We got a Wii and a Wii fit for Christmas. We've never used this before and Hanlin and Lily are having a tough time with figuring it out. Does anyone know if there are games that would help them figure out the controller and also the Wii fit board?

Are there games specially for 5 year olds??

The girls have said that this is the best Christmas EVER!!!

I wonder if it has anything to do with these 2 little christmas presents they got....??

Meet Georgia

and Ginger

Geez, I thought stopping the big girls from fighting was tough... Look at them fight! It is so fun to watch them.

They are 3 months old and are rescue kittens. Each from a different litter, both lost thier mother early, one mom died, and the other got spooked and abondoned her litter. Both litters were from a feral colony and a wonderful foster family took the 7 kitten into thier home and bottle fed them. They are sweet kittens, but need to be socialized. They are getting more and more social every day and now, after 48 hours, are running around the house,( I can hear the pitter-patter of little paws upstairs) trying to attack our dog, and they cuddle with us at bedtime. Ginger would almost never purr, and she is now purring and is relaxed when we hold her. She is also the trouble maker of the two, getting into everything, even the dog food!!

The girls had no idea that we were plannng on giving them kittens and we so excited Christmas morning (afternoon actually). I had a friend babysit them overnight and them came for a visit Christmas Day, but first she put the kittens in my front porch.

Once we were sitting, I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten a gift for the girls, and gave them each a bag. It was filled with cat toys. They thought it was for Bear, (our other older cat) but then I walked in with a kitten in each arm, and said, maybe these toys go with these??

They almost died! Abigail didn't now what to do except cry! Then I cried! Isabelle kept saying, are we babysitting them????

It was very sweet and we're so happy to have them.

Christmas Eve

This Christmas had to be the most relaxed one ever!!! This was our first Christmas without travel!! YIPEEE!! My dad came here instead and we enjoyed wine, food and great visits from friends! We relaxed, played, laughed and acted silly!!!

Isabelle has been spending all her time, behind my camera! So I no pictures of her! But she has taken the nicest pictures! (She gets her this natural talent from me!) cough cough....

I had thought my camera lens was dirty, because all my shots were blurry.. but when she takes them, they are crisp and clear... then I realized... NOOOOOOOO

It's MY EYES!!! I'm getting old!!!!!

Our christmas tradition is to leave Santa a Guinness, since at our house Santa is allergic to milk.

I baked some yummy thumbprint cookies... these are right before I baked them, they don't even have jam in them yet, I would have taken a picture fresh from the oven, but they got eaten right away.

playing with my computer, and did up a funny video of Lily dancing using photo snapshots.

Here are some pics of the kiddos at thier very first Christmas Concert!

Holy Smokes they were excited to perform~ Especially Lily!

They did a great job and we're very proud of them!

Christmas tree

OHHHHH!!!

FALLING...THE BRANCHES....THE LIGHTS...

OH,THE HUMANITY!!!

Yup, you guessed it! Just 2 hours after the tree went up...

down it came...crashing...down!!!!!

That poor snowman had a smile on his face when we hung him up!

All in all we didn't loose too many ornaments, lots of cheap ones, but I did loose 3 that were special to me.

1 from Arizona that I had gotten while visitng my sister a few years ago. (but I did buy 3 so I have 2 more on the tree)

Then this little "Santa's little helper" martini glass from Lu. We exchange ornaments every year and this one is from last year.

I loved it!

And lastly, this one I got from another adoptive parent, on Lily's first Christmas. It wasn't dated, so maybe I can replace it from China sprout, they have beautiful ornaments.

What a night that was! Isabelle had her Spectacle de Noel, which she did a cart wheel at the beginning then, stayed at the back of Santa's workshop building Lego! lol

So, as I'm lying in bed, at 10:30pm and Frank is working on the computer downstairs, we both her "jingle jingle" and we both know it's too early for Santa!

We arrive in the livingroom at the same time, with decorations all over the floor, smashed!!

Oh, did I mention that I was in bed sick?? oh yeah, to add to the chaos, I caught myself a nasty hacking cough and sore throat!

The last place either one of us wanted to be was cleaning up that mess!

We were lucky though, not too many broke and we've since tied the tree!

Here's some pictures of the kids decorating the tree,just hours before it fell!!

We had a fun (aka very long and tiring) weekend with a gymnastics competition here in town.

Both girls competed Saturday back to back, starting at 8:30am then the next at 11:30am, straight through till 2:30pm! I competed in the "How long can a parent sit on those killer bleachers" event! I took 1st place! (as I don't think any other parent is that stupid to sit on those bleachers as long as I had too.)

The girls did wonderful! (they have my genes, cough cough) They each placed 1st overall!

Isabelle placed 2nd on beam and vault and 4th on bars and 5th on floor and Abigail placed 7th on vault, 3rd on bars, and beam and 2nd on floor, or something like that, she can't remember. lol

Here are some pictures of the day! I overexposed a bunch of them (duh), so they're not as nice as I would of liked. I think the injury that I got while competing in the bleacher event made my mind a bit foggy.

Vaulting

Floor (pic is grainy, and overexposed..)grrrr

Beam (these were black till I lighten them, but they are so grainy)

Bars (yes, she is flipping in the air off of the bars!) Yikes!

Isabelle

Floor

Beam

Bars

it looks like she is going to land on her head! But she is in the middle of a flippy thing.

Vault

She went from running into the vault last year.. to this year placing 2nd! YEAH!

Anything is better than smacking into a hard vault!

Alrighty! My computer has NOT been playing nice!! So I haven't been able to post much or any pictures!

The girls have the first gymnastics competition of this season this weekend. Hopefully they have fun and do well. I brought Abigail to see Serena Ryder on Sunday night! It was a great concert!
Abigail's floor music is "Boo-Hoo" by Serena so she brought her 1st place medal and had her sign it. Very cool!

I'm having the computer fixed tomorrow, so I'll be back up and running for the weekend! YEAH!
I'll post some pics of the girls at the competition!

Now I'm off to bake some Oatmeal cookies and some Chocolate Chip cookies in my dumpy old oven!