Livia is 10!!

Well, I officially have a 10 year old! Livia is double digits and proud of it! She invited 2 friends to come have a swimming party with her. They seemed to all have fun together!

Brooklyn had fun swimming also. The water in the kiddie pool was nice and warm for her.

My niece & nephew, Kaity & Matthew were able to come and they had a blast. I really like this picture of Kaity. It makes me smile!

Livia wore her "party dress" and did LOTS of twirls in it!

Livia decorated her own cake, mostly by herself. I just helped a little bit with the frosting. She almost killed everyone..... by having chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, chocolate chips and sprinkles, with chocolate fudge ice cream! She is the worst "Choco-holic" I have ever met! She was in heaven though! :)

It took Livia SEVERAL tries to blow out all 10 of her candles.....

.....that's because I bought trick candles, and they kept re-lighting. It was pretty funny!

As if she didn't have enough chocolate.... her Aunt gives her 2 giant chocolate candy bars!!! Crazy kid!

Happy Birthday Livia! I know you check my blog out, so I am going to list 10 reasons why you are so special:

#1) You are thoughtful

#2) You are smart

#3) You are fun

#4) You are beautiful

#5) You are a good sister

#6) You are a good listener

#7) You are responsible

#8) You are considerate

#9) You are sporty

#10) you are YOU!!!!!!! (and I wouldn't trade you for ANYTHING!!!) :)

I love you SOOOO SOOOOO SOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!

Web cam Fun

My mom and I were talking on Oovoo last week and we were having fun with her web cam features. It was late and we were tired, so it was pretty funny at the time!!

New Year's Eve

We stayed home for New Year's Eve. We played games, watched a movie, ate lots of snacks, and had lots of fun together, just our family! It was nice not to have to rush around for a change!

Livia was sock sliding!

Poor Sydney was starting to fade so we filled her up with sugar. It didn't really work though! :)

We watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Pretty good movie, but kind-of scary for a PG.

Here's Brooklyn at midnight! Sound asleep in my bed!

Happy New Year! Bring it on 2011!

Christmas Eve

The day started off with 3 haircuts. (Sydney now has bangs!) Then we made some Almond Roca & cookies!

Poor Livia was too excited all morning that she got the "Christmas Flutters" and had to rest! But she quickly snapped out of it and was bouncing off the walls again!

Lots of yummy snacks and of course.... EGGNOG!!! The girls reorganized the gifts a couple of times that day! :)

They even talked us into letting them open an extra gift on Christmas Eve that they had gotten each other! They had both bought each other a Webkinz!