New Years in Michigan

We spent the last few days at Grandma & Grandpa Krupa's Michigan house. Cousins Katie and James were there too!

Looking down from the top of the stairs.

Getting ready to go play in the snow!

We're ready!

Liv, the snow queen.

Daddy pulling up the sled in the backyard/woods.

They really weren't sure about this.

Check out the snowman Uncle Jay & James built!

starting to get unhappy.

heehee

We tried to get them to make snow angels. They weren't having it.

Olivia on NYE

And Caroline too.

Caroline went with daddy to take Charlie out.

She was so cute bundled up inside his coat.

And Liv watching them from the porch.

They have such a beautiful home there. Here's a shot of the living room.

Rob and I drove around the town to take in the scenery.

This is the beach off Lake Michigan. Snow covered sand this time of year.

Look at those icicles!

We drove home at night so the girls would sleep. But we didn't realize we'd be driving through a blizzard! It was snowing so hard and the highways were just covered - you couldn't see the lanes, or even where the heck the road was! Pretty scary, we were doing 20 mph for about 2.5 hours. This picture through the windshield does not even do it justice.

But the girls did sleep through most of it, which I was very thanful for.

We wish everyone Health & Happiness in this New Year!

Piggies!

The girls sat still enough this morning to let me put piggy tails in their hair.

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They've always got their hands in their hair while they eat! Drives me nuts.

More on this in a moment.

Daddy & Liv

Mama & Caroline and a closeup of my pretty little girl.

We bought the girls a new double umbrella stroller for Christmas - we'll need it for when we travel coming up in a couple months; and it's better for running errands, quick trips, etc.

The munchkins had to try it out while daddy finished putting it together.

"Whaaat!?"

Videos:

Here's what I was talking about with the hands in the hair:


And another thing to drive mommy crazy:

Christmas Pictures, cont.

We spent Christmas Day with Rob's family, and started the morning by visiting with the girls' Great-Grandparents.

And then met up with the rest of the family at Grandma & Grandpa Krupa's.

Caroline

Three girly cousins in their matchy dresses.

Our little family

Livi's funny face

It was so much fun to watch them open all their presents.

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The girls got twin baby dollies!

Caroline giving hers some love

Bah Humbug.

Aunt Kari and Caroline, very intent on the presents being opened. You can see Rob's baby picture hanging in the background (whom I think Miss Olivia looks a LOT alike).

Olivia got an "Olivia" dvd!

Katie giving her cousin, Caroline a sqeeze.

Mommy & Caroline

And a few videos from Christmas night.

They are completely fascinated with closing doors.




"Ho Ho Ho"

New Tricks

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, from our family to yours!

A few pictures of the girls on Christmas Eve day.

Ornaments!

My little Reindeers.

Caroline modeling the bow off a chocolate candies box.

And now Liv's turn.

Looking out at the snow on the balcony.

Mom let us have a Christmas cookie.

And we opened presents when daddy got home from work!

Liv showing mama her new ornament.

And a cute video of the girls sharing a sisterly love moment:

We went to the 6pm Christmas Eve Mass tonight. The girls were pretty good. They did both "escape" and ran down the pews and into the aisle a couple times. And they kept saying "UH-OHHHh!!!!" really loudly at all the quiet parts. So we made it through Communion before we decided that we'd made enough of a scene and that it was time to get the munchkins home and in bed. Heading out to Grandma & Grandpa Krupa's tomorrow morning for some family cheer! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Holiday!