Merry Christmas!

Once again, I'm behind!  Its pretty sad that my last post was from Halloween...and it was catching up from earlier that month.  Speaking of Halloween...look how cute Brynlee was!  I honestly dread blogging.  Blogger could really improve on its user friendliness, or maybe just functionability (if that's a word).

Not a whole lot has been happening since our last post.  Our girls are growing and we're continuing to get used to Missouri and our life here.  We missed being 'home' this Thanksgiving, but we were glad to get to spend Thanksgiving Day with our friends the Bassetts and their family.  We were so glad to have my cousin Kellie and family come on Saturday and get to have some turkey with them!  I know I've said it several times, but it is so GREAT to have some family close by.  We love them! 

Ellie is getting more and more fun all the time.  She is rolling and babbles so cute.  We love her cute smiles and giggles.  She has found her feet and thinks they are the best toys ever!  She is really quite a sqwaker and a squealer.  She wakes up squealing in the morning and sometimes in the middle of the night.  It's pretty darn cute.  We are so excited for the rest of the family to meet her soon. Brynlee loves her too.  She can most certainly be overwhelming to her, but she is good at getting her to smile and laugh. 

We are loving the Christmas season as usual.  It has been fun for Brynlee to rediscover Christmas things.  We enjoyed decorating the tree and taking her to see Santa.  The City Hall here has a cool little set up on week nights to go see Santa.  It is well decorated and there is a cool small train that runs under the bridge to where Santa is.  Brynlee told him that she wanted a purple guitar and had to run back later to add that she wants dress up stuff, makeup, a barbie, and fairy stuff too.  I'm a little nervous because I heard Santa ran out of purple paint for guitars. I find it funny she wants a guitar, but she says she wants one like uncle Luke's.  She is picking up all sorts of Christmas songs.  She surprised me singing Roger Whitaker the other day....she knows the good stuff ;).  The girls and I have had fun decorating cookies and cupcakes and shopping together.

So I was pretty excited about these cupcakes....Rachelle will tell you that I pretty much bake and babysit these days (at least it seems like that's what I'm doing every time she calls).  I have to give credit to Confessions of a Cookbook Queen (her's were much cuter).  I miss being in the NICU, but I love being home with my girls...and baking is a good creative outlet on occasion.  It's making it hard to finish getting off the baby weight though! 

Brynlee is getting excited to be a Sunbeam in a few weeks! She also had her first dentist appointment last week and did awesome.  They told her that they were going to make her teeth sparkle like a princess and the first thing she did when we came in the door was run to the bathroom to see her sparklely teeth.  She continues to crack us up with the things she says.

It's work as usual for Jordan.  He just took his last board exam.  We appreciate all of your fasting and prayers for him.  Things are improving a little.  Glad the stache was only temporary!

We are oh so excited for our trips to see family in the coming weeks.  I'm so glad we get to go to both Colorado and Utah.  Can't wait!!