Thanksgiving '09

Happy Thanksgiving! We had my parents, Meg & William and family, and Beth and Abby over at our house this year. It was a good time but I had a pretty rotten cold the week before and our washer decided to die during that week too! I even lost my voice for 2 days. I was lucky that my mom did most the cooking and my family is forgiving that my house wasn't sparkling. We ended up having ham with our dinner since we had some issues with the turkey. Don't ask but Carlo ate it.

Friday my sisters, Abby, mom, and I did all the black Friday deals. Out at 4:30 AM, ready for margaritas at 11 AM. I have my Christmas shopping almost complete with the little I did on Cyber Monday today. Yea!

While we were shopping the kids and dads went to Flabbergast, a bouncy house place that is about a block from our new house. We met up with them after our lunch and then went home for a much needed nap! Carlo & Dad fixed our washer that day too! Then it was over to Beth's that night for pizza.

Saturday we put up the tree and all the Christmas decorations. Bella was SO excited to get them all out. The holidays are just getting more and more fun as the girls get older.

My dad rolling the girls around on the floor.

November

I have a total of 5 pictures on my camera since Halloween. I guess we haven't been to many picture taking events, or I just haven't been good with the camera lately. We've had our 2 major meetings with the builder to get everything finalized, so that's been mostly on our minds. I'm also trying to figure out what to get the girls for Christmas that is A) not huge (since I need to declutter), B) they will like, and C) isn't expensive. My thoughts of a doll house doesn't exactly fit the bill for A or C, so I'm still thinking. Black Friday is coming fast!

I think I'm having a crowd for Thanksgiving so hopefully I'll have my act together to update after then!

Halloween

The girls had a fun Halloween. Bella was a tiger and Lucy got to be a cow. It was cold, but we still made it to the zoo that day for their trick or treat and did Waukesha's that night. They will be enjoying their treats for a while.At the zoo with "baby Tyler".

I can say now that Lucy is pretty much potty trained! She hasn't had an accident during the past 2 days, and stays dry during naps too. Just a diaper at night. I swear that either my kids just want to be potty trained, or my method of only using underwear and not pull-ups works! Maybe its a combination. Maybe its a girl thing. Who knows, but it is a big relief to get this over with. Bella was super easy to potty train, so I really thought I was in for it with Lucy.