Once there was a Snowman...

I know that we've had several inches of snow already, but last Saturday was the first time Arli actually got to play in some. She spent a whole 15 minutes helping Marcus build a snowman.
Arli starting out helping her dad but when that got boring she moved on to this:
Then she thought she should at least pretend like she's helping.

At last, the completed snowman!

Boy's Night

I came across this video on our camera. It looks like Marcus and his friends had a good time on their night away from their wives and kids!

Christmas 2007

We had such a great Christmas this year. It was pretty low key, we spent Christmas Eve at Marcus' parents house and Christmas day with my family. Arlington is finally beginning to understand the present thing, she still had a hard time unwrapping all of her gifts first THEN playing with them. She loved her play kitchen and hasn't stopped playing with it since! Arli received so many domestic gifts this year. Before we had Arlington I was going to make sure that I didn't buy too many "girly" toys for her. I wanted to make sure she still played with plenty of "boy" toys . I've realized that she likes some "boy" things but REALLY loves all things "girl". Oh well I tried, hopefully next year I can encourage her to play with trains, or trucks or guns( just kidding)!

Christmas Traditions

This is actually the first year we've made gingerbread houses, so it's not exactly a Christmas tradition yet. My sister in law came up with the idea, she thought we should try to make real gingerbread for our houses. It was surprisingly easy, somewhat time consuming but worth it in the end. We had so much fun decorating the houses, thanks to my sister in law for such a great idea!

Arli had a good time just sitting and watching ( well most of the time). Her cousin Ryleigh did a great job at taking care of her!

A visit with Santa

I was so sure that Arli was going to flip out when she met Santa Clause. But to my surprise she actually sat on his lap, she barely moved a muscle but she did sit on his lap! He was however, a very good Santa Clause, real beard and all. Santa probably asked her about 4 times if she wanted a baby doll for Christmas, but all Arli could do was stare at his beard. Finally after the 4th time of asking she quickly said "Yes" and lunged for me! I think she would have said yes to just about any toy at that point!

This is the only picture we could get without her staring at his beard. And isn't he a cute Santa!

A belated Halloween

#2 and #3 reason's I haven't updated my blog

#2. I'm obviously not much of a multi-tasker, Arli has been sick several times in the last couple months and I haven't managed to do much else other than take care of her. Sick kids are exhausting! I guess it really makes you appreciate the times when they are healthy! She is finally getting better and seems to almost be back to her normal happy self, so now I can maybe get a few things done, like updating my blog!



#3.
Marcus and I have spent the last several evenings watching television, I don't know exactly how many hours we have wasted sitting in front of the television! It's really pretty sickening!!! Marcus decided to rent the DVD's for Season 1 of the television show Lost, I really didn't want to get addicted to another series, we spent one too many hours watching the 24 DVD's! But it looks like we've done it again, I actually asked the clerk at Blockbuster when the 3rd season would be out on DVD, I'm pathetic!!! Fortunately and Unfortunately the 3rd season won't be available until the end of December, so it looks like I have few months to be productive with my life and keep my my blog updated!