On Monday we got our Christmas tree! Brooke was soooo excited to decorate it. In fact, while decorating she came up with her own song that went a little something like this, "We love when we do, we love when we do, we love when we decorate our Christmas tree!!!" She told us she was going to stay up all night decorating....luckily she didn't actually.
Thursday morning we got in the car at 9:27 to leave for Brooke's dance class that started at 9:30... and the car battery was dead. Turns out the trunk was open all night so there was a light on it that drained the battery. I tried to jump it, but I couldn't get it to start. So Alex came and saved the day and got the car started!
So Brooke made it to dance for the last 15 minutes still. And good thing she did because she got to try on her recital outfit! Her recital isn't until June, but their outfits came in this week. Isn't she just the cutest!? She is LOVING her dance class. She always comes home and turns on the songs they listen to in class on the echo and dances to them!
After Alex saved the day for us, he went back to work and got to meet an astronaut!! He said it was really cool..but I'll let him tell you more about it next week if he wants to.
This little stinker below has been getting into EVERYTHING. She's pulling herself up to stand all the time now, which just gives her a much larger range of items to get into. But she's so happy about pulling all the books off the shelf!
Alex backed this game on kickstarter called Fireball Island. And it came this week. And we played it for date night and it was fun! He would probably have a lot more to say about it....but I'm writing this not him, so I'd say that's sufficient :)
Every year after we get our Christmas tree, I make a wreath for our front door out of the branches we trim off the bottom of the tree. So I was working on it, and Jelly was really excited about the branches. She kept laying on them...and attacking them...you know, all the usual cat things.
Not pictured, Winry was also really excited about the branches. In fact I walked away for a minute, then came back and found a fistful of sticks in her hand and pine needles sticking out of her mouth.... So we're good parents.
Note from Alex: no pine needles in the diaper yet though!
Here's some more of Winry standing up and getting into everything!
Brooke went to her friend Libby's birthday party on Saturday and got some tattoos in her party favor bag and she was super excited about them! And of course made us put them on ASAP! This one's a chameleon and the other arm is a unicorn.
And we got all our Christmas lights up yesterday! It's kind of been a week long effort, but I think we're all done now! We added in some candy canes and a light up reindeer this year and Brooke is sooo excited about them (Alex note: Like, she shows me a surprise every morning, and it's the reindeer and candy canes!)! And if you look close, you can see my wreath on the door :)
We got out the keyboard this week and Brooke and Winry have had a lot of fun playing with it! Winry has also started dancing a lot lately and it's so cute! She'll be crawling around and then just start feeling the beat and stop and dance. Or she'll start playing on the keyboard and dance along with it, like in this video!
A few years ago Alex wanted to get into bread making so I got him a book about making bread and some supplies to do it. He used them for a little while, but then life got busy and he never got too deep into it. Well, this past week we rediscovered the book and he decided to give it a shot again! So yesterday he started some bagels and they were finished just in time for breakfast this morning! And they were SO good! So he's going to keep making bagels over the next few weeks and try to perfect them. This is a hobby I sure won't complain about!
I had stake choir practice after church today, so Alex and Brooke made us enchiladas for dinner! She was wearing my onion goggles so the onion wouldn't make her cry! And she helped put the filling in! She always wants to help cook these days, and she's actually getting pretty good at helping!
And to wrap things up, Brooke decided it was my birthday and put party hats on everyone! And who doesn't love a baby in a party hat?
Today in our fast and testimony meeting we talked a lot about the temple and it just made me think about all the blessings the temple has brought to my life and how blessed I am to have one close by and to be sealed to my family! I'm so grateful for the temple!
I hope you all enjoyed the blog this week even though I was a guest author! Thanks for reading about our crazy lives! Hope everyone has a great week.
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