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Here's Jades thing and book.

I made John-Paul a blanket. He always puts a lot of thought into the outfits he gets for Jade and Gemma, I wanted to do something he would like for him.

Jack.... Isn't he handsome.

Jade's new "Juicy Couture" track suit from John-Paul. I love it!

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Gabby in her new princess dress.

Cisco with his "Old man house shoes" He loves house shoes.

The girls each got a book and pet, Gemma got cat in the hat, Gabby got the cow from "I can moo", Charly got the Giraffe with matching book, Jade got a Lorax? and matching book. It was so cute and a hit!

Gabby with her cow.

Presents!!

For the last 4 years we have had Christmas at my house, it started when I was the only one with kids so that I didn't have to drag them away from their new stuff. Now Chris and Joey have kids but they are still willing to come out. It is great fun and We enjoy having everyone out.

Gabby was very excited she got her own new princess dress-up dresses.

Cisco got coal...

Cisco got coal... He wasn't very amused. I was though.

Jade is really into arts and crafts and coloring. So she got a lot of that stuff and she had been wanting a messenger bag for school, that is what she is modeling. Its a Nightmare before Christmas one.

Gemma is checking out her new magna doodle. She also got new tinkerbell pj's that she had to put on immediatly, Jade got matching ones.

Santa Came!

When we were putting out our stockings on Christmas Eve Gemma thought that they were great fun and proceeded to put them on.

Our morning picture.

Gemma got her own 4-wheeler.

Christmas Eve

I got a cute cookie decorating kit to keep Jade and Gemma busy on Christmas Eve.

I like this picture because it shows Gemma very carefully putting the decorations on with her left hand.

Our finished product. Hope Santa needs a sugar rush when he comes to our house.

This is our Christmas tree it is very top heavy because all of the ornaments I didn't want ruined had to be out of Gemma's reach. I know that some people put up a barrier or kid gates. I personally don't mind having the tree touched and checked out, and I wasn't going to put very many ornament on to compensate, but Jade had to put a lot on. Sadly we did lose a few to little hands, and since every one of my ornaments tells a story it is hard to lose some, but that in its self tells a story too.

Santas Reindeer

We went to see Santa's reindeer and then to drive through the Holiday lights. It was fun, Jade and Gemma got to feed them some pellets.

SNOW!!!!

Yay! we got snow. Out here the storms have to hit us just right for any amount to accumulate. Yesterday we got about 11-13'".

Cisco and Jade went out to build me a snowman, and play in t e snow. I didn't let Gemma out. I know, mean of me, but she was happy with a snowball and watching them build the snowman.

Cisco is at that age where its a plus to make an ugly face in the pictures, this was the best one sad I know. I am not thrilled with it and he was warned that it would be on the blog.

My cute snowman. :-) he has a bucket for a hat and walnut eyes and buttons.

Gemma's preferred method of eating...

I am sure that James thinks I never feed the child. It doesn't matter when or what she had for dinner the minute James sits down to eat his dinner there she is. It really is cute. Especially since Jade is so picky it continually amazes me what Gemma will eat. So far the only things always rejected are potatoes in any form and eggs in any form.... (its interesting since those two things are Jade's favorites) She LOVES broccoli and brussels sprouts and obviously anything off of mine and James' plates.

She just had this very same dinner in the same manner only at the table. Anyway she is sharing his carrots and "ham" (Due to Jade being VERY picky, at our house all meat is "Tasty Ham")

Jade's dance recital

Jade's little recital was last Tuesday. Her studio just had what they call a dance showcase so that the dancers can show what they learn each week, then they did a dance for us. It is very hard to get good pictures when the girls are all over the place :-)

This is a partial of her class with her teacher Miss Michelle.

Busy Girl

This is my busy girl, Gemma is always doing something... Here she found the pin cushion and felt that the couch would be a good place for the pins...

She wanted to have chocolate cereal and insisted on feeding herself, so I while I was helping Jade get ready for school, she poured out all of the milk then proceeded to play in it. Yes it was everywhere! Not to concerned though, is she? :-)

This is cute she was very excited to have Mermaid on in the house (She loves her movies). I was cleaning the portable DVD player ( I have to have one in the car, because believe me without it is miserable for all involved) I have a few movies that we only play in the car so that she will enjoy the ride. :-) The Little Mermaid is one of them.

Cisco had a fund raiser for wrestling and they sold cookies, we were trying them out and I walked out of the kitchen for a minute and Gemma got a handful off of the counter (they weren't hot) She looks awful proud doesn't she? She sure does make me laugh.