This past week...

So blogging with three small children (and everything else going on, like moving :)) has proven over the last year to be a bit more than I can keep up with. :) I'm going to try a new strategy though… sometime over the weekend posting pictures that we've taken the previous week. It's hard to remember who I've texted/emailed what pictures to and this way I know all our family has access to them! We'll see how it goes or how long it lasts. :) Next Sunday we're hosting dinner for about 50 people so realistically I may fail my new plan the very first week after implementing. ;) We'll see. :)

We tried on all our Christmas dresses this week to see what fit which girl this Advent season. Evie loved the entire process. Gracie despised it. ;) You can tell by their expressions in these pictures. ;) Here they are in the Christmas dresses that were mine and Katie's when we were little.

This week we got our first flat tire. :( We came out of Julia’s doctor’s appointment to this:

We were on our way to a cookie exchange and didn’t want to miss it! Daddy graciously and wonderfully came over from work with the right tools and put the spare on for us. :) While we waited, the girls had a great time playing with a 6+ foot of piping they found in the grass (I have no idea what it was doing there…!).

We’ve enjoyed some Christmas crafts...

Yesterday was cold and rainy so we decided to check out what Great Wolf Lodge had to offer (we obviously couldn’t do the water park, to the girls disappointment, since we weren’t overnight guests). We’d never been inside and heard that it was cool. If I’d known I would have prepared the girls for the face that there would be people walking around in swimsuits even though it was 45 degrees outside and they were wearing coats. We walked in and Evie said “Look at that naked lady!!!” (for the record, she wasn’t naked… she was wearing a swimsuit but to E it looked rather like she had just forgotten her clothes ;)). After looking around we let the girls play some games in the arcade. They LOVED it! Ev and Gracie loved the game where you pick up candy (figures) with the claw. Julia’s favorite was the skee ball and they all loved the little carousel. :)