in the morning gathering up towels and hats and sunglasses. Claire wanted in on that action so she got all of her stuff out too. So while the thermostat read 5.6 degrees outside, Claire was beaching it up inside with her swimsuit, floppy hat, beachball, and towel. She stayed in this get-up all day long. She walked around the house all day saying "We go to the beach? We go swimming?" Sometime I just have to give in to the cuteness, so that night I took the girls swimming at Sky View. It was really fun but it was really cold. I think the best part for everyone was standing in the steamy hot shower for half an hour. I taught the girls how to slide across the shower floor, like we did when I was on the swim team. Afterwards we came home and all ate jam sandwiches together. Fun night.

  

This picture is just for fun. Aren't babies so cute when they sleep? Even if they are wrapped in a stinky blanket? After the nap we washed stinky blankey so now it smells so nice. If you want proof come over and Claire will let you sniff it. She has been making me sniff it all day long.