"look! hold me!"

 If you are around Savanna lately, you will most likely here her say, "LOOK!" a lot.  Most of the time it is when she is doing something she thinks is funny.  For example, when we were coming home from dropping Heidi off at preschool she kept saying, "LOOK!  LOOK!".  I turned around to see her balancing a cracker box on her foot.  Today she kept saying, "LOOK!" and came walking into the living room with sunglasses on her belly.  Other times she is doing something funny with her little body like hanging upside down from the couch.  She never ceases to make me laugh.

Her other new thing is to say, "Hold me".  She doesn't actually want to be held, she wants to hold something and that something is usually Caimbree.  She puts her little arms out and says, "Hold me!  Hold me!"  It's one of the few two word phrases she says and I absolutely love it.  Caimbree doesn't usually like to be held by her squirmy two year old sister, but will tolerate it for short periods of time. Usually Savanna only lasts a few seconds before exclaiming, "DONE!"  She is the master of one word stories. I am amazed at how she gets her point across in so few words.  I am excited for her to start telling longer stories, but I enjoy hearing the little words and phrases she is saying right now.  Not a day goes by where I don't stop and look at these three little faces and realize how incredibly blessed I am.  I love my girls!

christmas cookeis

 Yesterday the girls helped me make Christmas cookies for our ward party.  Of course they love this and I love watching their excitement cutting them out and especially decorating them with sprinkles!

Heidi meticulously decorated each and every cookie.  Savanna was so cute and loved the experience this year, but she had to be watched closely because her finger just couldn't stop itself from digging into the frosting from time to time.  Caimbree was just happy to not be left out.  We had a fun afternoon baking together!

dance recital

 Last night was Heidi's dance recital.  She was SO excited.  I cannot believe I got a nap out of her because she could not wait.

 Their dance costumes came in just in time!  I picked it up while she was taking a nap and she tried it on as soon as she woke up.  Adorable dress for an adorable girl.

 Grandma came up to watch.  My girls adore their grandma and Heidi was so excited to have her there to watch her show.

 Savanna was good at the show and she loved having grandma there and grandma's purse to keep her busy.

 Caimbree did really well at her first dance recital.  She slept for a good chunk of it and sucked on her pacifier until we were ready to go.

 What I loved the most about the recital was that you could just see Heidi's excitement from the second she got the stage.  She did such a good job.

I am so proud of Heidi!  She has worked really hard in all of her practices and as I have mentioned before, she absolutely loves dance.  She loves to learn new steps, she loves her teacher, and she loves dancing on stage!  We are so proud of you, Heidi!

getting ready for christmas

 We set up most of our Christmas decorations last week but we went and cut down our tree this morning.  We have an artificial one in our front room, but we like a real one in the main living room since that's where we are on Christmas morning.  The girls were so excited to go and sang Christmas carols most of the way.  We weren't sure there would be snow, but there was quite a bit where we found our tree.

 I like it much better than our tree last year.  It's taller, but it doesn't seem as wide (which I am happy about) and the type of tree is just greener and the branches are closer together.  It looks really pretty and the girls were fascinated in the whole process of getting it set up.

 Once Jeff strung the lights, the girls got right to work putting the ornaments on.  They were pretty excited about the ornaments for this tree, because they are more of the "fun" ones, rather than just balls.

Heidi loved putting them on as high as she could.

 Savanna took just as many off as she put on, but boy was she fun to watch!  She found a fro ornament that really gave her the giggles.

Caimbree had fun watching all of the excitement.  I am so excited for her first Christmas!

 Could this face be any cuter?  Seriously.  Best, most hilarious personality.  

We are so excited for Christmas around our house!!  We have lots of fun things planned.  Holidays are so much fun with little girls this size!

warm december days

 I can't believe the weather we are having in December.  I am more than thrilled about it and so are the girls.  We have been going outside quite a bit the last couple of days.  Today we decided to do what we do all summer long--walk to the post office and the library.  It was such a treat. Heidi pulled Savanna in the wagon but of course Savanna only really wants to do what Heidi does so she ended up pulling an empty wagon almost the entire way.  My girls are good little walkers.  It was 46 degrees when we left and almost 50 degrees when we got home.  The sun was so warm and we almost didn't even need coats.  Heidi kept asking if she could take her coat off.  I made them keep them on because I felt really strange about being outside without coats in December.

 When we got home Savanna saw the sidewalk chalk and wanted to do it.  When I told them we could they both looked at me like, "Are you sure?"  I don't think we have ever done sidewalk chalk a few weeks before Christmas!  I am beginning to wonder if we will even have a white Christmas this year, but I guess it only takes one storm.

I am sure we will pay for this nice weather now later...like in May or June.  But for now we will enjoy all these warm December days and get the most out of them.  I am sure they can't last for long!

matching girls

 Perhaps you remember Heidi and Savanna wearing these darling matching dresses my mother in law got the girls.  Well, they have grown and so has our family.  Caimbree now fits in the small one and Savanna in the big one.  When Savanna realized they were in matching dresses it was just about the cutest reaction I have ever seen.  She got SO excited and could hardly contain herself!  She ran over to Caimbree and started hugging her and kissing her and grabbing each of their dresses repeatedly.  I felt really bad because I didn't realize Heidi would care so much.  Guess we will be looking for 3 matching dresses from now on.  I had a cute picture of all three of them before church, but there is either something wrong with my camera or memory card and until the new memory card arrives, I won't know which and am relying on my phone for pictures.  So annoying.  Anyway, we usually end up in the hall for a lot church.  Savanna won't go to nursery, and to be honest, I haven't really pushed it very hard. It's cold/flu season and I kind of just don't care if she goes.  It's all boys and she is scared (she's used to being the wild one, ha ha).  Plus, it's nap time when she goes so that only makes her more mad about going.  But seriously, are these not the cutest dresses?  I remember loving them on Heidi and Savanna and now I am loving them on Savanna and Caimbree.  It probably won't be long before they don't want to match so I better get the most of it while it is still exciting!

turkey day

 We had a great Thanksgiving!  Jeff was on call, which meant we technically weren't supposed to leave town.  Both of Jeff's sisters were going to be in town and Jeff's mom had been waiting a really long time to get everyone together for a picture.  We decided that since everything seemed to be going well at work, we would sneak down for Peggy's delicious Thanksgiving feast.  It did not disappoint!  It was definitely worth the quick trip.  The girls loved it and Heidi has now decided she likes turkey just as much as she likes ham (which is hard to beat because she is in love with ham).  I love the picture of all the grandkids with grandpa and grandma!  They really are such wonderful grandparents.  My girls are so lucky.  Heidi and Savanna had so much fun with their cousins and they both adored the pie!  Last year Heidi loved chocolate, but this year she decided pumpkin was the best.  Both of the girls were beyond thrilled when they realized grandma sent them home with their very own pumpkin pie!  She sure does spoil us!  It was a great day.  We have so very much to thankful for!