Curly vs. Straight

Okay so I straightened my hair this weekend. Rafael and my kids have never seen me with straight hair. I have only done it one other time when Rafael was out of town and Maria did it for me. Here is the verdict from my fam. Lauren loved it. Lydia wasn't sure at first but then decided that she really kind of liked it. Rafael loved it. Andrew didn't notice anything different. I've gotten mixed reviews from others some love it and say I should wear it that way all the time and others say "Are you sure when you wet it the curls will come back?" "It just looks so strange." Several people, including my own parents, didn't recognize me from a distance. I like it both ways and for me it is just so much fun to know that I can actually straighten it when I have time and I am in the mood for something different.

Princess (and prince) party

We had all the kids over for our babysitting night with the addition of Hannah and Leah. My girls got lots of dress up clothes and makeup for Christmas so we decided to have a party to put it all to use. Even Andrew got to join in on the fun. He was able to be our one and only prince charming. He was so excited to be dressed up too. After everyone was all dressed up we watched a Disney princess sing a long dvd. The girls and I loved it and I think that was definately the easy babysitting night Rafael has ever had. For some reason he wasn't much into the whole princess thing but he kept himself entertained by watching some football while the rest of us hung out upstairs.

Is something missing?

Lydia lost her first tooth!!! It had been loose for a couple of weeks and she was over at a friends house and called me to tell me that her tooth fell out. :( I was just sad that she wasn't at home but she said that it didn't hurt at all and that it only bled just a little bit. She was very excited and couldn't wait to come home and put it under her pillow for the tooth fairy. My baby is growing up!

New Years Party

I know this is a little delayed but I had too many great pictures to not do a post about our New Years party. Better late than never. We had a fun time celebrating the New Year. We had a few friends and family over and we had taco salad for dinner. There were also tons of other snacks and lots of sweets. Everyone had to load up before that "new years diet". Jason and Maria brought over their guitar hero and everyone had a blast playing that. The time flew by and before we knew it the fireworks needed to be set up and everyone rushed outside to watch the show. We then came in and got the drinks ready for the countdown and turned the tv on and then we realized WE MISSED IT! That was kind of a bummer but we celebrated anyways and just made our own count down. It was really a fun night.

LOVE LOVE LOVE

The girls got into some body glitter and lip gloss. They even let my mom and Sybil in on the fun.

Elaina was not ready to call it quits on all the partying. What is wrong with these girls?

Christmas at Nana and Papa's

After Christmas morning at our house we headed to my parents for a late breakfast. Things are always a little crazy and a lot of fun when we open presents at their house. These two videos make me smile so I hope you will enjoy them too.

Breakfast is done now it is time to open Presents, Presents, Presents!!!

After all the gifts are open it has become a tradition to play in the remnants. When Lydia was eighteen months old every time she saw my brother Matt she would say "Matt mess". That year he broke a bunch of styrofoam into tiny pieces and pretended it was snowing in the living room. Ever since then the kids have had so much fun playing in the wrapping paper and boxes. (No more styrofoam, way too hard to clean up)

Christmas Day!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. The kids were actually really easy to buy for this year. Both of my girls just asked Santa for one thing so anything else he brought was just icing on the cake. Lydia woke up pretty early and was so excited but thankfully Santa wrapped the entry ways into our living room so she had to wait until we would let her wake Lauren up before she could see any of the gifts. Then the girls each picked a doorway and they busted through the wrapping paper. They opened all their presents and headed to Lydia's room to play with their new gifts before Andrew even woke up. He was able to have our undivided attention while opening his gifts and yet he still managed to open two gifts that were not his before we noticed. He loved opening presents no matter what was inside.