Christmas 2009

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Merry Christmas

Christmas was great! Sofie actually played with the toys Santa brought instead of the wrapping and boxes that the toys came in.

Sugar Plums danced in her head in the week leading up to Christmas. Many nights she went to sleep in her Santa hat.


Mommy played around with the camera trying to get some Bokeh (WIkipedia & Pioneer Woman definitions). Shocker, but I actually got better bokeh with my point and shoot than I did with my big DSLR. I think it's my lense. I need a smaller f-stop to get better bokeh and I think mine won't go low enough?




This one isn't really bokeh, but its fun!


Our tree


We decorated cookies for Santa




Christmas Morning












And I have a video of Christmas morning, but I'm having issues uploading it. I'll post it soon, I hope!

SNOW!!

I'm not even sure how much snow we have, but it's over a foot and it's still coming down!

But first, we went to Hilary's almost annual cookie party last night (they didn't have one last year).

Sofie just loved Barb! And Barb was great with her and entertained her most of the night.


The spread....
Hilary and Colin's "Most Festive" cupcakes. 




Barb being silly with Sofie.


Marc chilling (check out all those lights on that tree!!)


I had to wrangle Sofie out of her "Pretty Woman"boots before we could go play in the snow.




Getting dressed. Can you believe every store was out of snow pants yesterday? We checked Target, Wal-Mart, and Babies R Us. So we had to make do with 2 layers of sweatpants. At least we already had snow boots.










Sofie had a blast. She kept trying to eat the snow.

What have we been up to? Part 3

What else could we possibly be doing??

We met Mickey Mouse at the nursery where we bought our Christmas tree.


We put up and decorated our tree. Again, Sofie was not happy to part ways with her ornaments to put it on the tree.


We went to our very first movie in the theater! The Princess and the Frog. Cute movie, great music! (Lighting was horrible for a phone picture without a flash.) She did great!


Daddy took a nap.


And we had to get a picture of BunBun.

What have we been up to? Part 2

What else have we been up to??

We watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with the dog.




Did a little shopping with Elaina...
Do we want this nice sports car?


Nah, I think we should we go for the wagon.


We had some snow...but not enough. I'm sorry, when it snows I want enough so I don't have to go to work. I want to snuggle with a blanket, a good movie, and warm beverage.


We saw the Bull Run Festival of Lights. Disregard the blurriness...they don't let you stop your car to get a good picture....but on the up side, we ran into Marc's best man who we lost contact with and hope to see them again in January.




We celebrated poop in the potty! (Now if only I can get her to do it again!) We celebrated at Dairy Queen.




We rearranged Sofie's bedroom to get her bed away from the drafty window (and get the toys out of the living room).




Well, most of the toys. There are a few still out there.

What have we been up to? Part 1

I know, I know....I've been bad. I'll try and catch you up and we'll do better going forward.

So, we've been throwing some tantrums....princess tantrums no less.




We "sold" some hot dogs out of our Roach Coach.


Partied so hard we slept with our head hanging out of the bed.


Went shopping with Michelle.


And insisted on trying on adult clothes in the dressing room....diaper free. Notice the wet spot. I don't recommend being diaper free in a dressing room.


We went to Cathy's 50th Birthday Party. Happy Birthday Cathy!




We played.


And we got another ear infection.