The first snowfall

This year we recieved our first snowfall before it was even Christmas! The girls were so excited! We went sledding with Larry, Joni, Elye and Reesi. Elye didn't feel well so she didn't enjoy it very much. Plus, she didn't like the boots she was wearing. Lyla had a temper tantrum about something, which put a damper on the mood too. I have a couple of pictures of her on the ground pouting. Over all they enjoyed the day though. The funniest thing that happened was when Larry came down the hill with the girls piled on top of him. I was at the bottom of the hill snapping pictures of them as they came down. They came straight for me but I just kept snapping pictures. They went right under me and knocked me completely down. I'm pretty sure it looked like a "Funniest Home Video" moment. My feet went up and I went down! Luckily it didn't hurt me or the camera. I wish that could have been caught on video! Here are the pictures from the day. They are out of order. I can't get blogger to let me rearrange them. This first one is of Lyla on the ground mad and pouting.

Mid-temper tantrum ......

Grace turns 8

Grace at 8

-You're very tall. You are 60 lbs. and 53 3/4 inches tall.

Christmas Art

Our visit with Santa

Santa came to visit at the Roe's house again this year. Melissa Roe is our Children's Minister at our church and my boss. She knows Santa personally and asks him to stop by her house every year before Christmas. She makes lots of cookies and invites all of the kids from church to come visit with Santa in her living room. It's friendly, relaxed and you can talk to him as many times as you want. Here are our pictures from our visit as well as Grace and Lyla's Wish Lists.

Dear Santa,

The girls wrote their letters to Santa asking him to send his elves again this year. They also asked for Christmas pajamas and the elves delivered!

"and I in my cap..."

Lyla sleeping in her Santa hat. She slept all night with that hat on.

Frogger

When we got back from Thanksgiving this is what was in the mail! A tadpole. Last May Lyla was giving a frog habitat from a preschool friend. It was empty but had a sticker on the side that said free tadpole. I don't know why I did it, but I went to the website and put in our address for the free tadpole (plus $8 shipping!). When I clicked submit a message popped up and said our tadpole would arrive sometime in November. November!? This is May! I completely put it out of my head and completely forgot about it. The habitat was stuffed somewhere out in the garage in a goodwill pile. The tadpole came in a test tube. Lyla didn't see me open it so I asked Eric if we should just flush it rather than show it to her. He thought I was crazy and said, yes, of course we have to show it to her. She was so excited! I didn't take a picture right when we got it. These pictures are from a few weeks later. It was itty bitty when we got it. It was about a 1/4 of an inch long when we got it! So, we filled up the habitat with chlorine free water and went to buy tadpole food. I assumed it would die like goldfish always do. But it hasn't! Here are pictures of "Frogger".