For Grandpa Great

This is Ellie sleeping a few nights ago. This is Ellie's favorite hat. She calls it her 'sleeping hat' and she won't go to bed without it under any circumstances. Grandpa Great (Rob's Grandpa) made it for her and I'm assuming it was meant for playing outside in the snow but she hauls it all over the house every day and it goes right on her head as soon as her jammies are on. I cannot even begin to tell you how much she loves it. Thanks Grandpa Great!

The Lazy Post

I wanted to share a great post titled Refining Possibilities from one of my favorite blogs called Small Notebook. She has inspired me to make my own list of what tasks, plans, projects, and goals to keep and which ones to drop. I don't know if anyone else does this but in my head I have all these big plans and lofty goals for what I want to do and make and be (for proof see this post which is only a fraction of the actual list of stuff I want to do). I'm re-prioritizing my time and my list.
I'm looking forward to clearing my head and my bookmarks :)

For Jana

Behold!
Piper's first and last piggytail:

Cheetos,The Animal, and Other Quotes

One of Ellie's awesome outfits

At Grandma Great's right before bed time

Ellie: I better not eat any more Cheetos or I'll Cheeto the bed.
I literally laughed until I cried. Tears streaming down my cheeks.

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After eating pancakes for breakfast
Ellie: Mom, I got pancake juice on my hand but it's okay I licked it off and it was yummy!

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Ellie: What day is it, Mom? Is it Sunday or Foursday?
Me: It's Tuesday.
Ellie: Oh! It's Tuesday!

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Reading her Book of Mormon to me before bed
Ellie: And Jesus was nice to everybody and Nephi had to build a ship and Laman and The Animal (Lemuel) didn't want to help...

The Obligatory Christmas Post :)

We had a wonderful Christmas! We spent lots of time eating and hanging out with family.
Ellie loved meeting Santa at Brooke and Sophie's house
The cousin's nativity was entertaining as ever and both Ellie and Piper seemed to really enjoy the gifts they received. 

Twins

Piper had her first run-in with a couple of baby dolls the other day at my Mom's house. I wasn't sure how she would react because when Ellie was Piper's age, her first reaction to the doll on the right was to scream at her and then cry a whole lot. I'd be lying if I didn't say it was so cute and so funny and so sad all at the same time. So I was a little worried how Piper would react to them.
As you can see, first she gave Ellie's least favorite doll the ol' up and down.

I will let the following pictures tell the rest of the story.

I seriously love this last picture.
Their profiles are almost identical. I think she loves chubby babies almost as much as I do.

Infectious Giggle

I double dog dare you not to smile at this video. I seriously cannot get enough of my Piper! :)