Snow Day

We had so much fun playing in the snow today.  We weren't able to build a snowman today, the snow was just too powdery, but we had fun anyways! 

We even made snow cream!

Thursday's Beautiful Sunset

On Tuesday night, we helped Travis with something for youth group, Sophie was excited to paint.

Today, I took Sophie to the library for story hour and she got to make a turkey "hat."  She had to best time there today and did so well participating. 

Homemade Christmas Ornaments

I'm excited to try some of these homemade Christmas ornaments.  I like this one and a lot more on the Martha Stewart website:  http://www.marthastewart.com

23 weeks

I will be 23 weeks pregnant tomorrow.  Little Molly Lin will be here before we know it!  Sophie talks of her little sister often and is so excited.  She already asks if she can take a bubble bath with her, it's so cute!

Cold Day Fun

A while back, our friend Lori gave Sophie this felt activity book and I pulled it out for the first time today.  Sophie absolutely loved playing with it and creating different animals and faces.  

I also let her draw with markers and have stickers.  We had a lot of fun!

Travis' Ordination

Last night Travis was ordained in our denomination after completing 3 years of Master's work.  I am so proud of him and his accomplishments and so thankful that God has allowed him this opportunity.  We are so blessed here in Gillette with such an amazing church family and we are so thankful for those who came out last night to show their support for Travis.

Time Change and Christmas Trees

One may ask what these two things have in common, time change and Christmas trees, well they have a lot in common if you have a two year old who wasn't made aware of said time change and still got up at what would be a reasonable time if it was before we fell back an hour!  With all that said, Sunday and Monday Sophie woke up early, for her, so we had a lot more time in the morning than usual to do things.  We filled our morning with reading, playing, snacks and a little TV and by that time, it was only around 10.  So I might be crazy, but I decided to let Sophie put up her Christmas tree to have something fun to do.  She has been talking about it since right after Halloween, so I put on some Christmas music and we had the best time decorating.  Now I cannot wait to do the rest of the house.  She loves her tree and had such a great time decorating it.  On a side note, I let Sophie stay up later last night and I am happy to report, she got up at a more normal time for her this morning!

That's a 4 foot tree people, notice how tall our child is!!! 

The finished product, Sophie loves to see it all lit up.

Halloween

We had such a fun time this year at Halloween, Sophie is at such a fun age.  Sophie liked carving pumpkins, but when I first put a knife in her pumpkin she freaked out!  After she realized what we were going to do, put a happy face on it, she was fine and even helped clean out the pumpkin for baby Molly.

Our finished products.

Sophie was so excited to go trick or treating.  We attended the trunk or treat our church put on.  Travis participated in this, so Sophie and I went there first.  After she made one round, she wanted to go again!  We stayed for a while to hang out with daddy and then I took Sophie to a few houses of people from our church until Travis was done.  When Travis was done, we headed over to another churches trunk or treat.  Sophie loved trick or treating so much that she asked the next morning if she could go trick or treating again that day!