A Special Message from Santa

If you read my sister's blog then you know I completely stole this idea from her!  There is a cute website called the Portable North Pole, in which your child gets a personalized video message from Santa!  You simply enter a few basic bits of information and what your child has been "working on" that year, it's that simple!  You can also upload pictures, but I didn't do that.  Anyways when Isabelle woke up from her nap today she had a special message from Santa just for her!  Needless to say from the expression on her face in the pictures I took while she was watching it, she was less then thrilled.  I don't think she liked Santa talking to her about going to bed when she is asked!  :) 

Here is a link to Isabelle's video!
http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/gnA6trfOrMy9JDhF_3gMMqQ


And the pictures of her watching Santa talk just to her!

What else have we been up to this week?  Making Christmas crafts, such as this red and green chain in Isabelle's bedroom, gingerbread houses, and Christmas cookies.

Isabelle also recently discovered our Magic Kingdom game that Kevin and I use to play ALL the time!  She loves setting it all up and looking at everything on the board and putting it all away.  Then setting it all up minutes later.  This continues over and over.  :)

Other random happenings this week:

Isabelle has at least one of her 2nd molars now...I think she has a couple more coming in but I know one for sure is completely in!

We got upgraded to stay at Caribbean Beach Resort at Disney World when we go there next May/June!  Kevin and I haven't stayed there since our honeymoon and we are thrilled to be going back with Isabelle!  Thank you mom and dad! :)

Isabelle hasn't been the easiest to get to bed lately. :) After books are read, teeth are brushed, and she has used the potty, the light is shut off.  She does NOT want to get into bed.  She will literally walk around the hallway saying "No, Don't" over and over and over.  Even though Kevin and I are laying in her room or on her bed and will stay there until she falls asleep.  If we try to leave, she will run after us.  If we put her on the bed, she will jump right off.  Somedays all I can do is laugh and tell myself that it's just a phase, but she needs her sleep!  So needless to say our nighttime routine has become literally almost two hours now!  But I wouldn't trade my time with her for the world.  Someday she will be grown and these are the moments I will miss. 

Happy Friday!

A Holiday Celebration

One of the things we love about living in a smaller town is the many festivals, activities, and celebrations the town puts on for different occasions.  Today they put on a "Holiday Celebration" held at the Community Center.  There were bouncy houses, crafts, free goodie bags and cookies, and most importantly Santa and Mrs. Clause!  Grandma and Grandpa wanted to come down to go with Isabelle to it and she was very happy they came! 

All smiles!

She LOVES Santa and gets very excited to see him but still wants to keep a safe distance.  She did happily get a candy cane from Mrs. Clause. :)

Making a penguin ornament....

And down the slide!

After all the fun, we went to dinner at Granite City.  Isabelle takes after her daddy and loves their Idaho Nachos!  :) 

We love weekends filled with Holiday celebrations and hope to get as many in as we can!

A Barbie Birthday Party

This evening we went to my sisters for Ava's family birthday party.  The theme was Barbie and the food was great!  We had lots of fun and as always it was great to spend time with family.

Enjoy the pictures!

Very concerned about something :)

Reading a book from Grandpa and Grandma!  Isabelle also got a new shirt, Tinkerbell ornament, doll, and advent tree.  Lucky little girl!

Cake time!

Thanks for a fun party Ava!  We can't believe you are 5!  We love you very much!

Happy Birthday Ava!

Yesterday was Ava's 5th Birthday!  It's hard to believe she is already 5!  Time sure does fly!  Ava had her friend birthday party yesterday at a place called The Playground....complete with bouncy houses, slides, play equipment, pizza, and cake.  Isabelle had so much fun with her cousins and celebrating Ava's big day! 

(The pictures aren't the best....we just got our new camera and I haven't adjusted any of the settings on it yet so some are blurry!)  Enjoy though!

Bounce, Bounce, Bounce

Playing in the huge play room.  Isabelle LOVES Isaiah!

This is hard to see, but she is way up top here with Kevin!

During the group picture Isabelle and Isaiah were off playing on their own and didn't want to join in the photo.  So I got a picture of the two of them!

Time to eat!

Present time!  Isabelle was happy to help open!

We hope you had a great birthday Ava! 

We have a busy weekend ahead with one of Isabelle's friend's 2nd birthdays tomorrow and then Ava's family birthday party in the evening.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!