Lauren and Sammie

Lauren and Sammie

Lauren

Sammie

Lauren and Sammie (at church)

Lauren and Sammie (at Church)

Lauren and Sammie ready for bed.



The the evening of family fun, Lauren invited Sammie to spend the night. The girls had fun talking and reading and did not get to sleep until after 11. They were both a bit tired for church the next morning. I am so glad Lauren has a cousin that she can do these things with.

Family Fun Time

Lauren with glitter and frosting and etc on her face!

The snowman duel!!

The finished cookies.

Sammie

Blaire and Eryn

Grant and Lauren

Lauren and I hosted our family for a night of crafts and cookie decorating. The kids had fun but I think the adults enjoyed decorating the cookies more then the kids. Everyone was trying to out do each other. In the end Janine and Brian got into a snowman duel to see who's could look the best. I think they both turned out great.

Church Christmas party

Candy Cane Trees

Marshmallow snowmen

Decorating Cookies

Sing

This week our church had they annual family Christmas party. Lauren was asked to be part of the kids choir which she loved doing. (She loves to be in front of people.) They also had games, crafts, a snow hill, a petting zoo, food, treats and etc. It was a fun evening.

Mom's party

Over 4 years ago Lauren was going to Little Gym and while she was attending there I met some wonderful families. None of our girls go there any longer but we have remained friends. We go out to dinner once every other month and we always try to celebrate the holidays together. This year was no exception. The kids had a great time decorating cookies, opening presents, doing crafts and just playing. We already made plans for next year!!

Happy Birthday Blaire!!!

Happy 13th Birthday Blaire. I can't believe you are a teenager!!! You are growing up too fast.

Cheerleading cousins

This year Lauren and her cousin, Blaire are on different cheerleading teams. This past Saturday we finally were at a competition together. Lauren's team only did an exhibition but Blaire's team was in the competition. It was fun to finally see Blaire's team this season and we were happy to see her team win. (Lauren's team did not competition because her gym was the sponsor of the event.)

Gingerbread Village

One day this week instead of doing homework and studying spelling words and math facts, Lauren and I took a break. We made a small gingerbread village instead. It was a fun way to spend the evening. (We got back to studying the next evening.)