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We took some pictures in September.  I know I know.  I should've had them on my blog a long time ago if I took them in September!  Well, that's not how I roll.  I want to roll in organization and get stuff posted right after it happens but that's not how it works here.  So, giving myself grace, knowing that I post for family and friends that aren't able to see the girls much... here ya go!

The Nutcracker Ballet

This day was so much fun. On Saturday the 4th of December Micah and I decided to take the girls to the Nutcracker Ballet.  Since they go to ballet at a church up the road they were really interested to see what it was going to be like.  Nattie is still a little too young so we decided to ask a friend of ours, also the girl's piano teacher, if she wouldn't mind doing something dress-up and fun with Nattie since she wouldn't be able to go.  She agreed and so off we went.  Nattie stayed with her babysitter and had a tea party, watched a princess movie, and of course ate tons of snacks.  The others of us started off in traffic.  We ended up sitting in it for about 20 minutes so needless to say we were a little bit late to the Ballet.  I know I know, bad etiquette.  It turned out to be really cool for the girls, and for Micah and I.  We had to sit in two different rows (discounted tickets) but it wasn't too bad.  It struck me as we were sitting there though that I didn't know the story of the Nutcracker.  *gasp*  How could have I missed that.  So this week Alyssa picked out the Nutcraker book so I could read it to them.  Thank you to my 7 year old for keeping me up with this stuff.  Anyways the day was super fun and I got to spend it with my favorite people!  We will definitely do this again next year... if we can get discounted tickets again.

The girls had fun taking pictures before we went to the Nutcracker.

We had such beautiful clothes on so before we went and when we got back we decided to take family pictures.  I think they turned out so cute.  Mara had a hard time in the morning so we only got a few smiles out of her but when we got back from the Nutcracker she was a happy girl so the pictures turned out much better.

The girls by the pool at our friends house.  All dressed up and ready to go.

Our beautiful Family

My Wonderful Husband and me on a swing in front of our friend's house.

Mara and Mama at the Nutcracker

Syssa and Daddy at the Nutcracker

I'm so glad I get to spend my life with these 4 beautiful faces!  I can't wait until we get to add to this family the two beautiful faces in Haiti!

Turkey Cupcakes

With friends and family here we thought it would be fun to make Turkey Cupcakes. We used Nilla Wafers, candy corn, Twizzler Pull and Peels, mini chocolate chips, cupcakes and chocolate frosting. First you make any type of cupcakes that you want and frost them with brown frosting. Then you put 6-10 candy corns on the back side as the tail feathers, in the cake not just by the cupcake wrapper. You take a Nilla Wafer and you can either lay it down in the middle of the cupcake or kind of set it up on end in the middle, I like setting it up on end better, they look a little cuter. You then take two other Nilla Wafers and put them on the sides kind of standing up so they look like wings. Then take two mini chocolate chips and put some chocolate frosting on the back of them and put them on the middle Nilla Wafer as the eyes. Then you make the waddle with a small piece of Twizzler Pull and Peel.

Here are some pictures of the finished product of each person.

Alyssa


Samara


Natalie kind of did whatever she wanted. She had a lot of candy corns and sort of just stuck them all in. It didn't look much like a turkey but it was yummy anyway.


The big kids made some too. This is Auntie Erin's.

Brent This one has the middle Nilla Wafer standing up and the waddle sort of hanging down the cupcake.

Eric This one has the Nilla Wafer standing up and the waddle hanging down the cupcake.

Kim (me)

Micah (my wonderful husband) He wanted white eyes so he took the white pieces off the candy corns.