Thanksgiving and more...

I guess it's been a little while since I've done a blog....things have been pretty busy here!! Brent's parents came down for 6 days to spend Thanksgiving with us! Hattie and Hollyn didn't act like it had been 5 months since they have seen their Nana and Papa, they wanted to play as soon as they walked in the door. We think skyping probably helped ( even though all Hattie does is sing whenever we skype: ) We had a nice Thanksgiving over at my sister Kim's house with all of my family too. We aslo took the girls to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa. After two years of hoping for a good picture with Santa, I finally realized it probably wasn't going to happen with a one and two year old...and that is fine! The girls actually did pretty good as long as Papa and I were right there with them. Hattie's face was priceless when she saw Santa. She told him that she wanted a castle. And as soon as we were far enough away, Hattie said she wanted to give Santa a big hug ( pretty brave far away). We also celebrated Brent's birthday, put up Christmas decorations, went Black Friday shopping, and then Brent and I went out for a date one night. We LOVE having Nana and Papa! And when it came time for them to leave it was pretty easy to say good-bye because we will be up there visiting in SD two weeks from tomorrow for a 10 day trip!!

this was picture day at school- too bad neither girl cooperated when it came time to taking pictures!! oh well..they looked cute!

They both insisted on sitting on Papa's lap

Hollyn LOVES dogs

Hattie helping Nana put the people on our quilt

why do we bother putting ornaments up?!

making delicious caramel apples

even Hollyn wanted to try

she loved Bass pro shop looking at all the animals

waiting to see Santa

Hattie coloring with her book from Auntie Tracy. We asked her how to say red in spanish and she said " r-e-d", Brent and I looked at eachtother like holy cow we didn't know that she knew that. I then asked her how to spell blue and she said " r-e-d". Our kid is a genius! : )

Thursday night my mom and I volunteered with our Church from Christmas in the Park...it was a beautiful night. I was at the craft booth and I was talking to a couple that had a little girl and found out they just moved here from South Dakota! How crazy! She was saying that so many people comment on her SD accent!! I know all about that!

reindeer

the firework show was awesome

On Wednesday I met with my teacher friends to do another painting...this time a Christmas painting! It was lots of fun!