let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

co stars

Ok so the videos are blurry by no fault of the videographer. I can't for the life of me get good movies at these recitals. But I still had to post them....they just too cute not to.

tap dancer

My pictures of Audrey aren't quite as good. To be honest this was the first time I used the zoom lens with no flash and relied solely on ISO. And Audrey's dance was much faster moving than Lucy's. Audrey did a fantastic job I was so proud of her! She has quite the stage presence. It's funny because we joke that there's and age where the girls stop looking "cute" and start looking "awkward" and if they aren't good by then, it's time to pull them out. That age is coming up quick and Trav and I were thinking that we wouldn't be paying her dance bill much longer. I think she might have proved us wrong with this dance. She loves tap and it shows!!!

tiny dancer

Lucy's survived her first recital. She did great. And by great I mean that she stayed backstage without a parent, got onstage without crying, and didn't poop in her diaper. The toddler class is everybody's favorite class to watch. They are so cute and no one expects them to actually know the routine. In fact, Lucy chose to do ballerina twirls the majority of the song.

reindogs

he'll give you candy

that's how I got Lucy to sit on Santa's lap. Truthfully, once they both start smiling the stories won't be as good. Oh, except for Audrey asking for a real unicorn to ride on and Lucy asking for a merry go round. Hopefully this year they saw the magic Santa.

citation

After being told that I'd heard enough taddeling on her sister, Audrey proceeded to go and get a pad of paper to write "tickets" for all of her wrongdoings: productive use of her new sentence skills if you ask me.

semi homemade

In my attempt to not pay for personalized pottery barn kids stockings, I purchased stockings from Hobby Lobby and spent 4589 hours personalizing them myself. I loved that they had 2 different girls. I didn't think it was going to be very fair to let one sister be the ballerina and one be the anythingbesidestheballerina.

The most obvious thing that needed to be personalized was the yellow hair. Second was that they were very pink and pink and not so much red and green.I didn't let things like "what show are those girls from?" and "agggh I wanted one than sings" and "why can't they have snowflake eyes?" and "mommy you forgot to feed us lunch" and "honey I don't have any more clean socks" stop me. I was on a creative mission.The names were the hardest part. Hello, that's what got me in this mess in the first place was the catalog that has all of the stockings with the perfectly monogrammed names that I've been drooling over for years and years. I think I tried at least 5 different ways (one of which resulted in a quick re purchase and start over on a stocking) before settling on this.My favorite part? That I'm done. I hope that the girls will love them and want to use them from now on.

At least they better.

what i've been doing in my spare time part 4

And last but not least...our girls

*spoiler alert* this is our Christmas card picture