Countdown to Santa!

On Sunday afternoon we set up the Christmas tree. Last year we set it up in the basement because we were afraid the twins would pull it down. I didn't like it though because I never really got to enjoy the tree as I rarely make it down to the basement, so this year we thought we'd give it a try having it upstairs. We decided to only put a few decorations on it and yes they have slowly be put up higher and higher. We have made a few "twin friendly" decorations that are down low.

Count down to Santa activities

Last night we made Christmas cookies as part of our count down to Santa activities.
The twins really liked cutting out the cookies , but the best part was putting on the sprinkles.
Sorry the photos are in backwards order. You get to see the final product then the how to. Don't you just love technology!

Santa 2011

I am trying harder to blog more often. Here we go...
On Saturday we went off to the CrossIron Mills Mall in search of Santa. Yes, the twins are well aware now of who Santa is and what he can do for them.
Question to Piper - "What are you going to ask Santa for?" Answer - "Bike" What color? Pink
What does Tristan want? Blue Bike.
Throughout all the questions Tristan just nods.
We had to stand in line for about 45 minutes. Well actually, Piper and Mommy stood in line and Daddy chased Tristan (aka Denise the menace) all over Bass Pro. When we finally got up to Santa of course Tristan said nothing and Piper did all the talking. Everything went great until Mommy stepped out of the picture frame. Then as you can see things were close to going badly.

Christmas Photos

Last Saturday we went for Christmas photos. The twins did really well, and oh so cute!
We had to go at 1:30 in the afternoon which is normally nap time, which was very risky. Piper had a snooze on the way to Airdrie, but Tristan did not sleep so I was a little worried how it would go. They both did really well. Tristan did kind of run out of gas towards the end. By the time we got out of the photo studio Tristan was having quite a melt down. He was asleep in about 2 minutes in the truck.

But I don't want a hug!