The making of a diva

It's already starting. Payton's turning into a diva. She's so insistent on clothes, shoes, hair. I have no idea where she gets that, it's certainly not from me. Not to this extent. She hasn't perfected her style yet, or knowing "what goes" but she'll get there. Here are just a few of her looks from over the long weekend (they were too good not to share). I'm going to be in so much trouble with this one! Thank goodness Parker hasn't started doing this yet.

Thanks to everyone who gave/donated/gifted her any part of these outfits. She obviously loves them. :)

Coming up...Christmas 2011!

Ringing in the holidays...

...with ringworm. Yep. Ringworm. What started as a small mark that I thought meant she bumped her face, turned into a spot she was digging at by Sunday afternon. So after lunch, Payton and I treked off to pedicatric express care and got an official verdict. OTC creams are too harsh for her little cheeks so we got a script and were out of there pretty fast. I'm not exactly sure where she got it. It's only on her face. Parker doesn't have it at all (fingers crossed). So, if you'll be seeing us in the next few days we're safe, I just wouldn't let her rub her face on you.

And we did a little more celebrating over the weekend...
Parker and Daddy got out their drills and compared. Boys and their toys.

Ma-Maw and I took them to the tabernacle to see al the gingerbreadhouses. There are over 100 of them in there of all kinds, trees lit up, a scavenger hunt among the display. They were truly neat to see. The babies were quite curious as to why they saw M&Ms on things but they couldn't touch of have them.

And Sunday night we went to Honor's house to have the last of our Christmas parties. The babies got to see their friend Faith, we got to eat, play and share presents. We always love seeing everyone. Thanks Honor for hosting!

5 days till Christmas...the countdown is on!

Par-tay!

Last night was our Christmas party at respite care. It was amazing! It was Polar Express themed so all the kiddos were asked to wear their jammies. Each room in the building had a different activity. If you got your entire boarding pass punched at each stop, you got a candy cane when you left. Chris took the night off work to go with us, and we took Aunt Bo, Uncle Dave and Ma-Maw with us.

We started by doing the cake walk. Both kiddos won one round and picked a package with two Little Debbie cakes in them. They smushed and squeezed them to death but refused to give them up all night long.

We did a little Coal Throwing - throwing "bags a coal" into openings on the train (or at least we tried to).

This little guy is Owen. When we started at respite care, he loved Payton instantly. He used to push her around in a laundry basket. Now, since we moved to the toddler room, they're together again. They has to talk to each other and Owen wanted to show Payton his bracelet.

Payton has a very long conversation with one of her teachers about her bear and thought that she should just take him home with her since she already had one. 

 We had a few cookies and some Polar Punch to keep our energy up during the party. Yum!

 We got the chance to do a little elf bowling with some girls too. And anything where Parker gets to throw a ball is right up his alley. 

 The last thing we did was see Santa. There was no trying to sit on his lap, but we got to be in a room with him by ourselves for a couple minutes. We got our pictures taken, got a special present from him, and gave him fist bumps before we left.

 Thank you to everyone at respite care for the terrific time! And thanks Santa - we love the tea set and the new tools we got. Merry Christmas!

Christmas Party!

We hosted our first ever Christmas party this weekend with our friends Sydney and Ava (and of course Kristin) and had a GREAT time! I decided it would be a great time for some adult conversation since the twins love the girls and would be off playing for probably hours and it worked perfectly.

The twins and I talked all morning about how we were going to have company coming over and we could give the girls their little gifts we had gotten (bags full of all things girly).

We ate, played, had some wild and crazy balloon time (which Parker loved!), I got the best card ever from Kristin and the book I gave her made her squeal she was so excited which made me happy, and all around just had a great time.

Thanks for coming over ladies! We had a great time and will have to do it again soon!

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...

I put up the babies Christmas tree this past week. I don't have the energy to put up the normal tree and try to keep them out of it so for one more year, we're going to stick with the little trees. We put up Parker's sock monkey tree and Payton's faerie tree, complete with stocking holders, stockings, and pictures from their very first meeting with Santa when they were still in the hospital. Next year I'll be brave.

We went to the Trails Center last Saturday for their Christmas on the Trails celebration. The babies were very interested in everything, but wanted only to look at Santa from across the room. There was no way that they were going to sit on his lap and get a picture taken.

We also did a little shopping at Hobby Lobby and ran into Aunt Bunny and Grandma Nonie which was fun. We love them! Luckily there was enough bright, shiny stuff to keep their attention for a decent amount of time, and not tons of people out that would have caused a total instant meltdown.

Then with it having snowed and being to cold, we just hung out at home on Sunday. Which of course allowed for some good snuggles. And we ever tried our hand at a little craft project. It went very well for the most part, until Payton wanted to take the stickers off the tree and give them to herself for going potty.

We've got a quiet week this week before some appointments and a couple Christmas parties next week. So get ready - there's gonna be some pictures coming :) Hope you're all getting into the Christmas spirit and enjoying how festive it looks outside with the snow (even if it was a pain to shovel).