10 Years and 10 Months

Jeremy and I celebrated 10 years of marriage last month. We had a quiet dinner with the kids that night. I am sporting the dress that Abigail picked out for me for Christmas. I guess she really wanted to get me a dress for Christmas and so Jeremy took her to Goodwill to pick something out. She was insistent that this minty prom dress was the ticket. Thought that counts! Caraline also turned 10 months January 1st. She is a sweetie and quite cute too!

Christmas

Here are some photos from Christmas. We had a great time, with the extra treat of having Ruth and Adam in town as well for the holidays. The girls had such fun with their aunts and uncles!


As usual, my kids are incapable of taking 'normal' photos with the Sidors. This is the best we got! They took the girls to see The Muppet movie, which was a hit. Olivia sat through the whole thing on Aunt Ruth's lap. Both clutched their tickets tightly during the show, well at least until Olivia ate hers. No joke. That next day all of us gathered at our place for hanging out and decorating Christmas cookies and Zacharys. Olivia is sporting her new Elmo pjs from the Wilsons below. We spent the next several days either in Novato or Concord and really had a blessed time together as a family celebrating Jesus' birth.





Abigail excited to see Christmas lights.

 

Quick Post

Here's Caraline as we found her during dinner one night - she had the teething biscuit stuck to her head! The girls, of course, thought that was hilarious.


Abigail was Star of the Week before Christmas. It involves various duties, one of which is to pick a special guest to come into the classroom. It was so sweet that she picked Olivia, who is here proudly dressed up (she picked this out) and wearing her visitors badge. Both girls stood up in front of the 30 kids and Abigail gave a presentation on Olivia. Here's about how it went: Today I want to introduce you to my sister Olivia. She is two years old. She likes to wear bathing suits. Her favorite song is God Made Me. I like Olivia the most because she tickles me. Thank you for listening. Then, the whole class told Olivia hello and thanked her for coming in. The worst part was that Olivia thought she was staying the whole day and was a bit miffed at me to leave. She had sat down next to Abigail on her carpet square after the presentation! Even today at dinner she was asking when she could go to school - that girl is ready!


Abigail did a great job at her school performance. Olivia was pretty excited to attend as well.


Probably our best Christmas type photo of the girls. All looking at the camera and pretty much happy!