Gingerbread House

The girls made a gingerbread house, and it turned out pretty good! They had a blast and it took them a long time...especially Taylor. She's pretty particular about how things go.

Wildwoods Waterpark

Allie did a "oops" and sort of fell into the hotub. Didn't get hurt, just wasn't paying attention and went in kind of "sideways". She comes up out of the water and has the foam all over her mouth, and looks at me and goes, "Ho-Ho-Ho." It was the funniest thing!

The girls and dad on the lazy river!

Taylor skidding down the "kiddie" slide

Allie screaming down, waving!

I was able to get 4 passes to this waterpark in Otsego, pretty cheap and thought it would be a fun thing to do. Well, it seemed like it was almost "not meant to be". It was supposed to take 5-7 business days to get the passes; it took 2 weeks! The girls were so good and patient. We finally were going to go on a Sunday and Chad called to see what time they opened. BOOM! The water heater was broken. Didn't know when it would be fixed. FINALLY, we got there last weekend. It was a blast! We went Sunday morning about 8:30 a.m. and stayed until 11:30. Came home, ate lunch and the girls took a snooze. Allie, for 3 1/2 hours! They got up, and Chad took them back for another 2 hours!! Taylor went down a HUGE slide all by herself. Allie wasn't as big of a fan of the slides, but dad and Taylor went A LOT!! (Poor Chad, that's lots of stairs!) They had a great kids area, and super hot tub. They also had another pool area that was a "whirlpool" - the current just swirls you around. They loved that part!!

Childrens Museaum & Macy's 8th Floor!!

Girls with Santa!!

Taylor ready to "work"

Allie all ready to "deliver some mail"

We went with Aunt Lori, Owen and Ashley down to the Children's Museum and to see Macy's 8th Floor display a couple weeks ago. It was the best time! The girls had never been to the Childrens Museum and absolutely loved it. They did everything that was there and just ran around like kids in a candy store. It was fun having Owen show them things since he'd been there before, so he'd show them how to do different things or "come on girls, come look at this." It was cute - they had a blast! We then went and ate a quick lunch and headed downtown to see the Macy's display. We got "fancy" and parked in the Gavidai (sp?) parking garage, which is heated and valet parking. PERFECT since it was pretty chilly. When we got to the 8th floor after SEVERAL escalators, which I think was almost the highlight for all the kids, there was nobody there hardly. We walked right in! It was great. It was a great display and the kids saw Santa's Workshop and all the elves. There wasn't even a line for Santa, so we snuck that in too! It was a perfect day!!!

Thanksgiving

I think I got everyone.... Missy, Allie and Taylor...the girls:)


Allie & Bear Taylor & Bear

We went to Steve and Gail's house in Sartell for Thanksgiving. A lot of family was there and Kyle came with his new puppy, Bear. OOHHH...so darn cute! The girls fell in love with him. We stayed until about 8:30 p.m. when Allie started snoozin' on the couch. Apparently it was time to go home! She was pooped out.