Finishing up 2014 (Birthdays, Christmas, Snow, and New Years)

Here's a few things we've missed posting about the past few months:

Pyper's THREE year birthday. (We had coupons for free cupcakes from a bakery, so we used those and let each girl pick her's out. Then we taste tested them all.)

Claire's FIVE year birthday. (Here she is playing with her Rapunzel play doh doll--making the hair grow, cutting it, braiding it, etc.)

Christmas Morning

(Five gifts, times four girls, equals A LOT of presents!)

First snow fall the day after Christmas

Summer and Basil

Pyper

Basil

Pyper, Claire, Basil, and Summer

Pip, Basil, Claire

Summer

Claire

Having FUN! (Getting ready to hit dad with snowballs!)

New Year's Eve

This year, we got lots of meats and cheeses, California rolls, sweet and spicy pork, and egg rolls to taste test for dinner. Then we had our traditional oatmeal New Year's Eve cake. After that, we played musical chairs, and then watched Netflix's "King Julien's New Year's Countdown." There was a little bit of disappointment there--we thought it was a thirty minute episode talking about the new year. Actually, it was four minutes of strange creatures making strange dance moves, and then a countdown. But we all recovered, pulled our poppers, blew in our horns, and then everyone was to bed about 8pm.

Today we will talk about goals, and each girl will get to draw a picture of something they'd like to work on this year. (As well as mom and dad.)

We hope you all had a happy new year!