Thursday, December 29, 2011

Poulsoms in Town

Meghan and fam were in town for Christmas so we got to spend some time playing together. Her parents bought an AWESOME house in Shoreview on a lake, so Harrison and Juliette got to "skate" around a bit. Then we headed to the mall and rode the carousel. Fun little day. The next day Juliette said she wanted to go to Harrison's hosue again :-)
"skating"
running on the beach
holding hands in the mall (unprompted by any adults, which made it even more cute) riding the horsies
cute :-)

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas!

We enjoyed a fun and busy Christmas! I spent Christmas Eve night putting together Juliette's dollhouse from Santa...I loved it! Here is our Christmas day in pictures...
Putting the dollhouse by the tree...
All wrapped up!Coming down the stairs in the morning...
unwrapping
checking it all outbeing silly
carmel rolls!approved!
checking out her presents with Antie Kthere is a reason juliette is not in this pic...she was not a fan of super grover!all smiles with Unkie B and Antie K
a hug for great grandpa ericksonbeautiful girl :-)checking out Santaplaying with her new tea setwhat a great present!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent at my uncle's house...we spent most of our time was spent with the Fastner clan hanging out in the basement. Here are some pics of the night...
Cousins on the stairslittle kid playing
big kid playing
cousins!!
hi!
what is better than Disney wrapping paper?
a Disney present! Thanks O!
trying out her new ride
kisses for her ornament from gg
4 generations....always love this!

Santa!

Santa went about 100 times better than last year....
1. She has "some" concept of what was going on
2. She didn't cry
That's about all it takes!
practicing her smile...yeah, we have some work to do here :-)
sitting nicely with santa :-)
(the professional pic is a better view, but I don't have time to scan that!)

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas projects

Here are a few things I made for Christmas with my new embroidery machine:
towels for all the little cousins
a kitchen towel for noelle :-)

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Disney World!

All right...DW '11. Thinking this years travels couldn't be any worse than last year...might have been wishful thinking. I suppose it wasn't AS bad, but it wasn't great. B&K actually took the 7am flight and got off with no problems and enjoyed a day of beautiful weather. We had the 10am flight and didn't leave until almost 3. Apparently there were "mechanical" issues...they were just going to give us a bigger/different plane, but then they thought maybe it would be a good idea to string along a bunch of parents with toddlers during nap time. Way to go Delta. Thanks for the $6 food voucher and $50 flight credit, I feel sooooo much better! Anyway, Juliette seemed just fine....oh to be 2...

I'll take you through the trip in pictures and try to tell some stories along the way :-)

quick story...left J's suitcase at home... "luckily" it was her stuff, she is the easiest to buy for...i can't imagine Joey having to wear Mickey shirts and pants for the week :-)



being entertained at the airport

bathtime (quite necessary after spending a day in the airport!)

blowing bubbles
cheese!

carousel at downtown disney with antie k

makeup lessons

riding the bus...one of her favorite rides!

girls on the horsies :-)

with unkie b and antie k

aladdin's magic carpet

whoa, gramma, check that out!


horsies with daddy...we did a lot of horsies!!


Character Breakfast...she was REALLY into them from far away, and then freaked out a bit when they got close. She warmed up at the end :-)

smiles :-)

this is so fun mom!!

omg, this is so fun!!!

that carousel in the background is made out of gingerbread!

with Ariel :-)

dinosaur ride!

You may remember Snow White from our first trip and Juliette's smile...well, she didn't disappoint this year. She LOVED Snow White!

We were first in line so we got to walk out to SW's spot

**hugs**

smiling for the camera

another kiss from SW

that's gonna leave a mark :-)

a little nervous about going to see Minnie and Goofy...

what do you want crazy man???

a bit better for the family pose

now we've warmed up and can give hugs!




This year we stayed at the Beach Club Villas. I want to be here everytime!! LOVE it. The pool area is super cool (they have a lazy river and a pool with sand) and you can walk to Epcot in 5 minutes and watch their fireworks everynight (we could even see them from our room!)


applying sunscreen

pooltime

adorable

fun with daddy!

Meeting Belle in Epcot

The Nemo ride was a popular one :-)

chillin

this place is fun guys!

High-five Unkie B! Let's do this again next year!!



So the trip was fun...Juliette did have a cough and we had to bring her to the doctor down there, but the poor little girl just had the hardest time sleeping (making it tought for EVERYONE). She always catches something when we go down there. But somehow it just becomes a little footnote because of all the fun :-) I realize that we did not get a group shot this year, so I am missing that....guess we'll have to go back!