A much needed update!!

This is our super late Christmas update!! I know I've been slacking but it's been so busy here latley I just haven't had the time!

Christmas was great! We had so much fun spending time with our family, and it was great to see how excited Kaitlyn was to know that Santa was visiting and then her waking up Christmas morning and seeing the big present he brought her! She got so many toys too... I really have to rearrange her room and go through some of her old toys because everything is so crowded! Lauren had a good Christmas too. She got a lot of baby toys, and some baby sign language flash cards.

Christmas Eve was spent with my my mom, stepdad, stepsister, brother, and grandparents; and Christmas day we got up early and opened gifts and then the girls and I drove out to see my dad, stepmom, brother and sister. After spending the day with them, we drove back into town and had dinner with John and Crystal and opened the gifts from them and family.

Here are some pictures over the Christmas holiday:



















Next week Lauren will be three months old! It really is going by so fast, because pretty soon she'll be four months and Kaitlyn will be THREE YEARS OLD! I'm already starting to plan Kaitlyn's birthday party. She's getting a late Christmas gift from my mom and stepdad - a swingset!! And if the weather is nice enough, I'll have a backyard birthday party. Kaitlyn also wants to have a red racecar birthday cake, because she is really into the disney movie Cars. I tried to talk her into a pink car but she said, "No mommy, Lightning McQueen is RED!!!"

Here are some pictures of our growing girls:
































I'm slowly starting to get the hang of having two little ones at home all day, and I'm learning ways to keep them occupied so that I can clean! Lauren now sits in her bouncer chair so she can watch me, since she's become such a mommy's girl. Kaitlyn is usually occupied with her legos. We got her a small box for Christmas and she loves them! I was a bit worried she'd try to put them into her mouth but she doesn't - she'll sit there and make houses and other things and bring them over and show me. Santa brought her a giant walk-in kitchen so she plays with that a lot and makes me food to eat. And her Grannie and Grandpa got her an adorable pink powerwheel's jeep that she loves! Brandon got some pictures of her, but they weren't very good, so I'll be posting some pictures of her in that soon.