Who is who?

Mollster

Sara and Emily

Aunt Debbie got Addison a fish tank for Christmas. When Addison and Neil went to get a fish she decided she needed two fish. We should have consulted our fish expert, Kristin, before we did this! The person at the store said that they would be ok together in one tank. The tank Aunt Debbie got was too small for two fish so we put Emily and Sara in a bigger tank. By that night we thought Emily was dead because she wasn't moving and was missing much of her fin! Sara had not been nice to her. :( We moved Emily into the smaller tank. Now all is peaceful! Addison loves her fish-thanks for a great gift, Aunt Debbie!

With Sara
With Emily

Living side by side rather than together!

*On a side note, I wish you could have seen Addison's whole outfit. Green dress from Bethany, butterfly shirt and rainbow leggings. She told me she was a nature girl in this outfit! As she says, "So Fashionable!" Where does she get this from?!

Just Hanging Out

It has been nice to just hang out during break!

Blessed in 2010

I have so much to be grateful this year!

January-Found out that I was pregnant with Molly.

Such a wonderful and much wanted surprise!

February-Found out that Bethany was going to have a baby around the same time as me!

Our kiddos will grow up together!

March-Started to feel better and was able to play more with Addison and cook dinner!

Neil happy to have more than sandwiches for dinner! :)

April-Got to spend Easter with the Pierces!

Had nice weather during Spring Break so Addison and I could play outside!

Found out we were having a GIRL!

May- Thunder season started.

Got to walk the Race for the Cure with my family in Peoria!

June-Summer vacation!

Thunder Games!

Found out that Kristin was going to have a baby! Another kiddo for Molly to grow up with!

July-Celebrated Stacey and Eric's Wedding!

Celebrated Ali and Jake's Wedding!

August- Got to spend time with Nicola, Diane, Alan, Wendy and Aran!

Got everything ready for Baby to come!

Addison started Pre-School!

September-Went into labor on my birthday!

Molly was born!!!!

We all celebrated our birthdays!

October-Maternity Leave-got to stay home with my babies!

The weather was still nice so we could be outside and go for walks!

Spent Wednesdays at the library and had lunch with my mom!

November-Carleton had an amazing season!

Pie and Wine with our friends-we are blessed to have them!

December-A day of Christmas shopping with Neil!

Christmas was magical with Addison this year!

Neil and I had a week off so we got to stay home, enjoy good food, go sledding and watch movies together!

I consider myself a blessed girl-I mean lady!

After all I did turn 30 this year!

Go United

Addison and Molly received their United gear from Peter, Gail, Matthew and Adam.

Addison was excited to get a new soccer shirt!

Thanks!

Christmas Eve

The plate of cookies and carrots is ready.

The hot chocolate is made

(and drank-hence the chocolate mustache).

Visions of sugar plums

are dancing in their heads.

Santa's sleigh has landed on our roof!

He left some presents for two good little girls.

Grandma England talked to Santa yesterday and asked him to pick up Addison and Molly's presents when he was in England. He brought them over in the green and blue bags. He also brought Addison's new princess toy box.

What lucky girls we have!

All ready for Christmas morning!

Merry Christmas!

We hope you have a Happy Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Dresses from Bethany

Bethany bought these adorable dresses for the girls when Molly was born. They wore them last night to our daycare Christmas party. Thanks, Bethany!

Playing in the snow

We had ANOTHER snow storm last Monday.

School closed early and opened late on Tuesday.

My mom had to stay the night so Addio and I got to go and play while Neil did the snow blowing. We are currently getting more snow, looks like we will for sure have a white Christmas!

Julie

Addison has been wanting the American Girl, Julie, for a while now. Grandma and Grandpa Rochester took her to the Mall de Merica last weekend to pick her up. She was very excited! Julie is being very well taken care of and Addison loves her!

On the ride home

Friends

Katharine McPhee was there too!

School Picture

Preschool 2010-2011

Christmas Program

Addison had her Christmas program at school last Thursday. It was an adorable performance and of course Addio did great! Her tights caused her a few problems, that's our Addison! We were in the second row so I would like to apologize for the mystery lady in most of the pictures.

Her job was to put up the angel during the Christmas Story

Thanks Aunt Debbie

Molly got her sheets with her name on them from Aunt Debbie!

Such a great gift to treasure forever!

Hopefully I can get a picture of Addison in the shoes that Aunt Debbie got for her for the royal wedding!

Just Because They Are So Cute

Here are my other kids searching for the Gingerbread Man!

Training

Addison was doing some keeper training the other night.

Luckily we know a good coach!

SNOW DAY!!!

Snow days are like a surprise gift!

We get to stay home in our jammies and snuggle all day!

Today was even better because we found out last night so we could sleep in (which means 6:00!).

Snowed In!

We knew a big storm was coming so we were prepared to be snowed in all weekend and it is a good thing we were prepared because we didn't get plowed out until 11:00 p.m. Sunday night!

Our deck door on Saturday morning.

Molly checking out the snow

Around noon on Saturday

Dinnertime

View of our house Saturday night

Drift outside the office window Sunday morning

The branch is just a few inches from touching the snow

So we made cookies

Sprinkles!

Now that we can get out, it is too cold! Wind chill is about -25.

I have a feeling it will be a long winter!