My little monkey...

When this kid wants fruit snacks, he really wants fruit snacks.

All wrapped up...

Kash very much enjoyed the packing process. Every time I turned around he was curled up in bubble wrap!

An Update

Well, we are pretty much settled into our new house. Of course there are still a million things to do, and more boxes to go through, but for the most part, we are settled. The main thing I haven't done is the decorating. Matt forbids me to put a single nail in one of his new walls! So, I am waiting for my mom and Whitney to come next weekend to decorate. Hopefully by then Matt will realize that eventually, we are going to have to hang things up!

But we couldn't be happier. I am totally in love with this place! It was definitely worth the wait.
And we would love visitors....we even have a guest room for anyone who needs to stay the night. So let me know, we would love to have people over. And if anyone needs my new address just leave me your email.

Today: It is official

We closed on our house! FINALLY. It has been a long, drawn out process, but we are now officially first time home owners! I still can't believe it.
And no one told me what a PAIN packing is. You don't realize how much stuff you have until you have to move. It has been overwhelming, but hopefully we will be moving in this weekend so it will be SOO worth it!

Dance Recital

Ella had her very first dance recital this past month. She just started taking dance a couple of months ago and she loves it. But I was a little nervous for the recital. I was fully prepared for her to not even want to go out on stage....cry....freak out....whatever. They had 2 songs and the first song she came out smiling, waving, and did the entire dance without any major problems. Yay! The last song she came out and I was actually impressed that she was following the moves and seemed to be really into it.........until about half way she suddenly stopped....and started crying! and crying and crying. She cried the entire 2nd half of the song! I have no idea what happened. I don't know if she got scared, thought she messed up, I don't know! Everyone in the audience thought it was hysterical and yes, we have it on video! Well at least she looked cute, right?

Here she is about to leave for the recital.

Dancing away...

Her cute class.

And here she is after the recital, all smiles again!

Dance starts up again this week so we will see how it goes! I guess we will stick with it for now....

Christmas morning...

Christmas was SO fun this year! Ella and Kash are at such a fun age. They were so excited, it was really hard to keep them in their room in the morning! Here are tons of pics of our crazy Christmas morning:

Ella loves her kitchen, and Kash actually likes playing with it too.

Kash's "main" gift was a disaster! We THOUGHT we had bought an activity table with a train set...but when we went to set it up we realized it was just the table and no trains! 11pm Christmas Eve there are NO stores open( believe me, we tried!) So I whipped out this other gift and he never knew the difference!

Cute Nikki showing off her new jacket:

Matt got this really nice croquet set (are we nerds that we like to play croquet?)

Kar was pretty excited about this one...

Us sisters all got aprons with different things embroidered on them.

Kash LOVES his golf clubs!

And Ella was lovin her tutu.

Hanging out on his new cars sleeping bag! And that is a candy necklace on his face...he got it in his stocking and never put it down.

Nana needed her Dr. Pepper before the presents were even over!

Kash immediately gathered his cars and took them to a safe place.

Nana and Papa helping Ella.

These faces make it so fun!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas!