Lately

Our lives lately have been pretty smooth.  Both girls took turns with a pretty strong cold, and here's Maren napping on the couch.  She slept a lot this day!  After she stood up from the couch though, Lauren got her blanket and laid down and said she was sick.  Maybe she wanted some pampering too?

They are really close buddies lately.  When we get Maren from preschool, she'll run to Lauren a lot of the time first, and give her a squeeze. 

We went to our Stake's live nativity over the weekend.  WOW!  It was really cool.  They even had a real camel(below).  This will probably become a tradition for us.  We really don't have too many of our own.  You would think we would because 4 out of 5 Christmases together have been away from family.  One that we have carried on though is finding a 'greasy spoon' restaurant on Christmas eve to dine at.  This year, Kono's.

Lauren had a little friend over, and when 3 little girls get together, it's dress up time.  My role was the ballet teacher, theirs was ballet student:)

I'm feeling good, large, but good. lol  The other day Andy and I joked that wives are in charge in the relationship, then laughed that I was Large and in Charge.

We've started a 'Walk to Sea World' activity with the girls.  It's 97 miles to get there from our house, so we earn stickers for each mile we walk around our area, as a family.  Maren is pretty motivated to get there.

We put new cabinets in our kitchen, which are really cool!  Because of this, we've been washing dishes in the bathroom.  I'm always wondering what visitor might go to use our bathroom, and peek behind the curtain to see a bathtub of dishes, and never return to our home...hehe.

Lastly, we have some pretty awesome home teachers.  He and his wife come on Sundays when they visit, and you never know what you're going to get from small children on Sundays, right?  Well yesterday they brought a nativity puppet show that the girls loved acting out.  Brilliant, thoughtful, and fun!