Shopping with mommy

Riley insisted upon holding this football when we went shopping. She was just so cute about it.

It looks like daddy raised her right!!!

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Enjoying time with mommy

I am off work this week for an extended Christmas break. The girls and I are having fun playing with their new Christmas toys.

We did some errands and ended up at Burger King to eat lunch and play at the kids play place. It is nice to have that one on one time with the girls. Life is good!

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Our Christmas fun 2010

This Christmas was a lot of fun. The babies understood what was going on so much more this year. The girls were excited to see all the presents under the tree but I don't think they completely got what was going on but as soon as we started helping them unwrap their presents, they were so excited to see what was under the shinny paper. Santa brought them some magnetic doodle boards since they are very into drawing and mommy and daddy were not ready for them to have markers yet.

Riley unwrapping her doodle board

Addison opening hers
Oh what fun


Look mom, this is exciting!!!
Addison opening a package of clothes


Addison spotted a gift for daddy
Jesse bought them a toy dinosaurs that growls and moves to music and it was a big hit.
Mommy got the Eclipse DVD from daddy.
Mommy also got some Bath and Body Works scents
The girls got a nursery set for their babies
Lesson learned...we should have put the thing together the night before
The next big hit was the shopping carts grandma got them.
Addison thought it would be fun to get on the box for some reason
They even got a bunch of food to carry around in their carts
The girls were less interested in the clothes
But they did model them quickly for us

Daddy got a big present from Santa
And that ended up being a new laptop!!!!! And mommy got one too....that Santa is so nice!

After all the presents were opened...the girls took off to use their shopping carts.

After our celebrations were over, we headed over to Grandpa and Nana's house to open more presents with Aunt Sara and her boyfriend Alan and Uncle Steven and Aunt Liz.
The girls got tricycles and a bunch of Disney items. They were so excited! They were spoiled rotten by everyone!
After all the fun at Grandpa and Nana's house, we headed over to Aunt Shannon and

Uncle Dan's house to celebrate with the Westrum side of the family. We enjoyed some good food, good family, and lots of fun.

Riley tried to feed Aunt Sara a snack!

Then the girls got strollers to carry their baby's around that they got from Grandpa and Nana. These babies were twins which was perfect for "our" twins!

Later in the night we found a bunch of Christmas hats and headbands that we the girls and I tried on and modeled for everyone.

Addison was not as thrilled as mommy was to play the game.

She even got upset at the idea....poor girl.

Riley had a bit more fun with me

Addison found a Santa hat and she was much more into the game.

Mommy had fun!

Mommy is so goofy!

At the end of the night, Addison gave us a silly smile. We had such a great day and it was finally time to go home and get some rest.

We hope everyone had a great family day and we look forward to watching the girls grow in this next year. Today they are 20 months old and we can't belive they are almost 2.

Twas the night before Christmas.....

What a busy day we had in the Prather house. The day was spent cleaning the house, finishing up some small shopping, and preparing the food for our Christmas Eve party. My mom's side of the family celebrates on Christmas Eve and this year we hosted in our new home. This house is perfect for big family gatherings.

The girls were really shy at first as people started to arrive but as they warmed up, they took over as cute little hostesses. They had fun playing with their 2nd cousins, eating countless M & M's, and opening up their new gifts.

Overall the evening was a success and the girls were very warn out by them time it was close to bed time. We thought we would let them stay up as late as they wanted but with all the party activity, they began to fade and we put them to bed at around 8pm. Mommy and daddy are praying they sleep in a little bit tomorrow morning since we have another busy day ahead of us.

Santa visited late and here is what our tree looked like packed with presents for 2 good little girls.