Christmas, Cars and Cousins

All the family waited until after naptime to come over for our Christmas get together this year, so it was already getting dark, but of course everyone still wanted a ride in Lily's new car!

Audrey, Lily, and Isaac

Auji and Audrey had the most adorable giggles every time Audrey pushed on the gas.

Auji and Evie

Evie was a little too big to feel comfortable riding for long, but I got a cute picture of her with her little sister!

Lily loving her Teddy Bear from Uncle Alex

Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful gifts and the warm thoughts behind them! We love you!

All the kids converging in our room after opening presents.
They were watching Strawberry Shortcake and playing with Strawberry shortcake figurines.

Evie and Lily by the tree

Aujinay

Lily

Evie and Isaac

Audrey

I'm so glad Lily is so close to so many of her cousins. They have so much fun together. We are very blessed to be able to live here right now. Feeling very grateful to our Heavenly Father for the wonderful family we belong to, and for all our many blessings! Sometimes I feel down about our situation, and that we aren't living on our own yet, but I know it could be much worse! We are so lucky to be in such a nice home with people who love us!

Preschool Freeze Dance

Lily and her little cousins Audrey and Aujinay rocking to the Freeze Dance at preschool this week.



Quite a change from Lily's first experience in preschool class last year! A clip - Lily is sitting on the sidelines holding a puppet. She refused to touch a pom pom or participate in the freeze dance for the longest time! Of course, she is older. Now she is just all particular about what color she gets.

I love when Audrey picks up her pom pom and assumes her freeze pose. So cute!

One project down

I finished the skirts!

 Lily's

 Aujinay's

 Audrey's

Aujinay is my soon to be adopted niece! She is so sweet and precocious it just seems meant to be that she will be Evie's little sister! She is 15 months old and will be coming home to Andrew and Rebecca on Friday - right before Evie's big Saturday Halloween-Birthday party! Evie has an adorable Halloween skirt and shirt her mom bought off Etsy so these little skirts will look cute on the girls gathered 'round. Much easier than a full costume - I am not ready for that!

I tried to get Miss Lily to model them, but this is what happened.

Better go find some shorts for her to wear underneath. Maybe I should've strung a ribbon tie through instead of elastic the way she is hiking this thing up... Something to think about. Luckily I don't think that'll be a problem with the younger girls.