All the kids

We took these on Xaviers birthday

my girls in the snow christmas day.

























all bundled up and ready to go. the second picture is them before I said , hey you guys dont have to go you know. you look like I am making you go out











My little Rissy.
She loves to pretend so much.
the ponys are a gift from her brother Joe.
I told him He could get her two of just about anything and she would be thrilled to have them talking and playing in no time at all. :)

christmas 09

We had a lovely christmas!












The girls with their stockings.











































The girls getting into the stockings :)

more christmas eve

hanging out after our christmas eve dinner.

christmas dinner

Serena is helping me make the rice a roni dressing for our christmas eve dinner.
I decided to try eating our big meal christmas eve
and then enjoying the leftovers on christmas day.
It worked well and I think we will do it again next year. I got the idea from listening to some talk about the traditional Italian "dinner of seven fishes" that is served christmas eve. I would love a night of seafood, but not everyone in my family agrees so we had a delicious turkey dinner.





Serena is spending alot of time in the kitchen with me. I am so glad we can spend that time together
talking and learning.

fun

having a little fun with static electricity :)

25 days of crafts

I got a crazy notion that I might be able to do a craft a day with the kids from decmber 1 -25th.
So far I have managed to get something done everyday although some take two days to complete, the point isn't to have 25 crafts but to spend that time with the kids everyday :)

Left is Xavier making a beaded snowflake, so simple! just pipe cleaners twisted together and bead slid on the ends.