HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

So I've come to find that life with two small children keeps you very, very busy, who knew! This explains the 3 month hiatus. But not to worry, I did manage to squeeze in some time to take a few pictures over the last few months, and I will work on adding those later. For now I will start with this past week before I get any farther behind in updates! :)

Liliana loves bath time! She has recently discovered how to splash in the tub. It just might be time to move her whale tub from the kitchen sink to the bath tub.

We made most of our Christmas cookies after Christmas this year.  Ella helped by rolling the balls of cookie dough in sugar. Much of the dough got squished in the process, but they still managed to look and taste delicious.

Grandma Donnie bought everybody matching aprons this year, I think Ella and I are the only ones who had their pictures taken in them. Maybe next year we'll have our act together and we will get a picture of the whole cookie making crew.

On New Years Eve day we had Christmas with the Oses. We got to meet Richard, Sam and Nichole's son for the first time. He's a cutie!

 Richard and Liliana hung out on the floor together.

 Uncle Jerry and Liliana snuggled in for a nap on the couch after lunch.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! The girls both managed to stay up to watch the ball drop in New York, 11pm our time. Liliana and Chris then took a short nap and Ella and I woke them up a few minutes before midnight to watch the ball drop again on a different channel. A few Thanksgivings ago I discovered that the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was shown with an hour time delay in Iowa, so now I'm wondering why the parade is delayed, but not the ball drop? This seems backwards to me, I would show the parade in real time, and delay the ball drop, but they obviously didn't ask me. ;)

New Year's Day we had Christmas with Chris' family. Ella got cars and she had fun sharing them with her cousins Connor and Kylie.

Back to reality this week. Chris went back to work Tuesday and Ella's activities started back up on Wednesday. Liliana is happy to tag along in her car seat.

One Weekly 'Wednesday' Update down, 51 to go in 2012! :)