Molly'sTree.

We put up Molly's tree the other night. 

She is sooooo proud of her tree!

She loves decorating all trees, but especially hers!

 Hello Kitty!

 The ornament we painted last Thanksgiving.

 Gotta love Lightening McQueen!

 He is broken because she played with him so much last year.

 Gotta love the tongue!

 Sweet Addi!

 My goodness!   She's so cute!

 Yeah!  Her Doggy!

 She carried this dog around so much last year, he had to be repaired.

 Her little tree is getting full!

 She loves ornaments as much as I do.

 She keeps saying that we need to get Lainey a tree.

 Such a good big sis.

 She loves this ballerina.

 A princess topper for a princess!

 Beautiful!

 Sweet girl!

The perfect night light!

Books.

Thursday night I brought out all the Christmas books!

We have started 'family reading time" a half hour before bedtime 

to make sure we read and give us some time to wind down. 

So far so good!

 How happy is she to be holding Sissy's hand?

 Last year I packed them up because we don't have that much storage room.

 The girls had fun digging in the box.

 We had a lot more books than I remembered!

 Buggy is NINE months old!

Can you believe it?

 I'm thinking she is going to walk even earlier than Molly!

She is taking 1-2 steps without holding on now!

 We love reading!

Busy girls! 

 I had to get a pic of this because if you know Lainey, you know this doesn't happen much.

 She is a very busy girl.

 Isn't she so cute?

Happy Christmas reading everyone!

Snow White.

On Monday I took a vacation day to hang out with the girls.  

We had a great time. 

I am so thankful for every second with these two.

After lunch, we watched Snow White.

Molly is so scared of movies that I decided to try a new tactic....

I told her everything that was going to happen up front.

It seemed to help!

I don't think Lainey is happier than when she has her "snack trap"!  

She LOVES it!

We played Snow White for a REALLY LONG time after....

I told Molly the night before that we were going to have fun all day and NO chores...

She definitely held me to it.  

I was putting dishes away and she said "Mommy you said no chores!"

I said you don't have to tell me twice!

Man, I love these girls!

Ohio.

Friday evening we went to Ohio to spend time with Grandma, Claude, Sara, Ashley and Evan.

On Friday night we had our favorite...Top Hat pizza courtesy of Grandma!  

And just spent time hanging out and catching up.

On Saturday, instead of having turkey we decided to all make appetizers!

Yum!

Andrea and Baron made chocolate pretzels....

I was so excited when my sister brought me this hysterical apron!

She has a matching one that she is modeling!

I am so proud of my ridiculously talented sis!

Silly boys!

Andy and I made Brie kisses.  

This is my favorite of Andy's Mom's recipes. 

Puff pastry, red pepper jelly, and Brie

Gotta love an easy recipe!

Mom and John made brushetta and a yummy potato recipe.

Sara made meatballs and spinach artichoke dip.  Super yummy!

Ashley and Evan always do such a great job entertaining the kids.

We have so much fun together.

These are our kisses.

OHHH! By the way!  Buggy can totally stand up by herself and is cruising like she's been doing it forever!

Claude and Sara had a wing bar too and the guys were beside themselves!

What's this?  Molly is eating?  

Baron was named the Wing King because he ate the most of the hottest sauce!

As you can tell we have so much fun together!

Can't wait till Christmas!!!!