New Year's

We ended up having our neighbors over for dinner last night. The girls had a blast playing with their friends, eating pizza and helping to design the giant cookie that Calla made. We woke up this morning to frigid temperatures, -26 degrees celcius and with the wind chill it was down in the minus forties! We plan on spending our day indoors today. Sigh... At least we spent quite a bit of time outside last week. The girls are currently 'helping' Mike put together a closet organizer upstairs! : ) The girls just love tobogganing so as soon as it warms up we'll be back outside. Walking up and down the hills is also good exercise for the mommy with a growing belly.

As promised here is the picture of the cookie Calla wanted to make for New Year's.



Happy New Year!

Love to you all,

Kristen

Christmas Pictures

We ended up having a pretty great Christmas despite missing our Georgie this year. The girls woke up and walked downstairs to find a new dollhouse from Santa. Calla will tell anyone who will listen that it's taller than her! The elves were up a little late on Christmas Eve putting it together but it was really worth it in the end. My parents came over in the morning to watch Calla and Maya open their presents and have breakfast with us. The girls were really into it this year as they both understand the concept and still believe in 'Santa'.

We headed back over to my parents later on in the day to spend time with my brother Kevin and his wife Melissa and of course partake in our annual steak and lobster Christmas dinner! Christmas day has always been quiet around the McDowell house and we're not big turkey eaters so years ago my mom starting doing something a little bit different. There are absolutely no complaints! : )

The last few days have been busy catching up with friends and getting stuff done around the house. Mike has been home since the 22nd and we're loving it. Technically, nobody has to be anywhere until the 4th!

We have nothing big planned tomorrow. We're looking forward to Mike's homemade pizza and movies. Calla has made me promise her that I would make a giant happy face cookie with her. Not sure where she got the idea but she seems excited to do it for New Year's. I'll post a picture of our creation tomorrow.

Here are a few pictures from the last week.



Oh, the excitement!


The girls admiring their dollhouse from Santa.


Mike helping the kids to release the balloons for Georgia.


One of the pictures on our Christmas card this year. We didn't get them done until really late this year so most people didn't receive one unless we saw you in person. My apologies but I will try harder next year.

Love to you all,

Kristen