Beau-ism of the week

B received some mascara for christmas, its fake but she has no idea.  She was trying to give me some makeup lessons and was instructing how to properly apply mascara.

"Mom, this ascara is for going on your eye hair"



Eye hair?!  After I stopped laughing at her term for eye lashes and gave her a big kiss for being freaking adorable I got a little creeped out by the term "eye hair" (shutter)

But its still cute :)

And so is she!

Day 25

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This 25 day journey was wonderful and I know it will be a tradition for years to come! The girls already miss Gingy and Beau said she thinks The gingerbread house (that's what she calls the advent calendar) needs to have a 26 too :)

I didn't take too many pics of Christmas morning because it was chaos but I did catch a few...


Just before mommy and daddy head upstairs to bed! Can't wait to see the girls faces in the morning!!!




Of course Beau was the first one up. She did wait patiently for permission to trash the house!




Trying out all her new makeup. Most of it was fake but I did cave and get her some glitter powder...but that only lasted a few hours before I couldn't take it anymore and tossed it. Maybe next year baby girl.




Ali showing off her favorite gifts, butterfly wings, high heels and NEW PANTS! She has died and gone to heaven.




Daddy got a new foam disk shooter and used the girls for target practice!




Of course there was the big gift, "a new red race car"! They didnt get to try it out until the evening because the battery needed an initial charge of 18 hours! Can you tell we are new at this electronic gadget thing? Seasoned parents would know to open the box early and charge everything, next year we have so got this!

Video below because if I try to attach it to this post it will delete everything I have just written without notice...don't ask how I know that.


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Day 25

Day 24

Set out cookies for Santa and reindeer food on the lawn!

Holy cow there is a lot of excitement in this house today! Santa is coming and 2 little girls KNOW IT!

It's the last night to hide Gingy, and as big a help as he is for discipline I won't be sad to see the little bugger go! I have completely run out of hiding places!

Time to begin the Christmas Eve Festivities :)

We made the cookies for Santa! (love the tongue sticking out!)



We scattered the reindeer food! (in our new Christmas Eve pjs)



We put out the milk and cookies for Santa!



Now if only we could get 2 very excited little girls to go to bed...




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Day 23

Build a snowma- err a SANDMAN!

No snow here (mom does a happy dance) so off we go the beach to build a SANDman :)




Awesome!


The girls loved "helping"






I love my family :)



Beau's sand angel!




We found some time to enjoy the low tide/no waves to get some swimming lessons in.






Mele Kalikimaka from our family to yours :)





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Day 22

Make Reindeer Food!

I had heard about people sprinkling oats on the lawn for years and really wanted to try it. I'm sure there are some elaborate recipes out there but that just seems silly. We just threw a spoonful of oats in a bowl for each reindeer and added some "magic sprinkles" aka colored sugar sprinkles, and stirred to activate the magic :)





"1for Rudolph too!"



"magic is pink?!"
"of course it is!"



Stirring the magic in :)



"They eat the magic?!"




"they gonna eat it like this, chomp chomp chomp!"



I think this is far better than just leaving out carrots :)


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Day 21

Bring some Christmas Cheer to Daddy's Office!

I am running out of ideas people! I thought bringing daddy lunch didn't sound festive enough so we brought lunch and treats, and the girls bring their own special cheer wherever they go.

They loved seeing all the planes (which we can see from our house everyday anyway), but they just love daddy so much that that was gift enough!











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