Busy Week!

The girls at the softball game!

Pictures of Dad.

The girl's new bed!!!!

We picked a fairy theme. Ash wanted princesses and Bri wanted Elmo, it was as neutral as could be:)

Playing in the playroom today!

Sorry for not posting sooner. It's been a hectic week, but a lot of fun. We did playgroup at our house this week and had a great time with popcorn and playdough. Then I've been trying to organize a group for Bunco and that came to fruitition this week as well. We also got the kids bed in (finally, yipee!) and had a birthday party and softball game this weekend. Speaking of birthday parties...Ya wanna hear a bizarre custom? They don't open the gifts here in front of people?!?!?!? After two hours of birthday party and screaming kids I was ready to leave and I gave Ash her five minute warning and she said "mom, we can't leave yet; they haven't opened presents yet." So, we stayed for another half hour before I finally asked someone and they told me about the customs here. Boy, was Ash disappointed. How odd. Hoss said it probably avoids any kind of adverse reaction, but honestly I love seeing a kids squeals and eyes light up as they open gifts. hmmm....moving on...

I'm posting pictures of the kids bed. It is awesome! We love it!!! Story goes, when we arrived here we were grocery shopping at our first location and we passed this bed store everytime we went. Which was pretty frequent because I hadn't figured out the delivery process and I couldn't haul more than a bag without holding the girls hands and trying to make it home unscathed. Of course they had the perfect princess window display that pulled at the girls hearts and one day we appeased them by going inside. Well, we were hooked! They custom made any design and feature you could think of in any pattern or color you could come up with. I slept on it and decided it was too much but Hoss just couldn't say no to himself. His justification is "you're only a kid once" so we went for it. And it is better than we anticipated! There is so much storage we were able to get rid of the kid's dressers and it even has twinkling lights on the underside of the top bunk. The girls have had so much fun already! Now, before you go and judge...yes, the girls do have a savings account each and yes we do put money into it every month so maybe it was extravagant but we are thinking of their distant future and well being as well.

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday hustle and bustle. I'm attempting to get the Christmas cards out this week. We'll see how it goes, I am hopeful:) Take care!