Christmas Pictures

We were taking pictures for our family Christmas card and thought of doing some sister shots... this picture shows the amount of attention span these girls have!

Claire did pretty well if she didn't have anyone around to distract her. This one turned out great! She sure is cute.

Pa and Claire looking great as always.

Ma and Marie all dressed up.

This was our final Christmas card... as you can tell there are no sister shots in it, but it still turned out pretty good. Marie is almost 2 1/2 and Claire is almost 1. We have definitely been blessed with a great family this year! Merry Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We drove up to Sacramento to see Teddy's Aunt Christine. We ate tons of delicious food and they had a lot of leaves!

Marie got put to work 'helping' to rake leaves. She had a blast!

Since Marie did such a great job raking, we had a big enough pile to throw her in it!

Where is Marie?

Pa also had fun rolling around in all the leaves.

Claire had a great time munching on all the leaves. Maybe that was what she wanted for a Thanksgiving dinner... just leaves! :)

Sharing

Marie likes to show Claire how to blow into the tea kettle lid to make it whistle. She demonstrated for Claire and then even let Claire have a turn! It took Claire a couple minutes to get the hang of it, but now I have two whistlers!
Teddy thinks Marie should maybe go work as an engineer in China...

Marie even shares her suckers with Claire! Sometimes she has to pry Claire's head away to get it back, but she is a very considerate sister!

Marie thought it was only fair that since she shares with Claire, that Claire share her car seat. Marie insisted on sitting in a car seat that is way too small and then having me even buckle the straps! I did just the top one at first, but she wasn't satisfied. These girls are great fun!