One day Mid-December we got a ton of snow overnight!  The schools and the lab were closed so we all got to stay home and have a SNOW DAY!  It was very exciting!  Emmy begged all day to build a snowman but it was freezing cold outside.  Finally Mom and Dad caved and we all got our snow gear on and went out in the back yard!  We only lasted about 15 minutes before both girls were ready to come back inside but here are some pics we took of our quick adventure to the arctic!

Here’s Emmy, Dad and Kaylee heading down the stairs.  The wind blew the snow up our porch stairs!  So even on the top stair it is up to Emm’s waist!

I had to bring Kaylee back in for a minute while I grabbed some snow things and she fell over and couldn’t get back up with all her snow gear on!  It was kind of funny to watch and reminded me of the little brother in A Christmas Story (hmmm…i think I referenced this movie in the last post too!).  “I can’t put my arms down”!!  Don’t worry I helped her up right after I took the picture!

Kaylee playing in the snow!  Too cold to smile!

Alex making a snow ball or a snowman’s head…I’m not sure which!

Here is Emmy and her little snowman.  The snow wasn’t very good for packing so this was the best we could do before we all froze to death!  She was very proud of him though!

Mommy trying to make a snow angel in some pretty frozen snow.  It’s not as easy as I make it look here! haha!

Emmy has had a love/hate relationship with Santa Clause like many other kids her age.  She likes the idea of him and the fact that he brings her presents but she is not so sure about talking to him or getting her picture taken on his lap!  While my mom was visiting over Thanksgiving we went to a few different craft fairs and the fair at the senior center even had Santa!  He was so nice and since there weren’t many children there he came over and talked to Emmy and showed her all the Christmas things around the lobby.  She was so excited that she let us get some pictures and even introduced Santa to Kaylee!  Maybe next year she can help me convince Kaylee to take a picture with Santa!

Here’s Santa showing Emmy all the Christmas ornaments.

Santa and Emmy!!

Emmy also had her face painted at one of the craft fairs!  Emmy loves makeup and things like that so she sat very still for the lady and was smiling the whole time!  The lady asked if she did modeling or something since she was such a natural at getting her face and hair done!  She is such a little diva, that is for sure 🙂

Alex and I took the girls to the light parade they have on Central every year.  It is one of my favorite Los Alamos traditions!

One of the floats was done like Ralphie and A Christmas Story.  Here’s a pic of Ralpie in his bunny pajamas.

Here’s another float that looked pretty neat!

And here’s Kaylee and Grandpa after we got home!  It was pretty cold at the parade so we all had some hot chocolate with dinner!

Slowly, but surely, we are getting caught up on our blog!  It’s kind of cool to post so late because then the pictures aren’t as fresh in my mind and it’s fun to look through all of them again!

Here’s Miss Emeline eagerly awaiting the meal!  She was a great helper setting the table and cleaning up before all our guest arrived!

“If I smile can I at least have a roll mom??”

Here’s a shot of the table in all its glory!

Mashing potatoes!

This was a rosemary citrus turkey.  It came out really well.  I’m not the biggest turkey fan but everybody else really liked it!

The man of the house carving the turkey!

The rest of the spread!  (Sorry I’m putting in all these food pictures!  It’s just it takes so long to make you have to take pictures of it…right??

Kaylee stuffing the sweet potatoes and stuffing in her mouth!

Emmy’s favorites are rolls and deviled eggs!

The whole group!  Emmy was very excited becuase she had two grandmas, two grandpas and two uncles there!  Not a bad turn out! 🙂

Kaylee ate like the whole meal with that little piece of cranberry sauce stuck to her face!  She’s a super hero!

Dessert!

This was my first attempt at a cheesecake.  It turned out pretty good but it was a little soft!  I’ll have to practice to get the bake time just right…:-)

And finally, Emmy and Kaylee in their Thanksgiving night pajamas!  Kaylees foot is moving so you can’t see her’s as well but they both have little turkeys on them!  They were a gift from Grandma Layman!  Very cute!

Every other year BYU plays UNM in Albuquerque so we get to go see the cougars play!  This year it was in November and we went with a big group from our ward!  We had a lot of fun, and while the score was way closer than it should have been BYU ended up winning! Phew!

Alex and Emeline enjoying the game!

Here’s Kaylee snacking on a pom-pom!  Emmy and Kaylee are excellent cheerleaders and Emeline even knows the cougar fight song!  Both of them had fun showing off the cheer skills for Grandma and Grandpa Baker!

GO COUGARS!!

Emmy and Kaylee have started getting jealous if someone holds just one of them so they often pile on together!  Here they are having fun smiling at all the people sitting behind us!

And finally it was time to go home!  :-(  But here is a cute picture of Kath holding Emmy on the way out to the car!  We’ll be back in 2011 for more!

Grandma Kath was in Idaho for her birthday and we were in Disneyland so we had her party when we all regrouped in New Mexico!  Here’s a few pics from the party!

Grandma Kath picked Carrot cakes and she said she wanted lots of nuts!  So in addition to us being nutty we added some to the cake!

Here’s Grandma blowing out her candles!

In preparation for her own birthday Kaylee enjoyed a small piece of Grandma’s cake!  Happy belated Birthday Kath!!  Emmy can’t wait to see you again now that we are back in New Mexico!

Emmy and Kaylee love to have their picture taken!  Here are some random pictures of us playing around!

Kaylee got to sit in my bed one morning while I finished getting ready!  She thought she was queen of the world!

It didn’t last long though.  She held still maybe 5 minutes and she was on the move again! Here she is about to pounce on the camera!

Here’s Kaylee just chillin’

Emmy helped me get Kaylee up and ready!  She is a really good helper now.  She always says things like “Kaylee Sweetie, no no”.  Kaylee follows her every move and they both love playing together!  It’s pretty cute!

Kaylee laughing at Emmy through the crib!

Look familiar?  We have a pic of Emmy that looks just like this!  I will have to do a side by side post!

Emmy took this picture and I was totally amazed at what a good job she did so I thought I’d throw it in here!  She is getting pretty good at using a camera!