Sunday Afternoon

Sunday involved watching the Olympics (Go USA!), doing a lot of cooking and baking and playing in the snow flurries!  Monty had a blast chasing his duck!  We had to block the stairs with pillows or Monty would run upstairs and hide with his duck.  When we play fetch in the house, he gets it and then runs upstairs with it to his crate.  Silly dog!

Family Fun Night at School

Reptiles Alive came to the girls school for an educational program about all sorts of reptiles.  They got to pet a HUGE Burmese Python!    

Cute Picture of Evelyn

Evelyn was in the mood to sit still for two pictures.  Super cutie.  Check out those dimples and blue eyes!

First Sleep Over at Our House

Evelyn & Sylvia had a sleepover a few months ago at their friends' Charlotte, Mackenzie and Avery's house.  We thought it would be fun to have a friend stay with us.  They all slept together in Sylvia's room - Maya and Sylvia in the bed, Evelyn on a cot.  They had a blast - stayed up until about 9:30pm telling silly stories.  They woke up at 6:15am.  Pretty good!

It's never too late for Christmas Gifts

A surprise package arrived yesterday with presents from Aunt Sylvia!  It's never too late for Christmas!  So sweet of Aunt Sylvia.

Christmas Break

Boy, we had a great 2 weeks off over Christmas and New Years.  Some highlights, but no pictures:

-Lots of parties...before christmas, after christmas, new years, and after new years.  Some with kids, some without.
-Trip to the Baltimore Aquarium
-Visiting Santa at the National Harbor
-Snowtubing and waterpark at Massanutten
-Fun play dates
-Lots of game playing
-Finding and hiring our new au pair, Melina from Germany!  She's amazing!  We are so happy!  


 

Christmas

Grammommy and Gramps spent Christmas with us.  We had a great time, including a trip to the Baltimore Aquarium, playing the girls new xbox, and opening lots and lots of presents.  On the 26th, we took off for Massanutten and enjoyed the water park and snow tubing (no pictures).  Monty has become an awesome dog and can do way more than go up and down stairs.  He's a cutie.

Cookie Time

The girls have already made gingerbread houses - twice - now it was time for cookies!

New Family Member

We adopted a dog this weekend!  A pure breed Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.  We got him from a rescue organization in Smithfield, PA.  Apparently, they were shutting down a puppymill and when they went to get the dogs, the owner brought this doggie out by his leg.  Poor boy.

We've named him Montgomery, but call him Monty.  He's 3 years old and incredibly sweet.  He sat on my lap the entire 6 hours home (through a terrible storm!).  He is learning steps (he can go up, but not down). He hasn't had an accident in the house and while he hates the cold, he loves to run through the yard.  He's sooooo sweet and Sylvia carries him around all day.  He snores like a big, old man.

The girls had to test out his crate before we got him.

Snow Days

The girls had two days off of school.  They loved playing in the wet snow and even built a snowman and got in a lot of fun sledding.