Christmas 2009

Our Christmas started on Tuesday when we celebrated early at Dave's parents house. It was so much fun and we all got really great gifts! Madeleine was so cute and picked out presents all by herself for everyone. She got me a Rose Quartz rock and she said it represents "love". She also got Dave a skull necklace. So adorable! Zoe had lot's of fun with her cousins and she loved the bicycle helmet she got so much that she kept it on the whole time we were opening presents.

On Christmas Eve we decided to make cookies for Santa. Zoe was so excited to play in the flour. I let her loose with it and turned around and she was making "snow angels" in it. She was covered from head to toe in flour!

These are the cookies Zoe decorated for Santa.

On Christmas morning we woke Zoe up at 8:00 a.m. Dave said, "Zoe! Look what Santa brought!" For some reason Zoe is not too fond of "Santa" so she kept saying "NO! NO!" She quickly got over it when she opened her first present and it was the Handy Manny Talking Tool Box. She had so many presents that we had to pretty much open the last ones for her. I guess she was a good girl this year! After we opened presents we went to my parents house and found out that Cede was engaged!! She was smiling from ear to ear and so excited and I'm so happy for her and Mark!

My mom made a delicious breakfast then we opened presents again and got more great stuff! Zoe got a leap frog Lilly doll and when she opened it she said "Wow! Lilly! My Favorite!" It was so cute! So we had a really good Christmas and I'm so thankful that we could spend it with our families!

Christmas Carnival

Every year they have a Christmas Carnival for SRP employees and their families. My nephews went last year and had so much fun so I was excited to take Zoe this year. I didn't know it was an actual "Carnival" with rides and everything! They even had fake snow for the kids to play in. We decided to wait until the end for the snow which was a good thing because Zoe was soaked and freezing! By the end of the day we had gone in the Fun House, the Bee ride, the Dragon Roller Coaster (the scariest and of course her favorite), the Ferris Wheel, and the Choo Choo train. Zoe had a blast!

Anxiously waiting in line for the Bee Ride.



Finally on the Bee Ride and loving it!



Hopping on the train w/ Jer, Bubba, and Kosty
(sorry you had to squeeze in there Jer!)




Playing in the snow for the first time!



I looked over and she was making snow angels in this filthy dirty snow!
Still cute though!



Kosty getting ready to throw a snowball at his dad. Look at that face!



Loving the Dragon Coaster!

Zoe's First Haircut

On Friday I took Zoe to get her first "professional" haircut from Michele. To my surprise, she was SOOO excited to be there and she couldn't wait to sit in the chair. So, she climbed up and then started to freak out and wanted to sit in a different chair. I needed my bangs trimmed so I decided to go first to show her it was fine. So after I was done she hopped up in the chair again. She was fine until Michele started to button the cape around her neck and she started crying. Michele told her it was a "princess cape" and gave her some candy and that seemed to do the trick. She was so adorable after that and sat pretty still as she watched herself in the mirror, occupied with her candy. She kept saying "princess cape" over and over. When we were done she hopped down and said "Thanks Michewl". So cute.

Not happy until Grandma snuck her some candy under her Princess cape.



Eating her candy, checking out the salon.



Making funny faces in the mirror.



So serious.