Christmas is in the Air...

And as usual... we have been busy, busy, busy!!

Jenni painted a Gingerbread plate

 It was also Jenni's year to put the star on the tree after it was decorated...

the week BEFORE Thanksgiving!!!!

Jaylee was super excited that she got to tag along on Black Friday.

Here she is at Target at 4 am

(notice the line AROUND the building.)

We started at the outlets at 1 am.

 Here she is on our way home from the mall at 8:30 am.

 We stopped home at 6am and woke up Jenni to join us at the mall...

she liked being involved but was still sleepy at 8:30 too!

Belly pictures taken on Nov 26th (almost 24 weeks)

The girls had  a Christmas Party for their BFFs on Dec 3rd.

Jennibelle & Serenity.

 Jaylee & Katrina

 They baked cookies

 made Christmas cards, played charades, watched Christmas movies,

had a sleep over and woke up at 10 am to play!!!

2010 Gingerbread House

The girls got to skip a day of school to go to one of our ultra sounds.

It was snowy up in the mts!

They even got to work the US machine and we saw Jackson smile!

Jackson at 26 weeks!!

The Choo Choo Barn mini train display

Jaylee has been very into trains lately and it was free if you brought a can good.

Plus, Santa was there visitting!!

Our 2nd Annual Candy Cooking Night.

Jenni and Jaylee helped out this year.

The candy was gone within 5 days.

Jason took us to a Christmassy Magic Show that benefitted the firemen.

It was really fun!!!!

Here's Jaylee being levitated!!!

 And Jennibelle getting a sticking painted on her cheek by a clown!



We had a Christmas Party/Cookie Exchange at Debbie's...

 

 

Jaylee had just had her pinky slammed in a door, therefore she wasn't esactly up for smiling;(

 

We signed the lease on our new home...

A Farm House in Lititz.

We took some of the girls' toys over the first night.

And did a little bit of cleaning and a lot of planning our designs!

 

Then we took a much-need CHRISTMAS VACATION!!!!

We spent Monday at Geissinger seeing Jackson on ultrasound and learning that he is doing so much better, that they cancelled our appt next week and said "See you in TWO weeks!!"

Merry Christmas to us!!!
Then went over the mts to Scranton where Jason had to testify in court for work.

The girls and I hung out in the hotel while he was gone...

In the indoor pool, of course!!!

 

 

 

The girls also had their Night of the Arts at school which they wer both quite excited for.

Unfortunately, my camera stinks so there are no shots worth posting.  I did have the video camera though!!

They also each had a Christmas Party that I got to go to...

I had "organized" a little surprise party for Jaylee at school for her bday.

There were balloons, cupcakes, plates, napkins, water bottles and a barrel of slime for each kid.

Poppop and Jenni and I went to her to say surprise... she was sooo funny!!!

She literally walked past us in the hallway, said "Hi Poppop!" and kept going!

Then when she returned to her class, she had no idea the party was for HER!!!

FInally, she realized it and the look of shock on her face was priceless!

Unfortunately, we didn't even get to have the actual party b/c her class was running behind on time, so I just had to leave everything for "later"... Jaylee didn't seem to mind though!!

I did go back the next day to help with her Christmas party but forgot to take pix, I'm hoping her teacher will let me steal some of hers!!

Jenni was so excited that Mandy, Morgan & Cole came to help with her party!!

Poppop took us all to Koziar Christmas Village again this year.

Boy was it cold again.

It was fun, but I think twice in a lifetime is sufficient!!



Jenni and her Reindeer nose again...

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!