Julianne is a rock star!

I think Julianne is going to be a rock star. It's what I always wanted to be so why not? This girl loves to sing as much as I do. She's mostly like her daddy so I love that she gets this from me:

Christmas morning!

Christmas morning at our house was really fun this year! Julianne woke up first and Claire was still snoozing but we let Julianne go ahead and come out so she could start enjoying what Santa brought her!

Walking out to see what Santa left!

Checking out her stuff
Looking pretty excited!

Happy girl!

She loves this Ariel doll that Santa brought her! Ariel is her favorite thing right now!

Daddy and Julianne

Holding up her goods to show them off!

Loves this Mickey Christmas movie!

playing her new alien game

Riding her bike that Aunt Mimi and Uncle Todd got her! She was so excited!

Claire woke up (complete with bed head) and decided to join the party!

New rocking chair from mimi and papa!

New vacuum. Obsessed with vacuums this kid is.

Diggin' into her stocking!

Their first Lego's!

Bottles for all of her new baby doll's!

We had a great Christmas and we hope all of you did too! Is everyone as tired as I am. Christmas is exhausting! But so much fun!!!!

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve opening gifts, baking cookies for Santa and bouncing off the walls! We decided to let the girls open their gifts from all their aunts and uncles on Christmas Eve so they weren't so overwhelmed on Christmas morning. Good call! The girls were so excited to open all the gifts that had come in the mail over the previous weeks.

First up were the gifts from Uncle Jason and Aunt Tonja. Julianne got an Ariel costume and you would have thought it was the real live Ariel standing in our living room. Greatest reaction to a present ever. She doesn't normally get really excited about gifts but this one did it!

She was quite proud of it!
On to the next present....

Four pairs of princess shoes for dress-up! She is so into everything princess right now!

Claire got into opening gifts too!

She loved her dolly and microphone!

She thought the doll's paci was for her.

Now it was on to gifts from Aunt Randi and Uncle James. Look at those big ole bags! They liked the bags as much as the presents!

Claire got a Cabbage Patch doll and Julianne got a cash register. Then they got a joint gift:

A spiro bouncer! They were excited!

We took a break from gifts for a while to make some cookies for Santa.

Julianne did a great job rolling the dough and Claire did a great job eating it!

rolling the dough in the Cinnamon sugar was Julianne's favorite part!

On to more presents. Aunt Tami and Uncle Bill sent a pretty dress for Julianne. She was in heaven!

Showing it off!

Claire got a baby doll that looks so real it freaks me out a little.

Again, she thought the paci was for her and she couldn't even wait to get the baby out of the box before stealing it from her.

Posing for a picture with the cookies and milk we left for Santa.

And off to bed they went so Santa could come!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! Blessings to you all!

Julianne's Christmas Program

Julianne had her Christmas program at school this week. So much fun! She loves to sing and we could hear her over everyone singing her little heart out. Adorable I tell ya.

Here is the whole group. Jules is in the front row on the far left.

A bunch of 3 and four year olds singing = cute!
So proud of my girl!

Daddy got to sneak away from work for a few minutes to come. She was so happy!

Shaun and I with our little star. Love this girl!

Here is a video of the first few minutes of the program if you want to see some cuteness (and Julianne waving to us). Enjoy!

Santa photo 2012

Look what we got this year! A Santa picture with two happy girls who weren't afraid of Santa, happy to see him, and even smiled for the picture! Yay! 100% better than our dry run last year!
And way better than our second attempt last year too!

Claire hated Santa last year. She was so scared of him. Not anymore! The crying pictures are kind of funny but I love how this year's turned out even more. Two happy girls! Woo hoo!

Christmas parade!

We headed to Bentonville on Saturday for the Christmas parade. We thought the girls would enjoy it. They got all dressed up and posed for some pictures before we left.

Claire loves taking pictures. Julianne does not.

But then Julianne tries to get in front of Claire for the pictures...
And then Claire pushes her

Fun times. The drama with girls never ceases to amaze us.


Ready to walk to the parade!

And they're off!

Claire and I snuggled up. It was quite cold because the wind was blowing hard this day and it was raining a little. Claire does not like wind.

The Energizer bunny. I took a picture because it's actually my friend's husband in the bunny costume. He works for Energizer and got talked into being the bunny this year!

Julianne was "cold" but she hung in there to see Santa at the end

And the best part was all the candy people were handing out which she enjoyed while watching the parade! Anything for candy!

Merry Christmas!