Last Day of 2009

Typically spent taking down the ornaments, which I have to say is pretty easy this year for 2 reasons: 1. I only put up the tree and about 1/2 the ornaments for it and 2. I bought these gigantic plastic bins to store the Christmas tree. They could easily fit both Emma and Lauren in one!
Happy New Year!!

Random Christmas Pictures

Here are some pictures that I didn't use . -Bill

Girls eating at McDonalds in high chairs because they thought it was funny:

Pretending to drive Grandpa Denny's RV:

Our many art projects with bendaroos:

A visit to the Ludington Library:

Back home eating an Ice Cream treat as a reward for being awesome for 10 straight days and 2 flights. (Glasses are because they wanted to be rock stars)

Fun Activities

While we were at our friends house we did a lot of fun things like decorating cookies, a trip to the Ann Arbor kids science center, Jungle Java and lots of art projects. Thanks April for keeping us busy. -Bill

Meeting a new friend

We stayed with our friends for the last two days in Michigan so we could we their new baby Maddy. The girls loved playing with her. -Bill

Visiting Michigan State

On the way back from Ludington we stopped at MSU to get some Spartan gear for the girls and get our picture with the Sparty statue. -Bill

Sledding Fun

Over Christmas we went sledding 3 times. The girls loved it. -Bill

Lauren Getting air on the little ramp on the hill.

Warming up with hot chocolate after 30 trips down the hill.

Christmas Part 2

Today we had Christmas again. Santa was nice enough to stop in Texas last week and in Ludington today. I think he is going to stop by again on Christmas in Detroit. The girls are so spoiled!! but they have been great for 5 straight days so they deserve it. -Bill

stopping by to see Grandpa

Before we went to Ludington on Sunday we stopped by to see Grandpa/ the girls Great Grandpa. They were excited to see him! Emma gave Grandpa hugs for 10 minutes. -Bill

Family Christmas pt 1

Jessica's family Christmas was on Saturday. We had fun seeing all our family and the girls love seeing their cousins. It snowed again so we were back out rolling around and eating snow. -Bill

First real snow of the season

There was no snow when we got to Detroit and none in the forecast for the next few days. The girls were so excited when we woke up on Friday morning and it had snowed a few inches. We had to go play first thing in the morning and get our first taste of snow for the season. -Bill

Detroit Science Center

On Friday we went to the Detroit Science Center. The girls had a great time with all the hands on exhibits and we also went to a IMAX movie. -Bill