My Three Birthdays!

Cassie loves all things Japanese!

I think the girls had some sort of squabble over

who was going to light the candles.

This year Cassie got to celebrate her Birthday three times! Once with Grandpa and Grandma ( they were leaving for Arizona for a month, so they wanted to celebrate with Cass early). Next she had a Sleepover party with four of her best friends on the weekend and lastly on her actual Birthday we had to have her favorite meal (Russ' Mac n' cheese, lol!) and then more cake!!!!!!!

Ok, I must tell you, I am not very good at this blogging thing! I don't know how people find the time really! I am usually crazy busy with three kids and any time I actually get a break, I don't really feel like blogging. Katie was crabby as heck when I was trying to do this. It is nuts going through my 1,000's of pictures ( no I am not exaggerating!) and then trying to pick a few from tiny thumbnails one at a time, losing your place and having to start all over again for each picture and then thinking I uploaded 15 pictures and only five got on there and then I have to go back and try to figure out which pictures I originally had etc. There really has got to be a better way to do this! I bet there is too, but I just don't know it! And I still don't know how to type lines under photos and I always get the pictures to come out in the wrong order! Oh, well that's my crazy blog!!!!

Cassie had alot of fun that week and we ate alot of cake!!!!! Yippee!! I sorta figured out the typing under pictures thing!!! WOO HOO!!!!!! I feel so smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

randomness

Ok, it's my blog and I will do what I want with it. These are just a few random family pictures. Katie sitting on a potty,sitting by the table(a rarity), being her usual cute self and whatever else I decide to put here. I am much too busy to type stories right now, lol! Frankly, it is amazing I am even getting this much done!

Family Christmas time!!!

On Christmas Eve we got together with all the family at my Mom and Dad's condo basement. We had a really fun time. My brother Rick had us play lots of silly, funny games and we all had a good time! It was so nice to see everyone again!

Christmas morning, we woke up to find lots of presents under the tree from Santa!!!! The girls had so much fun opening all their cool presents! Grandpa and Grandma came to visit too! We had a wonderful Christmas! I can't wait for Christmas to come again!

Winter Wonderland!

This past week Katie and I were invited by my friend and Neighbor Heather and her darling daughter Rachel to go play in the snow. Katie had been really wanting to after seeing big sister Cass go out to build a fort and stood crying by the slider, until Cassie threw snowballs at her(or I should say the slider) this made Katie laugh and laugh endlessly! I was unsure how Katie would react to being out in the snow since last year at 14 months old, she wasn't too crazy about it. She did not like walking in it or sitting in it and her sled kept tipping and making her cry. Well this year is a whole different story. Katie loves the snow! She wants to walk in it, touch it, taste it and play in it. She adores her slide and wants to keep going on more " sleigh" rides. We had a fun time in the snow with our friends! (Edited to add I took what few pictures I could, but my Camera died, so I am hoping Heather got some better ones! Also I have been using Mike's cheapie Camera instead of my huge Pentax . I need to get my better camera next time!)

Then this past weekend it snowed even more and we went out with Cassie and Daddy to play some more. Mike had fun pushing the girls down the driveway and we took a nice walk or "sleigh" ride with the girls around the neighborhood.

We are looking forward to more fun snow days and Mike is hoping to build Katie a Mickey Mouse snowman soon!