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| Dressed up in their Christmas jams... to go play outside! |
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| Had to document running farther into the neighborhood than I usually do. A nice 10K to start the weekend! |
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| Shopping for Christmas decor. The girls were obsessed with nutcrackers this year! |
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| We found this cool photo op at the mall! |
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| PJ also got a new TV. It's huge. |
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| Like, so big. |
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| Wendy is a great tree climber but found one that couldn't handle the action! She was climbing this tree and it broke right in half! |
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| Creeping on Lilly sleeping some more. |
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| That huge white thing? Some of the packaging of PJ's TV! |
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| My friend started selling homemade challah bread and I just had to try some. It is delicious! |
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| Christmas cookies had me wondering what day it was. All said, about 500 made! |
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| I have about 500 cookie pictures but I did want to document such a nice flooding! |
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| PJ getting festive... to go downstairs and work. |
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| In the car pick up lane waiting for Wendy and Lilly turned this iPad mount into a camera. |
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| More cookies... |
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| I made some Hanukkah cookies for a few of my Jewish friends. |
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| I mean hours and hours of cookies. |
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| After about 4 hours of icing, I called in some help. I know now- don't sell 500 cookies in two weeks! |
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| The girls were on their own while I was icing which meant a lot of iPad time. |
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| Almost done with week 1 of Christmas cookies! |
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| 200 cookies packaged and ready for pick up. |
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| Lilly's perspective behind the camera. |
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| Some more creeping- I thought it was so cute she was sleeping with her "little Lilly" doll! |
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| My awesome sister gifted me with this cookie tray rack so I didn't have to have cookie pans covering my counters for days. Thanks Sis! (and Thanks PJ for putting it together) |
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| Park days in December with shorts! |
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| It broke my heart when the girls came up to me and said "mommy, can we have a cookie??" and I tried to explain to them that people paid me to make these cookies. They tried to problem solve by then asking "is this enough to buy a cookie??" |
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| PJ sleeps with 3 blankets at night. I sleep with one. I can't imagine what it's going to be like when those heat flashes kick in! |
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| Yay for Cookie Carts! |
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| And the last of the 200+ cookies packaged and ready for pick up. As you can see, that was my whole life for two weeks. Without the pictures PJ took, I wouldn't know what we did during those days! |
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| Afternoon nap with daddy! (Well, PJ was sleeping anyway...) |
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| The kids' church leaders gifted the girls these awesome Christmas glasses. Wendy just couldn't help herself to make silly faces in them! |
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| Our neighbors love on our girls to no end. This was a gift from Sherry- snow men crafting materials so they could make their own snowmen! |
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| Christmas Sunday! |
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| The girls kept buys coloring while I played the organ. |
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| Oh and Lilly took 500 pictures just like this one. |
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| Oh, here's one with PJ! |
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| Off to a park to play! |
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| The Costco crowd the Monday before Christmas! |
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| We stocked up so we didn't have to go out for another week or so! |
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| Trying to capture early morning cuteness and ended up blinding them. |
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| Hooray for rope swings! |
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| Having dinner at a local diner: Kerby Lane. The girls loved having (huge) pancakes for dinner! |
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| Grandma came to visit for Christmas! It was a long trip though.... |
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| Out to dinner for some Texas BBQ and playing at the Galleria. |
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| Cheese! |
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| Christmas Eve means Christmas pajamas! (They also get popcorn and chocolate milk in their boxes) |
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| This might be the last year I'll be able to hide presents in plain site. Wendy is learning to read pretty quickly! |
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| PJ swinging with Little Lilly. |
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| Exploring in the woods. |
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| Campfire after dinner! These girls get so hyper after they eat but it was cold so we problem solved. |
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| Christmas morning! Baxter and Lilly found their toys first. |
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| Wendy is very pensive when opening presents. I think she went slowly to make sure she didn't miss anything. But here was a glimpse of the joy she had inside! |
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| I celebrated Christmas by going on an *almost* 9 mile run! And then hit the kitchen to start cooking Christmas dinner. |
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| Building the Hot Wheels city garage! |
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| And singing Happy Birthday to Jesus! |
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| We took the cake to the park where it was really windy. As Wendy was finishing up her piece, the wind blew the plate up and surprised us all! |
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| Lilly found herself a comfy place to play on her iPad. |
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| Playing with her new Playdoh set! |
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| After Christmas was over, we had one more week to entertain the girls before school started back. So, off to Locomotion we go! |
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| We were some of the only families there and the girls had a blast! |
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| Even PJ had fun... |
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| Wendy was so excited to find this cheer leader costume. Her main goal is becoming a cheer leader right now! |
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| PJ and I got to duck out for a lunch date too. First one in months! |
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| Another day we introduced the girls to ice skating! |
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| They needed the "helpers" at first. |
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| They had a few falls but always got right back up to keep learning! |
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| After a while they got the hang of it! |
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| But still fell a little. |
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| Go Wendy go! |
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| Lilly loves to cuddle up at the end of the day but it was especially sweet when she insisted on holding my hand (thumb) too. |
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| Curled up with daddy under his electric blanket to watch Dragon Ball Z at the end of the day! |
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| Where's Wendy? |
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| And New Years Eve! Our friends invited us over to blow some stuff up and we all had... a blast! |
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| And the last major development of 2020- Wendy lost her 3rd tooth! Happy New Year! |
