Just some pictures of my favorite people

This picture cracks me up.  Looks like she's trying to take a selfie.

Love these pictures of Claire looking at Ryan.  She was totally staring at him and giving him big smiles for a few minutes.

She must have been seriously exhausted to fall asleep while eating a sucker.

She always has the sweetest expressions on her face.  And chunky cheeks.  Love it!

I caught this funny girl putting all of the headbands on her head the wrong way.

A mind of her own

Lucy absolutely refused to wear any normal clothes a few weeks ago.  At first she only wanted to wear was a different pair of footed pajamas.  When I vetoed that, she threw a fit and then finally settle on the cat costume.  Definitely not a battle I wanted to have all morning and since it didn't really matter,  let her be a cat.  It didn't last all day anyway.

 Does this look like the face of someone who wants to compromise on what to wear? :) No.

 We were at a store last week and Lucy found these pink sparkly purses and carried both of them around the whole time.  The bottom picture cracks me up because she is also pretending to hold a cell phone and talk to someone.  Everyone in line around us was laughing at her.  Let's just say she was not a happy camper when I had to take the purses away!  At least it kept her busy while I looked around.

Chubby cheeks

They're just so darn kissable!  Drool and all...

Family pictures

We needed to get an updated picture for Christmas cards.  We planned on having Michelle do it while they were here and didn't really have any time after that to take them if we wanted to do cards this year.  Unfortunately, it was freezing outside, Lucy had a cold and fever, and Claire had a cold as well.  Both girls cried the whole time (understandably so) and we really did not get any good pictures of the girls (by no fault of the photographer).  But like I said, we needed a pic for cards, and this was the best one we got.  So for now, it's our most current family photo.

Santa and a movie

The day after Thanksgiving, we took all of the kids to see the new Disney movie, Frozen.  It was such a good movie!  This was Lucy's first movie in the theater, and technically Claire's too.  Lucy was a little apprehensive at first because of the loud noise and the dark room, but the second she was handed a cup of popcorn, she was completely happy and sat and watched almost the whole movie and only got a little restless the last few minutes.  Claire also did awesome and slept for the first little while, ate, and then sat happily on my lap and watched it as well.  It was a fun little outing.

I know this is a terrible picture but I had to document it.

Then the next day we went to Easton mall to see Santa.  Claire was down with that, Lucy wasn't.  But I didn't expect anything different.  Someday...

Thanksgiving 2013

The Rasmussen family came to visit us for Thanksgiving, which was nice of them considering we were with them in Florida a few weeks prior.  They arrived on the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving and left that Sunday.  So it was a somewhat quick visit, but it was fun visiting with them again and spending Thanksgiving with family.  We got a lot of cooking done the day before Thanksgiving and by "we" I mean mostly Ryan) and then did the rest the next day.  It's amazing how much time goes into one meal and then how quickly you eat it and it's over.  But at least there's leftovers for days!

Ryan made an apple pie, 2 berry pies, a pecan pie, and an apple crisp.  He doesn't mess around with his Thanksgiving pies.

Aunt Wanda visits again

My aunt came to visit after we got back from Florida to meet Claire and to do our usual shopping and relaxing.  It was fun, as usual!  She brought some cookies and treats to make with Lucy and we did a quick shopping trip because the girls were both a little crazy.  I love having company come visit!