1st Snow

We had our first snow this last weekend! Amazing that we made it all the way to December before getting it. Here's the view out the back windows:

The girls stepping out for the first time:

Believe it or not, Braenna LOVED the snow!

Mikaiya's snow angel:

November 2010

November 2010...A month that will forever be etched in my mind. What a crazy month it was. We said good-bye to a lot of amazing friends as we packed up and moved to WI. We bought and moved into a new home. We sold our home of 9+ years. Mikaiya and Braenna started at a new school. I started a new job. We celebrated our first holiday in our new home and we decorated for Christmas. What a whirlwind it has been! Here are some pictures documenting our month:

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Christmas Decorating at Our New Home

We got the joy of decorating a new home for Christmas this year! It's actually pretty tough to start from scratch again and ended up taking us most of the three day weekend to finish up! The girls had a blast helping out, as usual! Here is Mikaiya posing with the "princess" (angel) for the top of the tree:

And Braenna took the term tree "skirt" literally...and wanted to wear it herself!!

Each of the girls picked out a special ornament to put on the tree first. Then they went to town on getting the rest of them up! It was like speed decorating!!

Here is the finished product on the tree. And so far we've only blown the fuse once, what an accomplishment considering the tree has 42 strands of lights on it!

Jeff worked really hard on the outside as well. It's always hard to get a good shot, but here's the best we could do on the outside lights:

Sun Prairie Christmas Tree Lighting

We got to start another new tradition this year with the Sun Prairie Christmas Tree Lighting and Fire Truck parade! It was a lot of fun, despite the COLD! We all bundled up, so the temperatures were pretty tolerable. Here is daddy and the girls anxiously awaiting the start of the fire truck parade:

The parade was really cool! There were firetrucks from all over the Madison area and they got all decked out in Christmas lights and decorations. Some even had snow machines on the top of them! They played Christmas music and blared their horns and sirens. The kids really loved it! Here is one of the most decorated trucks:

After the parade, we all went over to where the tree would be lit. They brought Santa in on a fire truck (see below!). They raised him up and over the tree and he sprinkled "elf dust" on the tree and it lit up. It was really fun to see!

After his duties of lighting the tree, Santa visited with the kids. Here is Mikaiya's reaction when I asked her if she would like to tell Santa what she wants for Christmas this year:

Braenna on the other hand was willing to brave it...I guess she'll do anything for a candy cane!!

Thanksgiving 2010

We hosted Thanksgiving this year at our new house here in WI. It was fun to start new traditions with our family and get to spend the holiday with all of our WI family. The food and company was great! Here are a couple pics from our holiday: