Ruffles

Getting dance pictures taken.

Gala dinner

For the teacher

This was waiting for me on my desk when I got to work this morning.

Tired Little Princess

We had 3 other little girls running around but Mary was done at 7 PM.

Mary art

A Nemo portrait, with the subject himself. This from the 3 1/2 year
old. It's all Nemo, all the time since she turned 2. It must be true
love...

Emma art

A picture of a dolphin

Ballet Costumes

Dino sisters

At ballet class

I'm not sure what they were supposed to be doing....

"Teavana"

A store devoted to tea. Good for the soul...

Going running!

Notice Emma in my Iron Girl hat...

Water Park Play

We took the girls to the Sterling Inn, a hotel that has an indoor water park play area. We met Uncle Jeff and Aunt Lisa (along with Katelyn, Zach, and Zander) up there an the kids all had a blast. Here are a couple of pictures that my professional photographer brother took of the girls - they are FABULOUS! Emma loved the "race slides" as she called them. She was an unstoppable fish-child. Mary liked lolling about in the floating innertubes - she was not falling through - that's how she wanted to ride in them! You cannot see it in this picture, but I was right next to her, swimming along. I have never (voluntarily) been so wet for so long. The things we do for the kids!

Church

Visiting E.B.

Cherry Hill Village Easter festivities. There's a bunny behind those
hats!

Easter games

At the old school, doing the egg walk

Shopping

Target at 7 am

On our way

It's True!

Yes, Internet - we've moved!!! I haven't gone on and on about it, really, but for those of you who have not been tapped in to the daily grind, we built a house (yes, another one). We've actually been working on it for a year and a half now. It is beautiful and unique (but I won't post pictures right now), and we are working on getting settled. Scroll down and you will see some select Christmas decorations we've managed to get up (a mere 10 days before the Elf comes). It has been hard on the girls (well, Emma), who don't take change well, even though we only moved down the alley 4 houses. We managed to rent out our house at the last minute for a year lease with intent to buy after that. Not too bad, and I'm not complaining. So now we own two houses and are landlords. Very odd. Anyway, back to the kids. Emma wrote a letter to Santa yesterday. It wasn't a list - she said she just wants Ariel or Tinkerbell toys and he knows that. No, Internet, she wrote, PAINSTAKINGLY, "Miss my red house, I love it" - with a lopsided red heart. It is pathetic. The poor kid CANNOT get over leaving her Dora bedroom. Funny thing is, right when I got done painting that Dora, she hated it. She was afraid of Dora's magic wand, and, incidentally, didn't like the yellow in her room. That is, until we moved. Now she reminisces about her Dora big-girl room that she misses in her pretty red house. It's tragic, I tell you.

So we are mucking forward. I would recommend NOT moving during the holidays. Between the full time job (a first for this time of year, you should know) and the move, I am woefully behind. I've not made the Christmas cards yet, done the shopping (except for the girls, who we shopped for last weekend), baked any cookies - frosted or pizzelles, ordered any presents, wrapped any presents, well you get the picture. Were it not for the 3 inches of snow and the tree we managed to get up yesterday (did I mention Hubby went out and bought a new, pre lit one to get the job done?), I would not know it is nearly Christmas. And to boot, this week I came down with a bug that had me running to the bathroom during classes. It is really hard to teach that way.

I am sure it will all get done. Well, it might not. I am sitting here typing this instead of doing things that Need to Get Done. And many people may be getting magazine subscriptions this year from us. That is a nice, easy gift. And I may not get Christmas Cookies frosted this year. Well, I guess I can't do everything!

Old favorites!

Ho!

Noel !

Decor for the holiday!

Mission Accomplished

It's starting to look like Christmas!