Olivia's First Hair Cut

Olivia had her very first haircut today. I got lucky with her and her hair grew in fairly evenly and the ends were curly so it hid any unevenness but it started to look a little stragley so I decided it needed to be cut. Just a little though she has such long hair and I am hoping we haven't lost her cute ringlets at the end!

Before shot with it wet so you can see how long it really is!


Before shot when it was dry so you can see her curls!
Getting ready to get it cut
during
after shot the we only cut about 2 1/2 inches so not a ton but it looks healthier now. The bottom is already starting to curl under so I am hoping her ringlets will return.

Christmas!

Christmas Eve presents Ryan got Toy Story, Olivia got princesses and Christopher got Superman!

Olivia Christmas morning we could hear the kids whispering by the door so we waited for them to knock to tell us they were awake but they never did so we gave it about 5 mins and went in but they were both back in bed awake but in bed!

Ryan Christmas morning
Olivia opening up her Littlest Petshop Veterinarian clinic
Ryan opening up his football!

The kids with their haul, I realized later that we didn't get any pics of Christopher and I on Christmas morning oops!

Putting up the Christmas tree finally!

We finally put up the Christmas tree last night, we had planned on moving back upstairs so we were going to wait until we did that to put one up then Chris got a full time job offer in IF that is pretty much going to require us to move there so we decided to stay in the basement instead of moving twice in a month. Anyway so after all of that we decided to just go get a fake tree that was marked down to $20 instead of getting a real one that would cost more than that. So we got a fake one with the promise that we would never use it again! So here are some pictures of us putting up the Christmas tree!

Christopher helping Ryan put on the bell angel. He really was excited we just didn't get a picture of that!

Me helping Olivia put the angel on top
The kids presenting the finished tree!

New Moon Party!

So on Friday night a bunch of my girl friends from high school go together for a sleep over party and to watch New Moon, this was a no kids, no husbands party (we did make an exception for Julie cause it was at her house!) We stay up until after 6:30am and just talked and had fun and caught up it was awesome! Thanks Jules for hosting and thanks Chris (Julie's husband) for putting up with us. And thanks all of the other great husbands for making it possible for us to all come! (Jacqui's husband surprised her and got the night off with out telling her and then just had me come and pick her up at the house and kidnap her!) And no we are not all psyco Twilight fans (although we totally love the movie) the movie was just a good excuse to get everyone together!

Right before the movie started, (really bad quality because it is a cell camera!)
After the movie!


After the movie we went to Macey's quick to say hi to my cute sis who was working and she took a pic of us (again cell phone camera so not the best quality)
We woke up Julie's poor husband at 2:30 to take pictures he was awesome!More pics from 2:30am
You have to have a silly pic especially since being all back together makes us act like we were in high school!
Julie trying to take a pic of all of us by herself! (good thing she has long arms)

Kids in Costume

We went to a ward party on Friday night and Olivia was Cinderella and gorgeous but I didn't get and picture and by Saturday she wanted to be a lady bug so we pulled this costume our and went trick or treating in Old Town with the cousins and at the mall. Neither Camille or I remembered to get pics of all the kids together so I just have my 2! Chris also dressed up as a cereal killer but I didn't end up with a picture of that!

Chrisotpher's Pumpkin

Chris loves to carve elaborate pumpkins he didn't a have a whole lot of time this year so it was a little simpler than usual but turned out really cool!
The dark one is a little blurry because it has a really long exposure to take a pic in the dark without a flash and I have super shaky hands!