Anawski Christmas

Christmas with the Anawski's was a lot of fun as always! I love that I married into such an amazing family that is so close. I love that the girls have their cousins to play with and they are best friends.

SNOW!!!

This Christmas was definitely a WHITE Christmas as we got snow, snow and more snow. Final total was over 19 inches! It cancelled all plans on Christmas day - so we stayed in our pajama's and spent most of the day drinking hot coco, eating popcorn and watching Christmas movies. Daddy spent a lot of the day snow blowing, and Abby and Daddy even got out for a little sledding.

Christmas Morning!

This year was so fun because Abby was old enough to understand more of what was happening. She woke up and was so excited to see if Santa had came and if he ate the cookies she left for him.
The favorite gift for Abby was the dollhouse 'Santa' left for the girls. Hannah's favorite was the boxes, wrapping paper and candy canes.

Christmas Eve part 2

After Mass we go to Robin's house to celebrate with their family. We always have lots of fun and is one of our favorite Christmas celebrations. We had to cut it short this year though as the weather started getting bad and we had to get to the other side of town.

The girls where both asleep within seconds of being in the car -
all wore out from having lots of fun with friends and family

Christmas Eve

I love family traditions. It's been a tradition of ours to go to Christmas Eve Mass at Todd's childhood church - Christ the King. We go with Grandma Pat and Grandpa Tom. Abby loves dressing up for this service and the candy canes they give away at the end!

Big girls!

Hannah was so happy to graduate to the 'island' to eat sitting on a booster. She loves it and makes less of a mess than she did in her highchair. Abby loves having her next to her also!

mini me?

Everyone says she looks like me...I agree!

More Christmas fun!

We had the Mom's club Christmas party today! The girls had a blast getting hyper on all kinds of candy and even seeing Santa. Hannah even sat with Santa for a minute (although I think it had to do with the candy canes he was handing out) Abby once again told Santa she wanted polly pockets and seemed really excited to see him. It was lots of craziness as usual with LOTS of kids...but most of all lots of fun!

Spaghetti! Oh my!

Spaghetti is and always will be my favorite! I used to make it once a week...that has changed since I has changed since I now have 2 little ones that also LOVE spaghetti! The clean up literally takes me an hour!!! So yummy but not so much fun anymore!

Cookies!

Abby and I decided to 'practice' making cookies for Santa. Abby made them all by herself with just a little direction from me! they where yummy and we had lots of fun making them.

Silly girls

The last month has been hard on my girls. We have been struggling with illness..again. H1N1, ear infections, sinus infections, pneumonia..you name it we had it! In the midst of all this - they are still smiling and being happy. I love my girls so much!

It has started...

It has started.....the clothing wars. The 'I can dress myself' - 'I don't want to wear that' - 'i don't like it' has started. I am scared to know what the teenage years bring. This morning she insisted on wearing her pink sparkle headbands, swimsuit and brown tennis shoes. This was a actually a refreshing change to the tank tops and fun tights she wants to wear everyday!!!!

couldn't resist

I couldn't resist posting this picture...I walked into the kitchen for a less than a minute and when I came back Hannah was doing one of her favorite thing to do when Mommy isn't looking. Emptying the Kleenex box! The look on her face here when she got caught is priceless.

Yummy!

Hannah got her first taste of a sucker...not by Mommy and Daddy's choice - but for some reason - her big sister decided on this day - she would share her sucker. Hannah (of course) LOVED it!!! And was really mad when it broke off (becoming a choking hazard) and we took it away.