Happy New Year!

I honestly can't believe 2011 is over. It was a good year...although I'm glad to see it end! I'm really looking forward to all of our adventures in 2012. It was a BEAUTIFUL day today, too good to be true! We went to the zoo and then played at the park. It was over 60 degrees out when we were at the park. Hopefully we can keep this nice weather for a while! :)

Santa Showed Up!!

Christmas morning was pretty amazing this year...Lauren woke up and found that Santa had came the night before and brought a tent for the living room and lots of other goodies in her stocking! Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Schlake's house and got so many awesome presents, including a little kitchen that Lauren just loves.

What a wonderful and magical Christmas! I have so many pictures to post...I'll just show a sampling here because there are just too many to post!

 

Merry Christmas!

Christmas has been a lot of fun so far this year! We spent the morning with Grandma Criswell and Lauren got some awesome presents! She especially loves her new table. Then we went to the Christmas Eve service with the Coens. I can't believe how quickly time is passing and how exciting it is to see her face light up!

Lots of Christmas cheer!

This was a really great weekend! We spent Saturday at the zoo, which we pretty much had to ourselves. Lauren had such a good time but was exhausted! Then Saturday night we hung out with the Coen's and Lauren loved playing with Abby and Liam.

She got to open her first Christmas present from Liam and Abby and then proceeded this morning to try and open our presents under the tree! I quickly moved all wrapped presents to my closet. :) She is going to have SO much fun Christmas morning!

Santa is a pretty scary dude...

Our visit with Santa was...interesting. Hopefully next year she won't be so scared of the "big guy!"

Christmas fun!

We had such a fun and busy weekend, spent lots of time with grandparents and enjoyed the beautiful weather!

Kansas City Christmas

We had a fun start to the week, we went this evening to Crown Center and saw all of the decorations and had dinner at the Crayola Cafe! So much fun! This is a new yearly tradition that we plan on doing. Here is a picture from this year and one from last year. :)

Naughty or Nice?

We had another busy weekend! Lauren had a great time with Grandma Dianne on Friday night and part of the day Saturday. We are very excited for next weekend - we get to visit Santa!

Here are some pictures of Lauren in her new shirt...this pretty much sums her up right now! She has been very "determined" lately to get her way! :)